February 2, 2012

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Leaky Memorial Union caused by original architecture Maintenance staff taking extra measures to reduce drips

By DANIELLE HUDDLESTUN Aggie News Writer

Looking forward to the coming spring rain, many students anticipate the leaky roof of the Memorial Union (MU). Based upon past rain storms, drips located in the ASUCD Coffee House (CoHo) and the East Wing of the MU have plagued students looking for a dry place to stay.

A new roof has been installed over the CoHo, in an effort to block out the leaks.

“The leaks are a result of the original architecture of the building,” said Becky Peterson / Aggie John Seden, associate director of MU The roof in the Memorial Union has been known to leak in operations. both the ASUCD Coffee House and the East Wing of the MU. Between the half spheres of the

CoHo roof, new box ends have been added to the drains, in order to help with the overflow. Many times, the leaves clog the gutter, causing the water to overflow and leak into the CoHo. “The few small drips that we experienced in our dining room last week had a minimal effect on our customers. The MU operations and CoHo staffs were careful to clean up any standing water that could have been a slipping hazard. The few drips that I noticed were in walkways, so no seating was affected,” said Darin Schluep, food service manager of the CoHo. With the new addition to the drains, there are still a few leaks, as the water drips through. There were also ad-

justments made to the concrete second level of the MU. An expansion joint was installed in order to reduce leakage. However, when this did not completely solve the problem, extra sealant and caulking was used. The maintenance staff now believes that the drips here will stop.

“Chasing leaks is an art from,” Seden said.

On the East Wing of the MU, there is a leak right in front of U.S. Bank, starting at the tower wall. Here, the problem is that the roof is old, made of bricks. When the water gets under this surface, it seeps through the roof, as the bricks are porous.

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Davis residents to decide surface water project’s future Project will be voted on in November general election

By CLAIRE TAN Aggie Staff Writer

The Davis City Council decided at their Jan. 24 meeting to allow City of Davis residents to finalize what direction the surface water project should take.

In September 2009, the City of Woodland and City of Davis created a joint powers authority called the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency (WDCWA). According to the WDCWA, it implements and oversees the regional surface water supply project.

The main debate centering on the water project is the cost. Additionally, there is the question of whether surface water is needed by 2016.

“Both cities [Woodland and Davis] will need to raise water rates significantly to support this project,” said Principal Civil Engineer of the Davis Public Works Department Dianna Jensen in an e-mail. “The city attempted to raise rates last fall and the council did pass a five-year rate plan [Proposition 218], but repealed these rates on Dec. 20 after receiving a water rate referendum on Oct. 24.”

The city council will put a measure on the November general election ballot. The ballot measure is still being drafted by the council.

As of now, Jensen said the expectation is to set new water rates in place by the end of 2012.

“The council directed staff to initiate a new rate study and the formation of a Water Advisory Committee that is tasked with review of the rate study and of the surface water project components,” Jensen said. “The scope of work for the rate study will be before the Water Advisory Committee at their Feb. 9 meeting.”

The current timeline of the water project is to have adopted water rates in effect by January 2013. Jensen said Woodland needs surface water by 2016 to comply with their limit and Davis needs it between 2017 and 2022, depending on the waste water permit that will be renewed at the end of this year.

Jensen said because of the October referendum, the city council acknowledged that residents would like a vote.

“There is a whole spectrum of opinions about whether or not we need the project, whether or not we can continue to use groundwater, whether or not the rates that have been proposed are actually the right numbers,” said Deputy City Manager Kelly Stachowicz. “There are folks

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who say if we don’t do it now, whatever we have to do in the future will be even more expensive.”

If Davis residents decide to eradicate the surface water project, the city will reassess what to do with the current water and look at groundwater options.

“We can dig more wells and we may need to look at more treatment to water that comes out, if quality of new wells or existing wells isn’t what it was before,” Stachowicz said.

According to Stachowicz, UC Davis is on the fringes and has not committed financially to the project. UC Davis operates on a water system separate from the city’s system.

“UC Davis is a non-voting member of the WDCWA by virtue of the small volume of water the campus would take, because it contributed water rights to the agency and through agreement with the two cities,” said UC Davis Assistant Vice Chancellor Sid England in an email.

“The voting status of the campus would

Protesters march to police department, in solidarity with Occupy Oakland Protesters met at the Memorial Union (MU) at noon for a march in solidarity with Occupy Oakland.

“The march is in support of Occupy Oakland in response to the police brutality and the city of Oakland’s unnecessary crackdown on protesters,” said Sophia Kamran, senior philosophy major.

CLAIRE TAN can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

— Alicia Kindred

Officials urge students to investigate school of choice schools than anywhere else in the nation. There are approximately 1,000 unaccredited or questionably accredited colleges and vocational schools in operation.

Accredibase, a service that targets academic fraud for employers, university admission teams and law enforcement agencies sees California as a region that’s

By SARA ISLAS Aggie News Writer

The UC Davis class of 2012 has the educational world at its fingertips. Between graduate programs in public health and law school, business school and veterinary school, masters in fine arts and Ph.D.s in philosophy, the educational opportunities seem boundless.

Typically, the only thing stopping the dream-cometrue-after-college plan is money, and a good deal will usually become the aftercollege-plan-that-actually-comes-true. However, some good deals’ only appeal is their low-cost.

A recent report in The New York Times suggested graduates take heed in the option they decide upon.

The report said that California is home to more Irisa Tam / Aggie unaccredited

Forecast Expect a clear and sunny day today along with a slight breeze.

Looks like another great weekend is in the works as well. Also, perhaps there is some decent weather for playing some football?

Somewhere? Like, oh, I don’t know, say Indianapolis?

Matthew Little, atmospheric science major Aggie Forecasting Team

they continued to chant “no cuts, no lies, occupy and communize.”

The solidarity march ended in front of the UC Davis Police Department, where 22 protesters sat in front of the locked doors to have their general assembly at 1:08 p.m.

California has most unaccredited schools in the nation

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not change when we resume financial contributions to the project.”

England said if the university decides to participate in the construction and operation of the water project, it will buy in and continue to pay going forward.

“Right now, the city gets all of its water from wells, meaning we receive groundwater,” Stachowicz said. “And as the city has grown since it was first incorporated back in the 1900s, we question whether in the long-term, having these wells will still allow us to have the water we want and need for the current population.”

Stachowicz said over the past several years, some of the wells had to be shut down or receive treatment, which are considered to be costly ventures.

In response, the City of Davis has been looking at surface water coming from the Sacramento River.

“Surface water isn’t necessarily more beneficial than groundwater,” Stachowicz said. “It’s just from a different source. Right now, our groundwater is untreated, nice and clean.”

The groundwater Davis currently uses is hard water, with surface water being of a different composition that contains fewer mineral deposits.

“One of the hopes is that the water won’t be as hard,” Stachowicz said.

Marchers chanted, “Show me what democracy looks like, this is what democracy looks like” as they entered the ASUCD Coffee House (CoHo). Drums were used until they were asked to stop by CoHo employees.

Marchers continued across campus into the Silo Union, where

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inclined to harboring and proliferating unaccredited schools and degree mills because of the state’s easyto-meet regulation standards and lax enforcement.

Eyal Ben Cohen, an Accredibase representative, said that California is significantly more relaxed about granting operation approval to unaccredited schools than other states are.

“Schools that have been closed, prosecuted, banned and blacklisted by other U.S. states are legally allowed to operate in California,” Cohen said.

R u s s Heimrich, a spokesperson for the California Department of Consumer Affairs (CDCA), said that unaccredited schools are

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Rest assured, McDonalds will no longer be serving its ‘pink slime.’ Now they are ten times more healthy. Not. Kim Carr

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TODAY Bone Marrow Registry Drive 10 a.m. to 2 p.m Memorial Union Tables Sign up for the bone marrow registry and save a life. It only takes 10 minutes to register.

Cancer Awareness Week: Stuff the Bra 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Quad See some lovely gentlemen rock their finest bras for donations on the Quad!

UC Davis Summer Abroad 2012 Info Session: Travelers in Greece Noon Education Abroad Center, Third and A Streets Get your questions answered about the 2012 summer abroad trip in Greece.

Shinkoskey Noon Concert: The Oracle Trio 12:05 p.m.

115 Music April Johnson, violin, Peter Seidenberger, cello, and Kate Boyd, piano, will perform Saint-Saëns: Allegro vivace from Trio No. 1 in F Major, op. 18; Dvořák: Trio in E Minor, op. 90 (“Dumky”); and Marc Mellits: Fruity Pebbles.

Cal Aggie Band Lamppost Fundraiser 4 to 9 p.m.

Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd.

Help support the Aggie Band while eating pizza! Mention the band’s name and it will donate 30 percent of their pizza profits from that night. Check out facebook.com/ events/260234464042936/ for more information.

Poetry Night Reading Series: Alan Williamson 8 p.m John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First Street One of the most important poet-critics of his generation, Alan Williamson has received a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship.

Williamson has taught for the UC Davis English department since 1983, having previously taught at the University of Virginia, Harvard University and Brandeis University.

FRIDAY UC Davis Summer Abroad 2012 Info Session: Introduction to Winemaking Noon Education Abroad Center, Third and A Streets Learn about the 2012 summer abroad Intro to Winemaking program in France.

Meet the Artist Reception: Untold Stories 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Gallery 625, 625 Court St., Woodland Meet Terry Turner, creator of the multimedia exhibit Untold Stories: A Search for Dignity on the Freedom Rider Trail. Poetry and music will be provided by Suzanne Brooks and the Jazz Generation.

My Business is to Sing: Giving Voice to Poetry by Emily Dickinson 7 p.m.

Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center Emily Dickinson’s poetry has intrigued, challenged, moved and captivated readers for over a century. Soprano Sarah Pelletier and pianist Lois Shapiro will evoke Emily Dickinson’s unique poetic voice.

The concert features new music by Eric Sawyer and Ross Bauer, and older music

by Aaron Copland — music inspired by Dickinson’s expansive, whimsical mystical, and provocative poetry. $8 students and children, $20 adults.

SATURDAY Slide Show and Tour: Birds of Davis 11:00 a.m.

Arboretum Headquarters, LaRue Road, UC Davis Learn about local birds during a free slide show and tour of the UC Davis Arboretum.

Enjoy a slide show highlighting birds you might see in winter in the Arboretum.

Then, weather permitting, take a stroll with the docent to look for birds in the garden.

Author event: Sandy Lynne Holman, We All Have a Heritage 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Arthur F. Turner Community Library, 1212 Merkley Ave., West Sacramento Children and families are invited to celebrate their heritage through music, dance and the written word. There will be free door prizes.

HellaCappella 7:30 p.m.

ARC Pavilion The Spokes host their annual a cappella concert featuring groups from Cal, UCSC, Stanford, and University of Oregon’s On the Rocks from NBC’s The Sing Off. Tickets are on sale now for $7 students, $10 nonstudents at the Freeborn ticket office.

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.

police briefs SUNDAY

Skis were stolen from a vehicle parked on Plum Lane.

The Hangover 3 People were throwing something on a roof on Lillard Drive.

Watch out for Pole Line A bus ran into a light pole on Russell Boulevard.

MONDAY

TUESDAY Davis Shore An intoxicated man was passed out in a hot tub on Pole Line Road.

Really specific Several people may have been smoking unknown substances on Loyola Drive.

Just use Facebook Someone was attempting to tag a building with a pen on F Street.

Now steal some snow

Police Briefs are compiled by TRACY HARRIS from the City of Davis daily crime bulletins. Contact TRACY HARRIS at city@ theaggie.org.

ing leaves which cause the water to overflow.

Currently, the MU is paying for the new roof over the CoHo, while the smaller maintenance fees are shared with the CoHo. The MU is on a five year maintenance plan, but is wary of unexpected emergencies.

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Cont. from front page “It is okay for the first 20 years, but now the concrete and mortar are only more porous,” Seden said.

For continued alleviation of the problem, the MU has increased maintenance measures. This is beneficial for keeping the DANIELLE HUDDLESTUN can be reached drains clean and remov- at campus@theaggie.org.

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an annotated set of French and English volumes of The Count of Monte Cristo.

It took some time to recover from my deathly scare. I admit when the Chelsea keywords “Julian Assange” Mehra and “talk show” flashed past my eyes over the weekend, I gave a slight twitch.

But my interest in this digital parvenu was newly piqued when I learned the guest list of his show, “The World Tomorrow,” had yet to be revealed. That is, if Assange wins his case against Britain’s Supreme ulian Assange is once Court on sex allegations again basking in the Orwellian spotlight that this week in time to host the Kremlin-supported first brought him to the show. forefront of our attention back in 2010. Having an Come March, Quick Roll nounced his new “Russia Productions will apparently TV” talk show from the air 10 30-minute weekly epconfines of his house (arisodes. Just in case Assange rest), the WikiLeaks foundis hard-pressed to come up er is guaranteed to skewer with a group of “key politclaims against his seeming- ical players, thinkers and ly obsolete revoluwebsite. tionaries,” I was personally on “Red Alert” as he says The first time I fully when I saw the digital world as the show will feaunderstood we knew it under threat ture, I have the scope of a few recAssange’s inommendations myself. fluence was back in June 2010 when I began to sus 1. Michele Bachmann, for pect an internet apocalypse. I have a feeling she would be the absolute ideal whis I had recently deactivattleblower. Willingly ready ed my Facebook with the to expose the kind of inforfalse hope that life would mation our public aches return to, at least, an exponent of former productivity. to hear, Bachmann surely knows, and will spill, how Yet, in true human form, I found a procrastination al- many Metamucils Ron Paul takes before hitting the poternative: The New Yorker. dium, the number of sweat During one of my scourer vests Rick Santorum owns ing sessions through their and the true networth of Mitt online archives (stalking still ensues post-Facebook), Romney, offshore accounts included. I found your key I came across a profile piece on our favorite hack- political player, Julian. er, Mr. Assange. The report- 2. Nietzsche, because if er wrote what could have he were alive, I could see an been pitched as a screenintense debate on whether play for the next Day After God or journalism is dead.

Tomorrow movie.

Propagandist television aside, viewers would be lost People called the in the existential and nihilWikiLeaks office the istic musings of both men.

Bunker, key members and Perhaps the great thinker projects were known only would act as a shoulder for by initials and at any givthe sexually charged (pun en time the website’s servintended) Assange to cry ers would be feeding hunon, hushing him with fadreds of thousands of fake mous words of advice: “Ah, submissions as deterrence from the real ones. Content women. They make the was so untraceable and en- highs higher, and the lows more frequent.” crypted that to remove anything would require 3. The Occupiers, if they “dismantl[ing] the Internet could manage to fit in the itself,” according to the arstudio. What better, more ticle. I was personally on revolutionary and more “Red Alert” when I saw the popular a guest could digital world as we knew it Assange bring to his show? under threat.

(Don’t answer that, you twit.) He would walk onto Greater transparency in the stage, maybe pull off a the media was one thing.

Conan O’Brien-like dance, To hear that a single, silverand the entire show would haired, Australian man was remain an incessant chant essentially forging his alof “We are the 99 Percent!” ready victorious war with The Government was ev I have a little sister, idence of doomsday. The and she’s alright (kidding, Mayans had been too graAshley), but Julian Assange cious when they predicted is sure to produce in his 2012, I thought. My autobinew talk show what my ography would abruptly end parents never did: a feelwith ominous ellipses ... ing that Big Brother watches over me.

I started composing my will, only to realize there would be no one or thing So you think CHELSEA MEHRA could left to bequeath my valuupstage Assange’s act? Contact her at cmehra@ucdavis.edu if you know anyone ables — a miniature, pink in the biz.

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Cola, Pepsi, Volkswagen and Anheuser-Busch.

What makes advertising so effective on this day of all days, however, is not only the sheer number of peoVictor ple watching. According to Beigelman a recent study by Starcom MediaVest Group, 76 percent of Super Bowl viewers say they like the fact that the ads are created specifically for the game. Also, 62 percent say they pay more attention to these ads than usual.

It’s an accepted fact in uper Bowl XLVI. the sports world that the Patriots vs. Giants. best performances happen The Golden Boy vs.

Peyton’s Little Brother. Beer. on the biggest stages, and Wings. Chips. Six-, nay, sev- in advertising, this idea is en-layer dip. Commercials. no different. Potential for exposure of this magnitude Campus, the Super Bowl brings out the best in the is nearly upon us. In three creative minds of advertisshort days, an estimated ers, and no plausibly effec100 million viewers across tive avenue is left unused. the nation will gather ‘round the biggest, highest- This year, for example, resolution TV they can find many companies plan to promote to watch their Super America’s ... I’m either: too controversial, Bowl ads most dominant forctoo unstable, too poor, or all of through Twitter and es battle the above other social for the afmedia sites. fection of Targeting younger, more intheir fans. Each squad has ternet-savvy demographbeen preparing all year for the big show, working hard ics such as us college kids, these businesses hope to to ensure that their game day strategy will help them keep the conversation goachieve their ultimate goal. ing during the game, even after their commercial has Critics, injuries and other aired. setbacks along the way — Skeptical about how none of them matter now. much activity Coke’s It all comes down to one game on the world’s biggest #GameDayPolarBears (yes, the unreasonably dexterstage. ous, soda-loving CGI beasts During breaks in the acwill be back) hashtag will tion, there will be some realistically get? Consider football. this: After Tim “God’s Ever since the NFL second-son” Tebow (it’s championship became a okay for me to make this major televised event in joke because I’m a Broncos 1958, professional football’s title game has steadi- fan and actually root for the guy) threw a game-winly gained steam as one of ning overtime touchdown the largest annual media against the Pittsburgh events in the world. Every Steelers a few weeks ago, year, advertisers big and there were an alleged 9,000 small sprint toward the tweets per second about network hosting the big the play. game in hopes of securing at least one 30-second spot Advertisers want in on that kind of babble beto showcase themselves cause, if they can generand their products in an ate a high level of coninnovative way.

This year, the Super Bowl versation about their will air on NBC. As has been ad, they’re far more likethe case every year, the cost ly to earn a big payday for themselves in products of a commercial has insold immediately after the creased since the previSuper Bowl. College kids ous year, with a 30-second spot selling for $3.5 million tweeting=money.

Although many people on average. I’d love to drop dislike the hype produced three and a half mil myself by the Super Bowl and the on a personal ad, but like other advertisers who didn’t media frenzy that follows it, I believe it’s something to make the cut, I’m either: embrace. What’s important too controversial, too unstable, too poor, or all of the to remember, especially for us as the vibrant youth, above. is that the Super Bowl as a Self-esteem aside, complete package is everythough, these are the hard facts. When you have an es- thing we could ever want in a day: relaxation, food and timated viewership of 100 entertainment.

MILLION, little guys are Probably the only thing going to get pushed aside to worry about now is a seby the juggernauts for airtime to literally show us the rious lack of opportunities to take a piss. goods. As usual, big names from all major industries will be putting forth their VICTOR BEIGELMAN is picking Patriots over best efforts this year to cap- Giants, Coke over Pepsi, and Bud Light over Miller Light. Send him your picks at ture consumers’ hearts/ vbeigelman@ucdavis.edu. laughs/wallets, like Coca-

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campus Judicial reports Drinking and vandalism don’t mix Two students were referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for suspected vandalism and underage drinking. The two students had been drinking and had ventured downtown where they were detained by the police on suspected vandalism. At an informal meeting with a Judicial Affairs Officer, the two students said that they had been drinking and had gone downtown where they were the suspects of vandalism. The matter was resolved informally and the two students agreed to Disciplinary Probation and a referral to the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Prevention Program.

While being on Disciplinary Probation, if a student violates any other university policies, they will likely be suspended or dismissed from the university.

No plagiarism here A student in a seminar class was referred to SJA for

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SCHOOLS Cont. from front page not necessarily the rogue and ungoverned institutions that The New York Times makes them out to be. Unaccredited schools still require licensing, the approval of the CDCA and are inspected and regulated. Heimrich said that the problem is not unaccredited schools, but when students don’t understand the difference between an accredited and a non-accredited school.

“Students need to know what their desired degree will allow them to do,” Heimrich said. “A mechanic’s certificate from an unaccredited school will enable you to become a mechanic, but some states won’t allow civil servants to be hired if they graduated from an unaccredited school. In California you

suspected plagiarism. The professor suspected plagiarism because the student’s work seemed out of character from those previously submitted by her. At an informal meeting with a Judicial Affairs Officer, the student admitted that her paper seemed different from her other work because she had expected the paper to require a different writing style. The case was resolved informally and it was agreed that the student had not plagiarized. The professor agreed that the student’s story seemed credible, and the student’s work was graded normally. The case was closed.

That’s my art Two students were referred to SJA for turning in someone else’s work for credit in an art class. Upon an informal meeting with a Judicial Affairs Officer, the students admitted that they did not have time to submit their work

can become a lawyer after graduating from an unaccredited school, but other states won’t recognize you.”

The CDCA approves and regulates school, unaccredited and not, on a consumer protection model, not academic quality. Heimrich said that students need to do their homework in order to find out the level of education they will receive from any given institution.

“There are some unlicensed organizations in California that hand out degrees that mean nothing,” Heimrich said.

“Obtaining one of these degrees typically costs around $500 to $1,000 and includes little to no learning. The students that receive them are usually just as guilty as the organization that granted it; both parties are usually trying to make a quick buck.”

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and had asked a mutual friend to submit their work for them. They said the work was their own but they had merely asked a friend to submit it for them. The professor said that they had to submit their own work in person and that no one else could turn it in for them. The students replied that they had not been aware of this rule and agreed to an administrative notice. The case was resolved as a non-dishonest violation of the academic code, meaning that the students had unknowingly violated the academic code. An administrative notice informs the students that they need to be aware of the rules of their specific class and of the university.

Members of the office of Student Judicial Affairs compile the CAMPUS JUDICIAL REPORTS. Additional information about SJA and the Campus Judicial Board may be found at sja.ucdavis.edu.

ministrator at the People’s College of Law (PCL), an unaccredited, but licensed law school in Los Angeles, said that many unaccredited schools, like PCL, work to provide access to students who cannot afford or qualify for an accredited law school.

She said that many PCL students are above 40, are working and may also be parents. Unlike most law schools, which demand completion of an undergraduate degree and competitive grades, PCL admission only requires that students have a minimum of 60 passing units. The California State Bar administers a “baby bar” to unaccredited law school students in their second year to make sure that they are on track.

“Our students face many challenges, life-wise and educationally, but if they work hard enough, they do

pass the bar,” Miller said.

Though all unaccredited schools aren’t trying to rip students off or sell them fake degrees, Heimrich encourages students to be very cautious.

“The rise of internet applications and advertising can trick you into paying for something that you aren’t going to get,” Heimrich said.

In order to avoid getting tricked into paying for a fake, faulty, or lacking degree/program, Heimrich advises students to decide what they want to get out of their graduate education, pick a school that meets those needs, investigate schools’ graduation rates, course catalogues, faculty lists, financial aid, cost, and not jump into what seems to be the best deal too quickly.

SARA ISLAS can be reached at city@ theaggie.org.

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Fake is not a mistake

he Dairy Field will be converted into a multipurpose turf field after Spring quarter, and is slated to open in October 2012.

While the cost of the project, which includes new restrooms, bike racks and energy-efficient lights in addition to the new turf, may appear high at $4.5 million, the longterm benefits of the field are worth the high price tag.

Artificial turf can withstand much more frequent use than natural grass. As a result, the new artificial turf field will require less maintenance and upkeep than the current field. With dozens of club teams and intramural (IM) teams using the field on a daily basis, this could add up over the next several years, easily paying back the steep initial costs.

The multipurpose turf is also able to endure harsh

weather, meaning there will be fewer games and practices cancelled due to wind or rain. The new field will include three IM soccer fields, which will make it easier for teams to schedule games.

By renovating Dairy Field, the university is demonstrating a renewed interest in providing athletic opportunities not only to those who play on UC Davis athletic teams, but also to those who want to simply play sports for fun. It is refreshing to see the university commit to providing a higher-quality athletic experience to its students while simultaneously reducing long-term costs.

We should applaud efforts to improve the quality of students’ extracurricular activities, because after the next round of midterms, we’ll need the exercise.

Editorial Board Jason Alpert Editor in Chief Becky Peterson Managing Editor Melissa Freeman Opinion Editor

Hannah Strumwasser Campus Editor Angela Swartz City Editor Erin Migdol Features Editor

Uyen Cao Arts Editor Trevor Cramer Sports Editor

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Letters to the editor Response to Jan. 31 comic

I am appalled at the comic from Jan. 31 and honestly surprised to see such a comic in The Aggie. I did not expect to see a comic full of misogyny. After the recent hate event at the WRRC I felt I needed to let you know that publishing this type of material is inappropriate.

Slut shaming is one the oldest methods of oppressing and controlling women. Women are told that expression of their sexuality is wrong, sinful and damaging to their character. So women go through life denying their sexual urges and often being undereducated about sexual health. A woman has every right to express and explore her sexuality as she pleases in a responsible manner.

A woman’s sexuality is a personal decision and society should respect that.

I say this to those who work at The Aggie and all those reading this letter: It’s time to decide whether you are going to support misogyny or work to create a world where women are treated as equals in society. And guys, if you find yourself relating to Tuesday’s comic, your search for a girlfriend won’t be ending anytime soon.

Amanda Dunham

Enough with Occupy

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To put it bluntly, Occupy UC Davis has alienated the student population. The movement received an outpouring of support following the pepper spray incident, but whatever goodwill that existed on Nov. 18 is now nowhere to be found. Students, faculty and staff have been exhausted by the movement’s nonstop actions to disrupt campus business. We have to keep in mind that the great majority of us are here to receive an education.

We all have our academic and personal commitments. Being a student here is hectic enough.

What we don’t need is the extra inconvenience of not being able to pay our rent and bills just because a group of the same 14 students sit outside U.S. Bank every single day.

Fine, there is another U.S. Bank branch in downtown that people can go to. But what makes the Occupiers so special that they can obstruct others’ rights to access a campus resource? One should ask the question: Would it be alright if Occupiers sat down in front of the CoHo, shutting it down day after day so hungry students couldn’t eat lunch?

Of course, I understand the concerns of the Occupy move-

ment and most students appreciate some of their actions that have raised awareness. At some point, though, enough is enough. We cannot “indefinitely” have an occupation everywhere on campus.

They don’t understand the disruption and harm they are causing to our campus community. They want free tuition, yet the Occupiers are causing the university to spend money that would have gone toward student programs and academics, but instead is being spent to clean up beer bottles and marijuana in Dutton Hall and the CCC. The question we should also ask is: Why is the university not enforcing any rules and laws? The answer: Well, the university is afraid, especially after the pepper spray incident. However, that does not mean Occupiers are justified in taking advantage of the situation and disrupting the campus and thus the students they claim to be representing. The Occupy UC Davis movement has taken a very radical turn — it is now run by anarchists who somehow believe the occupation of the Cross Cultural Center and U.S. Bank will lead to free college tuition for all California residents.

Students, the other 99 percent who are either indifferent or against what Occupy is doing to our campus: You need to rise up and let your voices be heard to the administration. Have no fear about speaking up. Remember, this is your campus. We are all paying tuition here. Send in your e-mails, call up the chancellor. We need your help to get the message across to the administration: Do something. Enough is enough. We are fed up with the spineless indifference of the administration, and we need a return to peace on this campus. Chancellor Katehi, do something!

Tim Nielson Senior, philosophy major

Response to “Not in our interest”

In the Jan. 31 editorial “Not in our interest,” the authors make a case against the appropriation of campus resources in order to allow a bank to occupy space in the Memorial Union. However, they attempt to conceal weak arguments behind lofty rhetoric intended to shamelessly romanticize the college campus as an enlightened utopia thriving on the raw power of pristine, distilled human ingenuity. Though they are right to seek to define a campus’ meaning, they fall victim to a pervasive “campus-as-church” fallacy, a hyper-educationalism more akin

a slimmer profit margin, drives the rest of us. The vast majority of transactions exchange exist- workers to exhaustion while ing stocks that don’t even provide skimping on ventilation and safety equipment. Last May this led additional capital to businesses. to an explosion which killed four Wall Street’s real function is not Jordan s. to fund risky new ventures but to and injured 18.

Carroll concentrate wealth in the hands Meanwhile, Apple inspectors of the one percent. seem to pass over their suppli However, bourgeois liberals and er’s abuses. As one Apple executive said: “You can either manuright-wing populists who long facture in comfor a return fortable, workto good, solMy point is that we shouldn’t er-friendly factoid, virtuous industrial capiignore the grotesque wealth grabs ries, or you can reinvent the prodtal are living in of the banks n Margin Call, a film about the fantasyland. uct every year, 2008 economic meltdown, an and make it better Let’s take investment banker watches as Apple, a company recentand faster and cheaper, which reall of the firm’s financial products ly praised by President Barack quires factories that seem harsh become worthless. When his boss Obama. Unlike collateralized

by American standards. And right attempts to console him, noting debt instruments, the commodi- now, customers care more about that he could have been “digging ties that Apple makes have a gen- a new iPhone than working conditches all these years,” the bank- uine use value for consumers. ditions in China.” er responds, “That’s right. And if I Yet these sleek machines con So, while it is true that banks had, there’d be some holes in the ceal the labor required to manand investors produce nothing of ground to show for it.” ufacture them. According to a worth, we should also remember This is a common refrain in recent report by The New York that real-world commodities like analysis of the financial criTimes, Chinese workers are often the latest iPod emerge from the sis: Instead of swapping derivamade to work over 60 hours per factory stained with blood. tives on Wall Street, we should be week in dangerous conditions to Some might argue that the building things. produce iPads in Apple supplier abuses seen at Foxconn are the It’s true that Wall Street is a par- Foxconn’s factories. result of China’s more authoritariasite, producing nothing of value Foxconn, driven by Apple’s rean form of capitalism. Employees while siphoning off money from are better protected here in the lentless demand for products on

The real economy

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U.S., we’re told.

Of course, no capitalist enterprise would choose to pay an American a living wage when they could just as easily pay someone else a starvation wage.

Indeed, capitalists and their flunkies are overjoyed at the increase in profits made possible by the cheap labor provided by China and the third world.

Global capital’s faithful apologist, Thomas Friedman, lavishes praise on one of Apple’s Chinese plants, which woke its workers in the middle of the night for an extra 12-hour shift when an emergency order of iPhone screens came in. “Average is over,” as Friedman puts it.

But even if we somehow repatriated those factories, there’s no reason to believe it would somehow transform them into workers’ utopias.

From the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, American companies have a long history of preventable deaths. Capitalists will always undermine or ignore safety and labor regulations in their pursuit of everexpanding profits. It’s just business sense: dangerous, low-paid work is

to a grandfather’s nostalgia about his days at Yale than to the present reality of student life.

The authors contend that the bank consumes “prime campus space that is meant to be a central location for student activity and resources.” What, then, becomes a permissible student resource for the MU? Perhaps the dining services and coffee shop that dominate half of the main level are acceptable simply because the authors make use of them, whereas the bank is a nuisance because it does not serve their needs.

Whatever their criteria, by the authors’ broad standards and elitist educational puritanism no moneymaking enterprise can dare lay a claim to students’ funds on a college campus. STA Travel — also located in the MU — is a privately run travel agency that charges fees for its services, but no one is calling for its expulsion from campus.

Starbucks has locations at the ARC and the Silo, but its overpriced coffee and for-profit mission has not incurred such indignation.

If I can grab a latte after class at Starbucks, what of the students who genuinely desire to use the services of U.S. Bank?

The authors paint the bank as some tyrannical vacuum of hardearned cash. Yet the institution retains its station at the MU precisely because of, not in spite of, the students who use and benefit from its services. These services include investment opportunities from humble savings accounts to more advanced financial products which earn money for clients. The disruptive nature of the student demonstrations at the bank may be directed at bank personnel, but they also have consequences for our fellow students whose right to participate in these services is violated.

Nobody is obliged to do business at U.S. Bank. If a group feels dissatisfied with its presence, the most effective response is a coordinated non-participation in its services. Those students who require financial assistance are not duped into believing that this bank is their only option. They have myriad campus resources to find alternatives. Yet for those who do choose U.S. Bank as their source of funding, I believe they would see the institution not as a stumbling block to the principles of education, but as the gateway to a more prosperous future thanks to the education they can now afford.

Adam Austin Graduate student, agricultural and resource economics cheaper.

These arguments about a golden era of manufacturing in America represent the latest in an age-old reactionary tradition which blames a single scapegoat for the ills of the entire capitalist system. Automobile tycoon Henry Ford railed against banks, claiming they were an international conspiracy, while police gunned down unemployed protesters in Detroit.

Now, libertarians like Ron Paul attack the bank bailouts but call for a repeal of minimum wage laws and the Occupational Health and Safety Act. My point is that we shouldn’t ignore the grotesque wealth grabs of the banks. (Even as they help wreck the economy, a Goldman Sachs employee was overheard boasting that “My garbage disposal eats better than 98% of the world.”) At the same time, we also cannot overlook the exploitation of industrial works.

As long as we remain within capitalism, workers in the real economy will be sacrificed to make more profits.

JORDAN S. CARROLL is a PhD student in English who can be reached at jscarroll@ucdavis.edu.

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The California Aggie’s Arts and Entertainment Section

volume 6, number 4

Featured artist: The California Honeydrops

Uyen T. Cao

Animating the imaginary

There are moments where I am sitting in my lecture hall staring down at the 20-something rows of seats in front of me, just listening to the cars whistling by outside. It is crazy to think that the convention between this four-walled and predictably constructed room can no longer hold my attention for more than 20 minutes. As my professor’s voice begins to fade into obscurity, I begin animating in my head.

Animation is one of those concepts that has slowly and weirdly crept back into my adult life. I never thought that the idea of creating imaginary characters could be so refined that it has oozed from the abstract thoughts in my head, through my fingertips and onto this sheet of paper on which I am supposed to be taking notes of the importance of neo-classical and Roman art influences on American paintings and sculptures of the 18th century (blah, blah, blah).

It’s funny to think that I grew up watching “Tom and Jerry,” The Little Mermaid and Japanese anime, thinking that it was just a childish engagement that I would eventually grow out of. But the reality is that I have, more than ever, become obsessed with this genre of art.

Last year, while watching Disney’s animated film Tangled, I felt connected to the film on an unusually strong emotional level.

It wasn’t because of the storyline in particular, but through the pairing of Allen Menken’s originally composed music with the constructed visuals, I felt a surge of nostalgia that I hadn’t felt in quite some time.

I was curious as to how a 3D computer-generated film reminded me so much of my childhood in which I grew up watching 2D animations like Aladdin or The Lion King.

I eventually realized that it was because animation as a genre itself is meant to, in essence, preserve the innate child in us that is yearning to get out — one that is constantly being repressed by our logic telling us that we need to grow up.

After that strange and embarrassing occurrence in which a Disney film made me sob like a two-yearold, I began researching techniques on how to create stop-motion, 2D and 3D animations (computergenerated imagery or Claymation).

Like stripping off a layer on that very clichéd analogy of an onion, I realized that animation goes beyond sophistication as a form of science meshed with art.

The process of animation is one that is extremely timeconsuming. The number of hours you’ll spend making a frame-by-frame (stop-motion) animation is mind-blowing.

Depending on how long the frame is played back, a few hundred photographs will make a mere few minutes of footage.

An animator named Bruce Bickford is an example of someone who has taken animation into a form of art that embodies an altered state of mind.

He creates hundreds (possibly thousands) of figures using clay and scenic backgrounds. Through a series of slight alterations of the character’s arms, legs or facial expressions, he then takes a snapshot of the minuscule change to document movement. Boar’s Head/Whore’s Bed is one of Bickford’s animations, and it has over 4,500 frames.

Although realistically I know I might not be able to pursue animation as a career, I can’t help but marvel at the medium. It’s important to realize that to appreciate art for what it is, you need to first appreciate it for its process and not the final product or label.

When I walked into the theater that day to watch Tangled, a mass-produced and commercial film, I had no clue that it would provoke this artistic exploration that has opened me up to so many other independent artists like Bickford.

UYEN CAO would like to know what your favorite animated film is. Let her know by e-mailing her at arts@ theaggie.org.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Hellacappella: Bigger and better than ever The annual a cappella show hosted by The Spokes moves to the UC Davis Pavilion this year

The California Honeydrops bring the New Orleans style to the rest of the world

By RUDY SANCHEZ

love of the music — we ain’t afraid to share it with other people.

Deep in the heart of Oakland a band arises, mixing all the roots of American music. Blending different genres ranging from Blues to Gospel, Second Line New Orleans Jazz, and early R&B, The California Honeydrops have received numerous awards, including five East Bay Express Readers’ Poll awards (2011), including “Best Band,” “Best Album” and “Best Musician.”

This Saturday, The California Honeydrops will be playing at The Palms Playhouse in Winters at 8 p.m.

Additionally, the band is keeping itself busy with a forthcoming live album in April and a tour of Spain in March. They’ll be going to New Orleans in April as well, the birthplace of their influence.

MUSE sits down with front man Lech Wierzynski for this exclusive interview.

There’s a genuine feel to your music; do you think you can explain that?

Well, there’s this difference between thinking about yourself as an artist and thinking about yourself as a craftsperson. You should just really be doing it for the people. We try to keep our motivations pure.

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Because of its immense popularity last year, Hellacappella will now be held in the ARC Pavilion, which seats over 8,000 in contrast to Freeborn Hall’s seating capacity of about 1,300. The event, which will be held this Saturday, Feb. 4, is organized by The Spokes, UC Davis’s only all-female a cappella group, and will feature seven other groups from Northern California and one from out of state.

“It started in some classroom and it’s just built up and gotten bigger every year from there,” said Julie Athans, president and fourth-year communication and film studies major. “More people hear about it every year either from word of mouth or from publicity, which we do a lot of now. It started as more of a student event and then became more of a Davis community event and now we are kind of a Sacramento area community event.”

A cappella is a type of musical genre that is composed of just vocals and harmonies.

According to Alexandra Sargent, a new member of The Spokes and first-year political science major, a cappella is a form of musical genre that allows for creative expression between individuals.

“I think a cappella is kind of a form of self expression and part of the instrumentation that would normally be going on in the background as accompaniment are voices so everyone gets to add their own flair. It’s just fun and exciting since it’s a collaboration of all these different sounds and voices and personalities that come through,” Sargent said.

This year, Hellacappella plans to attract many people with its lineup. The Spokes switchthe groups each year to introduce variety. Normally, only groups from Northern California are scheduled to perform. This year, however, The Spokes made an exception for On the Rocks, a group from the University of Oregon, who were featured on NBC’s The Sing Off two years ago in 2010.

“It was an amazing experience,” said Jeff Rogers, the On the Rocks booking manager. “We met some amazing groups who just

One of your best songs that defines your band is the track “Cry for Me.” Can you talk about that song?

I wrote it after a family friend passed away. I was sad and I started writing some sad songs about it.

It wasn’t working, then I thought about what she would want. She was this really cool and joyful lady.

So it was about celebrating life; it’s about making the best of a bad situation [and] embracing what happens, I guess.

What is it about playing on the streets that you like?

Well, there’s no amplification on the street; you’re right there with the people. It’s definitely closer since it’s just the instruments playing, you know. As a band, you’re bringing music to the public space. And when you’re playing out there, there’s no expectation of the music. If people like it and dig it, they can stop whatever they were doing and listen for a while. If they don’t like it, they can just walk on by.

Is there part of you that wants to do more “sad” music instead of the “celebration” music you guys usually do?

I mean, I get influenced by bands I see. We saw this band and they played everything really slow, so we played really slow for a while then we went back to spazzing out after a week. I like them all. To me, it’s all creatively fulfilling. I wish we could fit in the slower stuff, but I’m fine with just keeping it uptempo for now.

Can you talk about the genre-blending that you guys do?

The thing about that is everyone in the band likes different types of music, so everyone brings in different styles; it’s not really a conscious effort. Really, it’s just inevitable for anybody who is playing music. That’s just the nature of it.

Can you talk about the heavy New Orleans influence in your music?

That’s where the whole of our music and the attitude comes from. It’s that parade and carnival culture down there. It’s music that is meant to be celebrated. We’ll mix in those street beats and horns into our songs. What it is is that we’re really doing it for the

By PAAYAL ZAVERI

There’s a difference between “indie” music and true independent music. The California Honeydrops are definitely in the latter. What are you thoughts on this?

There’s a lot of different independent music out there. There’s also a lot of real genuine “soul” music. We don’t fit into any of those categories. If you’re talking about genre, this revival thing has been going around for some time. We’re definitely not the indie rock thing. People ain’t gonna get Guitar Hero with me.

MUSE: How was the band formed?

Wierzynski: We were all playing the subways of Oakland and got together to scrape by and get some cash. We just started playing the blues out there for people. Actually, to this day we still play on the street.

Lastly, is there anything you’d like people to know about you guys?

They don’t really need to know anything about us.

We’re happy as long as they’re having a good time, even if they don’t like the music, as long as they’re having fun. And I’d like to thank the fans; they enable us to do what we want and like to do.

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RUDY SANCHEZ can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

had unreal talent and we felt very humble to be able to be a part of it and compete with groups of that caliber. The exposure it gave is just invaluable and we are so thankful. It’s great to be recognized for something that you put so much time into.”

A big part of the show for many of the groups is being able to see the other teams’ new material and what they have been working on. Each team specializes in particular vocal styles or dances which add variety to their performances.

“I am very excited to see the other groups perform,” said Emily Randall, co-music director for The Spokes and fourth-year Spanish and communication major. “It is a blast performing, but to see how hard the other a cappella groups have been working as well makes you humble and they are just a joy to watch. The community is truly amazing and so supportive; we all compliment each other on our performances, recognizing the amount of rehearsing that went into them.”

The UC Berkeley Men’s Octet has been an established group for about 64 years and has performed throughout the Bay Area and even internationally. They are regulars at Hellacappella.

“It’s going to be awesome. A cappella music is so much fun and it’s different from anything else and has so many different genres that there’s going to be something for everybody,” said Isaac Jackson, the Men’s Octet business manager.

Tickets are currently on sale at the Freeborn Hall ticket booth for $7 (students) and $10 (non-students). The lineup includes (in order of appearance): UC Berkeley Decadence, UC Santa Cruz Cloud, UC Berkeley Artists in Resonance, Stanford Fleet Street, UC Berkeley California Golden Overtones, UC Santa Cruz Acquire, UC Berkeley Men’s Octet, University of Oregon On the Rocks, and The Spokes.

As for what to expect from the show?

“Think of it this way: a few hours of incredible entertainment versus one drink that will only get you slightly tipsy in thrilling downtown Davis,” said Randall.

PAAYAL ZAVERI can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

‘Poking at beehives’ Nelson Gallery exhibition currently showcasing dynamic work of artists Leslie Shows, Peter Edlund and Fred Tomaselli

By PETER AN

Aggie Arts Writer

Photo (left) by Evan Davis / Aggie, Photo (right) courtesy of Leslie Shows

work addresses the inherent contradiction between the mythic, utopian image of the great American “ My landscape and the actual social and political reality of racism and genocide.” — Peter Edlund

The Belle Brigade The Belle Brigade Reprise

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The Belle Brigade keeps it in the family for good reason.

The band is comprised of siblings Barbara Gruska and Ethan Gruska. The pair seem to share a musical harmony reminiscent of Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and 70s pop-rock.

Their first single “Losers,” with its anthemic lyrics and simplistic guitar sounds, evidences the chutzpah of the pair as Barbara croons the chorus, “Don’t care about being a winner/ Or being smooth with women/ Or going out on Fridays/ Being the life of parties/ Don’t care about being harder/ Or being Daddy’s favorite/ Or if you think I’m a mimic/ Or if I am a loser.”

On the eponymous album, The Belle Brigade, Ethan’s achieve-

ment is his heart-wrenching guitar-playing on the track “Fasten You to Me.” The song is about holding on and delivers unexpected buoyancy in conjunction with a deep-felt gravity.

The album is all the breezy delight on a spring afternoon, but the struggle for harmony between pop and country influences seems apparent — especially in “Where Not to Look for Freedom.” However, the duo with the gently-swaying rhythm of its debut album leaves the listener wanting just a little more.

Give these tracks a listen: “Losers”, “Fasten You to Me”, “Shirt” For Fans Of: Dum Dum Girls, Cymbals Eat Guitars — Sasha Sharma

Lana Del Rey Born to Die Interscope Records

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The Nelson Gallery currently offers a new art exhibit titled “Poking At Beehives: Three Painters.” Running now until March 18, the showcase features Leslie Shows, Peter Edlund and Fred Tomaselli’s great foray into postmodern art. Each painter approaches the canvas in a way that figures to redefine what belongs in a canvas.

Shows’s resin-heavy pieces on display at the Nelson reveal her skill in distortion and form.

The works are not merely paint on canvas; they involve the seemingly laborious task of striking bold images into glass-like resin.

When asked what summoned Leslie Shows to make art, she replied, “I grew up in Alaska and moved to San Francisco to attend art school, and that’s where I live now. I always made art and just have the kind of brain that works for art.”

Opposite of Shows’s work hangs Edlund’s critique on the American landscape.

“My work addresses the inherent contradiction between the mythic, utopian image of the great American landscape and the actual social and political reality of racism and genocide,” Edlund said.

However, judging from his sometimes monochromatic paintings of birds imposed on the landscape, the political implications are subtle.

Here the images are not distorted, but the colors have been. Deep blues and copper outline the painting, giving the mountains and objects ghosts that appear to stalk the plains.

Jasmine Kim, a second-year studying animal biology, took a break from the covers of an organ-

Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die includes the melancholic and potent “Video Games” that brought her into fast relevance in the later days of 2011. It is a song that, alone, can elevate an album into the positive echelons of any review. It hits a generational chord that vibrates through and through, as if perfectly synchronized with the melancholic perturbation that is ours, the video game generation. Finally, some real musical depth to the notion.

Her album is good, but it is no generational emotive mirror in music form, and it is not necessarily the coming of any musical prophetess. This is inevitably a disappointment, because who is truly ours? Where is our generational musical reflector, our poet, our melancholic and lyrical boom mic?

We could make cases for many, but it would be easy to doubt every one.

Lana Del Rey presented herself to the world like someone profound and gifted, and then she had the audacity to flop at a “Saturday

ic chemistry book to wander the Nelson’s gallery.

“I liked the nature paintings the best,” Kim said.

“There seems to be a strangeness in how the painting was made — like the picture wants to fall off the wall.”

Another student, Maverick Bohn, a senior majoring in English, also had his wayward eyes set upon Edlund’s pieces hanging on the wall.

“To see how he captures nature [shows that] there was inspiration to gain through his own interpretations in his paintings,” Bohn said.

According to the Brooklyn Museum, Tomaselli’s influences are theme parks, music and the counterculture of Los Angeles during the 1980s. His work comes from Williamsburg, NY, where he has been making art since the 1980s, when the city was different from the hipster playground it is today.

Tomaselli’s art offers an exercise in a ritualistic viewing experience, as all of his pieces have a sort of abject symbolism. Using a variety of mediums such as tapestry, resin and wood panels, the mixed medium pieces put together an appeal to different emotions.

For students on the edge of checking out the Nelson Gallery, Shows assures that viewers will each take something unique from experiencing the work in person.

“Perhaps an encounter with images and materials that destabilizes or disorients by going outside language, or known visual imagery, can facilitate seeing in a new way,” Shows said. “And then a partial reorientation can occur when the viewer knows that the images are photorealistic reproductions of rocks.”

PETER AN can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

Shinkoskey Noon Concert: The Oracle Trio

Today, Noon, free Room 115, Music Building April Johnson (violin), Peter Seidenberger (cello) and Kate Boyd (piano) present the Shinkoskey Noon Concert: The Oracle Trio. They are scheduled to perform Saint-Saens: “Allegro vivace from Trio No. 1 in F Major, op. 18,” Dvorak’s “Trio in E Minor, op. 90” and Marc Mellits’s “Fruity Pebbles.”

Yolo Mambo and Som Nosso

Today, 7:30 p.m., free 415 Second St. Two local Latin groups perform in Davis.

The event is free and is open to all ages (wheelchair accessible). Additionally, beer and wine will be sold for those over the age of 21.

“Gong Yuebin: Site 2801”

Today to April 29, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

(Tuesday to Sunday), 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. (Thursday), free 216 O Street, Sacramento Characterized by Yuebin’s childhood in rural China, his art features works that document the history of human existence. Viewers are asked to confront works with the intention of reflecting back into history and the progression of thousands of years of human evolution and empirebuilding.

Oliver Stone

Tomorrow, 8 p.m., $17.50/$23.5/$29 (students) Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center In this unique opportunity, students and viewers will be able to hear about the life of Oliver Stone from Stone himself. Stone, a renowned filmmaker, director and actor, has had an extraordinary past. There will be a Q&A session moderated by Jaimey Fisher, and the program is presented in affiliation with the Davis Humanities Institute.

Tickets available for Spring concerts:

The Shins

April 23, 8 p.m., $35 Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at the Mondavi Center Ticket Booth or on ticketmaster. com. The show is presented by Entertainment Council with Another Planet Entertainment and the Mondavi Center. Tickets for this show are also selling fast, so reserve your seat now.

DIM MAK’s Dead Meat Tour: Steve Aoki, Datsik & Special Guest

March 14, 6:30 p.m.

Freeborn Hall Tickets are on sale now. $25 general admission. The show is presented

by Entertainment Council. Student pre-sale tickets have officially been sold out. Get your general admission tickets now before they are sold out as well.

UYEN CAO can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

Night Live” performance and releases an album only moderately excellent. Our greatest sin is hope, they say.

I would not count her out by saying that Born to Die is a flop performance by any means.

There are songs here, “Video Games” excluded, that ring with some depth and much catch, like “Blue Jeans” and “National Anthem.” But none, and perhaps this will never be achieved again for her, burn through the soul like “Video Games.”

Of course, she is young and new and there is much time for her to craft something we can canonize in the form of a recurring playlist.

There is still hope that the next time she will pull a “Kanye” and force us to not only like her, but love her, it is because she is just so damn good.

Give these tracks a listen: “Video Games,” “Blue Jeans,” “Born to Die” For Fans Of: Florence and the Machine, Nicola Roberts and Lykke Li — James O’Hara

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The california Aggie

Porn addiction remains problem for students

By Savannah Martin

Arizona Daily Wildcat (University of Arizona)

What started as a racy spam email became an obsession for one third-year graduate student at U. Arizona.

Andrew, whose name has been changed by request, first encountered porn when he was 10 years old. He received an email containing images of a woman’s breasts and a message that said something like, “Hey, come check out my website!” he said. Out of curiosity, he clicked on the link in the email.

Among college-age adults, 87 percent of men and 31 percent of women watch pornography, according to a 2008 study by researchers at Brigham Young U. “Everybody in my dorm watched it and talked about it,” said Jack Podczerwinski, a UA political science junior. “We’re all sexual beings. It is what it is.”

While online pornography may be used to satisfy sexual and physiological needs, it may also be used to escape from mental and emotional pressures. People turn to porn to alleviate stress, loneliness and depression, said Debra Cox-Howard, a counselor at UA Counseling and Psych Services. What initially seems like a casual pastime can turn into an addiction, she said.

To combat the problem, an addict might find something to re-

place the substance, just like a cigarette smoker might start chewing gum. However, the problem with Internet pornography is that it is ubiquitous and easily accessible, Cox-Howard said.

“We’re married to our computers,” she added.

In the beginning, Andrew satisfied his curiosity by looking at pictures of women’s breasts. But soon he was visiting sex blogs, having sexually explicit conversations in online chat rooms and sharing pornographic pictures with other users.

“At first, it was only spending like 15 minutes or so at a time on the computer, but at the worst point, sometimes it would be like five or six hours,” he said. “One thing that pornography does too is that it always demands more. So, what you did online the night before almost never is good enough for tonight. So you always want more and more and more — something new, you always want something new.”

His addiction followed him to college and began to take a toll on his social life.

“A couple times in undergrad my roommate would say, ‘Hey, do you want to go do this or that?’ and I’d be like, ‘No, not really,’ and then, as soon as he’d leave, I’d be on the computer,” he said.

Spending several hours hunched over the computer caused Andrew to lose sleep,

waste time and develop poor posture and severe back pain. In social situations, he noticed he couldn’t resist “checking people out,” especially women.

“I could never let girls get too close because I felt like I would somehow make them dirty just by being around them,” he said.

“I couldn’t be a true friend, sometimes.”

Then, about three years ago, Andrew exchanged sexually explicit photos with a female friend.

At the time, he was dating another woman, and sharing pictures with his friend felt like betraying his girlfriend, he said.

For Andrew, this was the final straw. Soon after, he found a counselor who helped him understand his needs, his insecurities and his obsession with pornography.

“I felt comfortable just telling the straight truth to him (the counselor), which was helpful,” he said. “He could tell when I was kind of wiggling around the truth and he’d call me out on it.”

Finding a counselor, a support group or an accountability partner can sometimes be the most challenging aspect of combating porn addiction, said Philip Alderink, a campus chaplain for the Graduate Christian Fellowship at UA. Alderink often counsels graduate students struggling with such problems.

The negative social stigma attributed to porn addiction prevents

users from admitting their obsession and seeking help, he said.

Alderink described pornography as “rampant” among college students, and said he expects every man he meets has viewed pornography.

“I don’t think that anybody is immune from it,” he said. “Society is fooling itself if it thinks pornography is not a problem.”

The UA Main Library is all too familiar with the popularity of porn. While porn isn’t illegal in Arizona, viewing it publicly is.

The UA Main Library staff catches people viewing pornography on the public computers “several times per week,” according to Travis Teetor, library operations supervisor. Those caught watching porn on library computers are asked to stop.

“If they refuse to discontinue their behavior or to comply with our request, we would call UAPD immediately,” Teetor said.

Many anti-pornography advocacy groups, such as Enough is Enough and Pure Hope, say pornography motivates people to perform bizarre or violent sexual activities in their real lives, leading them to sexually abuse others. Some believe pornography objectifies women, encouraging viewers to devalue the women they interact with on a day-today basis.

However, some argue that consuming pornography actually prevents users from abusing and

objectifying others. Viewing pornography allows people to explore their sexual desires; this keeps them from experimenting and potentially harming their sexual partners, said Brion Scroggins, district manager for Continental Adult Shop.

“The industry is an outlet for males, females, couples to get out sexual frustrations and desires,” Scroggins said. “We’re here to make money because people want to come in here and buy what we sell; we’re here to increase people’s sexual awareness. We’re not here to increase the negative aspects,” Scroggins said.

For Andrew, the “negative aspects” — social isolation, a “splintered” identity, emotional detachment, guilt and shame — grew unbearable.

“Once you get tired of being sick and tired, I think that’s a good thing. Because that’s when you’re ready to admit you have a problem, to really look for change,” he said.

It has been almost 15 years since he opened that first email.

Andrew has confronted his addiction and managed to be pornfree for the better part of a year.

“I feel a ton of relief, a ton of gratitude, and I feel like I can connect to people again,” he said.

“I get a lot more sleep, which is great. I don’t feel dirty like I used to feel. I’m not over sexualized, I don’t feel like a brute.”

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Study shows students drink more while studying abroad

By Stephanie Ehrler

The Arkansas Traveler (University of Arkansas)

In college, students have almost unlimited possibilities and freedoms as they break away from adolescence and become adults while gaining their degree, but those under the age of 21 still cannot legally drink alcohol in the United States. Many students enhance their learning experience by studying abroad, which increases wisdom and also provides underage students the opportunity to drink legally.

Students who are under the age of 21 almost triple their drinking habits while studying abroad, according to a study done

by U. Washington.

“I was the only UA student within my program. I did take advantage of the lower drinking age, but not as much the nightlife,” said Keely Dye, a U. Arkansas senior majoring in international relations, European studies and economics. “A lot of the drinking that took place within my study abroad experience was with my homestay family. They would have wine or spirits at almost every dinner and any celebrations I was a part of.”

Most countries have lower drinking ages than the U.S., which cause students to become more attracted to the party life abroad.

“I definitely think other students took advantage of being able to go out and drink, legally,” said Jessica Hawley, a UA

senior majoring in Spanish. “That was the most popular thing to do for the majority of the students in the program.”

Studying abroad is a great opportunity for students to gain experience with other cultures while gaining credits toward their degree, but often students are distracted from this goal from overseas nightlife.

“My observation is that students do take advantage of the lower drinking age, not necessarily with the intention of abusing the privilege, but in part to enjoy the freedom,” said DeDe Long, Director of Study Abroad and International Exchange.

“Learning how to drink responsibly is so important.”

While many underage students drink in the United States, the University of Washington found that those who increased their drinking levels abroad still continued their excessive drinking when they returned home.

“Once you do start drinking, it is easier to continue doing so once you go back home,” Hawley said.

The most popular study abroad destinations for American students are the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, all of which have a legal drinking age of 18. Germany, Greece and Luxembourg have a minimum drinking age as low as 16 while Albania and Vietnam have no drinking age at all. The United States is one of only five countries in the world to have the legal age set at 21.

A factor that causes students to drink

more while abroad is the convenience.

“The major appeal of the nightlife is living in an area with public transportation. You have a set way to get home without any worry of drunk driving,” Dye said.

“You also are in a program with students in the same situation as yourself: away from home, more relaxed academic schedule and more accessible nightlife with almost no age restrictions.”

The U. Washington researchers discovered that studying abroad in Australia, New Zealand and European countries caused students to drink more heavily than those who studied in Asian, African, Latin American and Middle Eastern countries.

“Students need to take responsibility for themselves abroad just like they do when they participate in college life here in Fayetteville,” Long said. “If they get caught up in drinking here, they are going to have to be extremely careful not to mimic that behavior in another country, where access may be much easier.”

Studying abroad allows the student to learn new perspectives from being in a foreign country, but if drinking becomes too much of a distraction, the chance of a lifetime can become threatened.

“I think that those who did [drink more] tended to go to class less and focus less on their studies,” Hawley said. “School and studying was not their priority.”

The cornerstone of studying abroad is to acquire knowledge not already found in

the United States, and the opportunity can benefit the future of the student.

“Study abroad is a significant investment of time and money,” Long said.

“What a waste it would be to throw such a great learning experience away by finding yourself without money or a passport, or on a plane home after an accident caused by poor judgment.”

The study abroad program is trying to prevent and raise awareness of binge drinking overseas.

“In our pre-departure meetings with students, we continually stress how important it is for students to be mindful of their surroundings, take care of themselves, and to represent the University of Arkansas well,” Long said. “We strongly discourage over-drinking. Over-drinking can easily put a student in a vulnerable position, this is when they get lost, hurt or robbed.”

Some students already find normal college life to be distracting enough and factoring in the culture and exciting night life of a foreign country may lead them to stray away from the aspiration of studying abroad.

“I would tell students who are apprehensive about studying abroad that they should not worry,” Hawley said. “The partying scene wasn’t for me, and I had a very enjoyable time abroad without partying. I think you can have an enjoyable time anywhere, without having to drink or hang out at clubs.”

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Day in the life of...

A student resident firefighter

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Student firefighter Guerrero Lopez puts on his gear at the UC Davis Fire Department.

By LANI CHAN Aggie Features Writer When thinking of things I’ve typically had to run out and do at a moment’s notice, jumping into firefighting boots and hopping into an engine to respond to an emergency is certainly not one of them.

Guerrero Lopez, fifth-year political science and sociology double major, is a senior student resident firefighter who has been living at the UC Davis Fire Department for three years. For him, routinely interrupting his studies to answer calls that have been dispatched to Station 34 is part of his job and lifestyle.

“It doesn’t matter what you’re doing — if you’re in the shower or eating dinner and you get a call, you’ve got to go,” Lopez said.

“The goal is to get all your gear on and get on the engine in less than a minute.”

I stopped by the UC Davis fire department on a Thursday evening for a tour of the station and to get an idea of what the

daily routine of a student firefighter was like. Lopez was not on shift on this particular night, which turned out to be convenient, given that the on-shift firefighters had to leave during the tour to attend to a bike accident.

Student resident firefighters work two days a week and rotate with two other teams that consist of a captain, two career firefighters, a senior resident student firefighter and five student resident firefighters. In exchange for staffing the station’s multiple engines and trucks, students get their own room in the firehouse and sufficient training to have a competitive edge as a career firefighter.

The student residents live on the upper floor of Station 34, which is complete with their own poker room, study room and TV room.

“We live here, so during nights like tonight when I’m not really working, I can study or just hang out,” Lopez said.

However, even when students are not on

MEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW Teams: UC Davis at UC Irvine; at UC Riverside Records: Aggies, 1-19 (0-8); Anteaters, 8-13 (4-4); Highlanders, 10-11 (4-4) Where: Bren Events Center — Irvine, Calif.; Student Recreation Center — Riverside, Calif.

When: Tonight at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 7 p.m.

Who to watch: At the beginning of the season head coach Jim Les said that he was going to throw his freshman to the wolves.

That statement has played out for one player in particular: freshman point guard Tyrell Corbin.

Corbin, son of Utah Jazz head coach Tyrone Corbin, has started 17 of 20 games this season — averaging just over 25 minutes per game.

The freshman guard leads the team in assists on the season with 65, but has also tallied 64 turnovers season.

Despite the giveaways, Les has been pleased with the development of his young point guard, and says that he no longer sees his younger players as underclassmen.

“We’ve got freshman and sophomores that have logged a lot of minutes,” Les said. “I look at them as experienced players [now].

The second time around the league they need to make some adjustments and that’s going to help them play better through the rigors of a league season.”

For his part, Corbin has seen his own improvement throughout the season and is ready to continue the growth.

“I’m more confident going to the basket,” he said.

“Offensively I think I’m do- [at home].” ing better getting other In both games this weekguys shots and it’s working end the Aggies must come out.” out with the same defenDid you know? After 20 sive intensity they showed games, sophomore guard last week against Cal Poly.

Tyler Les ranks in the top After a fiery first half 50 in the nation in three- against the Mustangs, UC point field goal percentage. Davis entered the break Les has made 55 of 119 at- with a 14-point advantage, tempts from behind the arc by far its largest halftime this season, averlead of the season. aging 2.8 three “[The players] pointers made per are starting to see game. how competitive Preview: Down they can be when in Southern they bring that California for the type of energy on fourth time this the defensive end season, the Aggies of the floor,” Les are eager to hit the said. “That habit floor and avenge doesn’t just show two close losses Tyrell Corbin up on game night from earlier this freshman — it comes with year. doing it every day in practice.”

When UC Riverside came to the Against Irvine’s fast pace, Pavilion early in January, defensive energy will be the Aggies lost by two after paramount.

Eddie Miller’s game-tying The Anteaters leads the basket at the end of regula- Big West in three-pointtion was called off for an of- ers made, averaging nine fensive foul. per game, and also lead the Against UC Irvine, UC conference in defensive reDavis felt it was the bet- bounding. ter team but failed to keep And should the games up with the Anteaters run- this weekend come down and-gun pace. to the final few possessions, “[UC] Irvine really as they have for the Aggies pushed the tempo against five times already this seaus,” Les said. “We didn’t do son, Les is confident that a good job in our transition his group is ready to take defense. We’ve got to get that last step and earn its back and set our defense first conference win of the season. [this time].”

Headed into the gyms of “I think they’re feelfellow UC schools and Big ing better about themWest Conference oppo- selves because of the prognents, the Aggies are ready ress they’re making indito show what they’re capa- vidually and collectively,” the coach said. “The more ble of.

“We take it as motivation,” we’re in that situation the Corbin said of playing on more guys are going to the road. “Going back down gain confidence to step up there, we have a chance to and make plays.” get two wins against teams –– Caelum Shove that we should have beat

shift, there are opportunities to take part in the action at the station and earn some extra money at the same time.

“We call it ‘jumping calls,’” Lopez said.

“If a call comes in and you’re here and you’re fast enough to get down here, get your stuff on and get on the engine on time, you can make money that way.

There’s five spots on the engine, and it’s first-come, first-serve.”

Which is what happened when the bike accident call came in. A student who had just been inside eating dinner ran into the garage where we were, quickly established that there was a seat available on the engine, threw on his jacket, boots, pants and hat over his jeans and rushed out with the rest.

“I try to keep socks in here, so if I’m caught off guard like that I’m not stuck out on a call wearing boots without them,” Lopez said while showing me the cubbies each firefighter had for all of their gear.

After the engine left, Lopez showed me around the rest of the vehicles and the equipment that came with them — ladders that extend to over a hundred feet, airbags that expand to lift up cars, breathing apparatuses and the reputable jaws of life.

“I’ve never used them on a call,” said Michael McCartney, another senior resident student, of the heavy tool used to pry open smashed cars to rescue a person trapped inside. “One time I arrived on the scene of a car accident, and the person was standing outside the car, fine. I was of course glad they were fine! But I still wanted to use them.”

Lopez and McCartney demonstrated professional knowledge of rescue equipment, noting that it took weeks to be familiarized with and much longer to master.

“When you’re testing, there’s all this pressure to remember how everything works, all by yourself,” Lopez said. “But on a real call, everyone’s there to help each other out and make it a group effort.”

The trusty team dynamic at the firehouse was indeed noticeable just from being around for a few hours. The station was more than just housing for those with a shared interest; the student firefighters and career firefighters seemed to form a

familial unit.

“Everybody on your shift becomes a second family,” said David Anderson, a career firefighter who was hired full-time after spending four years in the student resident program. “I feel like when people leave professions they miss aspects of the job. When you talk to guys here who have retired, it comes down to really missing the people.”

After allowing me to stop them to ask a few questions, McCartney and Anderson continued preparing for their drill of the evening, a simulation of a roof ventilation procedure that allows rising gases to escape to avoid an explosion.

“When we’re here on shift and we aren’t out on calls, we come out here to train,” Lopez said while watching McCartney and Anderson don their breathing apparatuses, locate the weak areas and support beams of a practice rooftop, and cut large squares into it with a chainsaw. “The drills aren’t just to kill time.”

Another part of training any given night could be to navigate through a confined space drill, a sort of labyrinth designed to prepare firefighters for finding their way out of tight, dark spaces with full gear on before the oxygen in their breathing apparatuses ran out.

“We’ll spend some weekend nights doing training versus going out and having fun, but we make those sacrifices because the benefits outweigh the costs,” Lopez said.

For Lopez, the student resident firefighter program has more than enhanced his time at UC Davis. Upon his graduation in June, he will leave with a double degree and an ample amount of valuable firefighter training and experience.

“I love being able to use my experiences and my abilities in a way that helps others,” Lopez said. “I never wanted a sedentary job, I always wanted one where I could be active. It’s fun and exciting work.”

The UC Davis Student Resident Firefighter program is now accepting applications, which are available at fire.ucdavis.edu/student-resident-fire-fighter-program.

LANI CHAN can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

WOMEN’S WATER POLO PREVIEW Event: Stanford Invitational Teams: No. 15 UC Davis, No. 1 Stanford, No. 5 San Jose State, No. 3 USC Records: Aggies (2-4); Cardinal (2-0); Spartans (5-0); Trojans (0-0) Where: Palo Alto, California When: Saturday 8:30 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.; Sunday 9:10 a.m.; TBA Who to watch: Senior attacker Ariel Feeney leads the team with six assists and her seven goals place her second on the team with 13 total points.

Did you know? This weekend’s tournament in Stanford is comprised of the No. 1 (Stanford), No. 2 (California), No. 3, No. 4 (UCLA), No. 10 (Hawaii), No. 13 (Michigan) and No. 15 (UC Davis) ranked teams in the country.

Preview: The tough early season schedule continues for the UC Davis women’s water polo team this weekend at the Stanford

Invitational.

The Aggies will begin with a rematch against the Cardinal and hope for a better showing than last weekend.

UC Davis will also play the Spartans for the third time in as many weekends.

“We have to make sure to finish off plays on defense,” Head Coach Ariel Feeney Jamey Wright senior said. “We have to get good defensive position, otherwise Stanford will make you pay. We’re working on protecting the ball, staying spread out and transition defense.”

The Aggies will also face another top-five opponent Sunday in their first meeting with USC on the season. UC Davis will also play

a fourth game on Sunday against an opponent yet to be decided.

With so many games in one weekend, Wright figures to use the depth of his squad once again.

“The scheduling with so many games in on weekend isn’t that unusual,” Wright said. “It’s a cultural thing in water polo.

They’ve all been doing it since they were young playing multiple times in a day at weird hours.”

Wright looks forward playing against all the tough competition, saying it’s much more beneficial for his team to play Stanford and get that experience then it might be for the Cardinal to play the Aggies.

— Russell Eisenman

GYMNASTICS PREVIEW Teams: UC Davis at California Where: Haas Pavilion — Berkeley, Calif.

When: Sunday at 1 p.m.

Who to watch: Junior Katie Yamamura is entering the meet after receiving the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Athlete of the Week title, the result of an outstanding performance at Friday’s triangular meet at home.

She won the individual all-around after placing first or second in every event. Her score of 39.125 was a career best, as well as the third-highest allaround score in UC Davis history.

The award is her second this season and the sixth of her career.

Did you know? Sunday will be the fourth time in five meets that the Aggies have competed against a team in the Pac-12 Conference.

Preview: After a heartbreaking defeat to Cal at

home on Friday, UC Davis need to have a tight perwill travel to Berkeley this formance on Sunday in orweekend for a chance at der to surpass the Golden redemption.

Bears. That means elim The Aggies led through inating a lot of the small three rounds last week be- mistakes that UC Davis has seen in its last fore being narcouple of meets. rowly defeated 191.750 to “We’ve been 191.600 in the counting some fourth and final falls in the scores. round of action.

We really need to But UC Davis get those cleaned has been quick up,” said Lavallee. to put the disap“That’s the next pointment bestep.” hind in order to If the Aggies look ahead to the Katie Yamamura can see improveupcoming re- junior ment in this area, match. they have a strong chance of captur “We’re using… those [times] in practice to ing their third win of the get to the next level,” head season on Sunday. coach John Lavallee said.

“We know we’re going “We’re starting to zoom in to be very closely matched on some finer things, like with Cal,” said Lavallee. steps on landings… we’re “It’s our last chance of the starting to really put a per- season and it would be formance out there.” nice to return the favor After losing to Cal by and beat them at home.” a margin of only 0.150 — Kaitlyn Zufall points, the Aggies will