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Stranger. The presentation will be followed by a brief Q&A period and book signing.

CALPIRG Kick-off Meeting 7 to 8 p.m.

206 Olson Check out CALPIRG’s winter kickoff to find out what they are doing to increase solar power, fight poverty, protect the oceans and get big money out of politics. The mayor of Davis will be a guest speaker and there will be free pizza.

WEDNESDAY Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous 7 to 8:30 pm Davis United Methodist Church Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? Free yourself from excess weight and/or obsessional thoughts about food and body image. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is a 12-step fellowship based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Meetings are open and free to the public. Visit foodaddicts.org for other meeting locations.

FRIDAY David Simpson — A Talk Noon to 1:30 p.m.

The Store Lounge, Memorial Union Join David Simpson, professor of English at UC Davis, as he talks about his new book, Romanticism and the Question of the

Knockout Slavery 6 to 7 p.m.

ARC Pavilion Join the Catalyst Fellowship of Davis as they attempt to break the world record for the largest game of Knockout, the free throw basketball game. Participants are asked to make a $10 donation to register for the game. Every donation will be gifted to the International Justice Mission, an organization that frees slaves around the world.

SUNDAY Tour the Domes 11 a.m. to noon Orchard Park Circle Join us for a half-hour guided tour of the Domes! Learn more about this experiential living community’s history, its present and its future! All prospective applicants are welcome! Contact erpearson@ucdavis. edu for further information.

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Police Briefs THURSDAY

Don’t cry over spilt alc

A female was crying at the bus stop, sitting next to a broken bottle of alcohol and an alcohol puddle on Fifth Street.

male tried to break into their apartment through an unlocked window. The male’s only identifier is black pants, as the person awoke when the bandit had one leg through the window on Mesquite Drive.

But it’s free …

Bye bye baby Someone stayed at Days Inn on Chiles Road with his girlfriend and when he awoke, his girlfriend was gone and so were his keys, wallet and car.

An unknown subject went into somebody’s unlocked vehicle and took their wallet and their library card on Burnett Place.

SUNDAY

Bungee dumping

SATURDAY

Subtle landscaping

A male was watching somebody while pretending to prune a tree on Trawler Place.

The bifurcated bandit Someone was sleeping while an unknown

There were people on the roof launching stuff with a large bungee apparatus on Radcliffe Drive.

Police briefs are compiled from the City of Davis daily crime bulletins. Contact EINAT GILBOA at city@theaggie.org.

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

Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m.

Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, present Yena Bae, ASUCD vice president, present Beatriz Anguiano, ASUCD senator, present Bradley Bottoms, ASUCD senator, present Liam Burke, ASUCD senator, present Armando Figueroa, ASUCD senator, present Don Gilbert, ASUCD senator, absent Joyce Han, ASUCD senator, present Maxwell Kappes, ASUCD senator, present Kabir Kapur, ASUCD senator, pro tempore, present Paul Min, ASUCD senator, present Felicia Ong, ASUCD senator, present Alyson Sagala, ASUCD senator, present Tal Topf, ASUCD senator, present

Presentations Karl Mohr spoke about Chancellor Katehi’s 20/20 initiative that is focused on more aid to international students, enrollment and facilities and infrastructural needs.

Sterling updated the table on a trip that she and Controller Melanie Maemura went on for the MU renewal project. The project would remodel the MU and has not been finalized yet.

CalPIRG Chair Donna Farvard spoke about

the organization’s recruitment drive and energy-efficiency campaign.

Appointments and confirmations Alex Deng was confirmed as a Gender and Sexuality Commission commissioner.

Robert Hsu and Phi Nguyen were confirmed to the Entrepreneurship Fund.

Peter Neeley was confirmed to a manager position at the Experimental College.

Consideration of old legislation Senate Bill 35, authored by Spencer McManus, to change the procedure for interviewing reapplicants, passed in a 10-2-0 vote.

Senate Bill 38, authored by Aaron Hsu, to create more efficiency in the election process, failed to pass in a 6-7-0 vote.

Senate Bill 41, authored by McManus, to change a section of the ASUCD Bylaws so it more accurately reflects the Senate agenda. The bill passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 42, authored by Eric Renslo, to suspend a bylaw about voting procedures, passed 7-5-0.

Meeting adjourned at 11:05 p.m.

Open positions within ASUCD can be found at vacancy.ucdavis.edu. SASHA COTTERELL compiled this senate brief.

She can be reached at campus@theaggie. org.

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Each shop has products of the same quality and price, and the consumers are spread equally along Andrew the street. Therefore, since Poh the prices and quality are Financially equal, the consumer can only base their choice on Fit distance. Naturally, the shop closest to them will receive their business.

Though Hotelling’s Model greatly simplifies a lot of real-life factors, it’s probable that most would opt for the closest grocery market to shop at. I can’t go out and compare every single price efore you turn away of every single product befrom this page, take tween each of the local gronote that I’m not gocery stores — they don’t pay ing to be talking about the me enough for that (I don’t stock market. No, no, deget paid at all) — but I can spite me being an economoffer some astute observaics major, I am far from betions from my multitude of ing of the caliber to even grocery trips. begin to make the slight Safeway is cheaper for est commentary in regard name brands like Captain to the stock market and its Crunch or Reese’s Puffs. incessant movements and The Co-op does carry machinations. some of the bigger name With that said, if you brands like Oreos, but thought this was going to charges a “fat tax” (as put be about the stock marby my housemate) to deket, then you should turn ter people from purchasaway. I may save that for a ing it. Trader Joe’s pretdifferent day. ty much stocks entirely Today, I will broach its own in-house brand, upon the somewhat tenwhich saves costs by cutder subject of choosing ting out the middleman. the right supermarket Just skip their preservafor you and your needs. tive-free breads and ceI’ll even throw in a bit reals because they oftenof economic theory to times taste stale and go whet the appetites of the bad in a scholarly matter of types.

Think of it as “measured days.

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Mart, amongst others.

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Ask EPPC: Get Paid to do it Editor’s note: The Environmental Policy and Planning Commission (EPPC) is an ASUCD commission responsible for researching environmental issues affecting the campus and its surrounding area, and providing recommendations for improvement.

Ever have an idea about something that could make Davis an even greener and more sustainable place? Do you need some extra cash to make it happen?

As UC Davis looks toward the future, there are now more ways than ever to get funding to turn your green ideas into a reality. If you have some sort of environmental idea, project, event, business plan, etc. that could make Davis a greener place, there is money available across campus targeted at empowering students to take up green initiatives.

One of the newest green funding opportunities on campus is the ASUCD Entrepreneurship Fund. The fund gives $1,500 in grants to aid students with business proposals that address a consumer problem and demonstrate potential for social entrepreneurship. The next round of applications is due Feb. 11 and ASUCD encourages everyone with ideas to apply! To do so, check out their website: asucd.ucdavis.edu/efund.

Another great way to get green funds on campus is through UC Davis Dining Services’ Go Green Grant

Program. These grants provide funding for individuals or groups of UC Davis students, staff and faculty to research, develop, implement and design solutions to campus sustainability challenges.

This year’s recipients include the Education for Sustainable Living Program, the ASUCD Bike Barn Tire Recycling Project, the Red Cup Cleanup and Wild Campus. Dining Services looks forward to continuing to support sustainability initiatives across campus and holds two application cycles per year, each offering up to $3,000 in grants.

Visit dining.ucdavis.edu/sus-green.html for more information.

ASUCD’sEnvironmentalPolicyandPlanningCommission (EPPC) also wants to support your green ideas on campus. EPPC can allocate $300 per quarter from its budget for funding environmental projects and events on campus.

Additionally, this commission can serve as a base for volunteers and can help get the word out about your event, group or project. If you would like to acquire a grant from EPPC, please contact the chairperson, Tanzi Jackson, at tpjackson@ucdavis.edu, to submit your proposal.

In addition to these, there are many other funding sources to help you do it green — such as scholarships and other grant opportunities. So the next time you have an idea about how UC Davis can do it green, keep these opportunities in mind!

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tuesday, january 22, 2013

Explosion at Russell Park leads to criminal investigation UC Davis researcher arrested Sunday

By NATASHA QABAZARD

Aggie News Writer

The UC Davis Police Department is conducting a criminal investigation into a chemical explosion that took place in an apartment in Russell Park during the early morning hours last Thursday.

The resident of the apartment, David Snyder, who was temporarily working as junior researcher at UC Davis, was injured during the explosion and was taken to a nearby hospital. Snyder was arrested and booked into the Yolo County Jail on Sunday.

Snyder is currently charged with possession of an explosive, possession of materials with an intent to make explosives and two counts of possession of a firearm on campus, with the potential of more charges. It took 20 hours for the Yolo County Bomb Squad to make the apartment safe. There is no information to suggest that Snyder was plotting any act of terrorism on campus.

According to UC Davis Chief of Police Matthew Carmichael, five buildings were evacuated at Russell Park, with a total of 40 units

UC Davis develops Global Ambassadors Mentorship Program Students help international students acclimate to life in new country

By LAUREN MASCARENHAS Aggie News Writer

Students from UC Davis and all around the world are coming together to form Global Ambassadors, a new mentorship program for international students set up by UC Davis Services for International Students and Scholars (SISS).

The Global Ambassadors consist of undergraduate students, many of whom have personal experiences with cross-cultural interactions.

They serve as mentors to international students, helping them acclimate to their new academic and social lives at Davis.

“I once was an international student and will never forget the challenges as well as the incredible experiences,” said Moira Delgado, the outreach coordinator for Global Ambassadors, in an email interview. “UC Davis is very de-centralized and it can be daunting to navigate the various academic departments as well as student services. Both language and cultural differences can pose barriers and the Global Ambassadors have both the empathy and skills to assist international students.”

The motivation to help current international students comes from personal experience for many of the mentors.

“When I first came to Davis last year as an international student, I was really confused about the college school system in America,” said Jen Jung Hyun Park, a thirdyear economics major, international student from South Korea and current mentor with Global Ambassadors. “I always thought it would be really useful to have a mentorship program.”

Other members in the program, who are not international students, have had traveling experiences that inspired them to become mentors.

“I’ve spent a lot of time overseas and I’ve spent a lot of time looking at things from a different perspective,” said Global Ambassador and fourthyear neurobiology, physiology and behavior major Sean Scott. “I’m very familiar with the way [the interna-

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At a press conference held on Saturday evening, Commander Nick Concolino of the Yolo County Bomb Squad said that many

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were not safe to transport a long distance, so bomb technicians found a safe space, off of Orchard Park, where they could destroy the substances safely,” Carmichael said.

tional students] feel.”

Global Ambassador Bianca Johnson first learned about the opportunity to be a part of Global Ambassadors while she was studying abroad.

“The idea of being a mentor was really exciting to me. My experience abroad gave me some familiarity with being unfamiliar in a strange new place and I wanted to be able to help others in that same position,” Johnson said in an email interview.

Mentors and mentees keep in touch every week and there are frequent activities for the international students to help them feel like Davis is their home away from home.

Mentors are trained to use what they know to help the international students with any questions they may have about academics or life in Davis, in general.

“My mentors — Andrea Rivas and Jen Park render me great help.

They spend a great deal of efforts on searching all the information of clubs, social events and useful courses for me, and they have even got office hours for their mentees — I truly appreciate it!” said Ka Sing Lee, an international student from Hong Kong majoring in economics, in an email interview.

Many Global Ambassadors feel that the mentor-mentee relationship is a mutually beneficial one.

“I think it is important to understand the mentee-mentor relationship. It really goes both ways and you can each learn from each other,” Johnson said.

Delgado believes that the program, though new, is off to a positive start.

“It is truly amazing to see the passion and compassion of the first cohort of Global Ambassadors and how much they have done so far,” she said.

Information about Global Ambassadors and how to apply to be a mentor next quarter can be found at siss.ucdavis.edu/ globalambassadors.htm.

LAUREN MASCARENHAS can be reached at campus@ theaggie.org.

UC President Mark Yudof announces resignation On Friday, Mark Yudof, UC president of five years, announced his plans to discontinue his tenure, effective Aug. 31.

Yudof cited his reason for resignation to be “taxing health issues” and because he believed it to be “an apt time for the University to bring in fresh leadership.”

The announcement came one day after the UC Board of Regents meeting.

“UC remains the premier public university system in the world, and I was both honored and humbled to serve as its president for what has been nearly five years now. I will miss my daily interactions across the system with so many dedicated, capable, and intellectually stimulating people,” his announcement stated.

Yudof also said that he, along with members of the entire UC community, have succeeded in preserving the quality of academics, research and healthcare, despite obstacles.

He said that the UC was made more accessible to low- and middle-income students through various initiatives such as the Blue and Gold Financial Aid program and the Project You Can Scholarship Program.

Most recently Yudof was named one of the Most Influential Forces in Higher Education by The Huffington Post for his handling of challenges during his term, including state funding cuts, tuition increases and public criticism.

Yudof’s salary in 2011 was $601,356.

Prior to his appointment as UC president, Yudof was chancellor of the University of Texas system. In his announcement, he said he will move to teaching law at UC Berkeley.

Police discovered explosive substances in a Russell Park apartment early Thursday morning. Junior UC Davis researcher David Snyder has been arrested on felony charges of possessing explosive materials and firearms in his apartment. and 74 persons being displaced. Tandem Properties and UC Davis Student Affairs provided housing and food to those individuals.

“Experts on the scene decided that some substances

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UC Online aims to increase number of courses offered online UC Online Education open to UC and non-UC students

By SASHA COTTERELL Aggie News Writer

Joining the growing number of other nationally ranked universities that offer online courses, the UC system is beginning to offer online courses to UC students through UC Online Education (UCOE).

In its first year, UCOE enrolled over 1,700 students.

From 2011 to 2012 UC campuses offered over 2,500 online courses, with more than 90,000 enrolled students, according to an online item of discussion at the Tuesday UC Board of Regents meeting.

Other universities, such as Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have also implemented online courses, known as

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Davis implements coyote coexistence plan Proposal ordered after coyote slayings

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Davis will launch a Coyote Management and Coexistence Plan following several encounters with coyotes.

By WENDY CHAO Aggie News Writer

The City of Davis is set to launch a Coyote Management and Coexistence Plan follow-

Forecast For those of you who went back to the Bay this weekend and enjoyed the gorgeous weather unfortunately it’s back to reality, known as cold Davis weather.

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ing incidents of human and animal endangerment last year.

In 2012, a U.S. Department of Agriculture specialist killed five coyotes that were found near Wildhorse Golf Course in July after receiving complaints

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from local residents. In addition, a house cat was captured and killed by a coyote in December in East Davis.

After these events, the new

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Yudof resignation

Looking forward to a stronger UC On Jan. 18 Mark Yudof, UC president of five years, announced he will step down in August.

He will move to the presumably less-demanding job of teaching law at UC Berkeley.

In his term, Yudof has led 10 campuses, medical centers and laboratories through a slew of hurdles: cuts in state funding, a considerable amount of criticism over the system’s response to student protests and the negative impact the failure of Proposition 30 could have had on the UC system.

We credit Yudof with introducing the privatization of the University and we hope his successor will be able to reverse this.

His written announcement stated that in his term, alongside members of the UC community, the fundamental attributes of the UC remained intact despite this “rough passage.” He also stated that in his term, the UC’s Blue and Gold financial aid program was made available for low- and middle-income students and over $671 mil-

lion was raised for students through the Project You Can Scholarship Program.

Yudof has also had a large hand in the efforts to increase the quality of administrative excellence through the Working Smarter Initiative and prioritized efforts to increase diversity on UC campuses through the systemwide Campus Climate Survey.

These are notable contributions to the UC system, but they are also things we would expect from any president.

Admittedly, having one of the most powerful positions in the state, and in education in general, is not an easy feat. Heck, it’s impressive the UC system is still standing.

However, like much of the other members of the Board of Regents, Yudof has been operating the University like a business. While some may have seen this as necessary given the economic crisis, it did not always lead to the best choices for students.

Hopefully, Yudof’s successor will focus his or her efforts on increasing access, affordability and quality to the UC.

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As usual, I think it is best to start the discussion of a topic by defining terms: A "coercive monopoly is a business concern that prohibits competitors from entering the field, with the natural result being that the firm is able to make pricing and production decisions independent of competitive forces."

(Wikipedia) Historical examples include the British East India Company, which had a monopoly on tea trade (this later helped fuel the American Revolution) and the First Bank of the United States, which had a monopoly on issuing money (now the Fed effectively does the same thing).

Coercive monopolies created by the government still exist today in areas such as mail (USPS), roads and utilities.

It has been suggested, often in order to criticize capitalism, that free markets lead to coercive monopolies. This is false, and can be demonstrated both in principle and historically.

In principle, it is impossible, because in a laissez-faire capitalist society there are no government subsidies or monopolies, and so competition is never truly impossible.

Even if competing with cer-

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online Cont. from front page massive open online courses (MOOCs). Although MOOCs are free, they provide no course credit.

UCOE differs in that all the courses offer credits to both UC and nonUC students.

UCOE is free for students who are already attending a UC; non-UC students, however, must pay a fee.

“One of the things we hope is that it will be another source of funding to the university,” said Keith Williams, UCOE interim director.

Williams also added that it will be useful for high school students or community college students who are looking for courses they can get credit for.

Some are skeptical of the lack of information about how exactly the system will receive additional funding.

UC Student Regent Jonathan Stein said he sees the merits of implementing online courses, but would like to see an improved plan of how it will help the UC make money.

“We don’t know how online classes for UC students will save us money and we have no idea how potential classes for non-UC students will make us money,” Stein said.

James Carey, professor and director in the department of entomology who will have an online course

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“Living at Russell Park for the past two years has not made me feel unsafe. But since the incident of the explosives, it makes me wonder how many other grad students are experimenting with their lab work in a residential environment,” said Ayda Soltani, a third-year civil engineering student and resident at Russell

Students struggle with graduate school application costs Different programs offer alternatives, waive fees

By RITIKA IYER

Learning a synchronized swim routine with the Russian synchronized swimming Olympic team is not something that most tourists traveling to Moscow book a tour for. When most people dream of traveling the world, racing doesn’t come to mind either.

But for UC Davis alum Ryan Danz, competition ruled the world as he made a mad dash through six countries across the globe as a contestant on the 21st season of “The Amazing Race,” which aired from September to December 2012.

“I had watched the show off and on since its inception,” Danz said. “It’s one of those things to me that anybody would do in a second if given the chance.”

“The Amazing Race” first aired in 2001 and now has over 10 million viewers per week. It is a reality television show in which 11 contestant pairs advance through nations across the world by gathering clues and performing challenges relevant to life in the featured countries.

Danz, who graduated from UC Davis in the winter of 1999 as an economics major, competed in the show with his girlfriend Abbie Ginsberg.

“Ryan was a great partner to have — he’s very driven, strong and determined,” Ginsberg said. “He was high in intensity, but I could rely on him as a partner.”

The couple traveled through China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, Russia and Amsterdam, and were eliminated on the ninth episode, which aired on Nov. 25.

“We accomplished one of the best records of all time,” Danz said. “We won several rounds, including the first round, and we also placed within the top four on many others.”

Since the couple won the first leg of the race traveling from Los Angeles to Shanghai, the prize money eligible to them alone was doubled, increasing their incentive of winning to $2 million.

Although both contestants’ families were aware of the couple’s participation in the race, Danz’s mother Marilyn Pallister watched the show without any idea of the final outcome.

“I was going back and forth for two months,” Pallister said. “Everyone would say to me, ‘You know the ending!’ And I would tell them that ‘what you see is what I see.’”

Before competing on the show and having received a notable amount of fame nationwide, Danz lived and worked in San Diego, Calif.

“In 2011, Abbie and I were watching a previous season and we decided we would work on an audition tape,” Danz said. “There’s thousands of people who apply, and it’s one of those

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UC Davis alum Ryan Danz and his girlfriend Abbie Ginsberg competed in the 21st season of “The Amazing Race.” things that you think, ‘Why would they pick me?’”

Ginsberg said that Danz’s persistence, enthusiasm and followthrough on creating an audition tape were what allowed them to get to where they are now.

“It’s one thing to say, ‘Yeah, lets do it,’ but to actually say, ‘Let’s put a tape in’ is a whole different thing,” she said.

“That’s the cool thing about Ryan.

When he gets an idea in his head, he is on it the next day.”

The couple found out they would be contestants in April of last year, and filmed in May and June.

“I thought it was going to be a perfect venue for them to share their relationship in,” Pallister said. “It’s almost like someone is paying you to travel around the world and experience different cultures and different foods.”

The experience for the contestants may look like fun and games, but Danz described some parts as frustrating.

“In the beginning, it was a lot more stressful than we predicted and planned for,” Danz said. “Abbie and I had our tiffs during training, so when the race started we had gotten some of our stuff out of the way.”

It was evident to both Danz and Ginsberg that the pair was getting stronger as a team and as a couple as days passed.

“Where my strengths are, he might not be so strong, and he is better than me at a lot of things too,” Ginsberg said. “We balanced each other out as a couple really well.”

Although viewers see the contestants moving from one country to the next every week, contestants were traveling every two to three days.

“There was so much adrenaline in every moment that travel didn’t exhaust us,” Danz said. “Travel was time to sleep, eat and re-energize. To slow down and get back to normalcy.”

Overall, even with the rough physical and mental challenges the duo had to face, along with the hardship of losing, Danz said that he enjoyed his time on the show.

“Even though we couldn’t win, we got to travel to places that we would have never imagined,” Ginsberg said.

“You aren’t seeing the tourist areas. It’s a one-of-a-kind tour of the world.”

Danz said he learned many life lessons along the way.

“Watching the show back, I got to see myself in a different light, how competitive I am,” Danz said. “The pro to this is that it’s an important quality to have if you want to be successful. The con is that it was also abrasive.”

As the show progressed, both America and the other competitors viewed the pair as an alpha couple — people who would do anything to win, something that Danz didn’t think was portrayed accurately.

“It’s like when you realize that maybe Santa Claus isn’t real, and seeing your parents putting the presents under the tree,” Danz said. “Having been such big fans, it was a reality check that it is a TV show first and then an actual race, which was kind of disappointing.”

A clip of Danz mentioning being a UC Davis graduate did air on the show.

“Every experience that he had at UC Davis has become a part of who he is now,” Pallister said. “[UC Davis] really is a shining bright star in the whole valley.”

Danz was recently contacted by a publisher and asked to write a book about his passions for practicing law and the Brazilian martial art form Jiu Jitsu, to be titled Jiu Jitsu Jurisprudence.

As advice to college students both in Davis and across the world, Danz said that it is important to take steps every day toward a goal.

“For me, I always try to do something every day to open a door, to advance myself,” he said. “My goal right now is to sell as many copies as possible. You can’t skip from A to Z. You have to go through B to Y.”

this spring, explains the UCOE to be “online done right.”

“It is not about putting a camera in front of a podium and saying that’s an online course,” he said.

Carey says that one of the many benefits is that online courses are helpful for non-native English speakers, students with learning disabilities or students who merely want to review the material again. Also, since everything is done online, instructors are able to see how long a student is taking on a particular problem and evaluate how the class is doing.

Currently, there is no easy way for cross-campus enrollment between the different online courses, but UCOE is developing a system that would provide students with this option.

“UC online focus is really on UC students, better access to classes and more flexibility,” said UC media

specialist Shelly Meron.

Moreover, Carey explains that the online courses are not only beneficial to students, but that the instructors also have much to gain from online instruction. “ T h e preparation, the thinking more deeply about how the content is delivered online — how you assess content and so forth, James Kim / Aggie makes you a better instructor,” Carey said.

Carey said he is sure that in the future, online courses will appeal to all students.

“Every student at the University of California, and in the country, is going to experience online courses.

This is absolutely the future, there is no question,” he said.

Ten campuses have currently completed plans or are in the process of developing plans for online education.

Park apartments. “I hope his intentions were not to harm anyone, but he should’ve [taken] into account that he was risking residents’ lives and a lot of children who attend the daycare on the complex. I guess even a PhD degree won’t get you common sense.”

In addition to the Yolo County Bomb Squad, teams that were involved at rendering the apartment safe included the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); California Highway Patrol and Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.

“I was shocked that something like this could happen in Russell

Park,” said Imaan Taghavi, a second-year civil engineering major and resident at Russell Park apartments. “It is such a benign complex — there are never parties or cops for anything here. I am glad that the police were able to control the situation, as there was a potential for it to be a lot worse than it was.”

Snyder’s bail is set at $2 million.

Snyder received a bachelor’s degree and PhD in Chemistry from UC Davis in 2004 and 2011, respectively. His temporary position as a chemistry researcher was set to expire at the end of January.

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With its infamously high tuition, attending law school seems like a pricey ambition. Now, with students applying to six to eight schools on average and application fees up to $100 each, even admissions may be pushing financial limitations.

The numbers seem notably high, with students potentially spending $1,000 on applications alone. However, the cost-benefit of applying to law school is affected by other factors as well.

To start, there are several ways to waive application fees. Attaining a certain GPA can also result in free applications to certain schools. Furthermore, many students prepared to pay or take out loans to pay law school tuition are reasonably confident in financial security after receiving his or her degree.

“I think the assumption is if you feel like you can afford law school at all, the $80 to $100 application fee isn’t going to stop you,” said Brian Walters, a UC Davis alumnus and current student at McGeorge Law School. “Over three years, my law school is going to cost $150,000, and that’s about what the average school costs.”

At the UC Davis School of Law, there is a one-time nonrefundable application fee of $75, which is the same as UC Davis’ sister law schools, Hastings, UCLA and UC Berkeley.

“Our application fee is essentially a processing fee,” said Sharon Pinkney, assistant dean of admission and enrollment at the UC Davis School of Law, in an email interview. “It covers the cost of, among other things, application processing in the admissions department. A portion of the fees collection [also] goes to the main UCD campus or UCOP.” Pinkney stated that this distribution of the application fees is standard practice for pretty much all colleges and universities with admissions application fees. With the convenience of the law school application process, however, it is easy to see how one might be tempted to apply to more schools than one can afford.

“The application for law schools is actually really awesome,” Walters said.

“They have this organization called the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC).

So you put together all your information in one general application for pretty much all the schools — your cover letters, your letters of recommendation — and you send them to LSAC. Then you can go online and check the boxes for which cover letters you want to go to which school, and they can distribute everything for you.”

Pinkney does not believe that piling up fees prevents students from applying to as many schools as they might wish to, though.

“Almost every school has

YUEN Cont. from page 6 it, though, you could golf a pitching wedge over that.

So in the new and improved version of baseball, why don’t we stick the outfield fence at about 40,000 yards, your typical par-fourlength hole (instead of 400 feet, we’re going to have 120,000 feet).

Before you start thinking this is insane, I’ll have you know that we are going to make a bat out of vibranium (thank you, Captain America) and make the ball out of whatever material it is that makes Thor’s hammer so heavy. I guess it’d be whoever is fit to hold it or something like that, but using a different definition of fit than they intended, I’m pretty sure any athlete on steroids will be fit enough.

This super-powered baseball would require some omnioculars from the Harry Potter universe because unfortunately fans can’t take steroids to help their eye-

in place some sort of fee waiver option,” Pinkney said. “The LSAC provides need-based fee waivers. [At] the UC Davis Admission office our application fee is automatically waived for anyone who has been granted an LSAC fee waiver.”

The UC Davis School of Law also waives the application fee for anyone who’s been involved in Teach for America, the Peace Corps or other select organizations, provided that they participated within one year of their application.

“We also provide some merit-based fee waivers to encourage students with excellent academic records to apply,” Pinkney said.

Walters is an example of this, in fact, having received many offers to apply to law schools for free.

“For a while, I was getting [an offer] every two weeks — for schools that I had absolutely no desire of going to, but it was nice, and I only had a 3.5 GPA,” Walters said.

Walters said he applied to 11 schools, and on average the application fees were about $80 each.

The issue of application fees is not limited to law schools alone.

Medical schools have a similar application process with the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS).

“Medical school applicants apply to one facility, so they fill out an AMCAS application, [which is] an application service that most medical schools subscribe to,” said Joanna Garcia, UC Davis School of Medicine admissions coordinator.

“They fill that out and then choose which schools they would like it to go to. Then that service sends it out to the different medical schools.”

After the AMCAS application has been submitted, applicants may be invited to submit secondary applications to particular schools.

Right now, the UC Davis School of Medicine secondary application fee is $80, and like the law school, there are no immediate plans to lower it.

Despite these fees now, and of course tuition later, Walters, who has been interested in politics since middle school and has shadowed lawyers and studied international law since, said that he thinks law school is worth the price.

“The higher pay over my lifetime will be generally worth it,” Walters said. “And it’s worth doing what I want to do. There are so many different kinds of law to go into, and in most you can make pretty good money. So while at first it’s going to be a little restrictive, after a few years I’ll have by debts paid and I’ll be on my way to financial security. If you’re willing to be in that kind of debt, I don’t think an $80 application fee is going to stop you.”

NAOMI NISHIHARA can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

sight. With a 40,000-yard field, we’re going to have ourselves quite a game.

All of this sounded like a good idea in my head, but now that I’ve written it down, it doesn’t sound so great. But that’s usually how it is for all my ideas.

I guess all of this is an attempt to keep sports pure by quarantining off all the rest into a whole new sport. But it seems like we’re so inherently competitive that, even with the other sport, you’re going to have new ways to enhance performance show up.

It makes you really appreciate the players that achieved these feats without any sort of performanceenhancers that we know of.

Here’s to them, whose records are falling, whose names are being knocked down in the record books, who put in the hours to foster their talent and skills.

MATTHEW YUEN has been staying up all night watching the Australian Open this past week. Send him a wake-up call at sports@ theaggie.org.

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h the world of sports.

Lance Armstrong, the man who has created a movement based on the statement “LiveStrong,” has admitted to doping.

Apparently he was taking the “strong” part very seriously.

I think I, as an eighth grader, had the right idea.

I wore a yellow Livestrong band to be cool. I wore it so much it tore, and I stapled it back together. Then it tore again and I stapled it. This continued until the yellow band just said “Live,” and the only way I could take it off was by cutting it.

I never wanted to believe it when reports surfaced that one athlete after another had done the ‘roids.

When the Mitchell Report came out, I downloaded and saved it on my computer saved as “LIES” (yes, all caps), with every intention of reading it and ripping apart George Mitchell for his demonic act of ruining baseball. Then I saw it was 409 pages. To this day, it’s only been opened a couple of times, those times when I’m feeling particularly vindictive.

Still, I always want to believe in athletes. News reports came out that Lance Armstrong was “considering admitting doping.”

What does that even mean?

Honestly there’s not much more you can reveal if you say that you’re thinking about telling people you used performance-enhanc-

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ing drugs.

It is pretty sad that my default assumption for players who are having breakout years and are playing well is that they must have taken something. It didn’t use to be like this. But so many have fallen.

Except Derek Jeter. Jeter is the man. Everyone can say what they want, but the Captain is truly a role model for all athletes, in terms of work ethic, integrity and responsibility.

But I don’t have to convince anyone of anything.

What I really think we can do is figure out some sports where steroids are encouraged, and therefore the only way juicers would be considered cheating is if they didn’t use any PEDs. In which case they would just be getting destroyed.

I can’t really imagine football being any more manly than it already is. It’ll stay as is.

In order to get back to our roots, we should make stone-cycling. Create tandem bikes carved out of boulders that two riders will ride. They can juice up all they want and pump in a whole bunch of extra adult red blood cells but it’s going to take some serious effort and strength to succeed.

This course will also be up in the Sierra Nevadas through a grueling trail over the mountains. Good luck.

Because America’s favorite pasttime is also my favorite sport to watch, I really don’t like it when reports surface about failed drug tests.

So, the only failed drug test in our neo-baseball will be one in which they don’t test positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

Here, we’ll change the dimensions of the field. It’s always so odd to me that a typical center-field wall is about 400 feet, which is a long way to hit a baseball. When I think about

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Hawkins explodes in Hawai’i Aggies break records, sweep road games

By KIM CARR

Aggie Sports Writer

Eight minutes into Thursday’s game, UC Davis was already trailing Cal State Northridge by 11 points.

The Aggies have been prone to slow starts this season and head coach Jim Les has been waiting for them to make a stand on defense.

They did. Sophomore J.T. Adenrele spearheaded the defensive effort that held the Matadors to only four points for the remaining 12 minutes of the half. Meanwhile, the Aggie offense went on an 18-point run that gave them a 30-27 lead at the half.

The sparring returned after the break and the teams continued to swap the lead back and forth. The Aggies grabbed the lead midway through the second half, but this time, they refused to let it go.

Senior Paolo Mancasola scored a career-high 18 points, including a very well-timed three-pointer that secured the 74-71 win for UC Davis.

The win was much needed after an ugly loss to UC Santa Barbara at home last week.

Coyote Cont. from front page plan will call for conditioning of the wild coyotes to fear and stay away from human residents and their pets. The plan considers the coyotes to be urban predators, and in the case of an attack, the Davis Police are authorized to kill them or notify the California Department of Fish and Game.

“The city’s strategy for managing coyotes is based on balancing respect and protection for wildlife and their habitats without compromising public safety,” the Coyote Management and Coexistence Plan stated. “The main strategy is comprised of a threepronged approach consisting of public education designed around coexistence with coyotes; investigating coyote sightings and implementing hazing as needed; and ensuring public safety by implementing appropriate responses to an aggressive interaction or attack

"We have played in so many close games, it is frustrating at times when you are just there and it does not go your way. We feel that we are a better team than our record indicates," Mancasola said.

Mancasola and the team must have kept that momentum in their carry-ons as they crossed the Pacific to face off against one of the Big West Conference’s most dangerous teams.

Hawai’i has been championed by their 6’8” junior forward all season long. Christian Hardinger has averaged 15 points per game for the Rainbow Wahine, and his team had yet to be defeated at home.

Surprisingly, the Aggies came out of the game with a fire of their own. They led 54-37 at the half and Hawkins had already banked 21 points, which is three higher than his game average of 18.

UC Davis continued to scorch in the second half. Hawkins added another 19 points to his tally, earning him a grand total of 40 in the game.

Somehow, he landed that monstrous, school-record setting sum from a mere 14 shots. His eight three-point-

ers tied the school record that was shared by senior Ryan Howley and junior Tyler Les. Coach Les had nothing but praise for his team after their 93-82 victory over Hawai’i. He lauded the contribution of Mancasola and Adenrele but he was most impressed by Hawkin’s work ethic and seemingly limitless abilities.

"That is as good as it gets; he has been spending time in the gym before practice, after practice and before games constantly working on his jumper. How often do you see someone score 40 points off 14 shots? He was unbelievably efficient tonight,” Les said. “We want the ball in his hands, especially late in the game; there is nothing more discouraging to an opposing team that is trying to catch up than someone who makes his free throws."

UC Davis now stands 3-3 in conference with games against fellow 3-3 Cal State Fullerton and 2-4 UC Riverside and two wins this week would go a long way toward earning them a top spot in conference.

by a coyote on a human.”

Some students have said they feel as if the plan is a bit too extreme, stating that it is unnecessary to harm the animals.

“I feel like there should be some regulation to a certain degree where we can keep people safe, but I don’t think we should go to a point where we should kill them [the coyotes],” said first-year pharmaceutical chemistry major Tiffany Le. “That would hinder the food chain.”

Other students have said that they recognize the importance of Davis’ coexistence plan.

“Well, I’ve read that coyotes are naturally afraid of humans, and usually only come near to forage for food.

So I wouldn’t think they’d be too large a problem in a city like Davis, but they must be if the city is implementing a policy,” said third-year environmental science and management major Meghan Call.

Community members and students have said that they do not advocate kill-

ing the coyotes that attack people, but also acknowledged the need for safety in the community.

“While I do not think shooting them on site is a good idea ecologically, depending on the population statistics, I understand the imperative need to protect citizens of Davis,” Call said.

While they comprehend the danger that coyotes present, they have also said that the safety of the animals also matters.

“I understand that in extreme cases they [the city] might need to euthanize an extremely aggressive animal.

But I would hope that the city of Davis would take all steps possible to save the animal,” said first-year mathematics major Heather LaFever. “I would much prefer tranquilization and relocation to euthanasia.”

The plan was placed on on the city’s consent calendar last week for approval.

KIM CARR can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

WENDY CHAO can be reached at city@theaggie.org.