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General Strike workshops 8 a.m. Yoga
Amanda Hodson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources Sacred Space: (Blue Dome on the Quad)
10 a.m. Reflecting on the Now: Where is Occupy in the Future of Protest
Professor Robyn Waxman, Professor of Design, Sacramento City College & Founder of Future Action Reclamation Mob (FARM) ARC - grassy lawn next to Segundo DC
11 a.m. Cops Off Campus: Toward A Safer University
Joshua Clover, Eleanor Liu, Mohamed Shehk, & Francis Jarvis, Anthropology & English Departments and STS Sacred Space: (Blue Dome on the Quad)
12 p.m. Budget Blues: UC Financial Structure and Privatization
Suad Joseph, Caroline Mckusick & Kevin Smith, Anthropology Department Sacred Space: (Blue Dome on the Quad)
2 p.m. Active AND Privileged: Examining Unintentional and Unconscious Dominance Within the Protest
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Campuswide strike declared by protesters Professors organize teach-ins on day of UC Regents meeting By MUNA SADEK Aggie News Writer
A non-violent, campuswide strike has been declared for today, as voted on by 99.5 percent
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The general strike, set for today, was planned by the Occupy Davis group in opposition to the possibility of more fee hikes in the near future.
of the 1,729 person Occupy UC Davis General Assembly last Monday; it has been set to coincide with the statewide UC Regents meeting. The strike — which according
to the general assembly is protesting the Board of Regents’ inadequacy to properly represent the UC system’s students, faculty and workers — will occur with a number of students and
faculty not attending nor teaching classes. Teach-ins are scheduled to discuss the situation at hand.
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Students’ rights come In Review: into question after Rozencrantz and pepper-spraying Guildenstern Are Dead incident
An absurdist struggle of a darker comedy
Event spurs controversy over police protocol
Dr. Laurie Lippin, Lecturer in the Department of Human and Community Development Sacred Space: (Blue Dome on the Quad)
4 p.m. Happiness, Wealth and Community
Emily Baranco, Graduate Student in Philosophy Department East Quad Workshop Space
5 p.m. Students Co-Government and the Concept of University
Dr. Paulina L. González-Gómez, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior Sacred Space: (Blue Dome on the Quad)
6 p.m. What happened to the economy to create the lack of funding at UC? And what do we need to do?
Brian Hanley, Ph.D. Butterfly Science East Quad Workshop Space
7:30 p.m. American Dissent Series 3: Prisoner’s Rights movements in American History Holly Cooper, Lecturer, Immigration Law Clinic: King Hall Immigration Detention Project East Quad Workshop Space
8:30 -10 p.m. Hate Crime Action Planning Meeting Townhall III
Sacred Space: (Blue Dome on the Quad) A complete schedule of workshops will be distributed on campus.
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Aggie Arts Writer Shazib Haq / Aggie
The UC Davis Theater Department’s fall season production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a worthy rendition of the original, written by Tom Stoppard. Absurdest in nature, the two and a half hour long play sees to it that the second-
At last Monday’s rally on the Quad, students and protestors gathered to speak out against police violations of students’ rights.
By SARA ISLAS Aggie News Writer
On Nov. 18, the police pepper sprayed non-violent UC Davis
student protesters — and they spurred a worldwide debate about free speech, peaceful assembly
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ary characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (originally from Hamlet) get their share of existential reasoning. As the lights rose on the wooden stage of the Wright Theater on Friday night, they touch upon two characters seeming to drift in and out of each other’s identity. Whether
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County launches probe into pepper spraying Last week, university officials requested the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department begin an investigation into the Nov. 18 incident. UC Davis police officer Lance Faille is to lead a full-time probe on the case, which he described as not criminal, but “quasi-internal” in nature for now. The investigation will include interviews with the involved officers, protesters and other eyewitnesses. Faille will review video and audio recorded prior to, during and after the pepper spraying. Sheriff Ed Prieto told The Davis Enterprise he
assigned Sergeant Faille to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office. “At the conclusion of this inquiry, the district attorney may pursue criminal charges or issue a statement of findings and conclusions,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven said. Raven said his department plans to review the UCPD’s policies and procedures regarding use of force to determine whether they were properly followed during the police action. –– Angela Swartz
Forecast The holiday season is upon us Aggies! Except for a bit of fog today and tomorrow, expect temperatures to be cool and pleasant. Good luck on finals and keep up the hard work. Kenneth Doss, atmospheric science major Aggie Forecasting Team
Regents meeting scheduled for today The UC Regents meeting is scheduled to take place today at 8:30 a.m. Public comment will start at 9 a.m. and has been extended from 20 minutes to a full hour. Some of the regents will be on campus in the ARC and the meeting will be teleconfer-
enced from UCSF, UCLA, UC Davis and UC Merced. The regents plan to discuss the budget and funding requests from the state. The regents have said they will not be voting on tuition this month.
Katehi to hold faculty and staff open forum Chancellor Katehi will be holding a town hall for UC Davis faculty and staff Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Freeborn Hall. Faculty and staff will have a chance to discuss the pepper spray incident with Chancellor
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Katehi, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter and interim UC Davis Police Chief Matt Carmichael. — Hannah Strumwasser
This weekend, pranksters ordered $200 worth of pizzas to be delivered to Lt. Pike’s supposed address. Instead, some students answered the door, but didn’t pick up the bill. Few can handle Lt. Pike’s preferred amount of pepper. That’s spicy! Michelle Huey and Justin Chan
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TODAY UWP Conversations with Writers Series: Zach Weiner 4 to 6 p.m. 2 Wellman Zach Weiner holds a degree in literature from UC Davis and is best known for the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and its spawn, SMBC Theatre and Chanson. In addition, he has collaborated on many other series, such as Baby Moloch, featuring a character from SMBC, and Captain Stupendous. Weiner’s oneand three-panel comics are based on his readings in math, science, fiction and philosophy.
StudentsFirst Information Session 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. 205 Wellman Learn about exciting internship and entrylevel opportunities with an education reform organization in Sacramento. Internships are open to students of all majors/levels and recent graduates.
TUESDAY EC Presents Allen Stone with Special Guests
cramer Cont. from front page points per-game. Add to Ritchart fellow sophomore Alex Tiffin and freshman JT Adenrele — who presents an impressive if still raw skill-set — and there is reason to believe that this team could continue to improve. Now they just need to continue growing mentally to build the program. While that is much easier said than done, coach Jim
7 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St. Allen Stone, who recently performed on “Conan”, will perform, along with DJ Rockbottom, Ant Chedda, Afterglow and The Spokes. Tickets are $13 online at ec.ucdavis/tickets, at the Memorial Union Student Services desk and from members of Afterglow and The Spokes. Tickets will be $15 at the door.
The Body Spoken 7 to 8:30 p.m. Memorial Union, Griffin Lounge Modeled after the Vagina Monologues and Open Mic Night, The Body Spoken is a production of students singing, dancing, moving, and speaking about their bodies. There will be a set of performers, including poets from SickSpits, and others are invited to join in as well. E-mail rrnarayan@ ucdavis.edu to sign up to perform. To receive placement in the AGGIE DAILY CALENDAR, e-mail dailycal@theaggie. org or stop by 25 Lower Freeborn by noon the day prior to your event. Due to space constraints, all event descriptions are subject to editing, and priority will be given to events that are free of charge and geared toward the campus community.
Les has the potential to get the job done, but doing so will take time. If nothing else, however, Aggie fans can hang their hats on the fact that — thanks to Cal State Northridge’s postseason suspension — UC Davis will make an appearance in the Big West Conference Tournament this season, which was more than last year’s team could boast. TREVOR CRAMER can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.
I do and just keep to themselves at places where mentioning it isn’t appropriate. I might have been in the company of avid LOTR fans last time I sat through a Evan safety training day at work, White but I didn’t hear any of them commenting on just how much the discussion leader looked like Elrond. In an obviously doomed attempt at relating to someone who lost their copy of the novel Push by Sapphire, I said, “the precious is looooost!” The few seconds often reference Lord of I spent congratulating mythe Rings to help me say self on being clever were inthings I might otherterrupted when the person wise struggle to articulate. said, “What the hell does It sounds hokey, but since I that even mean?” It was committed to it, it’s surpris- then that I realized they ing how well it works. hadn’t seen any of The Lord It’s a way of relating to of the Rings films, or the people, I suppose, when movie Precious, based on we pick out little phrases the novel Push by Sapphire. from films. It’s what I aim Which, again, remindfor anyway, and, though I’m ed me only of how lonely life usually the can seem one people when you To me, the parallels between my are the sole edge away from at par- references and whatever is being appreciaties, sometor of your discussed are obvious times it really interests. works. I find By “interthe problem doesn’t usually ests” I mean, of course, maklie in the sentiment behind ing references to a fictional whatever it is I’m trying to place as though it were real. say — I’m genuine enough References that I find are lost — but instead, in the person in casual conversation. I’m relating to not having a By now, it’s a motion of clue what I’m talking about. generosity when people ad “Like Sméagol’s struggle just their blank faces afwith Gollum,” I’ll say when ter a split second and nod at a friend confesses an inter- me, suddenly and abruptly nal debate they are strugaware that I am the only one gling with. “This is like the who knows what I’m talking scene where Sméagol wres- about. I’m assuming they retles with himself, trying alize that ending the converto abolish Gollum.” “Yes,” sation will be easier if they they’ll say, “deciding wheth- pretend to understand the er or not to spend an exreference, thereby bypassing tra year at school to double my lengthy explanation. minor, when it’s going to Which, to me, suggests cost so much and put me a that reality is the world whole year behind, is exact- most people live in. Though ly like that scene…” I’m not particularly enam Or when I say, “The one ored by it, it’s the one I too ring was Sauron’s insuram stuck in, where the only ance,” to a friend dealing things rings stand for are with Allstate after the loss marriage and the Olympics. of a grandparent. “It was his Instead of resigning mylife-insurance policy. In case self to conversations devoid anything happened to him, of Tolkien references, I’ve he wanted to know he was started to use them more ‘in good hands.’” Which, ap- sparingly and only when parently, makes absolutely they really say something. no sense whatsoever to peo- My favorite goodbye, for ple, despite the last phrase instance, is when Bilbo says being both appropriate and “I bid you all a very fond farethe Allstate motto. well.” I love the phrase and To me, the parallels beI use it whenever goodbyes tween my references and are in order. I don’t often cite whatever is being discussed the source, though, because, are obvious. When others I suppose, I’ve grown to realare lost by what I say, howize that admitting where I got ever, I’m reminded that I, it can diminish its meaning. and I alone, am the sole oc- So, I’ll leave it there and cupant of the group that bid you all a very fond faregets my references. well with the best goodbye I blame it on not meetI know. Though, I admit, I ing enough Lord of the could be biased. Rings fans. Though, really, it’s probably that the rest EVAN WHITE loves nothing more than of them have a better sense discussing Middle Earth and plans to go there. of when to bring it up than Contact him at emwhite@ucdavis.edu.
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Cont. from front page it had been Rosencrantz or Guildenstern delivering the lines remains an enigma; however the two actors Mitchell Vanlandinghem and Will Klundt do an admirable job to accost the role. They really did give the characters a sense of feigned purpose, fading into the background among the supporting cast. Much of Vanlandinghem’s and Klunt’s word play is done without the impress of rhythm upon the lines, all at once appearing confused and mechanical. It’s as if the failure to realize the play’s absurdest nature, translated to the roundabout ways of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and if this was intentional then it is brilliant. Two intermissions divided the three-act play and each fade-in from black further gave sense to the nonsequitor world that surrounds R and G. The stage direction here utilized all of what Wright Theater has to offer, completing the experience through sound, lighting and set pieces. The score composed by Dan Wilson gives the play the needed auditory excitement to stir the audience. At times the sound matched the physical presence of the characters on stage with seamless effort, adding certain deftness to the characters’ movements. From the music of the players off-stage, to the tone of the composition, the sound design gave the audience an idea of the depth of the stage, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the characters. It was done particularly well in the pirate scene, remaining consistent throughout the duration of the play. During certain scenes the
score worked also with the lighting design to appeal fully to the audience’s senses. “Words, words. They’re all we have to go on,” Rosencrantz states in the play, and it is true that in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead dialogue remains the only way the characters can assert themselves. Klundt and Vanlandinghem here capture the frantic helplessness of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who themselves are trapped within the metatheatre of Hamlet. In a performance that served comedic value to the audience and in turn received a good bit of empathy back, both Klundt and Vanlandinghem do well to elicit an emotion-
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pales in comparison to the time I was snowed in on the Grapevine, the mountain pass that separates the fields of central California from the insanity of L.A. I had alKate ready been driving for hours Zarrella by the time I reached the great barrier, when I heard on the radio that they were going to close it. But I tried to get through it anyway. I drove on, trying to ignore the blinding rain, which turned into snow halfway up the mountain. Traffic ground to a stop, but several large SUVs kept ca’m a firm believer that reening on the icy road and college is the perfect running into other cars. time to make all of life’s It was freezing, I was really bad decisions. I suggest that before graduation, low on gas and my car was starting to make ominous everyone should drink too shuddering noises. At that much, eat too much, parpoint, I was pretty sure that ty too much and do some I would become a human really dangerous stuff, like Popsicle. I was sure Caltrans playing tennis with a ball would dig me out of the that’s been set on fire. Well, maybe not that, but snow the next day like the frozen caveyou get the man that point. Some I learned from that day on how scientists of the most important important it is to keep up with all found in the Alps. learning we your DMV records After an do in colhour, the lege is findpolice redirected traffic back ing out what never to do down the mountain and the again in the future. new challenge was finding a Take for example my RA place to sleep for the night. I from freshman year who, went to the closest hotel and after seeing Harold and found out the smart people Kumar Go to White Castle, who didn’t try to drive across decided that he had to a snowy mountain already try a White Castle burger. occupied all the rooms. Unfortunately for him, the closest restaurant was about I then went to every seedy roadside hotel I could find, two thousand miles away. but they were all full. At that Undeterred, he and a point, I could understand friend drove through a blizthe plight of Jesus’ mother, zard and tried burgers at 10 Mary, more than ever before. different White Castle locations. Apparently, he learned Except for the whole imthat White Castle is really de- maculate conception thing. licious. Or, maybe, that if you That’s still a mystery to me. drive through a blizzard you With the help of my mom and a Best Western rewards better make the best of it. While I’ve never done any- card, I was finally able to get a hotel room. And afthing quite that impulsive, I’m no stranger to road trips. ter a hot shower, I felt pretty invincible. Thinking I was I make the drive from San going to careen to my icy Diego to Davis on a regular basis and have had my share death made me realize how much I had to live for and of run-ins along the way. how much I had to learn Last year, when I about cold weather driving. drove back to Davis after A whole host of other Thanksgiving, I got stuck mishaps, like the time my in the horrendous traffic battery died at a desertjam that always happens ed gas station or the time near Los Angeles. Since the car got stuck in reverse I’m a college student fond in a Wienerschnitzel parkof procrastinating, I didn’t have up to date registration ing lot, have shown me that stickers on my license plate. when you take the bad with Since I’m a genius, I pulled the good you can learn a lot. It’s the things that you in front of a cop car in stophope never happen again and-go traffic with expired that teach you the most plates. I knew I was in trouble when he followed me as I about what you need to changed lanes. Sure enough, know for the future. So, hop in your car, hit he pulled me over and gave the road, and hope you’ll me my first ticket ever. find yourself in a situation Needless to say, I was so scared I nearly peed myself. I you never wanted to be in. learned from that day on how Or not, you choose. important it is to keep up with all your DMV records. KATE ZARRELLA wants to hear about your My run-in with the police worst life choices at kazarrella@ucdavis.edu.
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al connection with the audience. However, the two are often overshadowed by The Player’s ensemble. Appearing on occasion to give light on R and G’s futility, The Player, acted by Bobby August Jr., commanded the stage with great effect, able to arrest the audience’s attention with succinct delivery of lines. To him, all paths ended in death, but not before the gobbledygook in between. Granada Artist-inResidence Michael Barakiva is the man that ties the play together. Having already directed The Zona Rosa Project, the theatre department’s other play that ran in October, Barakiva brings his NYC tempered director’s eye to Davis’s Wright Theater. The novel use of the set
is a fine direction for an absurdest play such as this, utilizing huge set pieces to distinguish between each act. For the entire third act, a sail dominated the view of the stage, giving an air of grandness to the space in contrast with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s insignificance. It is with this gestalt imagery that gave rise to the thought of a space more vast than the dimensions of the stage. To that, Michael Barakiva’s rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one that holds up well on the Wright Theatre stage. The show runs again this Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m. PETER AN can be reached at theaggie.org.
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A holiday shopper’s guide to buying local Downtown stores offer gifts for every taste By CASEY SPECHT Aggie Features Writer
With winter break quickly approaching, it’s time to start thinking about holiday gift shopping. Whether you already have the perfect gift in mind for your special someone or are completely clueless about what to get your sibling, there are plenty of shops in Davis that can help you accomplish your holiday gift shopping.
The Artery 207 G Street The Artery is an artist co-op with about 70 artists, each of whom are voted in. The artists work co-op hours to keep the store going. “People can find anything they want here,” said jeweler and co-op artist Victor Gabriel, who specializes in Native American jewelry. “We have everything: wall art, fabric art, wood work, jewelry, wind chimes, ceramics, et cetera.” Colorful handmade candles, ceramic dishes, paintings of cows and landscapes, photographs of nature, a nautilus sculpture and hand carved chess boards are just a sampling of the work that is for sale at The Artery. Prices range from a few to thousands of dollars. To make gifts even more unique than they already are, Gabriel said that a majority of the artists will take special orders.
Hand Made Creation 233 F Street Hand Made Creation is a family-run store that features handmade clothing, accessories and a variety of other items from Nepal. Owner Raju Manandhar believes that quality is everything, and he knows first-hand how important that is because his family sends him new handmade items straight from Nepal. He personally travels there to get new merchandise for his store. “Almost everything is from Nepal. It’s something very unique and you can find something different here,” Manandhar said as he showed the vibrant colored scarves that his family makes back in Nepal. The store offers a variety of gifts ranging from wool and cotton scarves, clothing, bags, slippers, tapestries and oth-
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Flirty girls & finals tips Dear Gabby, My boyfriend has been friends with this girl for a while and they’ve always been flirty with each other. We have been in a relationship for a couple years and are very happy, but he and his friend continue to say that they love each other. I confronted him about it, and he told me that I don’t understand the type of friendship they have, and he didn’t believe he was crossing any lines. How do I make him understand my viewpoint without ruining our relationship or their friendship? — Simply frustrated Dear Simply frustrated, You see this friendship as inappropriate, while he sees your reaction as unnecessary. The obvious next step would be to
STRIKE Cont. from front page Other members of Occupy UC Davis will protest outside the UC Davis location of the Regents meeting, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. at the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC). Before the pepper spraying of student protesters that took place Nov. 18, students were protesting the proposed 81 percent increase in tuition over the next four years. Now, a call for Chancellor Katehi’s resignation is also a part of the strike. According to a press release by Occupy UC Davis and the General Assembly, the Regents’ use of public funds to support construction and private research projects demonstrate a conflict of interest that is detrimental to all those involved in the UC system. This, in turn, is said to contribute to the decreasing quality of public education and its privatization. UC Davis English professor Nathan Brown said that displays of student/faculty unity, such as
er items like dream catchers and jewelry. Manandhar keeps the prices as low as possible because he knows that a lot of students are on a budget. “The most popular things among the youngsters are the bags and scarves,” Manandhar said. A hemp bag costs $25 and each one is unique with multi-colored embroidery, shells or beads. The store has an extensive selection of scarves with different textures, material, designs, colors and even glitter accents.
Candy House of Davis 901 Third Street With 30 types of specialty truffles, fudge, chocolate covered fruit and nuts and chocolate in the shape of anything from a Christmas tree and Star of David to a guitar and a cat, the shop is guaranteed to satisfy a chocolate lover’s sweet tooth. “We make candy the old way, handmade is always better,” owner Osman Sunny Maiwandy said. Some of the truffle flavors include gourmet dark, café latte, peanut butter and Grand Marnier. The truffles are pyramid-shaped and come in jumbo and petite sizes. Both are under two dollars each. “We use special European chocolate,” Maiwandy said. “A lot of people really like our dark chocolate truffles.” The Candy House also sells assorted truffle gift boxes, solid chocolate figurines and lotus balls. Lotus balls are chocolate shaped lotus flowers that are packed full with a variety of truffles and candies. They come in three sizes and cost up to $55.
“We’ve done a good job at keeping prices accessible. Everything is about $5 to hundreds of dollars,” Ferda said. The shop gets inventory from the U.S. and Europe, and popular items include their unique jewelry, clothing, bags and candles.
The Luxury Out House Company 207 F Street, Suite A For all natural handmade body scrubs, oils, salts, soaps, robes and lingerie, The Luxury Out House Company is a onestop shop. All of the products are made with quality ingredients and come in a variety of tantalizing scents. Owner Maza Webb insists visitors try the sugar scrub, which is their most popular item. The scrub will leave your hands and body silky smooth, and you will never use a different scrub again after trying it, Webb said. Some of the body product scents include lavender vanilla, coconut mango, green tea cucumber, pear and green apple mint. The store also features custom gift baskets, and they are happy to help shoppers pick out scents and gifts for their significant other. CASEY SPECHT can be reached at features@theaggie.org.
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Hand Made Creation, located at 233 F St, sells clothing and accessories from Nepal.
Nestware 207 F Street, Suite B Nestware is a cozy gift shop that relocated to its current location earlier this year. It has everything from clothing and jewelry to collectible Bauer pottery and kitchen accessories. “People will find fun, unique, quirky things they won’t find anywhere else,” co-owner Lynne Ferda said. “Good things for Mom and Dad before you head home.” The store just amped up for the holidays and is full of sparkly Christmas tree ornaments, like pastels balls with glitter peace signs and little chickens.
analyze the situation, find out who is right or wrong, and put the matter to rest, right? Not exactly. The more important issue here is realizing that someone in the relationship is getting hurt and doing something to change that. Even the happiest couples out there have underlying issues that remain unresolved because they focus on superficial disputes like the one you are having, instead of getting down to the core problem. Maybe he really is just friends with her and maybe you are being a little paranoid, but solving that mystery comes second to the way you both feel. I think the two of you should set aside a time to talk about what the both of you want. Tell him it would have been nice if instead of him saying, “you don’t understand our relationship, and I don’t think I’m crossing any lines”, he had said, “I didn’t think I was crossing any lines, but I care about you and don’t want you to feel this way, so let’s talk about it.” You are his girlfriend and she is his friend. There is a priority difference there, and if not then you’ve got bigger problems. If he knows that he is hurting you then he should want to make changes and that might change his friendship with her. Even if your boyfriend comes to you with a concern that you think is absolutely ridiculous, remember that he doesn’t see it that way, so talk about it. If there was a final exam we all had to pass before we go to heaven or reincarnate as a redwood or what have you, I
walkouts and strikes, are effective and are what has supported the university’s student movement since 2009. “From the Sept. 24, 2009 walkout to the three-day strike during the Nov. 2009 Regents Meeting, to March 4, 2010, to Occupy Cal on Nov. 9, to the Nov. 15 strike this year,” Brown said. “These actions have continued to mobilize students to resist the privatization of the university. Given that this movement has become the largest and most significant student movement since the 1960s, these actions have definitely been highly effective.” There are over 100,000 signatures demanding Chancellor Katehi’s resignation, as well as calls for resignation from multiple departments, such as the English department and the majority of the physics department and the Board of the Davis Faculty Association. Even though Chancellor Katehi said she did not warrant the use of pepper spray against students, UC Davis art history professor Blake Stimson believes that the issue of
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Multicolored scarves like these are among Hand Made Creation’s most popular items. think the bonus question on the last page would ask something like, “What does every type of relationship need?” And the answer would most likely be “communication,” because with it everyone is happier and with out it no one knows. Dear Gabby, What’s the best way to stay focused but keep from stressing out during finals? — Already stressing Dear Already stressing, For many classes, the final exam can either make or break your grade and with that comes a ton of pressure. Finals week is going to be a stressful time no matter what, making it hard to completely eliminate stress. But rest assured, there are definitely ways to reduce that stress. Waiting until the last minute to make flash cards and finish study guides isn’t the smartest thing to do. Start preparing for the big day right now. If you work well with others and get that extra boost of motivation from study groups, then plan one. I sometimes find that people in a study group feed off each other’s adrenaline when the pressure is on. For other people, after about two hours, the study group turns into a kickback minus the alcohol (or not), and you can imagine the results of that study method. Solitary studying is one of the most effective study techniques for me, although it can get hard to focus when I’m tired and
her resignation can be discussed in relation to two topics — the use of violence to enforce a no camping rule and the decision to use the force of the UC Davis Police Department to suppress open inquiry and free speech about the future of public education. “The first may have been exclusively the doing of the police involved while the second is something that Chancellor Katehi has acknowledged was her own doing. For each of us, the question of whether she should be asked to resign may be different but it could be as simple as whether or not we subscribe to the basic claim of the Occupy movement generally — that there has been a massive redistribution of wealth, opportunity and political power from ‘the 99 percent’ to ‘the 1 percent’ in the last 30 years and that the only effective way for ‘the 99 percent’ to challenge and reverse this redistribution is not negotiating over what is feasible...” Stimson said. Melissa Denton, a junior human development major, supports her classmates in their efforts.
stressed. Try studying at the library for a while and then go home and relax for a while. Take breaks and watch an episode of “Modern Family” or read a couple of chapters from the novel you abandoned when classes started in September. A great way to relieve stress is to give your brain a break and clear your mind at the gym. The UC Davis Activities and Recreation Center has study rooms on the first floor making it easy to grab a latte at Starbucks, study for a couple of hours and reboot with a 30 minute jog. Speaking of rebooting, it’s imperative that you sleep often. And by that I don’t mean study all night and hit the hay when the sun rises, but try and stick to a set schedule so that you get eight hours of sleep every night. Do everything you’ve heard since junior high about staying healthy: eat a hearty breakfast, stay active, stay focused, take breaks and nap. If you’re healthy, you will mostly likely be less stressed than you would be if you were studying with the flu. Don’t hesitate to e-mail professors about past material, meet with teaching assistants and ask a tutor for help in South Hall before you start stressing. It’s always better to over study than not study enough. Make those study plans now and next week you’ll be happy that you did. Good luck! Gabby gives way better advice than your mom. Don’t believe me? Test her skills at ucdeargabby.gmail.com.
“Katehi is merely the beginning of a much larger indecency,” she said. Though in support of the strike’s motives and accomplishments thus far, Denton said it may be difficult to produce a noticeable change in the university’s functionality, without absolute participation. “I honestly believe the strike could be very effective in showing the regents that we mean business. With the impending 81 percent tuition increase, it’d be beneficial for students to show the regents that, without us, there really is no university. Unfortunately, I think it’s going to be very hard to get many departments on campus to ‘shut down.’ For example, Unitrans and other on-campus services won’t simply stop functioning,” Denton said. Both Stimson and Brown will be conducting teach-ins today and Stimson has cancelled his classes in support of the strike. Stimson will discuss public education, police force, nonviolent protest and the power of images at 10 a.m., west of the Art building. Brown
will lead the first session of a three-part workshop in the Quad Village, titled “Three Theories of Power, Three Forms of Struggle: Marx, Fanon, Foucault” and plans to spend the night in the Quad with demonstrators as well. Stimson believes students are benefiting in their education amid the protests, contrary to what others may assume, and compares it to Katehi’s own demonstration as a 19 year-old student at Athens Polytechnic in November 1973. “As we have all seen, that response involved incredible fortitude by student protesters and their supporters when, even in the face of cavalier, gratuitous violence, not a single water bottle or other object was thrown at the police, and, when in the presence of the chancellor herself, not a single epithet was hurled,” said Stimson, “I cannot think of anything more educational than being present in the context of such events.” MUNA SADEK can be reached at campus@theaggie. org.
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Clear skin could improve job prospects, study finds By Mina Radman
Independent Florida Alligator (University of Florida)
Acne isn’t just a preteen worry anymore: It may be reason someone isn’t hired for a job. People with moderate to severe acne or prominent birthmarks and scars may be discriminated against in the job market, according to a recent study conducted by Rice U. professor Mikki Hebl and U.
Houston professor Juan Madera. The study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, found that in mock interview settings, interviewers were more likely to be distracted by a job candidate’s facial birthmarks and acne and would give that candidate a lower evaluation score than one who didn’t have facial blemishes. Madera and Hebl conducted two studies: One
tracked eye activity in undergraduate volunteers and the other featured experienced employers. The first study found that the undergraduate volunteers couldn’t help but keep their eyes on a person’s facial blemishes instead of his or her eyes or mouth. The second study found that experienced managers rated applicants with clear skin higher than those with scars and blemishes. The
undergraduate volunteers rated their blemished applicants better than the experienced managers did. Jill Skufe, a career development coordinator at the U. Florida Career Resource Center, said the CRC hasn’t had any students ask questions about how acne or facial scars could play a role in their job searches. She said her advice to students who may be con-
cerned would be to look as presentable as possible. Women shouldn’t go overboard with makeup, Skufe advised, but if they are worried, they should ask someone close to them. “Just ask someone you know and trust and can be honest to you,” she said. Katherine Shearouse, a 22-year-old public relations senior at UF, agrees with the study’s findings. “If you’re unkempt or have zits all over your face,
I think people are put off by it,” she said. “It may not be professional, but it happens all the time.” But appearance shouldn’t be the only factor, she said. “If you’re completely overqualified and you have a scar, I don’t think they’re not going to hire you because of that,” Shearouse said. “But if they have someone just as qualified as you are, they would rather hire him or her.”
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Aggies still undefeated
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It’s all mental
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t is amazing that two teams can be so similar, and yet at the same time so different. UC Davis men’s and women’s basketball both started this year with a new head coach, and without a pair of last season’s stars. Both teams even employ zone defenses and preach a strategy that emphasizes holding opponents to low scores. But when it comes to the results on the court, the teams could not be any more different. The women’s basketball squad has started the 2011-12 season with an impressive 5-0 record, including a statement win on the road against Pacific12 opponent Washington. On the other hand, the men’s team has won just one of its first seven games — and that lone victory came against unimpressive match-up Division III UC Santa Cruz. Never has the difference between the two sides been more apparent than during last Tuesday’s doubleheader — when the women played University of San Francisco at 4:45 p.m. followed immediately by the men taking on rival Sacramento State. The women’s team went back and forth for the first few minutes, but took the lead with five minutes left in the first half and never gave it up. Once coach Jennifer Gross’ team took a double-digit lead there was no doubt they would hang on, and indeed the Aggies succeeded with a 14-point win. The game that followed was a very different story. The men’s team took a big lead early, and held a 10-point advantage at the break. But even as the team looked to be in control, it was hard to feel confident that the team would win. And as the lead began to dwindle, the Aggie fans braced themselves for what was to come. The Aggies surrendered the lead with five minutes left, and ultimately fell to the Hornets 69-61. The lesson learned that the night is simple –– in college basketball it’s all about your team’s mental toughness. While Gross certainly deserves credit for UC Davis women’s basketball’s success this season, she took over a team with a winning philosophy already instilled during Sandy Simpson’s 14-year tenure as head coach. On the other side, the men’s team is still struggling to shake the mindset left behind by the disastrous Gary Stewart regime. But while the men’s basketball team is not where fans would like it to be, for the first time in years there is reason for optimism. Though many UC Davis fans may have preferred to enter this season with a positive outlook, realistic supporters knew that the team would struggle in 2011-12. Both Mark Payne and Joe Harden graduated at the end of the last season, leaving UC Davis with a young team that will take time to mature. The Aggies consistently start multiple underclassmen, and those young players have shown true potential. Sophomore Harrison DuPont has proven his ability to get to the basket in his first season with the team, and freshman Tyrell Corbin has shown the playmaking abilities the team needs to compete at the Division I level. And for the first time since Dominic Calegari graced Hamilton Court the Aggies have legitimate post presence. Sophomore Josh Ritchart has shown great improvement from last season and is leading UC Davis with 15
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UC Davis tops San Francisco, moves to 5-0 women’s basketball By MATTHEW YUEN Aggie Sports Writer
UC Davis walked off the floor following its win over the San Francisco Dons holding a three game home-court winning-streak. The trio of victories each came by a margin of 14 points or more, but still the Aggies have the potential to play at an even higher level. UC Davis downed the Dons by a score of 64-50, despite shooting around 35 percent on the game. This is a testament to the team’s strength in other areas, but Head Coach Jennifer Gross and her players have admitted their shooting has been a little sub-par recently. “We’re doing a lot of shooting in practice, but we can’t catch fire,” Gross said. “I’m not too concerned about it; we just have to keep shooting with confidence. We’re great shooters and I know we’re going to be okay.” The game began with UC Davis building an 11-2 lead only to yield 10 straight points and fall behind 12-11 with about nine minutes remaining in the half. The teams would exchange baskets until the Aggies went up 18-17 on a layup by senior Hana Asano and never looked back. UC Davis closed the half ahead 26-19 and would hold onto the lead for the duration of the second half. The Aggies used their trap-like
defense to create the frenzied environment that Gross talks about, turning their 17 forced turnovers into 18 points over the game. Senior Samantha Meggison, who led the team with 16 points agrees that it is just a matter of time before the Aggies find their shots. “We’re doing so many other things well, it allows us to shoot the ball with confidence and keep shooting because we’re cleaning up the boards,” Meggison said. The Aggies have been working on rebounding, and junior Blair Shinoda, who led the Aggies with 10 boards, says it all comes down to the determination and energy of the team. “We’re a little smaller so everyone is hustling and rebounding,” she said. Gross knows the team can improve its rebounding performances and shooting, in spite of the Aggies’ first 5-0 start since the 2007-08 season. “We’re winning games and I feel really good, but we’re waiting for the night where everybody puts it together,” she said. Indeed, hopefully that night will come in the upcoming week, as the Aggies have two big away games coming up, and will need the shots to fall in order to keep their unbeaten season alive. UC Davis will travels to Santa Clara University today and then to Palo Alto on Wednesday to take on No. 3 Stanford in a rematch of last season’s NCAA Championship first round contest.
rights Cont. from front page and police brutality. The incident has brought up such questions as: were first amendment rights to free speech and peaceable assembly confiscated from students? Were police using excessive force? Will Creeley, director of legal and public advocacy at the Foundation for individual Rights in Education (FIRE) said yes. FIRE is conducting an investigation of the incident out of concern that protesters lost both their first amendment rights and their fourth amendment rights to freedom from unreasonable acts by police. The university is allowed to set time and manner restrictions on peaceable assembly, making it lawful for them to ban camping on the Quad according to Creeley. But sitting down and linking arms after having complied with police demands to take down tents, does not condone physical force such as pepper spray, he said. Creeley said that the protesters were non-violent, non-threatening and not blocking police movement and therefore well within their rights. “We think that the abuse captured on video was horrifying, it was excessive, it was a clear overreaction, we believe that it was in violation of the University of California Police Department (UCPD) and federal protocol,” he said, “we believe that this wasn’t policing, but punishing; someone was trying to shut these protesters up.” Chris Dolan, a civil rights lawyer, added penal code 148, which provides that a person can legally resist unlawful arrest, to the list of laws backing the protesters and incriminating the police. Dolan said that all police officers are trained to deal with protesters, but that the UCPD demonstrated a clear lack of misunderstand-
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Senior guard Samantha Meggison led the UC Davis with 16 points against the Dons, the Aggies advance to 5 consecutive wins on the season.
ing and attention to that training. He cited the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training- Learning Domains (LD) 15 and 24 to explain how exactly the UCPD breached protocol. LD 15 provides protocol for making an arrest, stating that officers must inform the person to be arrested of the cause for the arrest, the intention of the person making the arrest and their authority to make the arrest before doing so; if they do not do so, their arrest is unlawful. LD 24 outlines a detailed approach to controlling crowds like the one formed by UC Davis protesters. It provides three intervention techniques that should be used only if the prior technique did not succeed. First, verbal force — first asking and then, if necessary, telling that person to do something. Second, physical contact — touching or restraining an individual without assault. Lastly, physical force — use of control holds first and less lethal methods second; if those don’t succeed, resort to threat of deadly force or deadly force. Charles Parker, a senior international relations major who was pepper sprayed and arrested on Nov. 18, said that before being pepper sprayed the police did not ask him anything or make any demands of him. Before he was arrested, he was not notified of the police’s cause, intention or authority. “An announcement was made, but I couldn’t hear it and I couldn’t even really tell who was saying it,” he said. “The next thing I knew, my face was burning from pepper spray and a cop was forcing me onto the ground and zip-ties around my wrists, not a word was said.” Dolan said that the police’s behavior was in clear violation of LD 15 because they did not announce cause, intention, and authority, and LD 24 because they did not sequence through the intervention techniques, but skipped directly to use of force. “Even if protesters had resisted arrest, which
they didn’t, that would have been lawful because the arrests were unlawfully made,” he said. Dolan said that he would be surprised if every officer at the scene is not given disciplinary action for breaching LD 20, failing to intervene in or prevent the other officers from violating the injured persons constitutional rights. Although university administration, faculty, students and many lawyers insist that the officers’ actions were excessive, some experts on police tactics say that pepper spray is actually considered one of the least violent forms of crowdt control in comparison to dragging protesters or hitting them with batons. “Between verbalized commands and knockdown, drag-out fights, there’s quite a bit of wiggle room,” David Klinger, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer and instructor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who reviewed the pepper spray footage, told University of Austin, Texas’ student newspaper The Daily Texan. “When you’ve got a bunch of people who are clearly non-compliant, locking arms, it doesn’t look good [on camera],” he said. At a town hall meeting last week regarding the pepper spray incident, Vice Chancellor of Administrative and Resource Management John Meyer stated that, “police have a ton of discretion at their disposal and have to make decisions quickly and to the best of their ability.” The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, the U.S. Code and the constitution state that police actually have very structured, detailed and situation-appropriate protocol to abide by. “Police really have few choices to make because their protocol is so comprehensive,” Dolan said. “People give them too much power because they don’t know any better. But police know better and that will come out in trial.” SARA ISLAS can be reached at city@theaggie.org.
World Population growth could spur food shortage By Megan Nicolai Minnesota Daily (University of Minnesota)
Global food demand could double by 2050, according to a new projection released by U. Minnesota researchers Monday. This could severely increase the amount of environmental pollutants and threaten extinction for many species, according to the findings of David Tilman, regents professor of Ecology in the College of Biological Sciences, and his colleagues. According to United Nations demographers, the world’s population could reach 9.3 billion by 2050. The world’s total population is already at or nearing 7 billion, based on varying reports from the U.N. and the U.S. Census Bureau. As poorer nations increase their populations’ annual incomes in future decades, there will be a large increase in demand for animal products like meat and dairy, said Jason Hill, an assistant professor in the University’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, As a result, demand for grain crops to feed livestock will also increase, he said. Tilman and Hill, along with another University researcher Belinda Befortand, and
Christian Blazer — a University of California, Santa Barbara professor — co-authored an article that summarized their findings and the potential risks of current international agricultural practices. “It’s long been known that there’s more that we can do to ensure that there’s a sustainable food supply for the future,” Hill said. “But in this paper we put some hard numbers behind the claims.” Thirty-five percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from agricultural processes, compared with 20 percent from automobile emissions, Tilman said. But the effects could be decreased by improving agricultural practices in poorer countries, he said. For example, in nations like the United States, farmers control fertilizer use based on the specific needs of different areas of land. This could easily be adopted by farmers with smaller areas of land in poor countries, Tilman said. According to the article, agricultural techniques in richer nations can increase crop yield and reduce the amount of pollution emitted. Crop yields for the wealthiest nations were more than 300 percent higher than yields for the poorest nations in 2005, the article said. Traditionally, farmers in developing coun-
tries would simply clear more land when attempting to grow more food. But that technique does nothing to increase crop yield, Tilman said. The technique also accounts for a large portion of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and threatens certain species of animals with extinction, Tilman said. But he said industrialized agriculture techniques require a large amount of farmer education and often come with larger costs up front. If current agricultural techniques continue, the article stated, critical levels of nitrogen and carbon could be released into the environment and excessive use of fertilizer could contaminate groundwater. If current levels of land clearing continue, more than 2.5 billion acres of land would be cleared by 2050, an area the size of the United States. But if new processes are adapted, that amount could be reduced to half a billion acres, Tilman said. “It’s not an emergency, but it’s not something we can wait until 2050 to start doing,” Tilman said. “By that time, we will have the environmental damage done, and we’ll have lots of people with very substandard diets around the world.”
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