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MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012

UC Regents meet in the capital UC Regents discuss fee increases, chancellor appointment amid protests

By JUSTIN ABRAHAM Aggie News Writer

Brian Nguyen / Aggie

The UC Regents meeting was held last Wednesday in Sacramento for the first time since 1993. Usually organized at campus locations, the meeting was transferred to the Sacramento Convention Center in order to rally government support for the financially debilitated university system.

Among other issues, the Regents discussed an impending 6 percent tuition increase for all students if voters reject Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed tax initiative.

Annual costs for an in-state UC student have doubled to around $30,000 since 2007 and a 6 percent fee increase would add $732 to that total. UC would need $125 million of state funding to prevent recourse to another round of fee hikes and university officials urged legislators to consider this alternative.

“There has been some interest by the governor’s office in buying out the tuition increase,” said Daniel Dooley, UC senior vice president for external relations. “We’re going to fight like crazy for that.”

Californians will be able to vote on Gov. Brown’s tax initiative this November when the proposal goes on the ballot.

The Regents also confirmed the appointment of UC San Diego’s new chancellor, Pradeep K. Khosla. Khosla, who will replace Marye Anne Fox on Aug. 1, was the former Dean of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

Controversy surrounds Khosla’s $411,084 salary, which represents a 4.8 percent increase from his predecessor’s pay. The UC administration is facing criticism for raising executive salaries amid continued budget cuts.

Only Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Student Regent Alfredo Mireles, Jr. voted against the compensation package for the new chancellor.

“What we are asking for is a crackdown on the mismanagement itself in the form of high executive pays, in the form of increasing and relentless tuition hikes,” said Cheryl Deutsch, a UCLA graduate student speaking during the public comments period.

The meeting was interrupted by a more theatrical expression of protest as a group of approximately twenty students dressed

Protesters spoke at the UC Regents meeting last Wednesday in Sacramento.

East Davis standoff required extra level of caution Rare event ended with a surrender

By PAAYAL ZAVERI Aggie News Writer

Irisa Tam / Aggie

While Davis is generally considered a relatively safe and crimefree area, there are times that require extra caution. On May 7, a Davis man wanted for a weapons charge allegedly barricaded himself in a house on Adrain Drive and kept the police occupied for over five hours before surrendering.

According to Lt. Paul Doroshov of the Davis Police Department the suspect, 26-year-old David Manuel Cervantes, was arrested on a gun charge and his case is still under investigation.

The police were called to the scene to serve a restraining order.

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Forum today on improving revenue for public education Saving California Communities and ASUCD are sponsoring two forums on proposed initiatives that will examine how to increase revenue for California’s public education system.

Advancement Project’s senior policy analyst Sandy Escobedo will present information on “Our Children, Our Future,” an education initiative that would raise over $10 billion in funding to help children succeed in school. The ballot is also sponsored

by Civil Rights Attorney Molly Munger and supported by the California PTA. The event will take place on campus tonight in 206 Olson Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Escobedo said she is pleased to be a part of an event that encourages dialogue.

“Forums of this nature are the epitome of direct, participatory democracy,” she said.

Susan Lovenburg, president of the Davis School Board and a founding member of Saving California Communities, said that in the two forums UC Davis students and Davis community members will come together to become informed voter options.

ASUCD president Rebecca Sterling said tuition increases are on the minds of every UC Davis student.

“We want to know how California will continue to invest in its future,” Sterling said.

Another forum will be held on June 4 at the same time and location that will be focused on the revenue initiative sponsored by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Both sessions are open to the public and will have an open question and answer session.

— Muna Sadek

Experimental College creates forum for student-led workshops Alternative Learning Project starts this Fall

By DEVON BOHART Associate Features Editor

“This type of incident is rare in Davis; we normally don’t get these type of crimes,” Doroshov said.

The standoff required the evacuation of many houses on Adrian Drive and the surrounding blocks. Additionally, SWAT teams and crisis negotiation teams had to set up posts around the neighborhood.

For hours Cervantes allegedly would not open the door or answer telephones to speak with the officers at the scene, according to a Press Release from the City of Davis Police Department. Because of the suspect’s history of weapons possession the police took a

News iN Brief

You have probably imagined what it would be like to make up your own course or even to take one taught by your peers about something less formal than Chemistry 2B or English 40. Well next year, you will have that opportunity.

For Fall 2012, the Experimental College (EC) is unveiling the Alternative Learning Project (ALP), a set of workshops centered on the topic of the instructors course. Hannah Moore, the office manager for the EC said that these courses are aimed to give another perspective on things, other than the purely academic.

“It’s a more personal sense fostering much more discussion,” Moore said. “Not everybody is going to take a women’s studies class or an ethnic studies class

and those are things that you may say are interesting, but you might not have the time in your schedule or have that chance.

This is a space where you can do that — getting back to the EC roots.”

Junior international relations major and director of the EC Suzanne Lewis came up with the idea after realizing the history and the mission of the EC as well as seeing a need for alternative voice on campus.

“The EC was started with a really radical mission to bring subjects to campus that the university wouldn’t teach like ethnic studies and women and gender studies. Now the university offers those, but I feel like there are still some limitations to what can be done in a classroom setting, at least as sanctioned by the university,” Lewis said.

“I thought that it would be

kind of cool to offer a space where there really aren’t limitations on who can teach or what can be taught. Students have a lot of knowledge so why can’t students teach students?”

However, Lewis said that the fact that the EC offers workshop series aren’t the unique part about the program.

“What is unique is we already have the structure set up and all people have to do is think

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KDVS hosts 12th Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom Festival On Saturday, KDVS 90.3 FM, a student and community radio station based in Davis, held their 12th annual Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom (ORMF) music festival at Plainfield Station Bar & Grill in Woodland. The event lasted from 1 to 10 p.m. and was open to all ages.

Comprised of a lineup of 13 bands from Sacramento, Davis and the Bay Area, the festival was geared toward a more experimental electronic vibe.

“The festival is a showcase of things that KDVS represents,” said Sharmi Basu, events coordinator for KDVS. “KDVS is a college radio station at UC Davis and we pride ourselves on being freeform.”

Basu said the festival is named

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ORMF since it is different than other music festivals.

“You could go to Coachella or Outside Lands and be overwhelmed with people,” Basu said. “But at ORMF, it’s a very relaxing, nonoppressive environment.”

Situated in the back of Playfield Station’s bar — essentially a backyard — Basu said the event has been held at the same venue since its conception.

“We were thinking of doing it elsewhere this year, but part of it is tradition and part of it is [that] Plainfield is really beautiful,” Basu said. “It’s kind of a field with a little stage and kind of off in the middle of nowhere, but not totally isolated.”

To obtain the festival’s lineup, KDVS

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reached out to different bands. Basu said sometimes the bands will find out about ORMF and reach out to KDVS. “Sometimes we start with a ridiculous amount of bands who want to play,” she said. “Then we narrow it down from there, but it’s hard because there’s so many awesome people who want to play.”

The profits earned at the door were given to the bands and venue.

However, putting the event together is relatively low-budget, Basu said.

“In general, it’s like we’re having a big party for ourselves,” Basu said.

“But we do it for the bands more so; it’s a nice thing we can put our stamp on.”

— Written by Claire Tan — Photo by Brian Nguyen

Yesterday’s solar eclipses was overrated — all I did was blind myself.

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TODAY Spring Book Fair 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WRRC, Front Porch, North Hall Each quarter the Joy Fergoda Library at the Women’s Resources and Research Center hosts a book fair where books can be purchased for under $3. Proceeds will be used to buy new books for the library.

The event starts today and will continue at the same time and location through Friday.

ITS-Davis Special Seminar 2 to 3:30 p.m.

1065 Kemper Join Amy Myers Jaffe as she discusses The Shale Gas Revolution: Implications for the United States. There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.

Linux Users’ Group of Davis meeting 7 to 9 p.m.

Yolo County Public Library, Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch, 315 East 14th Street Go to the Linux Users’ Group meeting about “Ubuntu 12.04 and Unity; What is it all about?” with speaker Philip Ballew, Head of Ubuntu Youth. For more information, go to http://www.lugod.org/meeting.

TUESDAY H.E.L.P. Club Kickoff Event 6 to 8 p.m.

206 Olson Go to the kickoff event for “Empathy Not Apathy.” H.E.L.P. will be promoting the awareness of poverty in our community to hopefully inspire students to get more involved in helping the community.

WEDNESDAY H.E.L.P. Club Event “Empathy Not Apathy” 6 to 9 p.m.

King’s Lounge This is H.E.L.P.’s annual event where they host a free banquet dinner and have guest speakers to inspire students and community members to be more

involved in helping others within the community. The guest speakers will include a community leader who will discuss working with those in poverty and a currently homeless community member who will share his experiences being homeless.

UC Davis Concert Band and Campus Bands 7 to 9 p.m.

Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center Watch the UC Davis Concert Band, Campus Bands and more at this performance.

Tickets are $8 for students and children and $12 for adults.

Movie Night in the Arboretum 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Mrak Lawn, Lake Spafford The Arboretum Ambassadors and UC Davis Entertainment Council present Movie Night in the Arboretum. Bring a blanket and enjoy seeing the epic Academy Award-winning movie AVATAR in the Arboretum under the stars. There is no charge for the movie; parking is available for $7 in Visitor Lots 1 and 2 and the Mondavi Center parking structure. For more information, call (530) 752-4880 or visit arboretum.ucdavis.edu.

The 12th Annual UC Davis Film Festival 8:30 to 10:30 Davis Varsity Theatre, 616 Second Street This is an evening of unpredictable and exciting short student films including comedy, drama, animation, documentaries and more. The festival begins Wednesday and continues Through Thursday at the same time and location. Tickets are $7 for each night or $10 for a two-night pass; available at Davis Varsity Theatre starting May 16. For more information, go to http:// theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

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Senate Briefs ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the May 17 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings.

was tabled.

Meeting called to order at 11:50 p.m.

Senate resolution 29, authored and introduced by Goss, co-authored by Bottoms, Kimball, Sheehan and Padgett, opposing the compulsory purchase of Aggie Cash by incoming UC Davis firstyear students, passed unanimously.

6:10 p.m. to 11:49 p.m. was the continuation of budget hearings.

Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, absent Yena Bae, ASUCD vice president, present Kabir Kapur, ASUCD senator, present Jared Crisologo-Smith, ASUCD senator, present Bradley Bottoms, ASUCD senator, present Justin Goss, ASUCD senator, present Anni Kimball, ASUCD senator, present Paul Min, ASUCD senator, present Don Gilbert, ASUCD senator, present Joyce Han, ASUCD senator, present Erica Padgett, ASUCD senator, present Beatriz Anguiano, ASUCD senator, present Patrick Sheehan, ASUCD senator, present Yara Zokaie, ASUCD senator, present

Consideration of old legislation Senate resolution 26, authored and introduced by Crisologo-Smith, coauthored by Torres, to condemn discriminatory marriage laws in the State of California. The resolution was tabled.

Senate resolution 27, authored by chief of staff to the president, Sabrina Dias, co-authored and introduced by Kapur, to support the recommendations given by the Reynoso Task Force. The resolution

Senate resolution 28, authored by Dias, co-authored and introduced by Kapur, to commend and appreciate members of the Reynoso Task Force, passed unanimously.

Senate bill 106, authored by Internal Affairs Commission chair, Sergio Cano, coauthored by Dias and introduced by Min, to allocate $490.25 from Senate reserves to purchase ASUCD graduation stoles for the class of 2012, passed 8-1-3.

Senate bill 109, authored and introduced

by Goss, to allocate $126.00 for Aggies @ the Pub: Trivia Night, passed 11-0-1.

Consideration of urgent legislation An urgent senate bill, authored and introduced by the External Affairs Commission, co-authored by Hawe and Miller, to award the ASUCD Lobby Corps Legislator of the Year Award to Speaker John A. Pérez, for his commitment to higher education, passed unanimously.

Meeting adjourned at 1:45 a.m.

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on the subject, it’s not totally clear to me which happens first. That is to say, do you observe something, laugh at it and then receive a big endorphin boost, or Katelyn are the endorphins the Hempstead cause of the laughter? Does happiness make you laugh or does laughter make you happy? There’s probably an answer somewhere that I don’t know because I’m basically as dumb as a dumb, ast week I told a story stupid baby. about my mother and So I did something in it has come to my atthat last paragraph that tention that we will not still comedy people term a “callbe in school over Father’s back.” That’s when you refDay and that this is unerence something that hapfair to my male parent. So pened earlier, funny or not, I will tell an equally flatterin the hopes that your audiing story. ence will remember it and When I was little and a giggle. Callbacks are satisfybudding comedian I used ing to hear because – even to make jokes in which I if they’re as cheap as mine would rib my pops (giving just was – you feel smart each other a hard time is for catching on. Which, basically a Hempstead fam- of course, you are. You’re ily tradition), also very to which he good lookSo if you can never predict what ing and would invariably repeople will find funny, how do have perply, “That’s fect hands. you be funny on purpose? snot funny!

Please It’s snot, it’s keep readsnot, it’s snot.” Upon which ing my column? the aforementioned snot Another thing comedy would fly out of my nose nerds talk about is the rule as I cackled uncontrollaof three, in which you set bly in the passenger seat of up the premise for a joke, his truck at what was defirepeat it in a slightly differnitely the funniest joke ever ent permutation and then made. My dad is great. defy the expectation you’ve Funniness is subjective. just set up. I sort of did it I’m into comedy in a big when I was complimenting way and the thing is you you. I called you smart (escan never tell exactly what tablished that you are being will make someone laugh. complimented), called you In fact, you can’t even realpretty (a natural succesly tell what will make you sor to “smart” that creates laugh. It’s not like you’re sit- a pattern of flattery) and ting in front of an Apatow then said you have perfect movie, saying to yourself, hands, which was probably “that gentleman just refborderline creepy. Rule of erenced the act of coitus! three, bro.

How droll, I believe I shall Hey, here’s something laugh now. Hah! Hah!” It I’ve been thinking about. would be a very different Folklorists in a couple kind of world if we thought countries have demonthat way. strated the existence of So if you can never prewhat they’re calling “joke dict what people will find cycles.” These are the funny, how do you be funkinds of jokes we all know ny on purpose? Don’t look and eye-roll at, dead baby at me, I don’t have a freakjokes or dumb blonde ing clue. jokes or those annoying Ok fiiiine, I’ll look into it. “blank that blank people Here’s something intersay” videos that have foresting. Did you know that tunately gone away. your average baby laughs They find these formu15 times more per day that laic jokes everywhere and an adult? Which makes me my hypothesis on why question just what the duck they’re so popular is that is so funny that our bathey’re both comfortable bies are cracking up all day? and rich with possibility.

What are these infants see- When someone says “why ing that we’re not? Have did Helen Keller’s dog run we become so jaded to the away” you know exactly wonderful funniness of the what you’re about to get — world that we’ve lost our namely something tasteless ability to laugh? Or maybe about an American hero. their standards for what’s The jokes are simultanefunny are just way lower ously old and new, a genthan ours because babies tly surprising twist on a faare dumb. Either way. miliar recipe, transgressive Time for a science party! but not too transgressive.

When you laugh, the venAnd to our weird mammal tromedial prefrontal cortex brains, that feels nice. lights up, which is the part that squirts out endorphins. It’s okay if you didn’t find this column funny, But from the ridiculously neither did KATELYN HEMPSTEAD, who can tiny bit of research I’ve read be reached at khempstead@ucdavis.edu.

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Dressed in luminescent orange costumes, these students represented condemned inmates “sentenced to Cont. from front page debt” by the recent fee hikes. as inmates marched and chanted dur- Similar disruptions in the past were ing the morning session. met with police response to remove “That’s the sound of the students the protestors from the meeting. This working on the chain gang,” protest- time, however, the protesters were alers chanted. lowed to continue chanting while the

regents adjourned the open session and retreated to the closed segment of the meeting, away from the public.

The Regents’ next meeting will take place from July 17 to 19 at UC San Francisco, Mission Bay.

a peaceful surrender.

A resident of Adrian Drive, Elizabeth Lacey told the Davis Enterprise that she hasn’t noticed anything suspicious in that house before but this incident makes her concerned about safety in the neighborhood.

Doroshov stated that the case in being investigated further and a report will be submitted to the Yolo

County District Attorney’s office.

After this the DA will decide if he will be charged for further crimes.

He further stated that these types of crimes are rare and students are normally affected by crimes involving property theft, alcohol, etc. and it is important to always take safety precautions involving these.

instructor, but the way that the workshops are set up allows for even the instructors to learn due to the collaborative learning environment.

“It’s not just the students that learn but it’s the instructors as well. I think that students and instructors can get a lot out of this experience,” Ricker said.

“In recent years we haven’t had discussion type courses and that’s what we’re trying to revive right now. One misconception might be that this is going to be a dry boring lecture-type class and my hope is that they are more about collaborative learning.”

Because the courses are more discussion based and do not have grades or homework associated with them, they allow for a different kind of learning said EC publicity director, Peter Neeley, a sophomore English and Human Development major.

“I think it’s always important to keep in mind that learning should be as much for yourself as it should be for a grade,” Neeley said. “The ALP provides a space where it’s about growing your knowledge. We are all students and we’re all interested in learning but I think there is a sense that people want to learn on their own terms. What I hope for this proj-

ect is that people use it as an opportunity to create more spaces for open learning on campus where real dialogue can happen.”

With that in mind, none of these courses count for university credit, but both Lewis and Ricker said that a majority of the workshops will be free, increasing accessibility.

“They are just something fun and interesting to add into your schedule,” Ricker said. “I think that these classes can be for everyone.”

Overall though, the ALP follows the main goals of the EC, to create a unique learning environment and make way for new conversation.

“Its just about bettering yourself and furthering your own education,” Lewis said. “There’s just as much value learning about cooking as there is learning about physics. I feel like every subject is valuable and every person who is passionate about subjects and wants to teach them is valuable as well.”

If you are interested in applying to teach a course through the ALP, contact eccourses@gmail.com before Aug. 1.

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After many hours of negotiation Cervantes finally surrendered to the police at 7 p.m. and was arrested for the warrant and taken to Yolo County Jail. Nobody was injured.

No weapons were found and it was

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Twitter suggests he follow @ YahooSports. Not too bad, right? But what if your web browsing history wasn’t used to better social media connections? What if it was Nicole sold to, say, advertisers?

Nguyen How would you feel then?

Twitter points out that LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube already engage in this practice, which is hardly reassuring. What’s even more disturbing is that data harvesting isn’t just limited to our computers — our phones are vulnerable as well. hardly hesitate before Path, a mobile-based soagreeing to a product’s cial networking app for terms and conditions anymore. I can barely keep smartphones, came under fire when a hacker discovup with the reading in my own classes, let alone spare ered that the application the time and energy to read was uploading their users’ address books to the coma 6,500-word essay written pany’s servers and recomin legalese. mending those users to add But I’m trying to unas contacts to their Path derstand what it means networks — all without to have good privacy hytheir congiene — to sent. The know where It’s important, then, to reconcile outrage remy data is going how much your privacy means vealed the lack of proand how to you ... tections iPit is being hones have put to use. over address books — an The amount of informaall-too-common loophole tion that sites legally collect from you on a daily ba- iOS developers use to mine sis may come as a surprise. data. Location and camera roll have far stronger se For the most part, these collection processes are au- curity settings in iOS, while tomated and done discreet- address book had virtually none. Both Apple and Path ly. Sites and mobile apps eventually changed their are said to be “harvesting” your data — in other words, policy on the issue, but still fetching personal informa- left users unnerved about the security of the persontion from your browser or phone and using that infor- al information they store on their phones. mation to tailor their ser Android users are not vices to you. excluded, unfortunately, If you use Facebook, which was recently provTwitter or nearly any Google product, you can be en by security researcher Paul Brodeur who desure that data harvesting applies to you. We use these signed an app just to see sites and their products for how much data it could free and we pay the price by extract without permisoffering information about sion from the Android ourselves. But is it worth it? phone’s owner. As it turns out, quite a bit. Brodeur’s Last Thursday, Twitter app was able to procure wrote a blog post about photos stored on external a new “experiment” they are conducting, which sly- SD cards and launch the ly hints at the very practice phone’s browser to upload those photos to a server. of data harvesting without ever explicitly explain- And yes, the app did it all ing it. When you visit a site without consent.

It’s important, then, to with a “Tweet This” button, Twitter not only knows reconcile how much your privacy means to you — you visited that site, but and modify settings on all also how frequently you of your devices and sovisit that site. Considering cial media accounts to rethe ubiquity of the Twitter flect those concerns. It share button, Twitter esalso stresses the signifisentially sees your browscance of hackers in revealing history and uses it to ing such security breachbetter suggest the kind of es, and scaring companies Twitter users you might away from data harvestlike to follow. Influential tech blogger, Dustin Curtis ing. Anybody can become a hacker by learning computcalled it “wrong” and “a er programming language – violation of privacy and knowledge that I think is intrust,” which is true, but creasingly important in unalso begs the question — derstanding this digitized just how valuable is your world – but I’ll save that deweb browsing history? bate for another Monday.

The average Joe probably cares about his fantasy baseball team a little NICOLE NGUYEN is wondering whether or too much and checks his not you people got a piece of the $14 billion Yahoo stats four, five, mayFacebook pie. If you sold your soul and bought be forty-five times a day. So shares, e-mail niknguyen@ucdavis.edu.

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Cont. from front page of what they are going to teach during each session,” Lewis said. “I think it’s unique how convenient it is for students and faculty and whoever wants to lead a workshop.”

As far as the topics that students can choose for their workshops, Lewis said that almost anything goes as long as it doesn’t clash with the mission of the EC and attracts student interest.

“We are always looking for something interesting — for the most part we are pretty open to what people have to bring us,” Moore said.

Lewis said that anyone can teach, including students and community members, who feels passionately about any topic be it animal science to activism.

“The hierarchy of who can teach and who can learn is kind of removed from this whole process because anyone can teach, anyone can take. We’re making education accessible to as many people as we can,” Lewis said.

Whitney Ricker, EC course coordinator and senior psychology major, said that not only can anyone be an

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Resident advisors: Friend or foe?

Past, present and future RAs reflect on the position

By KELSEY SMOOT Aggie Features Writer

If you’ve been a student at UC Davis since freshman year, chances are you’ve lived in the dorms amongst other first years and one or two Resident Advisors (RA). RAs are undergraduate students who work for Student Housing and live within the residence halls during the school year. Though some see RAs as didactic and meddlesome, others view the full-time advisors as necessary for emotional and academic support, as well as for safety reasons.

RAs are responsible for putting on programs in the residence halls that are both socially and academically oriented, as well as monitoring the overall safety of their designated floor and building.

They are also required to “document” any situation that is illegal, hazardous to someone’s health or against the Student Housing policies. In addition to their everyday daily duties, RAs rotate in and out of the position of “RA on call,” the resident advisor that is available at night after the area service desk is closed.

A large incentive for becoming an RA is the free room and board in addition to a free meal plan that accompany the position. For students that cannot afford to pay rent on an apartment or live too far to commute after their first year, becoming an RA is an economically sound solution.

However, the perks are balanced with sacrifices as RAs are expected to spend a minimum of 20 hours on their respective floor.

David Thompson, senior sociology and African American studies major worked as a resident advisor for the 2010-11 school year in Campbell Hall. The former RA said the position entails someone who can follow rules, but understands when a situation calls for thinking outside of the box.

“If I had to give advice to a future RA, I would have to say embrace the rules, but know when those rules don’t apply. As an

RA, you learn different techniques in order to deal with different situations; however, a big mistake that RAs make is that they handle situations as if they all fit within an equation. Though Student Housing teaches you to deal with one situation a certain way, there are thousands of factors that can change the situation from the model that they presented,” Thompson said.

In addition, Thompson said that time management is crucial to the position as some may not realize the extent to which being an RA depletes leisure time.

“A lot of RAs get caught in an ‘I know how to handle my time’ mentality. So they come into the RA job and get slammed, like I did. I was on call and I had a important midterm. To make a long story short, I failed that midterm and the class. I initially blamed the RA job, but then I realized, I didn’t start studying until the night before the test and after a while just gave up,” Thompson said.

First-year economics major Star Bacon is currently anticipating her role as an RA for the 2012-13 school year. She said her reason for applying for the position stems from her experience as a resident this year as well as her desire to enrich the first-year experience for future UC Davis students.

“After living in the residence halls this year, I’ve seen a lot of opportunity for me to add things next year, as far as resources. I know a lot of people that struggle in finding out where to get help for certain things. I feel like I could be the person to help them get ahead of the game, whether it’s by making someone aware of different workshops or leadership opportunities they have available or just giving them someone to talk to,” Bacon said.

She also said she is excited about the position though she feels her biggest challenge will be restricting herself as far as campus involvement.

“I’m not nervous as all. I feel like I’ll adapt, and I’m more than willing to do

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First-year economics major Star Bacon is planning on being a resident advisor next year. anything that will make me a better RA, as well as a better person. The only challenge might be fighting the urge to get involved when I hear about issues in the community or leadership opportunities. The people in Student Housing understand that we’re students first and RAs second, so they don’t allow us to do anything other than school and Resident Advising for Fall Quarter,” Bacon said.

Current RA and sophomore community and regional development major Robert Helfend said that he enjoys living in the dorms and felt that he was the right fit for the Rainbow floor, a themed housing floor that is open to members and allies of the LGBTQ community.

“I really like the dorm atmosphere and I was really close to my RA last year, who inspired me to be an RA. As far as being on

the Rainbow Floor, as a gay college student, I know how hard it is to make the transition from high school. I felt that I could be the person to help them,” Helfend said.

Ultimately, past, present and future RAs can agree that the key ingredient to having an enjoyable experience in the residence halls is a positive, open relationship between residents and their advisors.

“Throughout the year as an RA, you grow to love the people on your floor and consider them family. So it’s important for residents to know that you are there for them,” Thompson said. “If they trust you, it makes it easier for the residents to approach you when they really need you for serious incidents.”

KELSEY SMOOT can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

Education for Sustainable Living Program hosts TEDx speaker Conservation photographer Garth Lenz talks about ‘The True Cost of Oil’

By MAX GARRITY RUSSER Aggie News Writer

Last Wednesday, conservationist photographer and former TEDx speaker Garth Lenz came to UC Davis to give his talk titled “The True Cost of Oil” which explores the destruction of Canadian wildlife and oil sand mining.

Bituminous sands, which are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit and have only in recent years been considered part of the world’s oil reserves, are being extracted in an enormous mining and fracking-equivalent effort in Canada’s Boreal forest. The Boreal is the largest forest ecosystem on the planet, covering nearly 60 percent of the countries’ land and is being cut down and polluted by the mining efforts.

“Our prime minister had said that this is an incredible enterprise on the size of building the Great Wall of China or the pyr-

amids,” Lenz said. “It’s wreaking a level of destruction we just haven’t seen before.”

The Boreal is home to some of nature’s largest wonders. It is home to nearly 400,000 caribou and an intricate network of rivers, contains half the migratory birds in North America, has the world’s largest freshwater delta and is considered the planet’s greatest terrestrial carbon dioxide sink.

The recent popularity of oil sands is due to the rising cost of traditional oil extraction.

“The price of oil has to get around $80 a barrel in order to get any profit,” Lenz said.

The numerous petroleum companies that are involved in the extraction effort are using two different methods to get to the tar-like oil trapped in the sands below the soil.

The first method is a simple mining effort that is so large that the trucks used for

transporting the bitumen are 3,000 square feet, the size of a large house.

The second method is similar to hydrofracking, which liquefies the bitumen so that it is easier to extract. This technique leaves huge non-lined pools of toxic waste as a byproduct.

Both approaches to extract the bitumen produce two times as much carbon as traditional oil extraction does. Per day, 250,000 tons of bitumen sand is processed.

“This is considered the world’s dirtiest oil,” Lenz said.

The oil extraction is having immediate consequences on the local first-nation populations which depend on the Boreal for their livelihood. Being so isolated, the cost of food is extremely high. As the forest is quickly cut down, many of the indigenous populations’ hunting and fishing grounds disappear.

Another consequence of the mining includes highly carcinogenic chemicals

present in the toxic ponds that continue to show up in natural rivers in the Boreal. Cancer rates for very unusual and rare types of cancer are soaring in some communities.

“Oil companies plan on industrializing an area the size of Florida by 2030,” Lenz said.

Other projects that are being planned are an industrial highway and pipeline that would stretch from northern Alaska to oil refineries in and around Louisiana.

After his talk, Lenz answered questions from the audience.

“The Boreal and the Amazon are the lungs of the planet,” Lenz said.

TEDx talks are independently organized TED events. Lenz’s lecture was not part of TEDx, though UC Davis hosted a TEDx talk on May 19 that was titled “The Power of Perspective.”

MAX GARRITY RUSSER can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

Campus art museum to open in 2016 Art Exhibit Forum held last Wednesday

By DANIELLE HUDDLESTUN Aggie News Writer

After a $10 million gift over the holidays from the Jan Shrem, a friend of Margrit Mondavi, UC Davis is now planning to add a new art museum near the Mondavi Center.

“The museum will be a resource for students, faculty, staff and members of the community to experience art in the broadest sense of the word. We imagine that students will have the

chance to work directly with objects through classes and to visit the museum often to look at exhibitions of works of art, both from the UC Davis Fine Arts Collection and from other museums and private collections,” said Dean Jessie Ann Owens, division of humanities, arts and cultural studies, College of Letters and Science.

A consultant hired by the university, Lindsay Martin, of Lord Cultural Resources, has been speaking with faculty, staff

and students about what they would like to see in an art museum. A focus group was held on last Wednesday in the Student Community Center in order to get more student insight.

“I was surprised that we don’t already have a [major] art museum on campus,” said Kayla Rouse, a senior biological science major.

Options that are currently available for students include the Basement Gallery, Gorman Museum, Design Museum and

the Nelson Gallery. These current galleries are all connected to campus departments.

Some students attended merely because they were interested in what the art museum was.

“I drove by the Mondavi Center and saw a sign for an art museum, then received an email. I was curious about what was going on,” said Carolina Pina, a junior human development major.

There is currently no pre-

conception of what the museum at UC Davis should be like.

According to Owens, the hope is that it will be a place that students visit often.

“We are still figuring it out. I am hired to help understand what types of spaces the University wants in their art museum,” Martin said.

The museum is projected to open in 2016.

DANIELLE HUDDLESTUN can be reached at campus@ theaggie.org.

Obesity related to lack of sleep, study says

By Megan Sanderson Oregon Daily Emerald (University of Oregon)

People often turn to exercising or dieting as ways to lose weight, but what some may not realize is getting enough sleep may be an effective way to shed the pounds, too.

A recent study published in the journal “Current Biology“ suggests the difference in a person’s internal clock and social clock, known as “social jet lag” can lead to weight gain. In the study, people who had the most differing sleep schedule from the week to the weekend were more likely to

be overweight. One hour worth of social jet lag leads to a 33 percent increase in a person’s risk of becoming overweight.

A person’s internal clock — called the circadian clock — is set by day and night time. Our bodies want to be awake when it’s sunny and be asleep when it’s dark. This provides people with the optimal time for getting an adequate amount of sleep. But due to people’s busy schedules, people often ignore their internal clock.

“Our body clocks run differently because we don’t see the sun anymore because we work inside, and that makes our body clocks

go later and later,” said the study’s leading author Till Roenneberg, in a video. When a person stays up while they should be sleeping, the body’s metabolism process doesn’t function normally, creating a lower resting metabolism rate and a higher body mass index.

“Because the difference in sleep timing between work and free days resembles the situation of traveling across several time zones to the west on Friday evenings and ‘flying’ back on Monday mornings, the phenomenon of regular, weekly changes in sleep timing was coined so-

cial jet lag,” Roenneberg said in the study.

For students, getting up for that 8 a.m. class, working a night shift, pulling a late night to finish that paper or just staying out late with friends all contributes to social jet lag. When people pull that allnighter, they tend to load up on caffeine and eat unhealthy food.

U. Oregon freshman Katy Kachmarik knows several people who have gotten less than four hours of sleep and gained weight this year.

“I’d probably try to get more sleep because I know physically what it’s like to have jet lag,”

Kachmarik said. “And I don’t like it.”

One-third of the 65,000 study participants suffered from two or more hours of social jet lag, while 69 percent of the people suffered from one hour. If a person times their day and sleep schedule to mesh more with their internal clock rather than their social clock, the study said, the amount of social jet lag a person suffers from will decrease.

“Our data suggest that improving the correspondence between biological and social clocks will contribute to the management of obesity,” Roenneberg said.

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hange is looming over UC Davis athletics, and a variety of paths the University could choose to take.

Last week Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and Vice Chancellor Fred Wood announced the four finalists for UC Davis’ new Director of Athletics.

The candidates vary greatly in experience and outlook.

They feature experience in large and small schools, private schools and public schools, schools with massive budgets and schools that have had to take serious budget cuts.

Now UC Davis has to pick just one, and whatever decision is ultimately made could drastically change the future of UC Davis athletics for over a decade.

Over the next few weeks the candidates will be hosting open forums to answer questions from the public — after which the University will accept feedback. This is a chance for the students of UC Davis to make their voices heard and you should all take full advantage.

During the fall the Recruitment Advisory Committee (the group tasked with helping cut down the list of candidates) held four town-

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hall meetings that were intended to facilitate feedback.

While the meetings were highly opinionated and did indeed open the floor to all comers, one group was largely underrepresented at the meetings: the student body.

The speakers at the town-hall meetings came almost exclusively from three groups: alumni, faculty and student athletes, but the general student body was nowhere to be found.

The upcoming decision will have untold effects on the UC Davis athletics department and any student who has an opinion regarding the current state of Aggie athletics should do their part to make their voice heard.

After all, UC Davis athletics are funded primarily by student fees, which means that, if given the opportunity, students should be more than willing to give their opinion.

Of course you will be able to follow the latest updates from the athletics director search in The California Aggie and on our Twitter page, but before the meetings start, here are some basic strengths and weaknesses of each candidate.

Ray Purpur — Strengths: Purpur has solid experience with several years as Deputy Director of Athletics at Stanford which gave him a chance to work at not only an academically prestigious institution, but one with a wide array of sports programs, similar to the UC Davis Athletics Department.

Weaknesses: While Stanford has an impressive athletics department, it is also very well-funded. This means that Purpur does not have experience working with the type of cramped budget that he would face as Athletic Director at UC Davis.

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— Strengths: As Senior Associate Athletics Director at Tennessee, Reed-Francois has experience working at a state institution with high-profile athletics. She also has experience academically, serving as a law professor.

Weaknesses: Lacks experience in a program of the academic caliber seen at UC Davis as well as the local markets in Northern California.

Terrance Tumey — Strengths: Tumey has served at Dominican University of California during the difficult transition from NAIA to a Division II program.

Additionally, he has extensive experience in the sport of football — as a former member of several NFL organizations including the San Francisco 49ers. This experience could help him select UC Davis next head football coach — the first major decision the incoming AD will make.

Weaknesses: Tumey’s background is highly football-centric which could cause problems as he enters a university with 23 athletics programs.

Foti Millis — Strengths: Millis has solid experience at University of California, Berkeley, during a time where Cal has faced similar budget constraints to the ones he’d encounter at UC Davis.

Additionally, Millis is a UC Davis alumnus, which should get him some added points from some of the other alumni.

Weaknesses: Cal came close to permanently cutting sports during Millis’ tenure, which will likely make some in and around the athletic department uneasy, especially following the sports-cutting debate sparked by the Dempsey Report.

Jonny Baxter leads UC Davis at Stanford MEN’S GOLF

By MATTHEW YUEN Associate Sports Editor

The Aggies earned a berth into the NCAA Regional with a tremendous performance at the Big West Conference tournament, but didn’t have enough magic in them to advance to the NCAA final round.

The upset-minded UC Davis men’s golf team entered Stanford as the 13th seed in a field that consisted of some of the top teams in the nation.

A finish in the top five would have allowed UC Davis to advance, but overcoming so many of the nation’s top schools that was a tall order.

“I think we competed really well and I’m happy with them, but we just weren’t as good as the top five teams,” said coach Cy Williams.

“This is a very talented team and I’m very proud of the guys.”

UC Davis brought what Williams guessed to be one of the youngest teams in the NCAA tournament.

Three sophomores and two freshmen made up the Aggie lineup and only sophomore Matt Hansen had previous NCAA Regional experience.

A tough first round all but destroyed the Aggies chances of placing in the top five and advancing to the NCAA championship as their 293 had them in last place in the 13-team field.

UC Davis was led by sophomore Jonny Baxter, whose one-over 211 total tied him for 27th place in the field.

Baxter followed his even first round

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with a two-under in the second round that featured five birdies and 10 pars.

Baxter’s round led the Aggies to their best single day of the tournament as they shot an even 280 on Friday. Sophomore Matt Hansen shot an even 70 followed by 71s from sophomore Matt Seramin and freshman Luke Vivolo.

“The last rounds were solid and everyone contributed, they competed hard and I’m proud,” Williams said. “Your goal is to minimize the bad round and that’s what put us out of the running.”

Hansen placed 41st overall and freshman Mike Brockington led the Aggies with a 68 on the final day for his best round of the tournament.

All told, the Aggies can take several positives from their 17-over 857 overall team score.

“Familiarity helped a little, but we were just a way better team than we were then,” Williams said. “As young as they are, we were ready because athletes get better with experience.”

As far as experience goes, the future looks bright for UC Davis, who closes the 2012 campaign ready to tee off next year. The Aggies have all their starters returning and will have red-shirt senior Tyler Raber back.

“This season was a success since it was supposed to be a rebuilding year,” Williams said. “For these guys to come out and deal with all the things that happened and to win the Big West was a huge success.”

Matthew Yuen can be reached at sports@theaggie. org.

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Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit.

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