October 20, 2016

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DAVIS: THE INCREDIBLE GREEN MACHINE City of Davis receives Silver Beacon Award in sustainability

This year, Davis has proven once again that it is a leader in sustainability. The City of Davis received a 2016 Silver Beacon Award for energy efficiency and sustainability by the California Institute for Local Government, an accomplishment that was years in the making.

“This award highlights the comprehensive approach to addressing climate change, and it consists of five different categories, ranging from energy efficiency, to greenhouse gas reductions, as well as supporting policies and programs that promote sustainability,” said Karalee Browne, Beacon program manager.

Throughout the past year, the City of Davis has adopted over 60 programs and policies in 10 different areas of sustainability in order to become a more energyefficient area.

“I think Davis has had a long history of creating a community where its residents treasure natural resources, try to promote

economic stability, and really create a place where its residents want to work, play, and feel that they are environmentally responsible,” Browne said.

Mitch Sears, sustainability manager for the City of Davis, attributes this success to the community as a whole.

“The award is a culmination of decades of work on sustainability related issues,” Sears said. “It’s a recognition for what Davis has been pursuing for a number of years. And it is essentially the compilation of all the work that the city and the community have done over time that has created a leader in the sustainability community’s movement.”

Davis has seen many successes in terms of energy efficiency. As the first city to designate bike lanes for bicyclers back in the 1950s, Davis has emerged as an innovator at the forefront of alternative transportation. With investments in the Greenbelt, parks and America’s first protected bikeonly traffic signal, Davis has proved it is committed to making bicycling a viable alternative transportation.

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Besides innovations geared towards biking, Davis is also preparing for emerging trends in transportation.

“We’re looking at ways to improve transportation systems additionally by looking at what’s called ‘transportation demand modeling,’ and working on emerging issues like autonomous vehicles,” Sears said.

Davis also received a platinum award for reducing agency greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent. This, in particular, is a huge accomplishment for Davis, Sears said.

“Back in the 1970s the city was one of the first, if not the first, communities to adopt a climate specific energy code,” Sears said. “So essentially, what we were saying at the time, was that houses and other buildings that were built needed to have insulation and things that made them more efficient based on the Central Valley climate.”

This energy code eventually put Davis on the map for energy efficiency. The climate specific energy code was adopted by the state of California (Title 24) and has

When students think of ASUCD, images of the ASUCD Coffee House (CoHo) or student senate most likely come to mind.

However, unbeknownst to most, there is another useful service that ASUCD provides for undergraduates: free legal consultation with an attorney available within Student Services.

Kathy Wilton, the manager of Student Services Office on the third floor of the Memorial Union, has worked for ASUCD for almost 35 years and knows the ins and outs of the legal-consultation process for undergraduate students.

Wilton oversees the logistics of the legal services by helping students make appointments and keeping everything confidential. If students need consultation, Wilton gives their information to the anonymous attorney specifically designated to help UC Davis students. From there, the student can speak to the attorney for up to 15 minutes free of charge.

“We take every case seriously, and everything is confidential,” Wilton said. “We try to be sensitive to the fact that people are concerned about these things that they come to us with and they wouldn’t be asking for legal advice if it wasn’t a serious issue to them.”

Students can utilize the attorney’s expertise for issues about landlords and housing, bike accidents and even roommate problems.

Wilton noted that students should not feel apprehensive about seeking advice because the attorney has also helped students deal with tabooed issues, such as DUIs, disorderly conduct and public intoxication.

In the past, students have called after their first consultations to schedule follow-up appointments. Sometimes, the attorney will go on to represent students in court if they need it, and will usually do so at a discounted price.

“This resource is to give students free access to speaking with an attorney for whatever issue they might have,” said Dana Calvo, fourth-year managerial economics and cinema and digital media double major and senior staff assistant. “While being a student, it [...] would cost a lot to get one legal question answered by an attorney, so we want to help students have this opportunity.”

Cheng Hsia, fourth-year managerial economics major, has fortunately not gotten into any sort of legal trouble during his time at UC Davis. He said that if he had, however, this resource would have definitely helped. Even a brief 15-minute discussion could impact someone’s life.

“Sometimes college students get in trouble, and it might become a legal situation,” Hsia said. “It’s a good resource to take advantage

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Hold your horses, bike polo is in town

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Davis Bike Polo expands, players find sense of community in club

Professionals in Silicon Valley taking off-label, psychedelic drugs to improve cognition, links to UC Davis

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As one of the largest bike towns in the nation, Davis is no stranger to bike-related activities, including the up-and-coming sport of bike polo.

The game of polo is similar to hockey - the ball is passed around by a piece of equipment instead of hands, with the objective of scoring a goal on the opposite end of the court. In modern bike polo, played on a hard-surface court, the players use mallets to hit the ball while riding bicycles rather than horses.

“The club [...] is really welcoming of people at all levels,” said Edward Henn, Davis Bike Polo club member. “I love bikes and I love riding bikes [...] but [I had] no polo experience. [The members] are really encouraging.”

Davis Bike Polo was established in 2011, but according to Jennifer Kutzleb, club representative and UC Davis Department of Sociology doctoral student, the grass version of the sport has been in practice since the 1800s. At that time, the game was much more similar to horse polo.

“It was kind of like a poor man’s polo, [for] people who couldn’t afford horses,” Kutzleb said.

“We [still] sit atop something, but other than that we don’t share that much in common with horse polo.”

The modern hardcourt version of the sport originated in Seattle, Wash., in the early 2000s.

The idea arose from bike messengers who spent

their time in between deliveries playing early renditions of the game.

Davis Bike Polo meets three times a week in West Manor Park, located in West Davis. Players of all ages, genders and experiences are welcome at the polo hardcourt, which resembles a tennis court.

“The first time I heard about [the club] was on Picnic Day,” Henn said. “I saw [the club] in Downtown Davis; they did an exhibition. It just looked like a whole lot of fun.”

Bike polo requires strength as well as technique: players maneuver both their bikes and their mallets to score goals.

“I really like that it’s very technical,” said Tricia Wong, member of Davis Bike Polo. “I spent a large part of the last year just trying to get better.

It’s not one of those sports that you can just learn really quick.”

Davis Bike Polo prides itself on its inclusivity, since the sport is generally dominated by men.

Once a month, as a way of recognizing other genders in the sport, the club hosts Women Trans Femme (WTF) nights, in which individuals who identify as such get to socialize and play the game.

“I feel like I’ve gained so much self-confidence,” Kutzleb said. “I spend a lot of time working on academic[s]. It was just so much fun to be athletic. [The sport] has been really cool for [my] self-development.”

The club is part of a continental organization called the North American Hardcourt Bike Polo

Lisa* is an undergraduate biochemistry and molecular biology major at UC Davis who has been regularly taking off-label modafinil, a cognition-enhancing drug normally prescribed for people with narcolepsy, for roughly six months.

The reason: microdosing, or the experimental act of administering drugs in such a low dosage that one reaps benefits without suffering the fullbodied effects.

Lisa was first introduced to modafinil when she started her internship this summer at a small financial technology company in San Francisco, where she said cognition-enhancing supplements were taken commonly and talked about openly.

“It wasn’t a taboo thing,” Lisa said. “I worked on a team of four in a company with around 25 people. I’d say out of the 25, 15 to 20 [of my colleagues] took something beyond caffeine [...] ranging on the scale from little powders you can get from GNC just to be more awake, to stuff like Adderall and Ritalin.”

Although self-medicating was pervasive at the company, Lisa said that she felt no external pressure to take cognitive-enhancing drugs and that she took them for experimental reasons.

“The idea of biohacking is what appeals most to me. Rather than finding a solution to my problems, it’s more like finding a new way to become a better version of myself,” Lisa said.

Aside from the mostly internal reasons for

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self-experimentation, taking cognitive supplements has become a prestigious way to show dedication to one’s work.

“It was like bragging wars over who had the most dedication to their job,” Lisa said. “I think that’s why Silicon Valley tends to have this reputation of being the heart of experimentation and innovation, and people feel the pressure to keep up that reputation.”

When Lisa first started taking modafinil, she kept detailed journals of when she took the tablet, drank coffee, exercised and how her energy fluctuated throughout the day. She also took daily online cognitive-battery tests in an effort to quantify the fluctuations in her cognition. Although she kept careful notes, other people at her internship documented their off-label drug trials even more rigorously, according to Lisa.

“Some people take self-experimentation to a whole other level,” Lisa said. “They’ll collect their urine daily, they’ll test their feces. I went to [the chief technology officer’s (CTO)] house for a drink after work, and in his refrigerator he had a part where he kept his bodily fluids to take into a lab to test.”

Although the CTO was not taking cognitionenhancing drugs for the duration of Lisa’s internship, he had done so in the past.

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University of California system announces partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America Pilot program currently present at UCLA, UCSF, UC Merced

In a statement released on Sept.

28, the University of California (UC) announced the launch of a pilot partnership program with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America that aims to better prepare young students for long-term success in college.

According to the statement, 6,000 students will be reached through this effort. The initial UC campuses participating in the program are UCLA, UCSF and UC Merced. Each school is partnering with a specific Boys & Girls Club: the clubs of Pasadena, San Francisco and Merced, respectively. This partnership began because of UC President Janet Napolitano’s commitment to preparing students for higher education.

“California will continue to make investments to ensure all children, regardless of their zip code, have access to college — the future of our economy depends on it,” said Kevin de León, California senate president pro tempore, in a statement. “I applaud the University of California and the Boys & Girls Clubs

for partnering to help in this effort.”

With increased enrollment at UC schools planned and already in progress, a goal of this program is to ensure that qualified students enter UC schools.

“This is our largest entering class of Californians, the most diverse ever and one of our most accomplished academically,” said Monica Lozano, UC Board of Regents chair, in a statement.

“We’re encouraged by the outcomes of our efforts this year, but there’s much more work to be done. Our collaboration with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America will make it possible for more youngsters to get the information and guidance that will prepare them for a UC education.”

The planned program focuses on interacting with both the students in the Boys & Girls Clubs and the staffs of these clubs.

“UC will provide club members and their families with college and career readiness information, support and resources,” said Claire Doan, a media relations officer for the UC Office of the President (UCOP), via e-mail. “Boys & Girls Clubs will provide current stu-

Sacramento PD officers shoot mentally ill man 14 times

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Victim’s family seeks murder charges against officers

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Joseph Mann, a 51-year-old African American male, was fatally shot on July 11 by officers John Tennis and Randy Lozoya of the Sacramento Police Department (SPD).

Officers had been called to the scene after residents nearby called 911 out of fear that Mann, who was reportedly homeless and mentally ill, was armed with both a knife and gun.

Officers arrived on the scene shortly after the call was made. Mann, who was armed only with a knife, was shot to death by both officers.

The SPD faced significant criticism following the release of dashcam footage showing the two officers trying to run Mann over before shooting him 14 times. The footage, which was released in late September, also contains audio of one officer saying “f--- this guy, I’m going to hit him” as Mann tries to avoid the vehicle.

This most recent incident, like other police shootings, is being criticized as another unwarranted killing of an African American person by law enforcement.

Mann’s family has filed murder charges against the officers involved. In an interview with Sacramento’s CBS 13, the victim’s brother, Robert Mann, emphasized that the officers, who are still employed by the SPD, need to be held accountable for their actions.

“For them to just get out [of their] cars and start

shooting my brother, you know [...] being judge, jury and God, it’s just not right […] these officers need to be held accountable; they need to be charged with murder because they are murderers,” Mann said.

John Burris, the attorney who is filing the charges on behalf of the Mann family, has also written to the United States Department of Justice to look into whether the government could bring federal charges against the officers for violating the victim’s civil and constitutional rights. “[The officers] had developed a mindset that his life was worthless, that they didn’t care about him, and so they ran up there and shot him without giving [him] any opportunity to see what he was doing and to try and deescalate [the situation]. All they did was shout at him,” Burris said.

The attorney, who has handled a number of police brutality cases, also stressed that the SPD’s response to the shooting was far from adequate.

The department took two months to release the dashcam footage of the incident, and that was only after a freedom-of-information request was filed. Burris’ previous attempts to access the footage were reportedly rebuffed by the department.

Of the 847 police shootings that have occurred this year, nearly 40 percent of victims, like Mann, have been either African American or Hispanic/ Latino. Movements such as Black Lives Matter aim to raise awareness of the injustices minorities face at the hands of law enforcement. Even so, the number of fatal police shootings is expected to be roughly the same as it was in 2015, when 965 people were killed.

Police departments across the nation have been moving to defend their officers’ actions.

Members of the Blue Lives Matter movement, which aims to promote greater respect toward law enforcement, have complained that officers are often put under undue scrutiny by the media and not given enough credit for the work they SAC SHOOTING on PAGE 4

dents in UC’s Early Academic Outreach Programs (EAOP) with leadership opportunities and access to Club facilities, including Club Teen Centers.”

According to Doan, the Boys & Girls Club partnership builds on existing EAOP goals to help underprivileged students.

“EAOP is one of UC’s signature academic preparation programs for middle school and high school students,” Doan said via e-mail. “EAOP designs and provides academic development services delivered in partnership with schools to provide educationally disadvantaged California students the skills and knowledge needed to succeed at UC and elsewhere.”

If it is successful, the program will expand to more than just the three trial campuses.

“The University and the Boys & Girls Club will complete an annual report on partnership activities and outcomes,” Doan said via e-mail. “The plan is to expand the partnership to additional campuses and Clubs, with the potential to reach tens of thousands of Club members over time.”

How Davis reuses Davis community participates in various reuse practices to help environment

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In 2012, UC Davis was named the “No. 1 Coolest School” in the nation by Sierra Magazine due to its practices in environmental sustainability. Various events, programs and organizations in Davis uphold these ideals and encourage people to reuse or donate items instead of disposing them as trash, benefitting both the community and the environment.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website, the benefits of reducing and reusing include “prevent[ing] pollution,” “reduc[ing] greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change” and “sav[ing] energy [and] money.” The site also suggests donating unwanted items to “prevent usable goods from going into landfills” and “help your community and those in need.”

One of the most prominent examples of reusing at UC Davis is the Aggie Reuse Store, an on-campus thrift store located near the Silo by the EcoHub and ASUCD Bike Barn.

Open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, the store sells a wide variety of items — including clothing, books and school supplies — and all at affordable prices. All items sold at the store are donations from the UC Davis community.

“With our store itself, our goal is to redistribute materials back to the community at a low cost and to facilitate that cycle of reuse and recycling,” said Nicole Garcia, third-year communication major and director of the Aggie Reuse Store. “But ultimately our goal is that we want to serve the community by

showing them the value of reuse and open people’s minds. [We want to show] how good [reuse] can be for you and your community and for the Earth.”

The Aggie Reuse Store was first conceived by design professor Ann Savageau, and was proposed to ASUCD in 2011. The program was then established as an ASUCD unit, and the store officially opened for business in Jan. 2012.

Aside from selling donated items, the Aggie Reuse Store also organizes art workshops where visitors can create crafts from used materials as well as educational workshops to teach the public about environmental issues.

“Ultimately, the workshops are [...] more personal,” Garcia said. “They’re a chance for the public to come in and get a different [reuse experience] than [in] the actual store. [They’re] an opportunity for you to come and learn how to use a material you might see every single day [as] something else.”

The Aggie Reuse Store also accepts donations given to the service desks of the three campus dormitory areas — Segundo, Tercero and Cuarto. The store can receive items from the lost-and-found of the Student Community Center, the Memorial Union and the Activities and Recreation Center as well.

“If things are still useful, why not just pass them down?” said Yudith Roman, second-year psychology major and Aggie Reuse Store sales intern. “There’s already so much trash everywhere. [In my hometown] there are always clothes everywhere on the [ground]. It’s kind of nice to see the difference [between] back home, REUSE on PAGE 4

New AggieCard sweeps campus

Card now available for freshmen, transfer students

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Last fall, UC Davis students voted on four different designs to determine the look of the newly-designed AggieCard.

ASUCD President Alex Lee’s student staff members, third-year design major Melanie Zelaya and third-year communication major Juliana Luna, created these four designs, which were voted on by 3387 students. The winning design won with 1911 votes, a 60.1 percent majority.

First-year and transfer students have since received the newly designed ID cards. Continuing students will keep using the old cards, unless they lose their current AggieCard, in which case they have to pay a $15 replacement fee and will receive the newly designed card. If replaced, an updated photo will also need to be taken due to new photo require-

ments.

Undergraduate students can still use their ID cards as a library card, membership card to the Activities and Recreation Center and free Unitrans bus pass, regardless of whether they have the new or old AggieCard.

The process to make the designs took eight months. It required the use of Marketing Toolbox, an all-accessible free resource that outlines UC Davis standards, to find which designs would work best.

After meeting with Vice Chancellor Adela de la Torre, the team was put in contact with members from Strategic Communications, who introduced senior designers to give feedback and help integrate UC Davis’ upcoming “One of a Kind” marketing campaign.

Besides the aesthetic change to the front of the card, the back of the card’s design is now more streamlined,

color-coordinated and includes the UC Davis Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) phone number.

“You can see how everything [in the old card] is mono-color and all the contact information is scrunched together,” Lee said. “The new one is more differentiated. The new one has a CAPS counseling phone number added. So the back is now more user friendly [...] [Zelaya] and [Luna] redesigned it so if you needed it in an emergency you could see it more at a glance.”

Zelaya realized during her first year at Davis that she wanted to improve the Aggie ID card.

“As design students, we’re trained to be on the lookout for problems that we see need to be fixed or finding things that could be improved upon,” Zelaya said.

“Right off the bat, as a freshman, the AggieCard was something I wanted to change. I saw that it could be improved upon [...] using my knowledge as a designer.”

Zelaya was inspired to incorporate notable UC Davis landmarks and mascots.

Additionally, Lee said that the new AggieCard design was influenced by bank cards to make a more transactional, modern and sleek look.

“My roommate told me she thought her co-worker’s new AggieCard was a

credit card when he tried to use a swipe, so I guess that means we were successful,” Zelaya said. “It’s a design that has the sleekness and professional aspect we were looking for and yet, it is able to communicate a lot of important information on the back as well.”

Lee said that despite the “generational gap” of new AggieCard design holders versus old design holders, there is an overall positive student body reaction to the new card.

“It’s certainly a little difficult because of the generation gap,” Lee said. “When the holders of the new card look at the old cards they think ‘we lucked out,’ [but] then there are those of us who have the old one’s thinking ‘when am I getting mine?’ I definitely think there’s a great shift towards it [...] I think people are really excited to have this new mark of Aggie pride.”

Meghan Garfink, a first-year undeclared major, likes the new design.

“It looks good,” Garfink said. “I think these numbers are useful and it is definitely more aesthetically pleasing.”

Sarah Morrow, a first-year animal biology major, especially enjoys that the card fits with the UC colors.

“I do think it’s more aesthetically pleasing,” Morrow said. “I really like the school color gradient in the front.”

Zelaya is proud that her AggieCard design has been implemented.

“To anyone who is wondering how we were able to create something that 35,000 plus students would use, I think it’s more of a question of how bad you want it,” Zelaya said. “Nothing is impossible [...] Ideas can be crazy, but they’re never impossible.”

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since become the gold standard of energy efficiency for the entire U.S. “There’s an estimate that was done a few years ago, where if the state of California had not adopted its energy code, again which had its roots here in Davis, energy consumers here in state would be paying billions of dollars more every year for electricity and natural gas,” Sears said.

So what can The City of Davis do to bring every aspect of community sustainability up to the gold level?

“To get a gold award for the Beacon, we need to continue to pursue these kinds of best practices, and offer these types of greenhouse gas emissions and energy savings to the community,” Sears said.

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South Korean reporter travels halfway across the world, documents rice donations

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Felix Kwon, a reporter from South Korea who works for the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), ventured 18 hours this past September to visit the small city of Woodland — all for rice. Felix had traveled halfway across the world with a film crew to visit the Yolo Food Bank (YFB) established there.

Recently, the South Korean government put into effect a rice donation program for their local food banks. As a result, Kwon came to learn more about small local food banks and decided to interview those involved, namely those associated with rice production, a staple in a typical Asian diet.

KBS, the largest public television network in South Korea, allowed Kwon to choose his destination for the documentary.

The team began its research and came upon YFB, which distributes across 11 counties and has donated 355,294 pounds of rice, totalling over 4 million individual servings for those in need. Conaway Ranch, a large corporation of rice-growers located in Woodland, largely contributes to this effort as YFB’s greatest benefactor.

This system intrigued Kwon, since South Korea’s public programs for food-insecure residents differ widely from those in Yolo County. Kwon paid particular attention to the relationship between the YFB and the ranch.

“Rice is a staple of the Korean diet and if we can create this kind of partnership be-

tween rice farmers and food banks in South Korea, it could help a lot of hungry people,” Kwon said in “Yolo Food Bank attracts international attention.”

The idea that farmers were willing to donate their own profits to help those in need perplexed Kwon. However, YFB marketing and communications coordinator Kevin Brown and Conaway Ranch environmental consultant Maya Kepner agreed that the farmers belong to a community where people care about each other and want the best for their neighborhoods.

“We live in this agricultural region that produces some of the world’s finest produce. Our proximity to it allows us to form partnerships with local farmers who want to do good and help their neighbors in need,” Brown said. “A lot of growers participate in our Shared Harvest program where they pledge a small percentage of each harvest to the Yolo Food Bank, we then turn around and redistribute it throughout the community. It’s a beautiful thing that fulfills a real need right here at home.”

The Conaway Ranch Shared Harvest program has helped donate rice and produce to programs for food-insecure individuals and families for the last three years, donating about 163,000 pounds of rice to various food banks across California.

“What started out as just Yolo County now reaches about 18 counties in California,” Kepner said. “It’s a story of people coming together — the farmers, the ownership group and the local food banks to provide food for people who really need it.”

A Southern California earthquake advisory from the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) shook the nerves of the public all across social media from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4. The advisory reminded all California residents of the potential dangers of a large earthquake affecting urban areas, including Davis.

“Warnings are usually fairly cautious in their language in order to avoid inciting chaos,” UC Davis professor emeritus Donald Turcotte said. “Uncertainties are so great because the chances are one in 100, but the risk is always there. So warnings are given out just in case.”

For Turcotte, the advisory was more precautionary than anything else. In California, where public knowledge of local earthquakes is widespread, a warning based on a wild guess is better than none at all.

“There is always a risk in trying this information [on] the public because people don’t deal well with low-probability issues,” said geology professor Michael Oskin. “They tend to overemphasize [the probability of an earthquake], and it does not help that some news organizations are only seeking publicity for themselves and will hype things. The reality of [the warning] was that [there] was an enhanced chance [of an earthquake] over the long-term.”

Cal OES issued the advisory due to concerns that an earthquake near the San Andreas Fault would trigger a larger earthquake as a part of an “earthquake swarm.”

According to James McClain, a professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences, his department defines an earthquake swarm as an unusually large number of earthquakes, densely packed over a short period of time. This occurs when one fault may be slipping, or a number of closely spaced faults are slipping slightly.

This particular San Andreas swarm took place near the Salton Sea. The concern was that it would trigger an even larger earthquake along the San Andreas Fault. The advisory is no longer in place, meaning that, for the moment, there is no longer an increased probability of an earthquake happening along the fault.

“There is an increased probability of an earthquake during one of these swarms [...] but probability is not stationary,” Oskin said. “We don’t understand earthquakes sufficiently [enough] to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ if

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The UC Davis Police Department has recently been stopping students biking to class for quick talks — but not the sort of talks you might think you’d get from a campus bike cop. Instead, these students are each receiving $5 CoHo gift cards as a thank you for wearing a helmet while biking on campus.

“We want to recognize students [who] are choosing to wear helmets and normalize helmet-wearing on campus,” said Shantille Connolly, wellness health educator.

To encourage students to wear helmets, Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) launched the “Helmet Hair Don’t Care!” campaign on Sept. 26. SHCS additionally teamed up with the UC Davis Police Department for the “Helmets have Perks” part of the campaign.

The campaign’s slogan was created in the

gram with Aggie NOW to promote food security on campus.

Next, the senate held several presentations from community individuals and campus groups.

Terry Whittier, a 1966 UC Davis alumni and current Davis local, gave a presentation in which he argued that UC Davis Neighbor’s Night Out should have a more political platform to allow for an open dialogue about community improvements.

Cory Vu, interim director at Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS), updated senators about on-campus mental-health services.

Senator Samantha Chiang questioned Vu on how SHCS plans to expand psychiatric services on campus. Vu re-

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protection SCHS launches “Helmet Hair Don’t Care,” encourages students to wear helmets

The ASUCD Senate meeting was called to order at 6:15 p.m. on Oct. 6, followed immediately by the establishment of the quorum with 7 out of the 11 senators present.

First, Julie Jung, a second-year political science major, was sworn in as ASUCD’s newest senator.. Jung previously worked directly under ASUCD president Alex Lee as his deputy chief of staff. The motion to confirm Jung as a new senator was unanimous. Jung’s platform included tackling the issue of food security on campus and increasing student amenities. Jung said she would try to start a video-series pro-

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UC Davis honors challenge class in spring quarter 2015. In the class, multiple focus groups discovered that appearance and peer use are two of the main barriers that keep students from wearing helmets. “[Wearing helmets] is just something so simple to do to prevent long-term brain trauma,” Connolly said. “It doesn’t seem like biking to class could be really dangerous but unfortunately there are a lot of things that are out of our control.”

SHCS put on a trial run of this campaign as a pilot last spring. Health Education and Promotion collected data from Spring Quarter 2015 and found that only 7.9 percent of UC Davis undergraduate students wear helmets, compared to the national average on college campuses of 30 percent. They also received data from the UC Davis Fire Department (UCDFD) on the number of calls they HELMETHAIR on PAGE 5

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something is going to trigger an earthquake. There are times where earthquake activity is enhanced, and we should be more wary of other things happening. It is not like forecasting the weather yet.”

California has multiple faults that are cause for concern when it comes to earthquakes. However, the impact of earthquakes on certain faults varies throughout the state.

The San Andreas Fault in Southern California is under the most surveillance by seismologists since it is due for an earthquake. According to McClain, the Hayward Fault in the East Bay is the nearest fault to Davis that is due for an earthquake.

“Every part of California has some sort of earthquake potential that people should be concerned about,” McClain said. “However, we do not have to worry about [how a] Southern California [earthquake could affect us], and they do not have to worry about a big earthquake here.”

The concern for this advisory was in the increased probability of a quake occurring along a fault that is due for an earthquake. Earthquakes tend to happen along the San Andreas about once every 300 years, according to Oskin. So, in a year, the probability of an earthquake is one in 300 and one in 10,000 every day.

During this swarm, the probability went from one in 10,000 to one in 100, which warranted the advisory.

“During this swarm the likelihood increased by a factor of 100,” Oskin said. “It is still a 1 percent chance that the earthquake [could be] the next day.

That level of change in probability from very small numbers to another very small number [causes] a very big relative increase.”

Since Davis is rather far away from the coast, the city would not be as affected by a large earthquake on the Hayward Fault as it would be by its after-effects.

So, for Oskin, remaining prepared for the possibility of a large earthquake is a vital aspect of living in this state.

He suggested that Davis citizens stay informed of building codes for earthquakes and make sure the contents of their homes are firmly screwed down to avoid getting hit by something falling during a quake.

“We haven’t had a very large earthquake in California in more than two decades that has affected urban regions, [but] it is good to be reminded that we have a very large earthquake hazard in California,” Oskin said. “Maybe this particular reminder was a little bit overblown [...] but there is a benefit to reminding people of the hazard that they should prepare for.”

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sponded that there was talk of adding a telepsychiatry service, dependent upon student interest.

Shannon George, fourth-year human development major and coordinator for UC Davis’ Body Project, discussed the club’s new body-positivity workshop titled “Myth of the Freshman 15,” in which Body Project club members will tour dorms and promote body positivity and healthy lifestyles.

Additionally, the Body Project will hold periodic workshops to focus on positive body image and resisting media influences on beauty standards.

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Association, which is made up of clubs from all over the United States and Canada. This year, Davis Bike Polo hosted the 8th annual North American Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship in Folsom, Calif., with two qualifying Davis teams, one of which finished in eighth out of 36.

“It was a really proud moment for us,” Kutzleb said. “The guys who [finished eigth] started the club together way back in the day.”

The sport of bike polo, however, is not restricted to just North America. Players travel all over the world to compete, from Europe to Canada to Mexico.

“I’ve traveled so much because of [bike] polo — I’ve been to Europe four times in the last two years,” Kutzleb said. “That’s one of the best parts about [the game], it breaks down [...] barriers. You get there, and you have something in common with people.”

For people who want to try out the sport, Davis Bike Polo lends out loaner bikes and mallets.

New players are then assimilated into the sport with drills and coaching from more experienced players.

Players also wear helmets and pads as safety precautions.

“It’s really hard to ride a bike in a small space [...]

you feel like you’re going to crash and freak out,” Wong said. “[When I first started] I would get stuck in the corners a lot [...] but I’ve definitely gotten better.”

The club includes a range of participants, from 12-year-olds, to graduate students, to older adults.

“I’ve definitely gained a lot more friends,” Wong said. “Davis is kind of tiny, [and] I grew up in big cities. [Bike polo] is really nice because it’s a fun activity to do in Davis.”

Since the bike polo community in Davis is small, the players get to know each other well. The experienced players are generous in their advice and support towards newer players.

“It’s been an easy thing for me to get involved in and [...] get more skilled at just because of the encouragement of the people that are doing it,” Henn said. “The feeling of camaraderie [is strong.]”

Despite their different levels of experience, Henn, Wong and Kutzleb all agree that the bike polo community has positively impacted their lives.

“It’s been such a good experience,” Kutzleb said.

“When I first started the sport I could barely ride a bike. Now I can do stuff on a bike I never imagined [I could].”

of [since you can] talk to someone with expert advice.”

Hsia noted that it is important to get the word out about services like this because they can benefit students who may feel lost or stressed out about a particular situation.

“At this age you probably don’t have the money to afford an attorney, so having this free [...] consultation definitely helps,” Hsia said. “It’s nice knowing that a professional is on campus to talk to, someone with experience dealing with this type of situation.”

These resources were also unknown to Amber Booth, second-year undeclared life sciences major, but learning about them has made her grateful to be a student at UC Davis.

“Now that I understand what [the legal services] are, it’s great to know they’re here,” Booth said. “If I were ever in a legal situation where I needed an attorney, it would take a lot of stress off of me because I don’t know how to contact an attorney or get legal advice, and I’m sure it’s the same situation for other students as well.”

Having access to legal services during college

can also make an impact on students’ future legal knowledge. “[Legal services are] important to have on campus because many college students are teenagers becoming adults, so it’s nice to have a resource that you can easily use,” Booth said. “It also makes me more aware of the legal world that I could use to my advantage after college.”

While the service is funded by undergraduatesfees, Wilton suggests that students try to use only one consultation per quarter so that Student Services can accommodate as many students’ needs as possible.

Undergraduate students can make appointments for consultation on Mondays from 2 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and Thursdays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. as long as they call at least one business day in advance. “[The legal services] are a wonderful resource for students because they do have various concerns, and no issue is too small,” Wilton said. “If you think you need to talk to an attorney, come in and make an appointment for a 15-minute phone

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and what they do to their trash [and] here.”

UC Davis’ sustainability efforts can be seen all over campus. Waste bins specific to compost, recyclables and landfill can be found in dining areas and along campus sidewalks.

Reusing is even implemented in school events such as the annual Whole Earth Festival which provides art, food and entertainment to the community while promoting zero waste.

The festival’s food vendors use reusable dishes to serve food, and volunteers sort through waste bins to separate recyclables and compost from landfill.

The UC Davis campus is not the only area that reuse efforts are taking place.

Located downtown on 3rd Street is Boheme, a thrift store that sells various used clothes and accessories, as well as crafts and clothing pieces made and decorated by the store owner, Yelena Ivanshchenko.

Boheme has been at its current location for three and a half years.

Only a few blocks away from campus, the store is popular among students in search of inexpensive and vintage items.

“The vibrant energy in the store and colors and fun atmosphere [make it special],” Ivanshchenko said. “[For] the ‘Fill the Bag for $1’ event [...] there are items that we’re trying to give back to the community, [and] we stick all of the items outside. It’s crazy. [300] or 400

people show up and they fill a whole bag for $1.”

Boheme is not a typical thrift store. Instead of having been donated, the clothes sold at the store are actually bought secondhand from local students and residents.

Those who are interested in selling to Boheme bring in their used clothes on one of the store’s trade-in days or during a scheduled appointment.

Ivanshchenko then handpicks the items she wants to add to her store’s collection. “[In the store] I try to accommodate [...] everybody’s tastes — different crowds, different age[s] — so you would see huge variety,” Ivanshchenko said. “[I] always just have to look at what [I] have, fix stuff and make it happen: patching holes, putting new zippers, putting new items [on clothes] and just giving [them] new life.”

The store accepts the most trade-ins during the month of August, when many graduated students are preparing to move out of town.

The sellers are paid right on the spot with either cash or store credit.

Boheme, the Aggie Reuse Store and the Whole Earth Festival are only a few of the many ways the people of Davis encourage reusing to contribute to a happier, healthier environment.

“I absolutely love what I’m doing,” Ivanshchenko said. “I think all my life I just believed in the purpose of recycling and making things out of nothing. Why produce and buy something new when it’s already here?”

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respond to regarding head injuries.

“We recognized that there is a need for this on our campus, so our department was tasked with developing some campaign to promote bike-helmet usage,” Connolly said.

The campaign consists of two parts — the social marketing campaign and the pledge. For the social marketing campaign, SHCS took photos of current UC Davis students that wear helmets and spread them via campaign messages across campus and on social media.

“That part of the campaign is more targeted toward normalizing helmet-wearing behavior and addressing the barriers related to wearing helmets,” Connolly said.

The pledge reads that, “As a UC Davis student, I pledge to always wear a bike helmet on every ride, even on short trips, because my brain is more important than helmet hair.”

Students can sign the pledge virtually or on paper and can then redeem a free helmet from the Bike Barn. Connolly said that the goal is to distribute about 1,000 helmets to students.

SHCS applied for funds from Safety Services through their “Be Smart about Safety” program last spring. The funds received are intended for projects with the intention of reducing the “frequency and severity of potential loss in the areas of our workers’ compensation, general liability, employment, auto and property programs.”

Through this, SCHS was able to allocate a large part of those funds toward buying the complementary helmets and contribute to campus safety as a whole.

“We’re going to continue to promote the Helmet Hair Don’t Care pledge [...] essentially until we run out of funds for helmets,” Connolly said.

Students can also choose to purchase $13 helmets from the Bike Barn after they sign the pledge. This stock was brought into the Bike Barn last spring to provide an affordable option to students who wanted to wear helmets, but were unable to purchase the pricier options. Students who wore helmets on Oct. 13 and visited the Bike Barn also received a free CoHo burrito.

About four weeks after signing the pledge, each student will receive a follow-up survey. The survey consists of 10 questions, asking students whether or not they are still wearing a helmet, their beliefs about helmets and their perceived obstacles against wearing helmets.

“There are a lot of bikes in Davis and a lot of potential for bike accidents,” said Christa Hoffman, second-year economics and environmental sciences double major and mechanic at the Bike Barn. “We’re putting a lot of time, energy and money into our education so it’s important to protect your head.”

At a school where the most common mean of transportation is biking, second-year undeclared student Nathan McPhaul is one of the many students who cycles most days to get around. After seeing the campaign messages on Unitrans buses and in the dining commons, McPhaul chose to sign the pledge.

“I think it’s just really important [...] that we all remember that there’s more than just how your head looks, and that safety is very important,” McPhaul said. “On a day to day basis it’s easy for me — or for anyone — to kind of forget about that.”

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and I] have learned to develop those well,” von Ebbe said.

Even during high-intensity matches, the two have fun playing on the court together.

“It’s not serious the entire time,” Breisacher said. “We’re still laughing on the court during a match.”

One of Maze’s key coaching points is paying close attention to new players and unlocking some new skills. On and off the court, returning players focus on helping the freshmen with the transition into collegiate play.

“With coach, what’s really special is his desire to develop players,” von Ebbe said. “[Our team wants] to work and develop into dominant [doubles] teams that has plays and strategies in match situations when different obstacles come up. So to develop into that team is something that we’re looking forward to.”

The UC Davis women’s tennis team has a more challenging spring schedule than it has seen in the last couple of years, including matches against Arizona State University’s PAC-12 Conference team as well as a road match against Hawai’i. The team also has 13 home matches this spring — the most it’s ever had.

Preparing for the spring season, the Aggies want to make it as far into every tournament as they can before conference play.

“For me, the fun comes from the result of working hard,” von Ebbe said. “If you work hard, you can walk on the court and know that you worked hard for this match […] That’s where the fun is.”

The Aggies look to keep the momentum going when they hit the road to Stanford University to compete in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships from Oct. 21 to 25.

do to protect the communities that they serve.

Jacob Shockley, CEO of ‘Back the Badge – Sacramento,’ an organization that seeks to spread a positive perception of law enforcement, views the shooting of Mann as justified and said that the officers’ actions were in self-defense.

According to Shockley, Back the Badge does not support officers who break the law, but the public must respect the outcome of internal police investigations.

Shockley sees public antipathy towards police officers as the bigger issue.

“We see officers being targeted due to the uniform they are wearing. Two Palm Springs officers were killed for the uniform they wear.

A Riverside deputy was executed by a black man because of the uniform he wore. There is a war on police officers and we at Back The Badge are going to stand with the officers who are justified and are doing everything correctly to ensure they go home safe,” Shockley said via e-mail.

Shockley, who has had family fall in the line of duty, is adamant about defending law en-

forcement from what he views as a ‘war on police’ and says that organizations like Black Lives Matter have double standards when it comes to the killing of African American officers.

“There is always negative backlash once an officer-involved shooting occurs, but this only occurs when an African American is shot and killed. We don’t see anyone rioting, protesting and road blocking when a person of any other race is shot and killed. The Black Lives Matter organization isn’t really about black lives; if they were they would protest when a black officer is shot and killed, but nothing is said!”

Shockley said via email.

It should be noted that the Black Lives Matter movement specifically seeks to raise awareness about the systematic societal discrimination against African Americans and does not make itself out to be an advocacy organization for other causes.

In a statement to The California Aggie, the SPD said that, due to the pending lawsuit, they are currently unauthorized to comment on the case.

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crisis-management app and gave out free gift bags to all the senators and audience members.

Each gift bag included a water bottle, first-aid kit, whistle and information about the program.

The Emergency Crisis Management Team will award similar gift bags to students who download the safety app. Stokes said that students must be prepared in case of emergencies, especially in light of recent shootings at other UC campuses.

Many new confirmations were made this week, primarily regarding vacancies for ASUCD programs.

The senate unanimously approved the appointment of a new chair of the Experimental College gardens, fourth-year Spanish and international relations double major Nick Campbell. Campbell said that, during his time as director, he hopes to increase student involvement at the gardens.

Sevan Nahabedian, third-year genetics and genomics major and a former ASUCD senator, was appointed as the new chairperson of the elections committee. This position is usually elected in the spring, but the senators felt the chair needed to be filled before upcoming elections. Working with Nahabedian as election committee vice chair is first-year design major Maggie He, who has had previous experience organizing a campaign involving over 57 candidates.

Four new internal affairs commissioners were appointed, including second-year cognitive sci-

ence major Kimia Akbari, first-year political science major Ryan Gardiner, first-year political science major Oscar Cervantes and Jaren Gaither.

The senate then considered the status of past legislation. It was motioned and confirmed to unrefer Senate Bill #4, which amends the Underwriting, Sponsorship and Advertising (USA) committee by adding two career staff. It was called into question whether KDVS and The California Aggie were notified of being removed from the committee, to which DeAngelo said he would notify them. Senate Bill 4 was called into question and seconded.

(Editor’s note: at the time of press, The Aggie had not been contacted regarding the changes to Senate Bill #4.)

New legislation was then introduced. First, Internal Affairs Commission (IAC) chair Nick Flores and Senator Josh Dalavai proposed making a constitutional amendment to dissolve the judicial branch. Flores also proposed to make the bylaws of Subsection 901a consistent with Section 901. Senator DeAngelo proposed an amendment to The California Aggie budget that would allow its employees to continue receiving stipends throughout the entire fiscal year.

The senators took new unit assignments of various ASUCD programs including the Aggie Reuse store, the Coffee House and KDVS. The meeting was adjourned at 9:20 p.m.

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missed a 29-yard field goal, making it 17-14 going into halftime.

UC Davis broke tradition this year and held the annual Hall of Fame induction at Homecoming instead of in the spring, honoring six former Aggies for their athletic achievements at the half – volleyball player Jill Changaris, football’s Jason Hairston, gymnast Tanya Ho, wrestler Derek Moore, gymnast Jon Trunk, swimmer Scott Weltz and former associate athletics director Larry Swanson.

At the start of the second half, Northern Colorado’s defense held the Aggies in their own territory on their first drive of the second half, but sophomore running back Joshua Kelley broke tackles to rush an explosive 31 yards into the endzone and lift UC Davis to a 24-14 lead.

The Bears stayed within reach with a fourth-down touchdown late in the third quarter to make it 24-21. The Ags responded with a Blair field goal to make it a dangerous six-point deficit for Northern Colorado, 2721.

With just under three minutes left to play, UC Davis’ junior cornerback Isaiah Olave got the 11-yard pick six, capping off the Aggies’ 34-21 victory.

With no turnovers from the offense and key defensive plays, head coach Ron Gould

said that the team finally found its rhythm by communicating.

“You see our kids playing with the confidence, playing with the energy and playing with the kind of poise that we need to play with,” Gould said. “They had the right mindset. They had the right heart and the right attitude.”

As Gould talked about team cohesion, Luuga talked about his responsibility to his team as a senior running back after his two rushing touchdowns.

“I gave it all I could give,” Luuga said. “If I know I gave it everything I’ve got, then that’s all that matters to me. And I did that and as a collective, we got that [win] and it’s great.”

Getting that first conference win means a lot for quarterback Scott, who talked about Olave’s interception as a turning point for their team.

“I actually got really emotional,” Scott said. “It hadn’t felt like we put it all together yet, but when I saw him get the interception and take it all the way back it was a big sigh of relief. Just a big joy.”

After this win, UC Davis hits the road to compete against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m. The Aggies will return to Aggie Stadium on Nov. 5 at 4 p.m. to host Portland State.

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well as the general public.

“Publishing is valuable evidence to employers or future graduate schools of a student’s ability to write and to carry a project through to a conclusion,” Fink said.

Large class and laboratory sizes make it difficult for students to apply their knowledge to current events or share their information to others in a more original way. Showcasing writing at a university level shows initiative to learn and grow.

“Writing is a way to express yourself and [students] have the opportunity to express what they learned,” said Nicole Strossman, fourth-year biochemistry and molecular biology major and senior editor of The Aggie Transcript.

The Aggie Transcript is a unique scientific journal because it is student-run. The editors take the time to work with students, helping them to edit their submissions. The goal is to produce high-quality pieces of writing that allow students to retain a sense of originality in their submissions.

Published work from this journal covers topics in health and medicine, genetics, case studies in biology and even literature reviews of scientific papers.

The most recent article published was a case report on Tourette Syndrome in the health and medicine category.

“We have two faculty advisors that provide their input from a writing perspective and science perspective: Dr. Sean Burgess of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Dr. Katie Roger of the University Writing Program (UWP) department,” Strossman said.

The Narrative Pre-Health Club (NPH) also consists of a journal committee which publishes written pieces about reflections or narratives on pre-health experiences. This includes personal stories about volunteer experiences, classes, clinical work or any subjective topic relating to the journey of a pre-health student.

“We feel that analyzing and sharing our stories at a deeper level not only allows us to better understand ourselves, but also to identify the person we each aspire to be as future health professionals,” said Murtaza Khan, co-founder of NPH. NPH is distinctive from other journals on campus because it allows students to appreciate why they are pursuing a college education and, specifically, a career in the health field. “[Think back to] the time you used to visit your mother in the hospital as she fought cancer. That one class that piqued CANCER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

French Camp. After undergoing several rounds of surgery in 2014, Pouchés was transferred to UCDCCC and began her treatment in the clinical trial in September 2015.

Clinical trials test the efficacy of cancer treatments and examine the toxicity of its side effects. When a cancer patient runs out of traditional treatment options, such as chemotherapy, he or she has the option to join a clinical trial that can result in finding a more proactive treatment.

“Some patients may have trepidation about the [clinical trial] treatments, but they often have a lot of hope that it may provide an opportunity for some clinical benefit that wouldn’t be there otherwise,” said Dr. Gary Leiserowitz, the chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics at UCDCCC. Prior to being transferred to UCDCCC, Pouchés was not responding to the chemotherapy and surgical treatments typically used on cancer patients. She is currently part of a Phase 1 immunotherapy clinical trial for patients with late-stage cancers and travels to UC Davis every two weeks for infusions.

During her visits, she has her blood drawn and tested, and her vitals checked.

Only a year ago, Pouchés was bedridden and unsure of how

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your interest in the workings of the nervous system. The many this ninth-inning role, teams spread themselves thin in situations with higher times you feel burned out by the daily struggle of [...] classes, leverage. In big games like the playoffs, a team cannot afford to compete without to pursue a seemingly distant dream, but keep on persevering using their best arm. A perfect example of this is the failure of Baltimore Orioles nonetheless,” Khan said. “We all have these experiences [...] I to utilize their closer Zach Britton in the recent American League Wild Card think it’s important that we sit down and reflect on them to Game. pinpoint exactly how they’ve shaped us.”

Britton, a legitimate Cy Young award candidate, had one of the most domA scientific journal that exclusively publishes undergraduate inant seasons as a closer in recent memory. He pitched 67 innings to the tune research is Explorations. In order to submit a piece of writing, of a 0.54 ERA with 47 saves and 74 strikeouts. For those who don’t understand a student must have a faculty sponsor, who references a few pobaseball jargon, suffice to say his season was historic. tential experts in the paper’s field. These experts are then asked Britton, however, was not used in the extra innings of last week’s AL Wild to review the submission with the help of the journal’s editorial Card Game against the Toronto Blue Jays that would’ve sent the O’s to the board.

American League Division Series against the Texas Rangers. Orioles’ manager “We have published articles from a variety of majors such as Buck Showalter left his best arm unused when the game was on the line, and the art history, sociology, psychology, engineering, math, sciences, Orioles lost and their season ended because of it. english and agriculture,” Fink said. “We hope that our journal Managers have begun to abandon this approach during this year’s playoffs. reflects the range of thought expressed on our campus and cerLos Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts learned a thing or two from Showtainly aim to have the research published in Explorations come alter’s mishap in Game Five of the NLDS. from as many different disciplines as possible.”

Roberts brought in star closer Kenley Jansen in the seventh inning of a game If students are looking to publish research or writing from a in which the Dodgers were up by one run with one man on base with the Naclass, UC Davis’ UWP has developed Prized Writing. Expositionals’ biggest bats next in line to hit. Jansen proceeded to throw 51 pitches for tory writing entries must have been written as an undergraduate 2.1 scoreless innings, which is unchartered territory for a closer, and the Dodgers student in concurrence with taking a university course. Selected held on for the win because of it. submissions are published and featured in the Prized Writing Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman was used in Game One of the National League book, sold at the university book store.

Championship Series in the eighth inning as the Dodgers threatened with the Scientific and student-run journals based at the UC Davis bases loaded, and Andrew Miller has been deployed in almost every late-inning medical school have year-round opportunities to apply to their high-leverage situation since being traded to the Cleveland Indians in late July. editorial staff.

Just because the ninth inning is the last, doesn’t necessarily mean it is of the “Just like publishing is a good experience for an undergradumost importance. ate, learning what goes into editing and publishing an academic The best arm in the ‘pen should come in the game when the situation calls for journal is a great opportunity for students,” Fink said. it, because if the other arms fail to keep the game in check he may never get the The journals on campus continuously grow as the number of shot to come in at all. Closers are given the spotlight, more money in free agency submissions increase every quarter. Both The Aggie Transcript and disproportional love from the fans. and NPH are seeking to publish their first hard-copy journals It’s about time that managers started abandoning the traditional confines of with selected published articles. their ninth-inning routine and started using them in spots where they are needed Students who decide to publish their work each get to advanmost. tageously network their ideas early on. “[Publishing research is] also good for other undergraduate MLB ROUND 2 students to see what their peers are doing,” Strossman said.

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Winner: Toronto in seven A lot of people complained about my lack of statistical analysis in last week’s prediction article, but as Charles Barkley once said, “All these guys [...] that talk about data analytics, they got one thing in common, they ain’t never played the game and much time she had left to live. Today, she takes walks in her they never got the girls in high school.” local park and has high hopes for the future.

I didn’t get that many girls in high school either, but I did turn down a Division “Does [my ovarian cancer] define me? Yes, but I don’t let it III baseball scholarship to go to UC Davis, so that may qualify me to forecast a Blue stop me,” Pouchés said. “I’m just glad for each day; I live in the Jays’ championship. The Blue Jays’ offense awoke from its September slumber in the moment. I feel very blessed.”

ALDS, collecting eight bombs and an .895 OPS in just three games. The Cubs, World Pouchés has been working with Dr. Edwin Alvarez, a UCSeries drought will extend to 109 years, and a Canadian team will claim the highest DCCC gynecologic oncologist, throughout the course of her title of America’s pastime. treatment. She attributes the staff members’ support as making her experience dealing with cancer better.

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Although Pouchés’ ovarian cancer has been suppressed, she “Going forward, if we can continue to play our system and play our game I understands that it can come back at any point. think that we are going to compete, and I hope we can come up with some big For now, she is grateful to be part of the clinical trial and wins within the conference and the rest of the season,” Kilroe said. to be alive.

In their most recent conference game against Pacific, the Aggies took a tough “During my experience, I realized that it was okay to have 3-2 loss. cancer,” Pouchés said. “There’s a mental attitude about it, and The Aggies play their next conference game away against Stanford this Frithe staff were there to help me understand that. Instead of it day, Oct. 21, at 6:00 pm. They return to the Aggie Field Hockey Facility on feeling like such a dirty word — cancer — it became more of Friday, Oct. 28 at 3 p.m. to face UC Berkeley in their final game of the season. like ‘Okay, this is cancer. Let’s figure this out. We can do this.’”

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Put voting above everything this November Buck trend of low voter turnout amongst college students

SCOTT DRESSER Editor in Chief ELLIE DIERKING Managing Editor

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ALYSSA VANDENBERG Campus News Editor

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla met with the University of California (UC) Board of Regents last month to discuss a partnership to promote the registration of college-age voters for the 2016 General Election through The California Student Vote Project. The memorandum of understanding set forth by the UC and Padilla was one of mutual commitment to “educate, empower, and register students to vote” across all of the UC campuses.

The Editorial Board would like to extend its support of this project and strongly encourage UC Davis students to register to vote by the Oct. 24 deadline in order to participate in this year’s presidential election.

Padilla’s work has not gone unnoticed by the UC Davis community, with the Associated Students of the University of California, Davis (ASUCD) promoting student voter registration and emails circulating around the campus reminding students of the registration cutoff date. However, recognition of election day within the classroom is also necessary to increasing youth voter turnout. The University of South Carolina, the University of New Hampshire and Purchase University of New York have regulations of exams and classes on Election Day, allowing students to take the time to prioritize voting for the issues that will impact their wellbeing, such as student loans and healthcare.

The Editorial Board therefore encourages the UC to follow the example of these universities and to uphold the memorandum of understanding with Secretary Padilla and its promises to UC students.

In the 2014 Midterm Election, eight percent of the population between the ages of 18 and 24 voted, with only 52 percent of them registered to vote. This put us 20 points behind any other age demographic. The 238,000 students in the UC system are an incredibly well-educated and informed group; there is a great possibility that this group, according to a statement on the Secretary of State’s website,

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can “dramatically increase voter engagement in upcoming elections.” UC Davis Center for Regional Change’s California Civic Engagement Project reports that 34 percent of voters aged 18 to 24 registered and 17.9 percent turned out to vote in the 2016 General Election Primaries in California, which is considerably higher than the 5.2 percent in the 2012 Primaries.

California has so far seen the biggest registration turnout in history, with 18.2 million voters registered by Sept. 9 for the 2016 General Election. However, college-aged students comprise of only 12 percent of these registered voters, three points lower than the total percentage of 18 to 24 year old eligible voters in Yolo County, and eight points lower than the percentage of voters who come from the 66 and over range.

College-aged voters have room to grow. The percentage of one of the largest demographics in the state should not still represent the smallest demographic in the polls coming up for Nov. 8.

This election is particularly important because of the general direction of the country, state propositions and local and statewide officials on the ballot. No matter your political affiliation, voting preference or background, issues unique to California must be addressed by the students of UC Davis. This year is our opportunity to do our part.

Information concerning Yolo County’s ballot can be found on yoloelections.org, and a voter information guide is available through the Secretary of State’s website. Davis has prepared polling stations open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. all over town for those registered in Yolo County on Nov. 8.

Students also have until Nov. 1 to register for a vote-by-mail ballot from their home town.

With this, the Editorial Board encourages its readers to prepare for election day on registertovote.ca.gov by Oct. 24. Do the research necessary to make the best decision not only for yourself, but for your country and, most importantly, for your generation.

GUEST OPINION I left my heart at standing rock

BY FRANCISCO FERREYRA Native Americans are a ceremonial people of song and prophecy.

One prophecy, that of the Seventh Fire, predicts that protectors from the four sacred directions will rise to defeat a sinister black snake that burrows deep in the earth and ravages the lands. The protectors are led by the seventh generation — today’s young people — and guided by the wisdom of the elders.

Indigenous people have been plagued for centuries by demons imposed upon them by our American government. Native children taken from their families and placed into strict boarding schools, the illegality of prayer in the first half of the 20th century, the tragedy of discriminatory police slayings and the highest suicide rates in the country represent just some of the injustices they have endured.

Our native comrades have been systematically stripped of their land. They’ve been pushed onto reservations where poverty and drug abuse run rampant and made to witness the plunder of Earth’s natural resources from their homes.

This summer I had the privilege of spending time at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, where thousands of Native Americans and their allies are currently resisting a $3.7 billion crude oil project known as the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The struggle garnered national attention when a group of indigenous youth ran from Standing Rock to Washington D.C. — around 70 miles a day for three weeks.

The 1,172 mile pipeline is expected to transport around 500,000 barrels of oil per day and, if completed, will burrow under countless water sources, including the Missouri River, threatening water for 18 million Americans. Because DAPL never consulted with the tribal nations whose lands will play host to what natives have labeled “the black snake,” DAPL violates the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The resistance of the water protectors at Standing Rock is justified then, not only through international law, but also through the US Constitution's Supremacy Clause and agreements such as the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty, which promised these lands to the first nation’s people.

While at the encampment, which has evolved into a vibrant community, I interviewed several water protectors, including a young medic from the Red Warrior Camp named Alas.

“People think we are fighting for the right to clean water, but really it is the Native American people’s responsibility to ensure that we have clean water,” Alas said. “That responsibility puts us at odds with the colonial government that is strong arming around here. It’s not up to us that we have reached peak oil, you know? Greenhouse gases and ozone layers, all this shit, water levels are rising. That’s not happening because we say it is, it’s happening because that’s what this machine is creating. [This #noDAPL movement] is a continuation of the indigenous resistance and indigenous protection that has been happening here since the beginning of time.”

In early September, DAPL bulldozed over three sacred indigenous burial sites and hired private security officers who confronted unarmed praying protectors at construction sites with pepper spray and vicious dogs.

Since then, dozens of water protectors have been arrested and fully-armed state and local forces have been deployed on more than one occasion. While the media has remained largely silent, social media has brought the story to audiences around the world, where many are beginning to make the connection between the battle for water in Standing Rock and the global struggle against capitalism, fossil fuels and American imperialism. Indeed, letters pour into camp every day from organizations commending the encampment and pledging their solidarity with the largest gathering of tribal nations in history.

Our own City of Davis passed a resolution in early October in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and fellow students organized a march on campus on this past Indigenous People’s Day. But the battle continues.

Starting Oct. 17th and leading into COP 22 (the international climate change negotiations), all those able and trained in nonviolent direct action should head to Standing Rock for one month to put that training to good use and defeat the black snake!

Francisco Ferreyra is a third-year community and regional development major.

GUEST OPINION Save our fields

BY GARY M. WALTON I’m writing to members of the UC Davis family (students, alumni, faculty, administrators and staff ), and to others who love our campus and the university, in opposition of the plan to build dorms and other buildings on the valuable open spaces on the fields bordering Russell Boulevard.

My first visit to the campus was in 1957 as a sophomore from Sacramento High School to run in the Woody Wilson Relays on Toomey Field.

The large green fields adjacent to the track made a strong favorable impression of UC Davis' great potential.

When I moved to Davis in 1981 as the first

Permanent Dean of the Graduate School of Management, I was delighted to find the open spaces still there, occupied intensely with student athletes engaging in all varieties of sports.

Those fields are the face of campus from the North perimeter — an image that forges the campus’ first impression for many first time visitors.

And what a marvelous sight. Youth on the run engaged intensely in wholesome sports. It merits emphasis that this image isn't one of big time money athletics, but rather of full inclusion of all youth interested in intercollegiate athletics, intramurals or pick up games for the sheer fun of it.

These fields are classrooms.

In addition to my duties as Dean in the 80s, I was privileged to coach the middle distance run-

ners on the track team. We spent many hours running on those fields in preparation for competition.

To me and many other coaches, including names like Sochor, Foster, Biggs, Williams, Vochatzer, Belenis and many others, those fields were and are for teaching purposes. They even have lights for night time classes.

Coaches like these know that the purpose of coming to university is to make young people stronger intellectually, physically, socially and morally. Preparing for competition builds character and teaches vital leadership skills like how to work on a team, be dependable and strive for your best.

And, most importantly, how to come back from losses and disappointments.

I am delighted the campus plans to bring in more students to our arena of learning. So let's do what is best for all our students and the campus: build elsewhere.

We are blessed as one of the most land abundant campuses in the world. We can put pillows under tired heads without giving up our athletic fields — our special open classrooms — that convey the best image of campus and our great academic institution.

If the administration sacrifices these fields to buildings, a great place of learning and joy and youthful spirit will be lost forever.

Gary M. Walton is a Professor Emeritus of economics at UC Davis.

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At The Crossroads WHEN SONG AND SCIENCE COLLIDE

BY TARYN DEOILERS tldeoilers@ucdavis.edu During indie harpist Joanna Newsom’s concert at Los Angeles’s Orpheum Theater last March, I wasn’t exactly surprised to see a crowd of peculiar characters.

Glancing around, my friend and I took turns pointing out the most unusually-dressed audience members. My friend nodded towards the balcony, where a woman with an elaborate veil over her face was sitting. As we shuffled out of the theater afterwards, I overheard a woman gushing to her friend: “I can’t believe I just saw Joanna Newsom and peed in the same stall as Björk! And to think I almost didn’t recognize her, with that veil on and all.”

Despite her offbeat form of expression –– her veil unnervingly resembled a bedazzled Hannibal Lecter mask –– Björk has permeated pop culture and pushed art beyond the bounds of normality. Most people, however, don’t view Björk as a visionary for technology, science and education.

In 2011, Björk released her eighth studio album, Biophilia, a highly ambitious project that incorporated technology, cosmology, biology, geology — basically anything ending with ‘-ology’ — with,

as always, unprecedented music. The songs explore nature through poetic lyricism, likening the human experience to the minute and cosmic intricacies of our universe.

The instrumentals also reflect natural phenomena in awe-striking ways. “Moon,” a gentle melody, presents four continually-looping motifs that represent the lunar cycle, while “Thunderbolt” champions an arpeggio-rich baseline generated by the electrostatic discharge of a Tesla coil. Complex, innovative gems like these span the record and emphasize the relationship between music and technology.

Perhaps the greatest collision of science and sound is Björk’s use of instruments that harness the power of nature itself. “Solstice” features my favorite invention: the gravity-harp, a towering apparatus composed of four massive pendulums each capped with a cylindrical harp. As the instrument’s name suggests, Earth’s gravitational pull plucks the harp strings during the pendulums’ downward swings, resulting in harps that literally play themselves.

Amid the creative and technical accomplishments of Biophilia, its impact on education is its most stunning and unexpected quality.

With the goal of inciting a love for nature and music in younger generations, Björk worked with a diverse team of scientists, engineers and other artists to devise an interactive app that blended her

musical expertise with her collaborators’ varying fields of study. The app has even been adopted by schools in numerous Scandinavian countries — a pretty staggering feat for an oddball musician widely known for her swan dress.

The success of the app resides in its interactive, hands-on approach to education. It encourages children to write musical compositions and contemplate the consequences of their creations by displaying the ways in which nature reacts to the music.

Students can form connections between multiple seemingly unrelated subjects –– a skill that grows increasingly vital as we tackle complex, worldwide issues like climate change, or as we delve further into the implications of technological advancements like artificial intelligence. They also become accustomed to working with topics outside their comfort zone while developing a confidence in their own creative contributions.

Instead of boxing herself in as a mere entertainer, Björk has proven herself a limitless thinker and defender of an exciting, dynamic education. The American school system could learn a thing or two from this program that emphasizes and embraces harmony between science, technology and art.

In the case of Biophilia, all it took was one woman with a vision.

Suicides by firearm more common, preventable than you think A BAD DAY, IMPULSIVITY, EASY ACCESS TO GUNS MAKES FOR A DEADLY COMBINATION

BY TAMANNA AHLUWALIA tahluwalia@ucdavis.edu Suicide, which is the 10th leading cause of death in America, has increased by 17 percent since 2010. And more than half of the 42,773 Americans who killed themselves did so with guns — a number that is far greater than the number of people who were killed in homicides and accidents by firearms combined.

Those are startling facts. And to someone like me, who was under the impression that mass shootings and homicides were the leading causes of gun violence, these facts are mind-boggling.

Easy access to guns pose a huge problem for these very reasons. Compared to other methods of suicide, such as drug overdose, poison or inhalation of car exhaust, pulling a trigger is almost always lethal and irreversible.

While attempt at suicide by firearm has an 85 percent mortality rate, drug overdose is fatal in

less than 3 percent of cases, giving the troubled individual a second chance at his or her life. In fact, nine out of 10 attempted-suicide survivors do not go on to try to take their life a second time, and many of those survivors also seek professional help.

Moreover, studies have found that states with more lenient gun laws and therefore more household gun ownership have a higher suicide rate than those with stricter gun laws and less household gun ownership. Suicide is rarely a long, carefully engineered plan that suffering individuals engage in. It’s usually preceded by events such as an explosive fight with a significant other, a devastating layoff or a trigger to a haunting experience.

It’s usually caused by an impulse decision. It’s usually preventable.

This impulsivity is key. According to a 2001 study conducted by the Center for Disease Control, survivors of a near-death suicide attempt were asked to report how much time had passed

between when they decided to take their life and when they actually attempted to do so.

Four percent said less than five minutes; 48 percent said less than 20 minutes; 70 percent said less than one hour; and 86 percent said less than eight hours. There is little time between the decision and the action. Factor in the easy access to guns –– no background checks and no evaluation of mental health or stability of the buyer –– and it makes it that much faster for a volatile individual to get a gun and get out.

This is why it’s imperative to create laws that restrict access to guns, or at least create an accountability system on the part of gun sellers, who currently have no obligation to screen a buyer before making a sale.

When Ralph Demicco, owner of Riley’s, a gun shop, learned of suicides committed with firearms from his store, he decided to investigate. He found that when looking back on multiple instances, telltale cues popped up: a customer asking for only

a small amount of ammunition, looking uneasy or, the biggest indicator, starting to cry after being asked a few questions. With a little prodding and questioning, the intending customer was deterred from buying altogether — further proof that the fragile impulsivity so characteristic of at-risk individuals is capable of being disarmed with a simple line of inquiry on the part of gun dealers.

If change cannot begin with the law, it must begin with the individuals who place guns into the hands of unstable and despairing souls. But we must begin to ask the right questions.

It’s not a question of whether or not you are pro-gun or anti-gun, because everyone will always be on one side of the matter. The question, as Madeline Drexler of Harvard Public Health eloquently put it, is how do we solve the issue of gun suicide?

And only when we start asking the right question can we, as a society, come to a consensus on how to save the lives of our fellow Americans.

Greatly Misunderstood Organisms GMO BENEFITS GREATLY OUTWEIGH THE FICTITIOUS COSTS

BY ALICE ROCHA asrocha@ucdavis.edu Have you ever walked through the grocery store, picked up a piece of food, ranging from milk and fresh vegetables to dried pasta and rice, and seen that bright green label with the nice butterfly in the corner that reads “Non GMO Verified?”

Upon seeing this label, you might ask what a GMO is and what exactly it entails. GMO versus non-GMO has become one of the biggest fights in the field of sustainable agriculture as producers struggle for the right to use GMO grains and organisms on their farms –– all while consumers are rejecting the unfamiliar three-letter acronym.

GMO stands for “genetically modified organism,” and that’s where the trouble starts.

Genetically modified seems dangerous, but it’s not. A lot of people assume genetically modified means the organism was either manufactured in a lab or synthesized from different chunks of DNA, but this is not true.

Yes, a lot of these GMOs have actually undergone genetic changes carried out by foreign vectors such as viruses and bacteria, but the grand majority have not.

If one enters a grocery store today and goes to the produce area, the fruits and vegetables in front of them will be very different from those grown a hundred years ago.

Broccoli, corn, watermelon, bananas and even dogs are just a few of the organisms today that have been genetically modified, not in a lab setting, but due to selective breeding over time.

Selective breeding is when two individuals, whether they be plants or animals, are chosen and bred together because each organism carries a trait producers want. Watermelons, for example, have been bred to be practically seedless with more of the sweet red fruit center that we know and love.

Without selective breeding, watermelons would be tiny, oblong and have fruitless centers with massive seeds. That doesn’t sound appetizing, does it?

It’s the same with dogs and cats.

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They were selectively bred from their ancestors to be the domestic animal kept in homes all over the world today. Cattle can also be considered genetically modified. Dairy cattle have been selectively bred to excel at milk production, making them bigger and leaner than beef cattle, which are bred to grow muscle.

All across the livestock industry, if one looks hard enough, they will find drastic changes in the appearance of animals from hundreds of years prior –– and not because they were made in a petri dish.

These animals have been bred carefully in order to create and support the food production system we have today.

However, many are still hesitant to eat GMOs because they have been genetically modified and have been falsely linked to cancer and various other diseases. This is not true.

Earlier this year, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a report claiming that there was no human health risk linked to the consumption of GMO products.

Those GMOs that were generated in a lab setting were done out of human need. Rice crops, for instance, have become more resistant to drought.

Because of these GMOs, crop yields have increased, pesticides are used less and food is more affordable.

Due to rising crop yield and great food affordability, GMOs must meet the needs of planet and social viability in order to be considered sustainable.

Reduced use of pesticides helps prevent pests from becoming pesticide-resistant and helps eliminate the need for these chemicals altogether, making these GMOs environmentally friendly.

Lowering food costs helps ensure that more people have access to staple foods like corn and rice without spending too much money.

GMOs are sustainable and they are going to play a very large role in solving the increasing need for food in the future.

It’s time we stopped ostracizing them and started realizing how truly essential they are to our survival.

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Opinion The social effects of poverty UNDERSTANDING WHO’S LIVING IN POVERTY IS THE FIRST STEP TO ALLEVIATING ITS EFFECTS

BY JEANETTE YUE jyyue@ucdavis.edu Hillary Clinton released a child tax plan last week that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a progressive Washington, D.C. think tank, has estimated will help over 14.2 million families currently living in poverty.

Clinton proposed a change to the Child Tax Credit, which aids working families with children.

Currently, families need to earn an income of at least $3,000 a year to qualify for the credit, so those making less than that are not able to benefit.

The maximum credit is $1,000 per child under 17 years old. Clinton’s plan would eliminate this $3,000 threshold so families could benefit as long as they had an income. Clinton also wants to double the maximum credit to $2,000 for every child under five.

Although there are some skeptics, this plan has the potential to help millions of people living in poverty. While it isn’t going to get rid of poverty completely, Clinton’s proposal is an acknowledgement of this perpetual issue that plagues millions of families across the nation. More than that, Clin-

ton has a clear plan to do something about the issue.

Clinton’s proposal has a high chance of success and it would benefit many families. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t more that could be done to effectively combat poverty. Even if Clinton becomes president and gains enough support to make this tax change, it will take time to be put into effect.

And the extra income can only go so far. For families in deep poverty — making less than 50 percent of the poverty line income — that income may not help them very much. And even if it does, they may still be hovering just above the poverty line. Clinton’s tax plan is promising, but not enough to guarantee financial, health or food security.

We also can’t just throw money at people and expect them to rise above poverty, or expect people to just “work hard” to escape it either. There are always other factors. Looking at the demographics of those living in poverty reveals patterns that may help us alleviate the seemingly intractable problems that come out of poverty.

According to the United States Census Bureau,

43.1 million people living in the United States were living in poverty last year. Compared to other groups, whites had the lowest rates of poverty, at 9.1 percent. The report also showed that 11.4 percent of Asians, 24.1 percent of African Americans and 21.4 percent of Hispanics were living in poverty in 2015.

When you consider gender, it also becomes clear that women experience far greater rates of poverty than men. These numbers also don’t take into account that people barely above the poverty line are struggling as well.

Educational attainment also proved to be a factor in whether a person was impoverished or not.

In 2015, 26.3 percent of those 25 and older without a high school diploma lived in poverty. Compare this to the 12.9 percent of those with a high school diploma and the 4.5 percent of people with at least a bachelor’s degree who lived in poverty.

That’s a significant difference.

It’s not a coincidence that the dominant group in society has the lowest poverty rate, nor is it a surprise that education — the “great equalizer” — plays a role. Given the social, economic and systemic privileges that whiteness affords, there

are fewer external forces that prevent white people from obtaining an education and career.

We can say lack of education is the sole reason that people live in poverty, but that would ignore the fact that often, those in poverty simply don’t have the time or opportunities to pursue a college degree.

The fact is that education is not always an option. If you’re living in deep poverty, getting into the college of your dreams may not be your top priority.

There are more pressing things to worry about, and schools aren’t created equal nor do they treat everyone equally. When there are actual systems of discrimination and oppression set up against minority groups, this can discourage people, who already have other stresses, from attaining an education.

We shouldn’t forget that there is a significant relationship between poverty and social dominance.

The exact causes of poverty are ambiguous, and there is no concrete solution yet, but the more we begin to recognize different factors, the closer we will get to finding a solution that extends beyond just handing out money.

HUMOR ARBORETUM TO BE DEMOLISHED FOR NEW COMPUTER LAB

BY ETHAN VICTOR ejvictor@ucdavis.edu As UC Davis runs short on space for computers and classrooms, the administration is looking for more places to provide help for its students. The largest open space is the Arboretum.

Located on the southernmost tip of campus, the Arboretum is home to thousands of different species of plants, animals and insects.

Todd Donald, director of campus development, explained in a press conference on Monday why construction will soon begin to create more space.

“Bottom line, we need space to put this computer lab and there aren’t enough rooms. You have kids taking classes out past the football stadium, that is far,” Donald said. “Here at Davis, the campus is large, but we don’t like far.”

The Arboretum is an important part of student life. It’s an iconic symbol of the UC Davis campus.

It will be moved in order to make room for two new computer labs and seven new classrooms. The easternmost part of the arboretum will be demolished, after the trees, but before the path that runs right next to Mrak Hall.

Naturally, there has been unrest. Students and professors have expressed dissatisfaction at the destruction of the greenery.

“From a spacing point of view, the construction makes sense.

From every other point of view, the construction is an abomination of student life. The people watching there is incredible,” said Brady Ziegler, a fourth-year plant sciences major and son of economics professor Lauren Ziegler. “I go there to study; it’s quiet. My mother goes there to grade papers. I grew up in Davis, and I don’t want to see it leave.”

The school has yet to announce the design plans for the new

building, but the estimated cost is hovering around $10 million.

The money is coming out of student tuition, not from donations provided by alumni or The Green Initiative. Once again, the school is using a large budget in order to further its own agenda.

While computers are important, so is open space. There are better and more convenient locations to begin construction on campus rather than campus’ most beloved hangout spot.

The recently renovated Memorial Union comes to mind when considering other spaces that could have been filled.

Construction is set to begin fall 2017. Students have been encouraged to go to the Quad in order to get their fix of people watching, as well as plant and insect company.

Questioning the credibility of ETHAN VICTOR? You can reach him at ejvictor@ucdavis.edu. Feel free to help with his followers-to-following ratio on Twitter @thejvictor, because it is pathetic right now.

NUMBER OF MINI BIBLES IN DAVIS SURPASSES NUMBER OF PEOPLE, BIKES

BY BRIAN L ANDRY bjlandry@ucdavis.edu It’s long been a rumor that the number of bikes in Davis is greater than the number of people. I’m not sure whether or not this is true, but I do know the chemical formula for photosynthesis.

But it’s not the number of bikes that’s making headlines this week; it’s the sheer number of mini Bibles that are now popping up around town.

The new rumor going around is that the number of mini Bibles in Davis exceeds the number of people and bikes combined.

It might seem like this isn’t much of a problem for the average student. After all, how could some tiny versions of the New Testament possibly affect anyone? I’m glad you asked.

“I was running a little late to class the other day and had to

bike really fast to get there, so I was all sweaty,” said Mimi Gross, a third-year religious studies major and distant blood relative of Food Network star Guy Fieri. “So I finally got to class and thought that I had spotted the only open seat in the entire lecture hall. But in reality, the seat was not open. It was instead occupied by a mini Bible that stared back at me and laughed as I was forced to leave lecture due to lack of seating. I was bullied that day.”

Gross is not alone. The Aggie talked to several students who had similarly bone-chilling stories.

One of these students was Thomas Mulligan, a second-year physics major and succulent enthusiast.

“There I was, just riding my bike to class, when a mini Bible came along and shoved me off of my bike and watched me skid across the pavement,” Mulligan tearfully recalled. “I feared for my safety that day. The vengeful look in the Bible’s eyes was a lot to

handle. I told the campus police but they just looked at me like I was crazy. ‘Miniature books can’t shove people off bikes’ they told me. ‘Only regular sized books can do that.’”

It’s probably safe to say that the mini Bibles are damaging the Davis community.

Despite the fact that they have been committing violent acts against students, they’re also causing a lot of congestion issues on campus.

Mini Bibles clog bike paths, hog tables at the CoHo and talk up a storm in the library while the rest of us are trying to study.

We need to put an end to these random people on our campus handing out these “inanimate objects” that are clearly causing real damage to student life at Davis. Please. Before it’s too late. Things are really getting out of control. A gang of mini Bibles stole my car today and I don’t even have a car.

ALCOHOL SHOULD BE THE SRIRACHA IN YOUR LIFE, NOT THE ACTUAL MEAL

BY YINON RAVIV ravivyinon@gmail.com I eat the same lunch every day. It’s disgusting and boring.

I find the cheapest frozen, boneless, skinless chicken breasts Costco has to offer, pretend to season them, throw them on a pan and plate them. They’re so dry that I feel like I need to moisturize after every meal.

I only eat these breasts because they make it much easier to manage my calories, something I really value. With the same calorie amount coming in throughout the day, I can go out a couple times a week and eat truly delicious, interesting food with zero guilt.

I’d rather eat chicken breasts Monday through Thursday so I can have Jamaican soul food with beignets for dessert on Friday.

I haven’t had a mental breakdown yet because of one reason and one reason only. It’s over the counter, decriminalized and pretty cheap, too.The drug in question is made by a Vietnamese company that might be a little sketch but, I mean, no one’s actually died from this stuff.

It’s Sriracha. And if it weren’t for Sriracha, I’d either be dreading every meal or I’d never be able to go to the pool without taking my shirt off. I really do love Sriracha.

But I don’t eat Sriracha with every single meal that’s not cardboard-textured chicken breasts. I don’t eat it by itself, although I have lost bets and had to take shots of the stuff. And you know what? You can eat chicken breasts with ketchup, or with garlic aioli or with seasoning that doesn’t come pre-mixed in a box.

I see alcohol the same way I see Sriracha.

Going to college parties sober is not ideal.

Alcohol is fun (for most people). And alcoholism in college is real and it’s sad and it should be recognized for what it is, but plenty of people are able to drink only recreationally, and as a means to an end.

Because it’s nothing more than a condiment. You don’t go to a party to get drunk. You go to a party to meet people. You go to a party to spend a couple hours not thinking about your midterm and your job applications and your nagging parents.

And you can drink outside of sweaty house parties –– I heard a

rumor that other colleges have like, really good sports teams, and the sports games are insane, and people actually make a big event out of their home games.

I don’t know if it’s true because I go to UC Davis, but I bet those folks aren’t going to those games just to get drunk –– they’re going to represent their schools, to cheer on their peers and to bond with their community. The drunkenness aspect is there, and I won’t deny that it’s fun, but it’s not the primary reason.

I don’t cook Sriracha with chicken breasts, even though it feels like that most days. The sriracha is a welcome addition, but it’s never my meal. And that’s how I view alcohol. Alcohol absolutely makes large, social events more fun. But it’s not the one and only way that I have fun.

The cliche goes that variety is the spice of life. I say alcohol is the Sriracha you put on after you realize you have no idea how spices even work.

Either way, I hope no one in our community is eating spices or condiments for their meals. Learn to use it just right and be seasonable.

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Davis, believes that the computer science field is unique in the challenges it poses for its employees.

“I think there is a consistent pressure on the tech industry to do very good work at a very quick rate,” Coulter said. “The [computer science] field is getting competitive [...] I can see people feeling like they need to get an edge.”

Dr. Jing Xu, a medical doctor of internal medicine at Kaiser Hospital, Santa Teresa explained that the drug modafinil in particular is only available legally by prescription .

“You give [modafinil] to patients with narcolepsy, and also if they are having sleep apnea,” Xu said. “You need a special construed prescription.”

In addition to off-label drugs, professionals in Silicon Valley are also experimenting with

microdosing psychedelics like LSD, dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and magic mushrooms.

Google Trends shows that the number of people that search the word ‘microdosing’ in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area has risen roughly 400 percent in the last five years.

Dr. David E. Olson, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at UC Davis, is researching how DMT, a potent psychedelic, mechanistically affects sleep-dependent memory. He is making an effort to manufacture similar compounds without hallucinogenic properties for therapeutic use.

“With psychedelics in general, very little is known about how they affect brain function, and because of that, they’re kind of the frontier of neuropharmacology,” Olson said. “DMT is one of the only endogenous — [made within the body] — hallucinogens that we know about”.

DMT is classified as a Schedule I drug — a drug “with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse” — by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). This scheduling comes with an increase in restrictions for academic research.

“It took us about eight months of paperwork and [...] getting the necessary security in place to be able to work with it,” Olson said. “The rules are that you have to obtain permission from both the state of California, as well as from the federal government. It is a little difficult, and I do think that hinders many people from getting into this field, but it’s such an exciting field that I think that [...] it’s worth it to go through the hassle of getting approval to be able to do this kind of research.”

Olson also said that there were significant financial costs associated with upgrading the lab’s security features, which may further bar some researchers from entering this area of research.

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“If the psychedelics were moved to Schedule II, it would make it much easier for academics to do research on them. Now, to be moved to a Schedule II drug, you need to have a demonstrated medical use. I think that this is kind of a catch-22. If you have a hard time studying these things, you have a hard time demonstrating that they have a medical use,” Olson said.

Although Olson is researching the mechanisms of DMT for therapeutic use, he is skeptical that any formal research will be done in search of the cognitive gains of microdosing.

“You have to remember that microdosing is hypothesized to enhance cognition, and the [National Institutes of Health] doesn’t fund cognitive enhancement. It funds the treatment of diseases, not the enhancement of normal performance,” Olson said. “So the likelihood that you’re going to see a study like this come out soon is pretty low.” *Name changed for source’s anonymity

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UC Davis offers various outlets for STEM students to creatively publish, showcase their work

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BY SHI VA N I KA M A L sci ence@ th ea ggi e .o r g

Students at UC Davis may remember the old high school days where English teachers pounded the restrictive five-paragraph essay format into our brains. As STEM majors enter into college, there are various clubs and scientific journals available as outlets to publish research and document experiences far beyond the five-paragraph rule.

The Aggie Transcript, The Narrative PreHealth Club, Explorations, Prized Writing and UC Davis Health Student Review are just a few of the avenues students can pursue. The Aggie Transcript and The Narrative Pre-Health Club accept submissions in media forms other than writing, such as art, photography and video.

“Whether undergraduates choose to stay in academia or not, writing is involved [in] most careers, as is project and time manage-

ment,” said Lauren Fink, neuroscience PhD student and editor-in-chief of Explorations: The UC Davis Undergraduate Research Journal.

Writing in the scientific field has become a crucial skill in today’s society. With the rapid advancement of technology and research, writers must be able to effectively convey their ideas to both experts in their field as

OVARIAN CANCER UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center clinical trial seeks effIcient treatment for late-stage cancer

BY EMMA SADLOWSKI

science@theaggie.org With the help of a UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCDCCC) immunotherapy clinical trial, 60-year-old Lodi resident Victoria Pouchés has

been given a second chance at life.

Pouchés was diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer in October 2013 and soon after began chemotherapy treatment at the San Joaquin General Hospital,

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FIND THIS YEAR’S HALLOWEEN COSTUME AT

ENCHANTED CELLAR On-campus shop offers variety of rental costumes to UC Davis community

BY BET T Y W U arts@ th e ag g i e . o rg

Still looking for a cool costume to show off on Halloween? Look no further than the Enchanted Cellar costume shop.

The Enchanted Cellar is run by the UC Davis Theater and Dance Department and aims to provide service to the Davis community at large. The price of kits usually ranges from $45 to about $150, but the shop offers a year-round 30 percent discount to all UC Davis affiliates, including students, staff and alumni.

The costume shop started its rental service after a costume sale in 2004, and now the shop sells costumes every ten years in what they call “the decade

sale.” The shop primarily provides rental services, but occasionally it has auctions on a selection of costumes. This service not only benefits student and staff who are looking for elaborate costumes at an affordable price, but it also helps to keep the stock clean and crisp.

“We have all periods of history — back to Greek and Roman costumes, and Renaissance and all the way up to modern stuff, 20s and 30s and great 60s, disco looks,” said Roxanne Femling, the shop director. “We have a lot of variety for people to go through and pick what they would like.”

The store also offers a rich selection of kits, an all-inclusive bundle that includes a costume and any necessary wigs, shoes and accessories that ensure customers look as authentic as their chosen characters.

“For those kits, we try to do a little bit out of every period. We do characters from Harry Potter, [...] costumes similar to Dumbledore and Professor Snape, and we find wigs that go with that,” Femling said.

Around October, the shop also sets up Halloween sets for customers to browse.

“We have separate sections for video game characters and superheroes. We have a whole section for Harry Potter and Star Wars, too,” said Caitlin Sales, fourth-year theater and dance major and stock assistant at Enchanted Cellar.

The Halloween sets are convenient for customers. Since the kits and costumes are set on racks, customers can look through them and pick whatever kits or costumes best suit them. They can also try

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the costumes on in a dressing room. Moreover, there are costume consultants to help customers through this process.

The Enchanted Cellar is a charming and friendly store, and the “Davis discount” makes it an excellent stop for anyone who needs a costume for any occasion.

“Even though I’m new here, I love working here with my co-workers,” said Emily Keating, third-year design and international relations double major.

Come visit the shop in the basement of Wright Hall, Room 17 anytime Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Appointments for fitting can be arranged by phone at (530) 752-0740 or by e-mail at rcfleming@ ucdavis.edu.

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QUEEN OF KATWE Lupita Nyong’o, David Oyelowo, cast of child actors shine in this uplifting movie

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FALL TV PREVIEW GET READY FOR THE COLD SEASON WITH THESE NEW SHOWS!

BY CARA JOY KL E I NR O C K arts@ th e ag g i e . o rg

If you’re a college student who wants to procrastinate on some upcoming deadlines, here are a few shows to spend an entire weekend binge-watching. This year’s fall lineup provides a lot of obsession-worthy shows to fall in love with.

Conviction / Airs on ABC, Mondays at 10 p.m.

Conviction might have the same set-up as most legal dramas, but it brings new concepts into play. Hayley Atwell plays a former president’s rebellious daughter who regularly gets herself into trouble until an encounter with the police forces her into a deal: she is tasked with leading the new conviction integrity unit, which investigates people who might have been wrongly convicted. The show has some of the same characteristics of Scandal, but it focuses more on the cases rather than the personal lives of the characters.

Speechless / Airs on ABC, Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m.

Speechless is a show that nails the humor that often comes with having a disability without being insensitive. The main character, JJ, is played by Micah Fowler, who actually has cerebral palsy — just like his character. This show breaks barriers and raises awareness about people with disabilities while being hilarious.

Minnie Driver plays JJ’s mom and is phenomenal at playing the overprotective mother. One of the best things about this show is that it draws attention to the treatment of people with disabilities. For example, on JJ’s first day at his new school he arrives to class and all of his new classmates begin to clap and stand up. The teacher then goes on to talk about how excited they are to have him in class and one kid even makes a sign that says JJ for president.

To JJ, this is ridiculous, because he views himself as a normal

kid; he then tells the class that they don’t even know him, which points to how society often treats those with disabilities as martyrs rather than people.

Designated Survivor / Airs on ABC, Wednesdays at 10 p.m.

Designated Survivor is an unusually timely show considering the current political climate.

The setup: all of the people fit to run the government are killed after a bombing at the Capitol during the State of the Union and America must deal with the aftermath. The “designated survivor,” who is generally a lower-level cabinet member, is the next successor in line to be president because all of the higher-ups in government were wiped out.

Kiefer Sutherland does a great job portraying someone who has been thrust into an office that he has no right to be in. (We’ll have to wait until Nov. 9 to see whether the show is speculative fiction or reality.)

The show manages to tackle some serious issues like race and public hysteria after a major attack and does so in a subtle yet engaging way.

The Good Place / Airs on NBC, Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.

The Good Place is a surprising hit in my book. The show centers around Eleanor (Kristen Bell) who was supposed to be sent to the “bad place” upon her death but is accidentally sent to the “good place.”

She was extremely selfish and rude in life and has no right to be in Heaven, which leads to hysterical encounters between all of the characters.

This show revolves around Eleanor trying to become a good person (even if she has to to fake it) to keep her place in Heaven.

The premise sounds hokey, but it’s definitely worth a watch.

Queen of Katwe is based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi’s life, a young girl growing up in the Ugandan slum of Katwe who discovers she has an extraordinary talent for the game of chess.

The film begins with Phiona (Madina Nalwanga) returning home from a long day of selling maize. She stops to longingly watch a group of children playing chess and is invited in by a man named Robert Katende (David Oyelowo), affectionately referred to as “Coach.” The other children mock her, telling her that she smells, to which she responds by throwing some punches. “Ah, a fighter,” says Coach. “Welcome — this is a place for fighters!”

We learn that Coach had at first started a missionary sports program for the children in Katwe, but soon realized that many of them are forbidden to play by their parents because they may break a bone and become unable to work. When Coach suggests chess instead, the kids are initially not interested, until he says, “Too bad… I thought you’d like beating city boys”.

The film does an excellent job of addressing barriers to success that the characters must face, such as poverty, corruption and classism. Coach is at first refused when he attempts to enroll The Pioneers, as he calls the group of kids, in their first tournament, which takes place at a prestigious private school.

After he finally succeeds in raising enough money to enter, he must then delicately deal with the children’s shocked reactions to being outside of the slum for the first time. The first night at the tournament, all the children sleep tightly packed together on the floor, although there are beds available for each of them.

Phiona, who we soon learn possesses a natural ability for chess, wins the tournament and is awarded a medal for “Best in Boys.” Everything seems to be going well, with Phiona’s constant wins and traveling for tournaments, but tragedy strikes again and again in the form of a storm that destroys her home and a nearly-fatal accident for her brother Brian.

Lupita Nyong’o gives a powerful performance as Phiona’s widowed mother, who struggles to take care of Phiona and her three siblings. She is the ever-concerned and stern mother who initially doesn’t approve of this “gambling game” and is torn between giving Phiona a chance at greatness or keeping her “safe” in the slums. When Phiona gets to travel and compete, her mother realizes that she now longs for a different life — a life which she may never have.

“You’ve shown my children paradise, and now they are like ghosts who can’t rest,” she says to Coach. He in turn believes that Phiona “shouldn’t be denied the glory of victory because she was born here,” and the two clash as the hopeful Coach sees a bright future for Phiona that her mother does not.

This beautiful movie centers on a young girl’s true story of overcoming hardship through her intelligence — as well as the support of her family, Coach and the community — and does not neglect the difficult topics of classism and poverty.

I appreciated that this film was realistic in its portrayal of poverty — showing that a brilliant mind alone may not always be enough to remove oneself from hardship.

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ORGANIC FAST FOOD ENTERS DAVIS The Organic Coup offers healthy chicken sandwiches VENOOS MOSHAY EDI / AGGI E

BY JEN N I F E R D UO N G a rts @ th e ag g i e . o rg

Davis recently opened up its first organic fastfood store, The Organic Coup, located in the old G Street location of Vampire Penguin and Bon Mange.

The interior, however, has been extensively renovated and looks nothing like the interior of the previous stores. The store has a farm-like style, with some of its walls painted red to replicate a barn. It also has a modern ambience, and orders are taken through tablets instead of a typical cash register.

Although small, this shop offers a plethora of seating, and its interior is relatively spacious. Additionally, it offers a lot of table space for one’s meal.

The Organic Coup’s mission is to provide healthy yet fast food. All of the ingredients used are organic, and the only type of meat that served is poultry

along with unique sauces, such as sesame ginger.

Aside from main entrees, tater tots and organic lemonade are also offered. The shop also offers a habanero hot sauce for an extra kick.

When I came here, I tried the chicken salad while my friend tried the chicken sandwich. The workers are friendly and helpful, and because it is fast food our meals came out within minutes. However, the salad that I ordered was mediocre.

The chicken was on the drier side and I thought that the some of the vegetables in the salad were somewhat bitter. Although the salad is advertised as having “spicy” vegetables, I did not expect the bitter taste and found it to be unpleasant.

I also tried the sesame ginger sauce with my salad.

Although the sauce was good, it didn’t complement my salad too well and I would’ve suggested trying a different type of sauce, such as the spicy chipotle

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ranch.

My friend’s chicken sandwich was simple to a fault.

It came with a sauce of your choosing, some salad and a chicken patty. I was disappointed in the lack of ingredients and thought that the sandwich would have tomatoes or other vegetables to enhance its flavor. Although this chain is healthier than other fast food joints, I felt that the food generally lacked flavor and was not as substantial as I would have liked.

Despite not fully enjoying my meal, I think The Organic Coup is worth a try, particularly if you enjoy organic food. It is located in a convenient area and it is affordable enough to try at least once.

The Organic Coup is open from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. For more information, please visit their website at organiccoup.com

An Earful: Introducing Maragaret Glaspy

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A Review of Glaspy’s new album, performance at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

BY ALLY OVER BAY ar ts @the ag gi e. org

THE IMPROMPTU AT VERSAILLES, A ONE-ACT COMEDY Moliere’s renowned comedy as performed by The Art Theater of Davis

BY KRI SHA N M I T H A L art s@ th e ag g i e . o rg

The Art Theater of Davis will be presenting the one-act comedy, The Impromptu at Versailles, from Oct. 21 to 29 at the Pence Gallery on D Street.

The play, originally written by French playwright Molière in 1663, is a much-loved meta-theatrical satire.

The production is made possible by The Art Theater of Davis (ATD) and the Pence Gallery as part of the “Art After Dark” project, which brings live music and performances to the Downtown Davis gallery space.

Timothy Nutter, ATD artistic director, plays a crucial role in the facilitation of these performances; Nutter co-produced the event, directed the play, translated the script and designed both the print and online media as well as the set. He believes this project is important because it brings together a variety of art forms to showcase on Fridays and Saturdays evenings for the community.

“This project is a model for inter-group collaboration across different artistic mediums,” Nutter said.

These performances are meant to provide the community with the opportunity to witness and participate in a form of theater that is otherwise unknown.

Christina Schiesari, who holds a bachelor’s de-

gree in theater from San Francisco State University and a doctorate in comparative literature from UC Davis, is one of the play’s actors. She has been acting in productions put on by ATD for quite some time, most notably as Elena Andreyevna in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanko.

“I have always been interested in the intersection of satire and politics [...] in our present era,” Schiesari said. “I believe political satire is quite powerful and can have a significant effect on the political stage.”

Schiesari harkened back to the impact of Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin on the 2008 election.

The presidential elections this year are a huge source for satirical re-enactments of debates and speeches, according to seasoned actress and fourthyear English major Lauren Barrows.

Barrows spent much of her youth acting in plays in her hometown and has acted for a few productions in Davis.

“The crazy things being said and just the overall outrageousness of this year’s elections makes writing comedic satirical skits about it pretty easy,” Barrows said. “The Impromptu is a good example of how theater can represent the climate of society at a particular time [...] it’s probably one of the most overlooked aspects of theater.”

For ticket prices and more information, visit ATD’s website.

When I discovered that Margaret Glaspy — the talented, toothy-grinned musician that occupied my Spotify for the entirety of July — would be playing at San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, there was little that could stop me from attending.

So with my blanket, six-pack and eagerness in tow, I made my way through Golden Gate Park.

Anxiously snaking through the crowds, I only thrice forgot about the entourage of friends trailing behind me. (Claiming that I “snaked,” however, is a bit too kind; my pace more closely resembled that of a hungry viking hunting the last wild boar).

Glaspy primarily played tracks from her newest album, Emotions and Math, and all but lacked the growling vocals and buzzing guitar that characterize it.

Though Glaspy released her first work (a fivetrack EP) in 2012, it is the simplicity of her electric guitar, offset by her haunting vocal fluctuations, that gives her newer gwork a bit more spunk. As a solo act backed only by a bassist and drummer on stage, Glaspy is truly original.

Her stage presence oscillates just like her outfit: her ruffled blue dress for the melodic swing of her voice and the chunky white sneakers for each twanging guitar riff. But more worthy of our attention is her relatability as a musician, whether it be her bad one-liners (“It’s only me singing this twopart song. We call it a duet on a budget”) or the profundity of her lyrics in day-to-day life.

Simply put, Glaspy is loveable for her ability to be so easily loved.

“Somebody to Anybody,” a personal favorite track from Emotions and Math, is a perfect example of this down-to-earth nature and the music that stems from it. Most interesting about this track, however, is that within its self-deprecating lyrics, there’s a greater message of strength in anonymity: “I don’t wanna be somebody to anybody, no. I’m good at no one.”

On a more literal level, the song continues, “I

keep my head down and both eyes wide / I don’t look up, just side to side / but I stay well kept so they can see / There’s nothing wrong with me.” It’s safe to say that everyone has, at some point, felt this way: when we feel out of place or without purpose, we “stay well kept” for the sake of public perception.

And so, though the chorus, “I’m good at no one,” is far from a cry of confidence, it is somehow self-assuring that we — both literally and metaphorically — belong to no one.

This song, however, remains consistent with the album’s greater theme: long distance relationships.

In fact, the album title can be taken quite literally… the feelings associated with any relationship (Emotions), and the countdown associated with being reunited (And Math).

This idea is explored more in the eponymous track from the album, with Glaspy contemplating her feelings during a period of separation: “Counting all the days till you’re back / Shivering in an ice cold bath / Of emotions and math.”

Tracks like “Memory Street” explore almost identical notions, but with a darker perspective that is characterized by disjointed chords and throaty growls.

“Memory Street” is by far the most classically rock-style track from the album in its exploration of lyrics and composition. Less focused on melody, Glaspy cooes, “The record skips, but I let it play.”

But, during the next chorus, she repeats, over five times, “I try to remember all the times I / Times I / Times I...” in a style that emulates a skipping record.

This deviation from standard composition (something I value in her artistic endeavors) was not as appreciated by the audience at Hardly Strictly; there were more than a few iterations of “What the hell.”

That is, of course, unless their commentary was referring to Glaspy’s incredible performance, most notable for her simultaneous intensity and aloofness.

In which case, I would have to agree: What the hell (was that astounding performance).

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THE EVOLUTION OF THE CLOSER

Michael Wexl e r e x p l o r e s t h e impor tance of ma jor league closers s t e p p i n g out of the conf i n e s o f n i nth-inning roles

BY MI C HAEL W E X L E R sports@theaggie.org

In the quest for a World Series, a team’s bullpen is of the utmost importance. For those unfamiliar with the term, a bullpen is comprised of roughly seven pitchers (in playoff context) who come into a game to

relieve starting pitchers of their duties. Because they are typically only expected to pitch between two and four innings on any given night during the regular season, it’s easy to underestimate the importance of a strong bullpen, especially when bigname starting pitchers take up the most media attention. Regardless of the weight people place on the importance of the bullpen as a whole, conventional baseball wisdom and fans alike applaud a team’s closer.

By the traditional definition, a closer is a baseball team’s best bullpen arm and is usually designated for the final three outs of a game in which a team is up by three runs or less. The traditional definition, however, is malarkey. Yeah, I said it, malarkey. By confining a closer to this ninth-inning role, teams spread WEXLER on PAGE 5

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HOMECOMING RAIN BODES WELL FOR AGGIE FOOTBALL UC Davis Football get first conference victory at Homecoming on Saturday, defeats Bears 34-21

BY NICOLE TTE SARMIE NTO DANI E L TAK / AG G I E sports@theaggie.org

The UC Davis football team welcomed alumni and current athletes back to Aggie Stadium for Homecoming last Saturday as the Aggies snapped a four-game losing streak by defeating the Northern Colorado Bears, 34-21, in their first Big Sky Conference victory of the season.

It was a rainy, windy evening, but fans still turned out to support the Ags on their first game back at home in two weeks.

The Aggies’ defense has proved to be

I write this article with a heavy heart.

Last week, the Giants blew a three-run lead in the ninth inning, ending their season, and more importantly, blowing my prediction.

I haven’t felt heartbreak like this since my sixth-grade girlfriend broke up with me by way of a two-sentence email. But much like sixth grade, I am forced to move on and look forward to this week’s best-of-seven American and National League Championship Series and, eventually, the World Series.

Division Series/Wildcard Recap First Round Predictions: 3/6 Wildcard Toronto 5, Baltimore 2 San Francisco 3, N.Y. Mets 0 ALDS Toronto, Texas (3-0) Cleveland, Boston (3-0) NLDS Cubs, San Francisco (3-1) L.A. Dodgers, Washington (3-2) American League Championship Series: Cleveland Indians vs Toronto Blue Jays Winner: Toronto in six I’m not sure anyone out there has any remaining interest in my opinion after splitting the opening round, but like most Bay Area sports fans after this year’s NBA Finals, I’m tired of Cleveland.

As New York Knicks center Joakim Noah famously said, “You think Cleveland is cool? I’ve never heard anybody say ‘I’m going to Cleveland on vacation.’” I’ve never heard anyone say that either, Joakim, and I would bet the Blue Jays are going to win this series as fast as they can so they can get out of the ninth-

most dangerous city in the United States and start preparing for game one of the World Series on Oct. 25th.

Both teams are coming off division series sweeps, but the red-hot Blue Jays lineup will expose the culturally insensitive Indians’ lack of pitching and win this series in six games. The bottom line is that times are tough in Cleveland, and things aren’t going to get much better after the Indians drop the American League Championship Series to the Blue Jays.

National League Championship Series: Chicago Cubs vs Los Angeles Dodgers Winner: Cubs in seven I was forced by birthright to root against the Dodgers, yet I can’t help but appreciate this 2016 Dodgers squad as I watched them battle past the Nationals in the National League Division Series.

This postseason has been as dramatic as any in recent memory and I doubt the National League Championship Series will be any different. And although this series is going to come down to the wire, the Dodgers just don’t have enough pitching to see it through. Already lacking in that category, the Dodgers were forced to overuse their two best arms in Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen in order to win game five of the NLDS. Even at their best, the Dodger bullpen is unlikely to have the resilience to get past the high-powered Cubs’ offense, but in its current state, it would take a miracle.

My final reasoning for a Dodgers loss is one of great social consequence.

Should the Dodgers win the pennant, the disproportionately loud minority of Dodger fans on campus (such as Michael Wexler, in the column above) would not let the rest of us hear the end of it. For the sake of all of us, Cubs in seven.

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CHECK OUT THIS WEEKʼS HOME GAMES Women’s volleyball (The ARC Pavilion): Thursday, Oct. 20 vs. UC Riverside at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 22 vs. Cal State Fullerton at 4 p.m.

Men’s water polo (Schaal Aquatics Center): Friday, Oct. 21 vs. Air Force at 1 p.m.

Women’s soccer (Aggie Soccer Field): Friday, Oct. 21 vs. Long Beach State at 3 p.m.

Softball (La Rue Field): Saturday, Oct. 22 vs. Sacramento State at 10 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 22 vs. San Jose State at 2:30 p.m.

Men’s soccer (Aggie Soccer Field): Saturday, Oct. 22 vs. Sacramento State at 3 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 26 vs. Cal Poly SLO at 3 p.m.

UC Davis regained a 10-3 lead with an 83-yard drive ending with a one-yard touchdown rush from senior running back Manusamoa Luuga, who led the team in rushing with 27 carries for 93 yards and two touchdowns.

After stalling yet another Northern Colorado drive with a big sack on third down by senior defensive lineman Zak Pettit, the Ags got the ball back and marched 70 yards down the field to score off another rush from Luuga, extending their lead to 17-7.

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top notch this season, with a season-high four sacks on the road against Southern Utah just a week before. It was a similar story Saturday night.

The Aggie defense carried the team with big sacks and stops. The Ags started off strong in the first half with their defense stopping the Bears’ opening drive quickly. They went up, 3-0, on their first drive of the game after a 32-yard pass from senior quarterback Ben Scott to freshman wide receiver Jared Harrell deep into Bears’ territory set up a 38yard field goal for freshman kicker Matt Blair. Northern Colorado scored on its following drive, putting them up 7-3.

UC DAVIS WOMEN’S FIELD HOCKEY BREAKS NEW TEAM RECORDS Aggies break two new school records in big win, look forward to finishing their season strong

BY RYAN BUGSCH sports@theaggie.org

The UC Davis women’s field hockey team was able to produce a dominating win over LIU Brooklyn on Sept. 25, defeating their opponent by an impressive 10-0 margin. Not only did the Aggies top their team record of the largest margin of victory and the biggest margin in a shutout

(previously nine goals), but their impressive defense also did not allow their opponent to take a shot the entire game.

During the game, freshman forward Kathleen Humphries gave a dominating performance that culminated in three goals off of only four shot attempts against LIU Brooklyn. Humphries’ performance led her to be named by America East Conference as Rookie of the Week. Humphries became the third Aggie in history to record six points in a single contest.

“I think that was a game that the team has worked really hard for,” said head coach Chrissy Kilroe. “It’s always nice to break re-

cords. The team really came together as far as working together and scoring.”

Humphries was proud to contribute to a team that did not let its opponent take one shot the entire match. “[The game] was definitely a team effort,” Humphries said. “The dynamics of this team have changed and I am so fortunate to be playing with these girls. That award wasn’t just on me, it was a team effort and I love playing for this team.”

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WOMEN’S TENNIS SEES DOUBLE

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BY NICOLE TTE SARMIE NTO sports@theaggie.org

For the UC Davis women’s tennis team, the fall season is the time to see how they stack up against other competitors as well as get back into the groove of high-intensity competition. Head coach Bill Maze’s goals for his players are pretty simple: to work hard and have fun.

“We emphasize effort, attitude and just enjoying the process,” Maze said.

The Aggies started their season late in September when sophomore Isabella von Ebbe and junior Lani-Rae Green competed in the team’s first-ever appearance in the Battle in the Bay Classic, where Green advanced to the quarterfinal round and von

VON EBBE AND BREISACHER LEAD TEAM IN DOUBLES COMPETITION Ebbe fell in the consolation championship match.

The team then made their fall debut at the Cal Nike Invitational in Berkeley, where they posted singles wins from senior Kamila Kecki in her consolation championship match and freshman Kristina Breisacher in her comeback upset of the number-one seed in the final. Von Ebbe and Breisacher also dominated their doubles bracket and earned a championship title.

UC Davis then traveled to Moraga to compete in the Saint Mary’s Fall Invitational, where von Ebbe and Breisacher won their second doubles championship title, making it their second championship victory out of three weekends of tournament play this fall.

The main focus for the team has been on using non-conference competition to find doubles teams that work well and have some consistency together, according to assistant coach Sara Jackson. The Aggies seem to have found a good match with von Ebbe and Breisacher.

“They just have good chemistry in practice, so that’s one of the things we pay attention to and it’s working well so far,” Jackson said.

Von Ebbe and Breisacher agree that their compatibility of movement and strength gives them more room to feed off of each other’s shots.

“With every partner you play with, there are certain plays that work and [Breisacher WOMEN’S TENNIS on PAGE 4