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Monday, January 28, 2013

Explosive materials detonated at Student Farm Chemicals retrieved from Russell Park explosion

By ROHIT RAVIKUMAR Aggie News Writer

On the night of Jan. 17, eight explosions were heard by residents of the on-campus living community the Domes and surrounding complexes.

These explosions were the result of materials detonated at the site of the UC Davis Student Farm by police and other officials.

The materials were among those recovered from 418 Russell Park, home of chemistry researcher David Snyder, earlier that day. Snyder, in police custody under charges of possession of explosives and firearms, was injured in a chemical explosion occurring in the early hours of Jan. 17.

The Yolo County Bomb Squad, after searching and clearing his apartment, recovered multiple hazardous materials.

“Experts on the scene decided that some substances 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,” said UC Davis Chief of Police Matt Carmichael in a Jan. 19 press conference.

The space they chose was the Student Farm, a plot of land for student use managed by the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI). The Student Farm includes the Market Garden, where students can grow and sell crops, as well as other multiple areas serving educational purposes.

Nearly 20 acres of the Student Farm is certified organic by the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). The Market Garden is certified to grow multiple crops, including alfalfa, grapes, mixed vegetables, olives and popcorn, organically.

Soil samples from the Student Farm were taken by the Yolo County Bomb Squad as standard procedure both before and after the chemical detonations. After the CCOF’s investigation of the land, the Student Farm remained certified organic, according to Patricia Bailey with the UC Davis News Service.

The decision to move the materials from

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Substances found in David Snyder’s home in Russell Park were destroyed in a controlled explosion at the Student Farm near the Domes.

418 Russell Park to the Student Farm was not an arbitrary one.

“The field selected was the closest open area in which [the detonations] could be done safely,” Bailey said.

The detonations themselves were loud enough to disrupt the sleep of some residents of the Domes, though they were giv-

en notice shortly before the explosives were detonated.

“Residents of the Domes, if they were at home, were notified in person by police officers on the evening of Thursday, Jan. 17, prior to the supervised explosions,” Bailey said.

However, Duskin Drum, resident of the Domes and cinema and technocultural

Congressman opens new Davis District Office Garamendi announces internship aimed at college students

By PAAYAL ZAVERI Aggie Staff Writer

On Thursday, Congressman John Garamendi officially opened his new Davis District Office at 412 G St. About 200 constituents attended his open house to meet the congressman, his wife Patti and office staff.

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Congressman John Garamendi

Garamendi represents California's 3rd congressional district. He said that Davis is the geographic center of the district and a critical part of the community, so much of the work he will be doing is going to be centered on Davis and the university.

“We are working to make sure constituents know what services are available to them from this office,” said Donald Lathbury, Garamendi’s

communications director.

Garamendi’s constituent casework team was also present at the open house to talk to community members and get a sense of what issues people are concerned about.

“Our team understands that our job first and foremost is service,” said Karen Tedford, Garamendi’s district director and constituent casework manager, in a press release. “It’s easy for someone who doesn’t know the lay of the land to get lost trying to resolve a problem with a federal agency. We do what we can to break through bureaucratic gridlock when it harms our constituents.”

The open house was also a time for Garamendi’s office to announce

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Campus Climate study to be conducted at UC Davis Aggie News Writer

The University of California is conducting the largest university system climate study through the distribution of campus climate surveys.

The results will be used to help create an atmosphere of inclusiveness and community on UC campuses.

“There was a felt need on the part of the entire UC system to survey all of the university community: faculty, staff, undergrads, grads, professional students, folks over at the health center. They’re hoping to establish a baseline to be able to see whether interventions to improve campus climate were effective or not,” said Julia Ann Easley, senior public information representative at the UC Davis News Service.

The project is being funded by the UC President's Initiative Fund, with-

Today’s weather Mostly Sunny High 56 Low 36

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Forecast A little better than last week, especially if there’s no rain in the forecast.

Dial Hoang, atmospheric science major Aggie Forecasting Team

Tour de Cluck looking for coop submissions Submissions due by Feb. 15

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The Tour de Cluck is looking for coop submissions for this year’s coop crawl. The Tour de Cluck is a self-led bicycle tour of the chicken coops around Davis.

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out the use of student tuition or outside sources.

The surveys, which were first administered on Oct. 29, 2012 at other UC campuses and will continue through February 2013, contain questions addressing concerns of students, faculty and staff regarding how they feel about their community, with the hopes of identifying particular groups in the campus community who feel that they are not represented.

“A lot of our survey is asking about the perceptions of our community over a lot of other stuff,” said Kirk McGregor, a graduate student representative involved in conducting the survey project.

According to David Ritz, vocational rehabilitation counselor in the department of human resources, these

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Survey to promote campus inclusiveness across UC system

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studies teaching assistant, was not satisfied with the advance notice.

“Why were we, the next door residents not briefed? We were told to stay in our domes and not ask questions, essentially,” Drum said through email.

Davis’ annual Tour de Cluck will be back on May 25 and is anticipated to be even better than previous years.

Tour de Cluck started as a series of fundraisers for the Davis Farm to School Connection. As the event returned each year, it grew in size and importance, and now a number of different community organizations also benefit from the event.

“The idea behind it is that we are trying to emphasize community organizations, but also how keeping chickens in your backyard is a sustainable practice, [and] how eating locally and healthy is important,” said Neil Ruud, Tour de Cluck event coordinator and UC Davis alumnus.

The main event is a self-led bicycle tour of the different chicken coops around town. However, there are a number of other events throughout the day that involve the whole community.

Events begin with the Davis Fowl Food Fair at the Davis Farmers’ Market and the Tour de Cluck kickoff celebration outside the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame. Additionally, the Tour de Cluck Silent Auction and Art Exhibit will continue throughout the day.

The only significant change this year is a change in leadership. Jacqueline Clemens now has the position of mother hen emeritus.

“We have been planning for this transition since the first event in 2010. The incredibly surprising success put us on notice that we were on to something,” Clemens said in a statement.

Davis has about 200 chicken coops spread across town.

Community members who offer their coops for the bicycle

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Wednesday

Mostly sunny

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High 59 Low 37

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So vitaminwater isn’t healthy...despite claims such as “vitamins + water = all you need.”

You mean pink sugary fruit-drink won’t cure my mom’s cancer? I want my money back.

Allison Ferrini

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MONDAY Village Homes Performers’ Circle 6:45 to 9 p.m.

2661 Portage Bay Join the Village Homes Performers’ Circle for an acoustic open mic for all kinds of artistic performances. Sign-ups for the open mic begin at 6:45. Tree-O, a Davis acoustic trio, will be performing originals from their just-released second CD at 8:30.

TUESDAY FAHC Second General Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

226 Wellman Join the Filipino Association for Health Careers’ second general meeting, featuring a career panel led by a dietician.

The Bayanihan Clinic will be doing a presentation about their student-run free clinic. There will be other events and free food.

WEDNESDAY Breakthrough Collaborative’s Summer Job Information Session Noon to 1 p.m.

229 South Join Breakthrough Collaborative and find out how to be a competitive applicant for paid summer jobs teaching underserved middle school students. For more information, go to their website at breakthroughcollaborative.org.

Applications are due on Feb. 25.

Cultural Programmer Information Session 7 to 8 p.m.

Regan Main Visit an informational meeting about the opportunities of being a Cultural Programmer for the 2013-14 school year.

Primary responsibilities include providing culturally-based programming, support and mentorship for new students living in the Living Learning Community.

THURSDAY Technocultural Studies Club Introductory Workshop 6 to 7 p.m.

TCS Mac Lab, Art Annex

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Join us for a workshop focusing on music composition for those who have little to no experience with music theory or music software. For further information, contact Steven Gordon at swgordon@ucdavis. edu.

FRIDAY Woodland Animal Shelter Adoption Sale Noon to 4 p.m.

Woodland Animal Shelter Celebrate My Furry Valentine with discounted adoption rates for all dogs and cats from the Woodland Animal Shelter.

Help save a life for the same price as buying a coffee — all adoptions are $5.

For more information or to see pictures of the adoptable animals, go to their Facebook page at facebook.com/YCAS. Shelter.

The Art of Athletes 5 to 7 p.m.

Basement Gallery, Art Building Join us for the fourth annual art show featuring the work of current intercollegiate student-athletes enrolled in all four undergraduate colleges at UC Davis. Exhibition is free and open to the public.

SATURDAY The Art of Athletes Noon to 6 p.m.

Basement Gallery, Art Building Join us for the fourth annual art show featuring the work of current intercollegiate student-athletes enrolled in all four undergraduate colleges at UC Davis. Exhibition is free and open to the public.

SUNDAY

The Art of Athletes 1 to 5 p.m.

Basement Gallery, Art Building Join us for the fourth annual art show featuring the work of current intercollegiate student-athletes enrolled in all four undergraduate colleges at UC Davis.

Exhibition is free and open to the public.

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civic youth engagement and promote service.

Maxine Saria, a fourthyear international relations and Spanish double major, said she completed the internship last spring and found it to be an amazing experience.

Garamendi recently received his subcommittee assignments and will be working on projects related to transportation, water and military issues concerning Northern California.

“I represented this community as a state senator in the 1980s, and it’s an honor to once again serve you. My title is ‘Representative,’ and I take that responsibility very seriously,” Garamendi said at the open house.

Cont. from front page the new Congressional Civic Internship Program in its Davis office, which is aimed at students from UC Davis and surrounding community colleges. It is modeled after the Washington, D.C. internship program that it offers as well.

Interns can gain experience working on projects relating to research, policy, communication and legislation. They work directly with a mentor and also complete a civic intern project by the end of the program.

According to Andrew Kim, Garamendi’s special projects director and internship coordinator, the PAAYAL ZAVERI can be reached at city@ internship aims to create theaggie.org.

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helped found the Davis Farmers’ Market.

In addition to the main bicycle tour, the event will also feature Chicken Skool presentations that educate people about chicken coops and the work that goes into them. These will begin before the Tour de Cluck event.

“Although the majority of the event is on May 25, there are some other things we do in the community to promote those ideas and support the organizations,” Ruud said.

Tickets for the Tour de Cluck will go on sale in April.

Cont. from front page tour are called Clucksters.

Currently, they are looking for coop submissions for this year’s coop crawl. The deadline is Feb.15.

They are also looking for art submissions for their silent auction and art exhibit.

According to the press release, each coop will have a backyard chicken expert to provide information to those who are interested in starting their own coop.

“They [my chickens] make me feel like I’m living on a self-sufficient farm, even in my suburban community,” said Ann M. PAAYAL ZAVERI can be reached at city@ Evan, a former mayor who theaggie.org.

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fended. You can’t believe these sort of products exist amidst the freedom tampons promise the modern Elli woman. That is exactly how Pearson I reacted before I learned Here’s to more about these options, too.

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ing at cute clothing because Lookbook gives outfits that were more tailored toward her Eugenia style. “Pintrest has more Chung stuff that I would wear.

Beauty and Lookbook is more edgy the beast and sophisticated.”

I decided to check out LookMazing to see how it compares.

Basically, this website allows people to show off their outfits online through uploading pictures. Then people ookMazing is a new tag the clothes they’re site I recently heard wearing in the picture. about from an intern, sophomore Bella Ly. When other people like the look, they can click When asked what exacton the picture to see all ly LookMazing is, she exthe individual articles of plained, “LookMazing is clothing that make up a new SF startup fashyour outfit. Here’s the ion social network. It altwist, the aspect that lows people to upload their outfits and fashion/ makes it different: when other people make purmake-up videos, tag the chases through your clothes they are wearlook, you can receive ing so other people can points. These points are recreate their looks. And redeemable for gift cards. you can shop on the site I found that too!”

LookMazing caters to a I remember thinkvariety of looks suitable ing “Oh that’s pretfor all different styles. ty cool, but that sounds There are looks for those exactly like Lookbook. who rock an edgier style nu, or even Pintrest. as well as sweeter looks. com and Tumblr.com.”

It also ranges from casuConsidering that I only al to semi-formal wear. have a Facebook and a The only thing lacking is Tumblr, I’m no expert on maybe the selection of social networking sites, looks for men. Scrolling but they all kind of seem through the site, I only relatively similar. To those unfamiliar to these caught a handful of them. websites, Pintrest is a There is also a closvirtual pin-board where et component, which I people can “pin” and also found unique. By share images with each tagging your clothing, other. you begin building your There’s an endless vaown virtual closet. You riety of things shared, can see how other peofrom clothes to recipes. Tumblr is a blog that ple style the same articles of clothing that you allows users to share own, including those thoughts, images, vidwho have been inspired eos and even music via by you and purchased posts on the dashboard. through your looks. You Lookbook sounds exactcan see how they rely what Bella described styled your look with LookMazing to be. It’s a that parsite where people There are looks for those who ticular purchase. post their rock an edgier style as well as In addioutfits, tion, you sweeter looks. and you can look can click through on particyour ular looks and see where an article of clothing was friends’ closets or their wish list. That way, you’ll purchased. never have a problem Don’t get me wrong, I with what to get somethink all these sites are one for their birthday. great for drawing inspi On the website, I also ration from or for exfound that there’s an onpressing oneself. I know line magazine compopersonally — I went on nent, featuring different Pintrest, even though I fashion bloggers, as well didn’t have one, to find as spotting trends at difideas for Halloween cosferent universities. tumes. These sites are LookMazing is holding also a great way to kill an event at Gap in Davis some time. I’ve probably spent hours on Lookbook on Feb. 7, from 6 to 9 p.m.

There will be stylists and a browsing through cute professional photo booth at outfits during a boring Gap, so people will be able lecture in the stuffy lecto dress in Gap attire and ture hall of the Social have pictures taken of their Sciences Building. looks. Whole Foods will not Although these soonly be catering the event, cial networking sites are they will also possibly probased upon the same principle of sharing ideas vide makeup artists in order to promote a “clean cosmetwith the public, I think ics” event as well. they also all do so with a Gap will be offering a distwist that distinguishes count on purchases, so you them from one another. can add new clothing into For example, my your virtual LookMazing roommate, sophocloset and see how others more chemistry mastyle the same pieces. jor Jocelyn Munoz, once told me that she preferred Pintrest more than EUGENIA CHUNG can be reached at ehchung@ucdavis.edu.

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Senate ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Thursday, Jan. 24 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.

The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings.

Meeting called to order at 6:14 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, present Joyce Han, ASUCD senator, present, left for an hour at 7 p.m.

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 Sterling and Carly Sandstrom said that the ASUCD Job Initiative will begin this year. They will work together with the chancellor’s office, the Cal Aggie Alumni Association and the Internship and Career Center to bring a two-part event that will target first- and second-year students to inform them about resources on campus, as well as upperclassmen who are looking for jobs outside of Davis. Among the resources offered will be resume building, interview practice and the chance to speak with alumni from various fields.

Appointments and confirmations Joshua Rosen and Connie Tsai were appointed to the

Student Health and Wellness Committee.

Joohi Kasliwal was appointed as Education Abroad Center (EAC) commissioner.

Danielle Burnstein was appointed as director of ASUCD Entertainment Council.

Unit director reports Anni Kimball, director of Cal Aggie Camp, said that she created three new positions. She is currently focusing on outreach for applications, which will be accepted from Feb. 24 to Mar. 1. The website will be launched soon, and criteria for counselors and campers are currently being finalized.

Consideration of old legislation Senate Bill 42, authored by Eric Renslo and introduced

by Kappes, to amend the procedure to suspend a bylaw.

Sterling vetoed the bill, saying it was unnecessary. Renslo explained that the bill strengthens and protects the bylaws.

In an 8-3-1 vote, the veto was overridden.

Senate Bill 35, authored by Spencer McManus, co-authored

by Justin Goss, changes the procedures for interviewing people who are re-applying for positions that they currently hold, so that re-applicants have a slightly different interviewing process than those applying for the position for the first time.

Sterling vetoed the bill, saying that the same interviewing process should be upheld for each interviewee.

Though the veto stated that it could potentially be discriminatory, McManus said that if applicants already have the position on their resume then it is not discriminatory, but merely asking better questions.

In a 9-3-0 vote, the veto was overridden. Topf, Ong and Bottoms voted to uphold the veto.

Senate Bill 32, authored by Joshua Herskovitz, co-authored

by Henry Chatfield, Melanie Maemura, Patrick Sheehan and Gareth Smythe, implements a long-range plan for

Entertainment Council, including finding more workers with experience in event planning and building and retaining a large volunteer base. The bill passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 44, authored by Maemura, co-authored by Sergio Cano, Min, Sterling and Rylan Schaeffer, to clarify the purpose and practices of the Internet and Networking Committee (INC). In an 11-0-1 vote, the bill passed. Han was absent.

Senate Bill 45, authored by Smythe, co-authored by Kapur, requires the chairperson of any ASUCD committee to publicize the meeting times and locations for the ASUCD Senate and members of the public 24 hours prior to the start of the committee meeting. The bill passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 37, authored by McManus, co-authored by Kapur, requires that a unit’s adoptive senator to be invited to interviews for that unit’s director position. McManus said that this doesn’t change who is required to be there, only the composition of the interviewing committee. The bill passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 39, authored by McManus, to add missing senate representatives to Section 202 of the ASUCD Bylaws and clarify the terms of these representatives. The bill passed unanimously.

Public announcements Sagala said she is working in collaboration with ASUCD Entertainment Council to bring about Single’s Awareness Night.

Meeting adjourned at 11:37 p.m.

Open positions within ASUCD can be found at vacancy. ucdavis.edu.

STEPHANIE B. NGUYEN compiles the senate briefs. She can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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Davis resident starts wildlife blog Awareness of wild animals in Davis heightens

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UC Davis employee Holly Ober started a blog on Tumblr called Wild Davis. The blog features wild animals seen in Davis.

By KAMILA KUDELSKA Aggie News Writer

Holly Ober, a resident of Davis and employee at UC Davis, started a blog on Tumblr called Wild Davis (wild-davis.tumblr.com) in early January. The blog features and aims to document pictures of wildlife in and around Davis.

“One of the things that amazes me is

the animals that are able to coexist with humans,” Ober said. “I want to promote awareness of diversity and how clever they are to adapt.”

Davis is home to many animals, specifically a huge array of birds, coyotes and other animals, such as minks.

“I notice the wildlife everywhere. There is a lot less of wildlife in Davis than where I am from, which is Auburn, Calif.,” said

third-year wildlife, fish and conservation biology major Laura Zajack. “So I think this is a good thing to spread awareness of what Davis has.”

The pictures contribute to the blog’s underlining educational value, as it portrays animals living in the ever-changing environment.

Ober encourages her followers to post pictures of the wildlife that they have seen

or have seen in the past, either in the city of Davis or on the UC Davis campus. She said that since the start of the blog, the number of people sending pictures in has progressively increased.

Julia Luckenbill is a follower of the Wild Davis blog. She has also posted several of her own photos that she has captured.

“I think that we are often cut off from nature, to the point where people develop phobias about natural things,” Luckenbill said. “Blogs such as this one help us connect with nature and notice the creatures around us. This keeps us mindful and leads to a sense of wonder about our world.”

One thing that the blog achieves well is a documentation of the type of animals that are in Davis, how many there are, what seasons they come out in and other information. Once the blog has its one-year anniversary, people can search through tags as to what type of animals were seen during specific times of the year. “[It’s] out of curiosity to document what is out there, if we can get a crowdsourcing inventory of what we have [and] sort it by tags,” Ober said. “Just kind of keep track of what we really have [on] an informal basis, not really scientific.”

Ober has given an incentive to her followers as well by setting a goal to post at least 30 different species of animals in Davis by the end of 2013. As the blog is getting more and more followers, Ober believes this goal will be easily reached before the end of the year, and the bar will continue to be raised higher.

Although the blog is the main emphasis, people can follow the wildlife in Davis through the Facebook page as well.

“The wildlife is such a good reason to go out and enjoy,” Ober said. “Generally, with the good weather we have, [Davis is] full of animal lovers and people who love to do things outdoors.”

KAMILA KUDELSKA can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

Annual Community Service Awards honors members of campus community Community Service Resource Center to accept recipient nominations in February

By SASHA COTTERELL Aggie News Writer

The Community Service Resource Center (CSRC) is currently organizing the 2013 Community Service Awards.

The annual ceremony, which takes place in the spring, aims to recognize community members who exhibit a dedication to helping others.

“I just think it’s something that people don’t recognize, and these people do incredible things all the time, not looking for any recognition,” said Kim McMullen, a student advisor at the CSRC and a secondyear international relations major.

Nominations take place in February.

Qualifying nominees have an affiliation with UC Davis, as either a student or staff or faculty member, and are selected by their peers or via self-nomination.

Last year, 1,137 people were nominated, with 240 of them receiving an award.

Winners are placed into different categories of recognition based on the type of community service and the hours served: Outstanding, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Honorable Mention.

“I know that I cannot help everybody, but just to think that every day I change people’s lives helps, even if we don’t have so much to give, a little bit helps,” said Zita Demaree, one of last year’s Outstanding winners.

Demaree is co-founder of AJD Angels of Hope and works in the Budget and Finance office in the Student Housing building.

AJD Angels of Hope is a Filipino American charity that donates food, clothing, books and toys to needy children locally and internationally. Demaree was nominated by one of her students for the award.

“I think this is very helpful to students in the long run, because you can touch people’s lives. You cannot learn it in the classroom,” Demaree said.

Jessica Jaswal, a UC Davis alumna who majored in biopsychology, is another 2012 Outstanding winner. She founded the UC Davis Global Brigades, which is aimed at

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Jessica Jaswal founded the UC Davis Global Brigades, which is aimed at improving the quality of life for people across the world with the help of students and community members through volunteer work. improving the quality of life for people across the world with the help of students and community members through volunteer work.

She also helped create the UC Haiti Initiative to help rebuild Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

Her peers and faculty members nomi-

CLIMATE Cont. from front page climate surveys tend to reveal a common pattern among different groups within the campus community.

“When we did the discussion about this, what we found is that a lot of the constituent groups have the same basic concerns: How safe am I to reveal my sexual orientation, learning disability, industrial or personal injury, etc.? [These] concerns were common across all constituent groups. It was interesting to see how cohesive the questions were because we literally just went, ‘How safe are you about revealing blank?’” Ritz said.

According to Gillian Butler of Budget and Institutional Analysis, this survey is completely anonymous.

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nated her for the award.

“Every person can make a positive difference in the world — they just have to take the first step,” Jaswal said in an email interview. “The awards recognize the hard work and celebrate the collective achievements of students, faculty and volunteers that have helped create a better world.”

mean two things. Confidentiality means that the researcher knows who you are but they will not attach your identity to your answers and that’s how we usually conduct research through our office,” Butler said. “We know who the student is so that we can put campus data, connect it to the survey answers so that we don’t have to ask about your ethnicity and gender, major, etc. But this survey is anonymous, so that they don’t even know whose answers they are.”

In order to achieve the best results, the researchers need at least 30 percent of the campus community to participate in the survey.

“It’s sort of like a jury system. If you want the system to work, then you need to be willing to participate. So if you want this to be a community, make it a community by participating,” she said.

UC is giving out prizes to participants to encourage students to

Nomination dates for the Community Service Awards will be announced within the next two weeks on iccweb.ucdavis.edu/cs.

Further information on CSRC events can be found on the CSRC Facebook and Twitter pages.

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take the survey. Participation incentives include a $10,000 scholarship for one undergraduate student, $5,000 stipends for two graduate academic or professional students, $5,000 research grants for two faculty members, $2,000 professional development grants for five staff members and, at each participating campus, two winners will receive iPads.

In addition, UC Davis campus incentives include four iPads, 75 Aggie gift cards worth $25 each, 25 UC Davis Stores gift cards worth $25 each, 10 $25 restaurant gift cards, 10 $25 Starbucks gift cards, 10 $25 iTunes gift cards and 10 $25 gas gift cards.

According to McGregor, the survey will be made available to students through links provided via email. Students will also have access to the survey through links at the computer labs on campus, and there will be flyers and informa-

tional slides as well as promotions at the MU. “This is going to be a long-term tool. This will influence the next generation of students to come through … This is data that will be open to the public. We will come out and say as a community how we feel … and it will lead to change,” McGregor said.

The climate survey will be released to UC Davis students on Thursday and will be open to the campus community for the remainder of February.

The survey will be administered during the first week of February at the remaining campuses who have not received the survey: UC Merced, UC Riverside and UC Berkeley.

For more information about the survey visit campusclimate. ucop.edu.

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imum nine points in the 1,650 freestyle with a time of 17:14.13, the fastest time in this event at the Schaal Aquatics center since Denver’s Michele Lowry set the pool record of 17:07.82 in January 2006. Shellem was more than 20 seconds faster than sophomore teammate Cara Silvas. Later on, she captured an off event, the 200 backstroke.

Also, UC Davis posted the top three times in the 200 individual medley.

The Aggies commemorated five seniors who completed their final home meet at the Aquatics Center: Lee, Bridget Bugbee, Grace Benefield, Nicole Bahbout, and Geneva Azevado.

“We switched up the lineups so some swimmers swam events they weren’t the best at. It was a great meet,” Jahn said.

With a month to focus on its next event, the UC Davis swimming and diving team will look to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Swimming and Diving Championships. The team is already preparing for the seasonending meet on Feb. 20th at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, Calif. for the inaugural events of the three-day meet.

The UC Davis divers will travel to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Col. for their three-day championship event.

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Cont. from page 6 squad. Shellem, Porter, Hunt and Edwards ended the meet with a bang with a 3:29.00 in the 400 relay, outpacing the Gauchos by a 2:29 margin.

The week before, the Aggies took down Cal State Bakersfield 176-113 at the Schaal Aquatics Center.

Juniors Alvarez and Shellem, as well as freshman diver Hanna Tears, each captured two individual event wins.

Tears set the school record on the 1-meter board and qualified for the NCAA Zone Regionals in mid-March.

With this win, the Aggies improve to 6-2 in dual meets this season.

Tears scored a 278.40 on the low board to surpass senior Erica Stricker’s benchmark of 265.80. Subsequently, she followed with a 292.35 on the 3-meter board, missing senior Jamie Flynn’s 5-year-old record of 293.55. With these scores, she was able to qualify for regionals.

“She was great,” Jahn said. “Diving is very subjective; it was exciting that she was able to perform.”

In addition, Alvarez swept both of the breaststroke events with a time of 1:04.80.

She dominated the field in the 200 breast at 2:22:57, more than seven seconds faster than her nearest competitor.

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Cont. from page 6 UC Davis didn’t quite repeat their performance in the following game against UC Riverside, but they did enough to earn a commanding victory.

The Aggies jumped on the board first when sophomore Sydnee Fipps scored the first of her 23 points just over a minute into the game.

Once Fipps drained the first of her two freethrows to put the Aggies up 1-0, UC Davis never relinquished the lead.

Fipps has led the team in points in 11 out of the 18 games that UC Davis has played.

Senior Blair Shinoda put down just five points, but grabbed half of the team’s 14 steals.

The total of seven steals was a career high for the Santa Ana native.

More impressive than their offensive performance was UC Davis’ defense, which shut down the Big West’s lead scorer, Tre’Shonti Nottingham, for the duration of the first half.

The Aggies limited UC Riverside to 49 points on the game and kept them 1-11 from beyond the three-point arc.

The 61-49 victory closed out the Aggies’ first weekend road sweep of the season, and put them in a good position to turn around the season.

UC Davis will return home next week for a couple home games when it hosts Long Beach State and UC Irvine at the Pavilion.

Cont. from page 6 schools from paying their players as incentives.

While it was, I’m hoping, a good-natured attempt to make tennis a more popular sport, administration must look at why they are proposing changes.

You cannot change the rules of a college sport in the hopes that more fans will come out to attend. If anything, these changes are deviating further and further from the true game of tennis. The U.S. Open is the only major in tennis that plays a tiebreaker at six-all in the fifth set.

I think it’s awesome that the U.S. Open has this sort of feature that makes it unique, but a change as radical as the one proposed by the NCAA would do nothing but decrease the popularity of tennis with players. The idea of college tennis would look much less prestigious and the system would not attract the top players. A lower playing-level would definitely not increase the fanbase.

Some changes are good for sports, others not so much. Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic good, NCAA ideas bad. Four legs good, two legs bad.

MATTHEW YUEN can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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Study finds smoking worsens hangovers

By Alex Constantino

Brown University (Brown Daily Herald)

On your next night at the Whiskey Republic, leave the cigarettes at home — smoking could lead to a worse hangover, according to a new study from Brown U’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.

The research was published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs earlier this month.

To conduct their study, researchers including Damaris Rohsenow, a research professor of behavioral and social sciences, analyzed daily reports from students at an unidentified Midwestern university about how many drinks they consumed, how much they smoked and how they felt the next day.

The researchers focused on drinking episodes when students had an estimated

blood alcohol level above .11, slightly over the legal limit of .08. On those nights, students who smoked were more than twice as likely to have a hangover than students who did not. Additionally, students who smoked more cigarettes reported having more intense hangovers the next day.

Hangovers are “not one of the common negatives” reported by students during alcohol counseling, said Frances Mantak, director of health education, so it is difficult to tell whether Brown students have similar experiences. There is a large gap between perceived and actual smoking on campus, with less than 5 percent of students falling into the heavy smoker category, she noted.

The researchers found a correlation between smoking and hangovers but could not explain the relationship. Due to poor understanding of hangover mechanisms

in general, explaining that link is difficult, Rohsenow said.

One possible explanation could be that alcohol affects nicotine receptors, Rohsenow said. Smoking has also been linked to poorer sleep quality, which is known to worsen hangovers, she said.

Because the students keeping the diaries did not record how much and how well they slept and because the study did not include biological measures, the authors were unable to test these explanations.

Roland Moore, a senior research scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, wrote in an email to The Herald that he finds the study “persuasive.” Moore drew a parallel between the chemicals in dark liquors like bourbon and rum to those in tobacco smoke. Past research has found that dark liquors lead to worse hangovers, he wrote. “I can speculate that the numer-

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Where do you get your music?

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“I get it from a YouTube converter, which is just a separate website that takes the URL of the video and converts it into a sound file that I can then download. It takes a long time to download each song, and it’s not very good [audio] quality, but I’d rather do that than pay a dollar for every song.”

“I use a variety of different venues. I started using Spotify and Pandora because it makes it easier to obtain music. However, if there is an album that I like, I’ll buy it. My motto is: if I really enjoy an album, I buy it.”

Albert Aguilera nutritional biologist graduate student

Liz Mack third-year biological sciences major with neurobiology, physiology and behavior emphasis

I use iTunes when I have gift cards. When I run out, I use Spotify on my computer, which you hook up to your Facebook to create and share music playlists with friends. It has most of the popular music, but also different stuff like a cappella playlists and covers.”

“There is a mixture of sources. Sometimes I buy it, sometimes I pirate it. It’s really a question of if I like one song by a certain artist or if I like the whole album; if I like the whole album, I’ll buy it. When it’s just one song, I’ll use a YouTube converter.”

Vaishali Mittal fourth-year biomedical engineering major

Susan Yoon law student

“In high school, I downloaded music illegally. Now I use last.fm and Pandora. I have lower standards, and it’s hard to find music that I like, and it’s just so easy to put on a station [with last.fm and Pandora]. Sometimes I’ll use YouTube [in browser] and follow the rabbit hole of recommended music that pops up after each video finishes.”

Arshia Ehsanipour

“I actually buy all of my music off of iTunes. I’m not proud of it, and it’s very expensive, but that $1.29 per song is worth it for the safety for my computer. I used to torrent all my music, and my computer broke down — while I’m not sure if it’s the torrent’s fault, it’s just safer to buy my music.”

Albert Aramayo fourth-year political science and English double major

fourth-year biomedical engineering major

“When I was younger, I bought all my music, but I found out about downloading with YouTube converters, and it’s so much easier. If I want more than just one song at a time from an artist, I’ll torrent whole albums.”

“I usually only listen to music when I’m driving. I’ll just switch around to different stations on the radio until I find something that I like. It’s just music.”

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“I Spotify all the free albums I can. [Spotify] offers you [an] upgrade for more music, but it requires a monthly payment.

It’s the same thing for the Spotify app on my phone, they give it to you free for a month, but after that, they make you get the upgrade. After my month was up, I stopped using it.

It’s too expensive.”

“If I like an album such as the Taylor Swift or Ke$ha albums, I am sure to go buy it on a CD.” Shane Taypay fourth-year civil engineering major

Walinda Xaysongkham third-year human development major

“I download music using the YouTube converter for convenience. If I’m going to a party, my iPod gets used as the playlist, so I quickly get songs [from the converter]. The songs are already on YouTube, but I’m not paying for it, so I’m not sure if it’s illegal.”

Andrea Manrique

“I get my music off of this Android app on my phone called GTunes Music. It’s free; all I have to do is type in a song name and it gets downloaded right onto my phone. It’s not whole albums, just single songs at a time, but it’s a pretty fast download.”

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Game of threes

Aggies split home games, move to 4-4 in conference

Matt Yuen

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ver the past couple weeks, my life has been consumed by my human anatomy class and the Australian Open.

It’s a good thing I don’t have a social life, or that would have really suffered.

I’m writing this before the men’s final begins, but by the time it publishes on Monday, the final will be over.

I’m old-fashioned. I like the classic players, the ones I grew up with. The class acts, the ones that carry themselves, the ones that behave and don’t rebel.

This means Roger Federer.

Enter Novak Djokovic.

The Djokester, master imitator and fan favorite.

Normally I don’t like players like him, but this man has transcended the game of tennis.

The current world number-one is in better shape than anyone else. He plays better defense and he is more dangerous than anyone, possibly ever, from anywhere on the court.

You can see the progression, tracking from Federer, that has led to the transcending of the sport.

Players can’t just have one weapon. They have to have everything. Even Federer himself, who won over 10 majors with one of the best forehands in the game, found his backhand was too much of a liability in the evolving game of tennis. As such, he has adapted and has one of the better one-handers in the sport.

Federer has moved tennis forward. This year, there were proposed changes to college tennis that would have done the opposite.

Tennis matches are possibly the collegiate event that take the longest time to sit through. I will not argue that they are long. The NCAA is saying the changes would be to benefit the audience and make it more entertaining — and more bearable — for the viewers.

I like watching college tennis more than I like watching the pros. If it were up to me, I’d say the format is perfect. Eight game prosets are good for doubles, as a competitive warm-up for the singles.

The main proposed changes were to eliminate the third set entirely and play a ten-point tiebreaker instead, shortening the already-abbreviated eight game sets down to six in doubles.

Now we know why it failed. The NCAA is separate from the ITA, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, which is the main governing body of college tennis. Still, the NCAA tried to reach down and intervene into a market they didn’t understand.

The bigger issue, though, is the fact that they thought pleasing the fans by cutting into the game of tennis is more important than the competition itself.

Specifically with tennis, when players choose the sport, they know they aren’t going to be getting as much glory, as big of an audience, as much press as other sports like basketball and football.

Still, the bigger issue here is that the NCAA thinks it is more important to please the fans than the players. Yes, on a broad spectacle, professional sports are for the audience’s entertainment. People pay, often thousands of dollars, for tickets to see a game.

Not in college. It is rare for sporting events outside of basketball and football to cost money. Once you make attendance at athletic events cost money and tailor the rules to reflect what you think the fans want, there is little stopping

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Josh Ritchart, No. 23, shoots the ball during the game against CSU Fullerton. UC Davis lost 88-95 against the Titans.

By KIM CARR

Aggie Sports Writer

The UC Davis men’s basketball team disappointed its home crowd by letting a close game slip out of its hands in the final minutes, adding to the growing list of frustrating losses.

“We’ve got to stop letting people beat us at home,” said sophomore Corey Hawkins shortly after losing to Cal State Fullerton on Thursday night.

The Titans came to town and brought their wickedly talented offense with them. The Big West Conference’s most productive team shot for 54.8 percent from the field, 52.2 percent from beyond the arc and 78.9 percent from the free throw line.

The Aggie defense played a strong game, but failed to contain the Titans in the final minutes of the game, which gave the Titans enough time to pull away with a 95-88 victory.

UC Davis started banking the three-pointers early and often to score eight treys in the first half alone. Sophomore J.T. Adenrele handled the ball in the paint for the Aggies, going 3-5 on field goals and a perfect 5-5 from the line.

UC Davis’ offense was strong enough to earn them a 45-40 lead at halftime. They emerged from the tunnel with energy and continued to contest the Titans on every possession.

With 12 minutes left Hawkins drove the ball up the center and scored a layup that gave the Aggies a 62-58 advantage. Unfortunately, he fell head-first into a media camera and had to leave the game for several minutes to recover.

The Titans did not manage to truly pull away from UC Davis until the final two minutes.

They were able to penetrate the Aggie defense for some three-pointers and UC Davis was un-

able to answer on the other side.

It was a hard game to judge because the Aggies had a solid performance. The opportunities were there at the end and they took some good shots, but nothing fell Davis’ way.

After the game head coach Jim Les admitted that his team had struggled, but it was still a solid contest.

“Defensively I was a little disappointed ... we have to give a lot of credit to Cal State Fullerton.

They have firepower on that offense,” he said.

“Overall I thought my guys played well though.

They’re showing improvement every game and that’s all you can ask for as a coach.”

With the sting of the most recent heartbreaking loss still in their minds, UC Davis came back with a vengeance against the Highlanders.

The squad bounced back to face UC Riverside on Saturday night, and they did it without Hawkins.

“It was a challenge. We’re without our best player [Hawkins] so we knew we all had to step it up even more,” said junior Ryan Sypkens.

The Aggies stuck to the game plan and it paid off. They went up early against the Highlanders and the game was rarely in question. Adenrele was simply on fire in the paint and finished with 20 points on the night. The big man also finished the week by shooting 80 percent from the free throw line. He jokingly attributed his success to “shooter’s touch.”

“In all seriousness though, I have to give the credit to Coach [Les]. He’s the one that’s been working with me to make improvements,” Adenrele said.

The Highlanders had no answer for the Aggie offense. When they would crash in to cover Adenrele, another Aggie would make them pay

UC Davis shines at dual meet against Fresno State, UC Santa Barbara Aggies post strong performances in last meets before championships

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UC Davis ended its dual meet schedule in impressive fashion at the Fresno Aquatics Center, defeating the host Bulldogs 195105 and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation rival UC Santa Barbara by a score of 180-120 in Saturday’s double dual-meet.

UC Davis captured its first victory over UCSB for the first time since 2006. The Aggies won nine individual events and both relays against both teams to finish their dual schedule with an 8-2 record.

“This was a very good team effort,” said head coach Barbara Jahn. “We focused more on the final results of each event instead of times.”

Junior Liliana Alvarez was UC Davis’ lone overall double eventwinner, capturing the two breaststroke events. She posted a time of 1:04.68 in the 100-yard breaststroke, then 2:20.37 in the 200-

yard race in the 11th event of the meet.

In addition, junior Samantha Shellem dominated the 500-yard freestyle with a winning time of 5:00.91, four full seconds ahead of Gaucho sophomore Heren Alanis at 5:05.35. She also posted 1:51.62 in the 200 free. In the 200 back, Shellem captured second-place with a 2:04.52.

Junior Katie Edwards edged Fresno State’s Dani Yoho for an overall victory in the 100 free, touching the final pad in 51.89.

Edwards also placed second in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:07.50 and third in the 200 free.

The Aggies solidified their lead with two wins in the relays. Hilary Hunt, Morgan Lee, Megan Leung and Haley Porter claimed the win in the 200-yard medley relay at 1:45.37, more than a full second ahead of UC Santa Barbara’s

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from the perimeter. UC Davis shot an outstanding 56.8 percent from the field and Fullerton was never able to compete.

“It feels great to bounce back with a win,” Sypkens said after the game.

UC Davis’ offense was firing on all cylinders and junior Tyler Les credited their point guard.

“Paolo [Mancasola] did a great job of breaking down their defense. Once he has that figured out he can fire the ball around the court for the open shot,” he said.

Tyler Les had a career night of his own, finishing with seven assists.

“Tyler’s doing a nice job of recognizing how guys are playing him. Once he can work around that he can really help spread the defense,” coach Les said.

UC Davis stands 4-4 in conference which has them in contention for the Big West Tournament. They have three incredibly challenging road games ahead and they are hoping to have Hawkins back for them.

“He’s a beast. He’ll be out there no matter what,” Tyler said.

As they prepare to face Pacific, UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly the team is sticking to the game plan.

“We have to continue to focus on the process, then these results will take care of themselves,” Coach said.

The Aggies finished this week with 20 threepointers through two games. When asked about his offense’s production from beyond the arc Coach Les simply smiled.

“I have a lot of confidence in our offense,” he said.

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

Aggies complete weekend road sweep Women’s basketball dominate Titans, Highlanders

By MATTHEW YUEN Aggie Sports Editor

The UC Davis women’s basketball team got two impressive wins this weekend. They’re not there just yet. But they’re close.

The Aggies brought their overall record up to 8-10 with wins over Cal State Fullerton and UC Riverside this weekend.

On Thursday, UC Davis thrashed the Titans by a score of 88-44, then dished out an equally convincing beating of the Highlanders on Saturday.

The 61-49 win over UC Riverside completed the Aggies’ undefeated weekend, pushing them to 3-4 in the Big West Conference, propelling them from ninth place to sixth.

Thursday — UC Davis 88, Cal State Fullerton 44 Entering the weekend, the Aggies stood at an underwhelming 6-10 and 1-4 in conference. UC Davis’ struggles on the road were apparent in their 1-5 road record.

Yet the Aggies came out hot against CSU Fullerton, putting on a show that dispelled

any thoughts that the Aggies belonged at the bottom of the conference standings.

The Titans entered the game 3-2 in the Big West, but couldn’t do much against the balanced Aggie offense.

A 37-22 score at the half didn’t indicate such a one-sided game, but UC Davis came out firing stronger than they had in the first period.

The Aggies’ defense held CSU Fullerton to 22 points in the second half again, but UC Davis scored 51 points to blow the game open. Their lead continued to grow as time went on, and the only limit to the Aggies’ dominating performance was the clock.

Freshman Aniya Baker came off the bench and put down 16 points while fellow freshman Alyson Doherty provided the power in the paint with 16 more points. Every player that got playing time put points on the board for UC Davis, proving to be too much for the Titans.

Saturday — UC Davis 61, UC Riverside 49

See WOMEN, page 4