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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
UC workers protest terms of new UC contract Workers picket on campus, at UC Davis Medical Center
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Members of AFSCME 3299 and students picket at the Segundo Dining Commons against proposed changes to the union’s contract with the University of California. AFSCME 3299 represents over 22,000 service and patient-care technical workers in the University of California.
By KELLEY DRECHSLER and LAUREN MASCARENHAS Aggie News Writers
Union members of The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 3299 picketed at the three UC Davis Dining Commons in opposition with their new University contract last Thursday. A rally was also held at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. These protesters were among UC
workers and medical center staff all over California who took part in Thursday’s statewide demonstration. The workers included janitors, cooks and gardeners on campus. Many of these workers had contracts ending at midnight last Thursday. “We want a fair contract. We want fair staffing,” said Fernando Garcia, groundskeeper at UC Davis. The new contract proposed by the University would include fewer retirement benefits for new workers, an increase in the amount current and new employees must
pay to pension and no wage increases. Shelly Meron, University of California Office of the President media specialist, said the University is addressing the retirement program to provide more aid to retirees by asking workers and students to pay more. “We prefer to negotiate at the bargaining table,” she said. She added that 14 unions across the UCs have agreed to the retirement reform measure. Workers are protesting against the
Middle East/South Asia Studies Program hosts lecture on Arab Spring
Concerns voiced by community
Aggie News Writer
On Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m., a public forum on Measure I was held at the Community Chambers in City Hall to provide community members with an opportunity to hear arguments for and against the measure, and pose their questions and concerns. Due to a 2011 referendum, Measure I will allow Davis voters
to vote on whether or not the city should move forward with a proposed regional surface-water supply project. The project is overseen by the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency (WDCWA), which was established in 2009. The event was co-sponsored by Davis Media Access and the People’s Vanguard of Davis. According to founder and editor-in-chief David Greenwald, the Vanguard is a local, alternative online news source com-
prised of community blogs. Greenwald said the purpose of the event was to enable community members to hear perspectives of proponents and opponents of the Measure I water project. Arguing for Measure I were Mayor Joe Krovoza and Davis resident Alan E. Pryor. On the opposition were former city council member Sue Greenwald and CSU Sacramento
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Annual event showcases undergraduate research
Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco is scheduled to visit UC Davis on Wednesday to present a lecture on the Arab Spring. The talk, titled “Year Three of The Arab Spring: The Winners, the Losers and Those In Between,” is part of the Faris Saeed Lecture Series in Arab Studies. This is hosted by the UC Davis Middle East/South
By SASHA COTTERELL Aggie News Writer
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Today’s weather Mostly clear High 62 Low 40
The Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference will take place Apr. 26 and 27. The annual event will showcase the talent of many of the students on campus involved with research. The event will include poster presentations, an arts exhibit and oral presentations on the final day. In order to participate, students are to write an abstract introducing their research, which then has to be approved by their sponsoring professor. Abstracts may come from students involved with research in all disciplines and majors. Tammy Hoyer, conference chair, created the annual event 24 years ago, and has since seen a significant increase in participants. “Nineteen students participated in the first conference, which happened in April of 1990, and last year, in year 23, we had 430,” Hoyer said. The event is not only intended to challenge students academically. “The conference will stimulate interaction between students and faculty, while encouraging undergraduates to pursue advanced degrees toward the goal of research and college teaching,” the event webpage states. Students who participate are also learning how to deliver information in a concise and comprehensible format. “It’s a huge skill, to learn how to synthesize this huge
See RESEARCH, page 5 Forecast
Enjoy the dry warm weather while it lasts, because by Wednesday it will start clouding over and the winds will pick up. At least the rain will clean the air a bit. Tyson Tilmont, atmospheric science major Aggie Forecasting Team
Tuesday
Early morning last Thursday, de Luna Jewelers at 521 Second St. had its window smashed in by a number of thieves and vandals. The suspects took Native American pottery and dolls on display. Adrian Blanco, the manager of de Luna Jewelers, was alerted of the vandalism at 3:50 a.m. After viewing the security camera footage, Blanco discovered the incident began at around 2:40 a.m. Four men were walking along the store’s side when two of them began to fight. In the process of fighting, one of the men hit the store’s window and cracked it. Another man proceeded to kick the window twice. Although the window shattered, the security alarm failed to go off and the incident went unreported. At 3:13 a.m., two men passing by the shat-
Wednesday
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Asia Studies Program. The event will take place at the Conference Center, Ballroom A at 6 p.m. More information can be found at mesa.ucdavis.edu. Hicham is a consulting professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. — Muna Sadek
De Luna Jewelers robbed, multiple suspects involved
Deadline to submit abstracts Feb. 19
Students present their research at last year’s Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference.
LAUREN MASCARENHAS and KELLEY DRECHSLER can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.
News iN Brief
Pros, cons of Measure I discussed in forum By MEREDITH STURMER
University’s pension reform. The University is trying to negotiate a 24 billion-dollar unfunded liability that has triggered workers to protest, according to Meron. “It’s not the best, but it’s better than the new contract,” said Marcos Jimenez, a union representative for the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE), in reference to the old contract. Worker proposals for the new contract have been denied by the University. “How can you justify the president of the university making $601,356, while they are cutting pension for the employees by over 50 percent?” Garcia asked. Workers have also expressed their concerns about staffing. “We’re understaffed. We’ve lost so many people and the University is not replacing them. Quality is going to start going down,” Garcia said. Garcia said that the issue of sanitation at medical centers, where cleanliness is extremely important, can be a matter of life or death. Many of the workers use chemicals in their jobs that can be harmful and may require medical attention. “Sometimes the work here is stressful. We’re always exposed to chemicals,” Jimenez said. Protesters said the University has ignored union proposals for no co-pay increases, which worries some workers about their medical bills. Older workers who will not be directly affected by the retirement and benefit cuts that threaten new hirees attended the picket on Thursday to support their fellow union members. The workers have also received support from many organizations, including UC Student Workers Union Local 2865 (UAW) and UPTE. “[The University] is trying to divide the union,” said Lucy Joseph, senior museum scientist at the UC Davis Viticulture and Enology Department. “We are fighting for the new employees to express our solidarity with them.”
tered window reached in and took some items, as did a group of three women and two men who passed by the window at 3:20 a.m. Altogether, seven groups of people walked by without reporting the scene. It wasn’t until a person walking their dog noticed the broken window and reported it to the Davis Police. Blanco said the suspects appear to be of college-age. The overall damage and loss sums up to thousands of dollars. The Davis Police are currently investigating the situation, with much of the incident caught on security tape. The case is considered a burglary by the police. Anyone with information about the incident should contact the Davis Police at (530) 747-5400. — Claire Tan
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TUESDAY
involved in the revolutions of the 1980s.
Cultural Programmer Information Session 7:30 to 8 p.m. Student Community Center, Meeting Room E Join us for an informational meeting if you’re interested in being a cultural programmer for the 2013-14 academic year. Primary responsibilities of the position include providing culturally based programming, support and mentorship for new students living in the Living Learning Community.
WEDNESDAY
Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference Information Session 3:10 to 4 p.m. Student Community Center, Meeting Room D Join us if you’re interested in presenting your research at the 24th Annual Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activities Conference.
FRIDAY Folk Music Jam Session
Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous 7 to 8:30 p.m. Davis United Methodist Church Free yourself from excess weight and obsessional thoughts about food and body image by attending this free meeting with FARA. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is a 12-step fellowship based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. Meetings are open and free to the public. Visit foodaddicts.org for other meeting locations.
UAEM Journal Club Meeting 7:30 to 8 p.m. 202 Wellman Join Universities Allied for Essential Medicines if you’re interested in learning about the scientific principles behind biosimilar pharmacuticals. The UAEM Journal Club will discuss the concept and how access to unbiased information on drugs is important for physicians to make appropriate treatment choices.
THURSDAY TCS Club General Meeting 6:30 to 7 p.m. 115 Hutchison Join TCD professor Bob Ostertag as he discusses his decade in Central America
Noon to 1 p.m. Wyatt Deck Folk musicians are invited to play together informally during an acoustic jam session. Pull out your fiddles, guitars, mandolins, penny whistles, pipes, flutes and squeezeboxes and join your fellow musicians for a little bluegrass, oldtime, blues, Celtic, klezmer and world music over the lunch hour. All skill levels and listeners are welcome. For more information, please call (530) 752-4880.
Yolo County Animal Shelter Adoption Sale 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (closed 1 to 2 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. To receive placement in the AGGIE DAILY CALENDAR, email dailycal@theaggie. org or stop by 25 Lower Freeborn by noon the day prior to your event. Due to space constraints, all event descriptions are subject to editing and priority will be given to events that are free of charge and geared toward the campus community.
Police Briefs Vision of apparition
FRIDAY A little late for the Turkey Trot Approximately 15 turkeys were blocking the roadway on Hanover Drive.
Someone reported that an unknown subject was entering through the walls of her house to steal food on Cowell Boulevard.
Pop goes the weasel
I’mma cat you Someone reported the person she was catsitting for was threatening to stab her for feeding his cat incorrectly on Ninth Street.
A male subject was passed out and vomiting in the parking lot of Jack in the Box on G Street.
Drunk munchies
SATURDAY Unclad to meet you An unknown male undressed in front of somebody’s house, then sat in a chair in front of the garage door on Gregory Place.
SUNDAY
A woman’s daughter came home intoxicated and was trying to leave the house; when the woman and her husband tried to restrain her, she bit the husband on Biscayne Bay Place. Police briefs are compiled from the City of Davis daily crime bulletins. Contact EINAT GILBOA at city@theaggie.org.
world is at our doorstep. Practicing intelligent and sensible money management early on could prove Andrew to be incredibly useful for Poh the future. Penny Again, it all boils down to moderation and strikpincher ing the right balance. Live a little bit some days, but always be sure to have a bit tucked away in your back pocket. Saving your money in a sock stuffed into a suitcase is a novel start, but isn’t exactly the bright’ve never really been est of ideas. With inflaone for the preservation, the value of those tion of money/ Nah, I miserable Lincolns (all much rather spend it all rolled up uncomfortwhile I’m breathing.” ably together in that fetid I culled this little gem gym sock) will slowly but from a brilliant Drake surely shrink. Inflation is song that popped up in the reason why you can’t my music player’s shufbuy six pieces of Chicken fle today. I’ve probably mentioned McNuggets for a dollar any more. Drake a handful of times A more viable option in past columns, so let me is to keep your monset the record straight: I ey in the form of stocks, am in no way a Drake fan. though they aren’t as liqOr at least, I can never aduid as currency (paper mit to being one. I guess I only bring him up because money/coins). A well-researched stock pick will I’m familiar with his lyrkeep its value better in ics and persona to a betthe long run as you’ll reter degree than most othceive dividends or earner mainstream artists. Or ings over time. whatever the kids are into Another option is a these days. I guess you can think of Certificate of Deposit (CD), if you have largit as an ironic “Hey I liser amounts of money to ten to Clap Your Hands store. The yields may not Say Yeah, but I also lisbe as high as stocks, but ten to Drake so I must be stocks do run the risk of pretty diverse in my mulosing value. At least with sic tastes” sort of air. a CD, you’ll earn a steady Back on topic, Drake interest rate, which brings up a rather intershould offset the effects esting point: Which is the of inflation. better stance to take in Of course, these are just regard to handling your money? Is it better to save ideas that I’m spitballing and I’m in no way the loup for a rainy day? Or to cal expert when it comes spend it all right here, to these matters. I took a right now? “Banking and Financial Looking it at from a pessimist’s view, it’s prob- Institutions” course and got a B in it. I also own ably better to just spend a couple of stocks that it while you’re still alive I purchased with monand kickin’. ey set aside After all, you could When life comes a-knockin’, from work. feasibly die you don’t want to be caught I should therefore at any mowith your pants down. retain a ment, and smidgen of then where credibility. would When life all your earnings go? comes a-knockin’, you Certainly not to you! All don’t want to be caught those hours slaved bewith your pants down. hind the coffee press at If you get a ticket or get Starbucks will go straight into an accident, you’re down the drain. probably going to regret On the other hand, living paycheck to paycheck leading the YOLO lifestyle for the past couple sucks. Going out to the of months. Get one less bars after payday may Wicky a week or one less seem like a good idea at coffee, and instead pool first, but without a little those dollars that you restraint, your two weeks saved into a safer, spendof work can be blown in free spot. an entire night. Even if it is just in a sock. I think most of us have But it’d be better if it felt the crippling effects of were in a stock. having a bank account in Just please no, not on which you don’t even have rock (cocaine). enough money to make the bare minimum withdrawal from the ATM maANDREW POH actually just took a chine ($20). I know I have. pretty big hit in the stock market. If you In a sense, it’s the colhave any good ideas for safe, low-risk lege lifestyle that is excompanies to invest in, let him know at apoh@ucdavis.edu. pected of us. But the real
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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. Doin’ It Green is a new feature which provides tips and ideas for being green. Recyclemania is back! UC Davis is participating in Recyclemania’s 13th annual competition, and we will be competing against schools nationwide and in Canada to see how we rank against them in reducing, reusing
and recycling waste. The competition officially kicked off on Feb. 3 and will come to a close on March 30. Log onto recyclemaniacs.org for updated scores throughout the competition. All students, staff and faculty members on campus are considered participants, so everyone is encouraged to do their part in minimizing their waste. Every week, weights of paper, cardboard, bottles, cans and food service organics will be calculated and submitted to Recyclemania to track our progress. The student staff of the Waste Reduction and Recycling (WRR) Program
will be promoting the competition and focusing on improving our school’s recycling and composting efforts to help reach our goal of being a zerowaste campus by 2020. WRR will also coordinate with other student-run environmental organizations on campus, such as the Environmental Policy & Planning Commission, Campus Center for the Environment, Project Compost and the Aggie Reuse Store, to put on activities and events that will encourage everyone at UC Davis to be active contributors in the competition. Throughout the quarter, there will be
crafts and activities at tabling events on the Quad, so don’t hesitate to stop by and check them out. Keep an eye out for more news and events throughout Recyclemania. We will be updating Rocky Raccoon’s (the official mascot of the WRR) Facebook fan page to announce the dates of giveaways, movie nights, tabling events and chances to win prizes, so make sure to give him a like! For more information and ways to get involved, come to a tabling event, call WRR at (530) 7527456 or visit sustainability.ucdavis.edu.
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Roundabout
Round of applause For those of you that travel down Hutchison Drive, the danger of getting run over by a car has (hopefully) gone way down. Conversely, your chances of getting blindsided by a bad biker have skyrocketed. What was formerly an intersection on Hutchison Drive between Sciences Lecture Hall and Bioletti Way has been transformed into a roundabout. This has some positives and negatives. First, most people didn’t quite stop at those stop signs anyway unless there was a visible police officer roaming the area. The roundabout will at least instill some sort of system that people can follow. Which brings us to the second point. We’ve already expressed our frustration and offered suggestions on how to not be a fatal threat on the bike paths. This shouldn’t be
an issue now, 5 weeks into the year, but people are still reckless going into those roundabouts. Follow the rules. One of the impressive things about this new feature is the time it took to complete construction. The project only lasted a couple days and was finished by Jan. 22. This makes us wonder why it takes so long to complete some of the other construction projects on campus. If anything short of a tunnel to the other side of the world results from the work next to the soccer field and over on Hoagland Drive, it should be considered a waste of time. But that’s another issue. For now, we celebrate the small victories of the roundabout. If nothing else, it eliminates another stop sign where police will be lurking, or it can serve as a training course for helpless freshman cyclists.
Special events
Keep parking free On top of paying tens of thousands of dollars to study at this school, reside in this city and actively live in this college town, students are unfairly charged for on-campus amenities that they already subscribe to. Take, for example, parking on campus. Yes, we obviously have the complaints about unwarranted tickets and ridiculous fines issued by Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS). Yes, we’ve been told that the high fee of $130 for a quarter-long parking pass is to discourage the use of motor vehicles. Yes, we purposely wait until 10 p.m. to drive to the ARC to avoid paying $7 to park. Being able to park free on the weekends is a blessing. But when there are special events held on the weekends at venues like the ARC Pavillion or the Mondavi Center, all of a sudden no one is exempt from paying $7 to park on campus, even when it’s to attempt to use the elliptical for a measly 25 minutes or pay for an official transcript. As students, we’re already technically paying for the facilities we use or plan to use
or acknowledge and never step foot in. Sure, we may complain that we can’t go to the gym during the day because we’re too lazy to bike and parking isn’t free until 10 p.m., but on the weekends, we have no excuse. Until all of a sudden being a starving student who has no intention of watching a cheer competition isn’t enough of a reason to avoid the fee. Rarely we’ll come across an understanding parking monitor who lets us park for free just to get to work at a building next to where the special event takes place. Let us avoid giving each other evil glares as we reverse our car out of the lot, because we have a solution. Now that the majority of us don’t have the privilege of swiping into a dining commons, our student ID cards have little use, until now. The flash of a UC Davis student ID card should be reason enough to be exempt from paying to park on the weekends. Let the cheer moms fork over the cash and return home to a homecooked meal while we spend the money we would’ve had to use on paying for a week’s worth of cereal.
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Dear Governor, UC students need your leadership By RAQUEL MORALES Here at the University of California, students are living in interesting times. After nearly a billion dollars in state funding cuts and a doubling of tuition in just five years, 2013 looks to deliver at least a moment of relief for students and their families. The Governor has proposed a moderate funding increase to the UC, and as a result, for the first time in years, tuition will be frozen in 2013-14. We didn’t get here overnight. The Occupy Movement, the huge student response to police brutality at UC Davis and UC Berkeley, a 10,000 student march in March 2012, and hundreds of lobby visits and rallies all brought us to this moment. And most recently, with the assistance of online voter registration, students turned out to vote in higher numbers in 2012 than ever before, helping provide the margin of victory for Proposition 30. Yet it is clear that our work has only just begun. This brief moment of relief has not brought with it a long-term solution to the crisis in higher education. The reality on our campuses is still unacceptable: skyrocketing student debt, unaffordable tuition especially for middle class families, inadequate student support services, overcrowded classes and cuts to courses, departments, faculty and staff. While Gov. Brown has pledged regular 5 percent funding increases over the next four years, this isn’t nearly enough to keep up with rising costs or backfill years of deep cuts. The UC system receives roughly a billion dollars less than we did in 2006, and costs continue to shoot up
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n his inauguration speech two weeks ago, President Obama mentioned that “our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it,” echoing the view of many liberals that income inequality is problematic and unfair in our society. In the midst of the clamor for wealth redistribution and yet more progressive taxation, almost no one has stood up to defend the wealthy and the enormous productivity it often takes to achieve their status. Actually, income inequality is among the noblest aspects of a free society: It reflects the fact that productive geniuses, who enhance our standard of living, are not robbed of their effort and are allowed to rise to their highest potential. In short, income inequality is chiefly the result of justice. I do not care to speculate on the motives of those who would penalize the successful in the name of “fairness.” Let me just say this: No one is harmed by the mere fact of her neighbor having more income or wealth. Income inequality does not create social instability — except perhaps in a statist or feudal regime where wealth disparities might arise due to corruption. In the laissez-faire society I advocate, where the govern-
rapidly every year. If nothing changes, it is only a matter of time before the crushing reality of annual tuition increases returns. For this reason, students welcome the Governor’s newfound interest in the UC system with great hope and excitement. We also know that funding cuts are only part of the problem. Similar to the Governor’s recent call for greater “modesty” and “elegance” at the UC, students have long raised questions and concerns about internal UC operations. At a time when students are being asked to give more and more, Californians expect the UC to take a hard look at executive compensation, sharing profits across the system, and more cost effective ways to accomplish our core goals of instruction and research. UC executives should be paid less, and in some cases, faculty may need to teach more. Unfortunately, the Governor’s actions on the UC have not yet matched his rhetoric. The two areas of “reform” that he has touted as solutions are a “unit cap,” which is based on the misguided view that many UC students are staying too long by choice, and a $10 million earmark for “online education.” While experimenting with online education may be worthwhile, it is dubious that it will bring either significant cost savings or a new instructional model that meets long held quality standards. We would expect more from a Governor who is clearly interested in making waves. Unit caps and online education seem like mostly hype, and disconnected from the challenges and barriers we face on a daily basis.
If the Governor wants true transformation of the UC, he will find willing partners in UC students, as long as this transformation enhances quality, access and affordability rather than further degrades it. And if the Governor truly wants to protect the greatness of our public university system, he must talk not just about reform, but also about the need for enhanced long-term funding. There is no other way to ensure access and affordability for every qualified California student in the coming decades. The UC remains drastically underfunded, and we need the Governor to advocate for new revenue devoted to public higher education, including exploring an oil severance tax, Prop. 13 reform and shifting funds from our still overcrowded prison system. Without new revenue, we can be sure that students will continue to be asked to foot the bill. With President Yudof stepping down and five openings for new appointees to the Board of Regents, the time is now. After years of playing defense, students hope to join the Governor in going on the offensive, including ensuring that students have a major role in selecting a new UC President and new Regental appointments that bring the experience needed to lead the UC in the 21st century. Students may have received a moment of relief in 2013, but we know from experience that without real action, it will be short. Our future, quite literally, depends on it. RAQUEL MORALES is the UC Student Association president and a senior at UC San Diego. She can be reached at UCSA.org.
ment does nothing but protect indiefit from the wealth creation of othvidual rights to life, liberty and prop- ers, as it raises the standard of living erty, it is impossible to legally acquire in society. So the greater wealth prowealth via the use of force. duction of others, and resulting inOthers claim that income income inequality, does not imply that equality undermines the “American the rich are taking away opportuniDream.” A recent study by the ties for the poor to create or receive Congressional Research Service is of- wealth. In fact, the opposite is often ten cited as having shown that intrue, such as when entrepreneurship come inequality undermines socreates employment opportunities. cial mobility, since it makes it unlikeSimilarly, the focus on relative vs. ly that people are able to improve absolute social mobility amounts their position in the to an attempt to distribution of intransform producIn short, income inequality is come. For instance, tiveness and valthe 5 percent lowue-creation into chiefly the result of justice. est income group is a twisted comlikely to stay in the petition; in oth5 percent lowest iner words, it does come group. not matter whether you are better off than you were before (or better off This argument is misleadthan your parents) — it matters only ing for two reasons. Firstly, it relies upon the erroneous view of wealth as if you succeeded in being wealthier being a fixed “pie” that is distributed than others. This was never the American among the population. Secondly, the focus on social mobility in the distri- Dream. People fled the poverty, oppression and stagnation of the Old bution of income, i.e. relative social World because of the freedom from mobility, is a red herring. What matters is absolute social mobility, which coercion by the government. This meant, with a few unfortunate exrefers to the ability to improve one’s ceptions, that no coercive mechastandard of living. nisms existed that could prevent a The view of wealth as a fixed sum person from reaping the full rewards that is divided among citizens is so short-sighted that it is difficult to be- of her skill and effort — not for the sake of the monarch, or the Church lieve it persists in 21st century socior the “common good.” Because ety. Such a view drops the context of of this, wealth-creation was able to wealth creation and looks solely at flourish. the product — the wealth that curThe American Dream does not rently exists. mean a guarantee of economic welBut wealth arises out of the free, fare (which could only be provided independent effort and thought of men and women pursuing their val- at the expense of others), and it does ues — such as by scientists doing re- not mean attempting to be richer than others for its own sake. It means search to discover better medicines, software engineers developing more that people are politically free to search for opportunities to improve efficient programs, and farmers figtheir lives, and create them. uring out how to provide ever greatThis is the noble ideal that er quantities of higher-quality food. As Ayn Rand once said, “wealth is the President Obama assaulted in his speech. This is what we must defend product of man’s capacity to think.” to establish a truly free society. (For the New Intellectual) It is clear, then, that wealth is not a zero-sum game. Everyone can benTRISTAN DE LIEGE can be reached at tflenaerts@ucdavis.edu.
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Ravens turn off the lights on 49ers in Super Bowl By Mark Kern
Kansas State University (Kansas State Collegian)
In a battle of brothers John and Jim Harbaugh, it was John’s Baltimore Ravens that pulled out the victory, defeating the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday night. Proving that he should be considered an “elite quarterback,” Joe Flacco got things started early for the Ravens. Flacco found wide receiver Anquan Boldin for a 13-yard touchdown, giving Baltimore a 7-0 lead five minutes into the game. He was just getting started, as he would throw two more touchdowns in the first half, including a 56-yard bomb to wide receiver Jacoby Jones. Flacco’s performance helped the Ravens go into the half with a 21-6 lead. Jones etched his name into the record books with his performance in the second half. Jones took the ensuing kickoff a Super Bowl record 108 yards, extending the lead to 28-6 and giving the Ravens an apparently insurmountable lead. However, the Superdome had a little trick up its sleeve, and the lights went out caus-
ing a 34-minute delay. The power outage seemed to be just what the 49ers needed to get back into the game. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, proving that Jim Harbaugh made the right decision by starting him over Alex Smith, went to work to cut into the deficit. A 31-yard touchdown pass from Kaepernick to wide receiver Michael Crabtree cut the deficit to 28-13, and then a Ray Rice fumble gave the 49ers a chance to get within one possession. San Francisco running back Frank Gore kept the momentum going, scoring a 6-yard rushing touchdown to cut the lead to 28-20 with 4:59 to go in the third quarter. Both teams traded field goals, and with 12:54 to go and an 8-point deficit, the 49ers got the ball with an opportunity to possibly tie the game. Once again, Kaepernick made the plays down field. A quick five-play drive covering 76 yards capped off by a 15-yard touchdown by Kaepernick pulled the 49ers within two, setting up a potentially-tying 2-point conversion. Ravens safety Ed Reed did not allow the conversion, however, bringing major pressure
on Kaepernick, and keeping the Baltimore Ravens lead at 31-29 with over nine minutes to go. After a Ravens field goal made the score 34-29, Kaepernick once again had a chance to lead the 49ers down the field. With 2:36 left to go in the game, the 49ers had the ball first-and-goal from the Ravens 7-yard line, attempting to close in on the largest comeback in Super Bowl history. Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis and the defense wouldn’t allow it, stopping the 49ers on four consecutive plays and giving the Ravens back the ball with 1:45 left on the clock. The Ravens ran all but four seconds off on the clock, taking a safety to make the final score 34-31, and sent Lewis to retirement with his second Super Bowl victory. Flacco, long questioned as a quarterback, showed the critics his true ability by throwing for 287 yards and three touchdowns en route to being named the Super Bowl MVP. Read more here: http:// w w w. k s t a t e c o l l e g i a n . com/2013/02/03/ravensturn-off-the-lights-on-49ersin-super-bowl/
Large crowd enjoys Groundhog Day celebration, early spring announced his shadow as he emerges at dawn on Feb. 2 then six more weeks of winter are ahead. But since he did not PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — The see his shadow Saturday, the predlarge crowd in Punxsutawney, Pa. for ication is that spring is just around Groundhog Day Saturday cheered the corner. Butch Philliber, iceman of the loudly when they heard the prediction from the furry forecaster.“An ear- Punxsutawney Groundhogs Club ly spring it will be,” read the forecast Inner Circle, a group of 15 residents from Punxsutawney Phil much to whose mission is to promote the legthe delight of the announced largest end of Punxsutawney Phil and the crowd ever for the event. The crowd Punxsutawney Borough, said that afwas made up of many who had been ter the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day” waiting for hours in single digit tem- the crowds grew 20 times. “It’s really kind of an adult peratures to see Phil. Before the announcement the Christmas,” Philliber said. “Because crowd sang, danced and chanted these adults are standing here in the “Phil, Phil, Phil” in anticipation of cold bouncing around with childlike his arrival as snow flurries fell on the enthusiasm, waiting for Phil to come crowd. Fireworks lit the early-morn- out an see his shadow.” Philliber said that the crowd is typing sky a half-hour before the big prediction. Many were dressed in ically made up of people from around groundhog hats, and a few wore full the state and country who want to check it off their bucket list. groundhog costumes. Some came from even farther such This year marked the 127th celebration of the event in the small as Tanya Surtees of Cape Town, South Pennsylvania town that lies about 70 Africa who said she had never experienced such cold weather before. miles west of State College. “I have never seen cold like this Penn State alumnus and State College resident Patrick Laninger in my life, but I just love the vibe — said the ride was worth it, even with everybody is just out to have a good time. I just think it is really cool,” cold temperatures. ATTENTION, EDITORS: be advisedsaid. that the clues for 20-, 39- and 56-Across are “It was a once-in-a-lifetime expe-PleaseSurtees clues that need to be pronounced (sort of like in here: a picture puzzle) for them to make Read more http://www.colrience just to see it,”theme Laninger said. sense. Here's how they work: CCCC = four C's = Foresees = TELLS THE FUTURE, legian.psu.edu/archive/2013/02/04/ “It was definitely worth AAAAit.” = four A's = Forays = MILITARY ATTACKS, TTTT =if fourPhil T's = Forties FORECAST Groundhog_day.aspx The legend goes that sees= CHILLY
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Aggie Digest The UC Davis athletics program had a busy weekend full of mixed results. The men’s tennis team traveled to Portland, Ore. to play in a four-day tournament that started Friday. The team has been successful throughout the weekend and will play against Portland State in Washington to cap off the road trip Monday afternoon. Led by Kyle Miller, the team began its play against George Fox with a 9-0 sweep on Friday. Miller won his match without losing a game, winning 6-0 and 6-0. Junior Alec Haley, freshman Mitch Thorp and senior George Horowitz all won their matches, which were their first wins of the young season.
Forum Cont. from front page economics professor Mark Siegler. UC Davis hydrology professor and hydro-geologist Graham Fogg was also present to serve as a neutral technical expert. During the first hour of the twohour forum, each side was given three minutes to make an opening statement. For the rest of the first hour, the discussion went back and forth between each side. Each side had two minutes to explain their stance on Measure I and address any topics brought up by the other side. During the second hour, forum attendees had the opportunity to ask questions regarding the mea-
On Saturday, the results were not much different, with the Aggies defeating University of Seattle 7-0. It was their third victory of the season and second straight sweep. Toki Sherbakov and Adam Levie won their doubles match 8-1. Freshman Brett Bacharach, Haley and senior Hugo Verdi-Fortin each won in straight sets. Different events occurred on Sunday, however, as the team lost to the University of Portland 7-0. All seven of the singles matches were lost in straight sets, with the most competitive match involving Portland’s Justin Guay and Bacharach by scores of 6-4 and 7-5. As of Monday morning, the men’s tennis team holds an even record of 3-3. The team will stay in California for the rest of the month and will travel to the University of San Francisco on Feb. 15, then to Saint Mary’s on Feb. 17. The women’s tennis team took on Santa Clara University on Sunday and was defeated 4-3. Layla Sanders and Tiffany Pham each won their singles matches in straight sets, as Ellie Edles won two of three. Edles and Pham won their doubles match 8-4. However, the wins were not enough to overcome the losses suffered by their teammates. The loss brought their record down to 1-4 for the season. The women’s tennis team has struggled to find its
sure, which were written on index cards and relayed to the forum speakers by Greenwald. According to the WDCWA website, the project would divert up to 45,000 acre-feet of water per year from the Sacramento River via a jointly owned and operated water intake. Pipelines will be built to transport water to a newly constructed water treatment plant, with additional pipelines transporting the treated water to Woodland, Davis and UC Davis. “It’s time to get to a sustainable system — both environmentally and physically,” Krovoza said during the forum. The cost of the project is estimated at $245 million and would be funded primarily by customer water rates. The cost was reduced from the
GenerAL Cont. from page 6 requirements because it allows him to expand his horizons and take classes that he wouldn’t normally take. “I think people are so concentrated in one area that they don’t get to see the context of what they are studying,” Farris said. “[GE three] gives students more flexibility, helps students explore things and it’s good to be knowledgeable.” In a technical light, the broadness of the new GE requirements is also beneficial to students. “Some of our major requirement courses count towards GE, so that’s helpful,” Shasky said. “Some of the units will actually be fulfilled by the major requirements.” Major classes aside, UC Davis offers some interesting classes for students to fulfill the new GE requirements. Plant Sciences 49: Organic Crop Production Practices, is a three-unit class for science and engineering GE credit that allows students to experience the garden firsthand with a variety of fieldwork days.
previous 2009 estimate of $325 million through the work of the city’s Water Advisory Committee (WAC), appointed in 2009. Issues addressed by both sides of the issue at the forum included the costs of the project, the current state of regional deep water aquifers and whether the project is truly necessary. “We should never go to ballot until we decide if the city can afford this or not,” Sue Greenwald said. Voting on Measure I will take place during a special election to be held on March 5. Davis Media Access will be broadcasting the forum at a later date on their website as well as their local access channel. MEREDITH STURMER can be reached at city@theaggie. org.
Another popular science and engineering class is Applied Biological Systems Technology 49: Field Equipment Operation (commonly referred to as farm tractors and equipment). The class has a cap at eight students, so older students have higher chances of getting in. Comparative Literature 6: Myths and Legends is a larger class in which students read and analyze ancient stories. This class is particularly beneficial because it is a doubledipper for arts and humanities with either world cultures or writing experience requirements. Other interesting classes for GE credit include Food Science and Technology 10, Science and Society 40 and Anthropology 32. Classics 30: Word Roots is now offered for arts and humanities credit under the new GE three. “[Classics 30] really helped me break down words and I think that’s an important skill to have while you’re at UC Davis,” Farris said. “For academic scientific literature, you can run into large words and won’t have to go to a dictionary.” Tran said that he enjoyed Film Studies 1 because it was something different from his normal major classes, some-
stride in the early going. They have lost four straight matches, and most recently to No. 5 Stanford on Jan. 31 by a score of 6-1. They will travel north to Oregon to play against the University of Oregon and the University of Portland on Saturday snd Sunday. The UC Davis women’s water polo team had a rough weekend at Stanford, losing three matches in as many days. The No. 12 Aggies started play on Friday against No. 14 Indiana and barely lost by a score of 9-8. Jessica Dunn led the Aggies with three goals and five others finished with one. Goalie Riane Woods had a strong performance with 15 saves. On Saturday, the Aggies lost to No. 8 San Jose State in another close game with a score of 7-6. Kathryn Bailey and Hannah Curran both scored two goals to lead the Aggies and Woods had five saves. To finish a competitive weekend, the Aggies faced off against No. 1 Stanford and fell 11-2. Paige Oreglia and Hailey Wright had one goal apiece in the final quarter and were held scoreless until then. The women’s water polo team will play Stanford again on Saturday at home for its next match. — Luke Bae
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According to de la Peña, the event will be a time for students to present what they have learned. “Our students are not just sitting and writing notes, they’re putting classroom knowledge to work, independently,” Peña said. The deadline to submit an abstract is Feb. 19 at 4 p.m. For more information on the conference and to look at samples of past student abstracts, visit the Undergraduate Research Center’s website at undergraduateresearch.ucdavis. edu.
Cont. from front page body of information they’ve learned into something that’s still complex and meaningful to their field, but reachable to a more generalized audience,” Hoyer said. The conference may also serve as inspiration to students who have yet to be involved with research. “I think if students have a chance to hear their peers and seetheirprojects,theywillrealize they can really take advantage of being at this research university,” said Carolyn de la Peña, interim vice provost for SASHA COTTERELL can be reached at Undergraduate Education. campus@theaggie.org.
thing he said is important to do, along with taking classes you find interesting. “This is your only chance to take fun classes that are completely random, and you can only do that with GE courses,” Farris said. “So have fun and take your time with it.” Shasky said that GEs can be a break from your normal workload, something that allows you to explore a different subject without any restrictions. “Engineering students might find some relief for taking a course in music, art, health or sociology,” Shasky said. “Overall, GEs are beneficial to a student’s academic success because they make you a more well-rounded student.” Since the GE requirement change, students at UC Davis are more open to taking the vast variety of classes offered. “I think it was a time of huge-scale academic policy change, but I think now it’s pretty well set,” Shasky said. “If a student is concerned, I think advisors are aware of what’s going on.” RITIKA IYER can be reached at features@theaggie.org.
Judge Cleland denies Jerry Sandusky’s request for new trial, defense team will file appeal within two weeks By Alex Steinman
Penn State University (Daily Collegian)
Three weeks after Jerry Sandusky’s defense team argued for a new trial for the former Penn State defensive coordinator, senior Judge John Cleland denied all the post-sentence motions that were filed on behalf of Sandusky, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Sandusky’s defense team plans to file a formal appeal within two weeks. Defense attorney Joe Amendola testified during an evidentiary hearing on Jan. 10 at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte that there was nothing he would have done differently in defending Sandusky, even though he said the defense team was “overwhelmed” by the amount of material given to them before trial. “Based on trial counsel’s testimony, it
has been clearly established the defense is not able to prove any actual prejudice flowed from the court’s denial of the continuance motions,” Cleland said, according to court documents. While Cleland acknowledged that the amount of discovery material produced before trial might have been “vast,” he said the post-trial review of the material done by the defense showed it would not have caused the defense to proceed differently during trial, according to court documents. “This is simply not a case where trial counsel’s inability to review before trial all of the discovery material produced can be said to have resulted in a ‘structural defect’ that made the lack of a fair trial a virtual certainty,” Cleland said, according to court documents. Norris Gelman, one of Sandusky’s attorneys, said the defense team plans to file an appeal with the Superior Court of
Pennsylvania within two weeks. “The appeal will renew claims for a new trial in the Superior Court,” Gelman said. “Much of that will be in the context of Judge Cleland’s opinion.” Gelman said the defense team will essentially argue the same claims they did during the evidentiary hearing, but the argument will be woven into and integrated with the court’s opinion. State College defense attorney Matt McClenahen said that it’s normal procedure to argue most of the same claims in appellate court as were argued in district court. He said one aspect that differs in appellate court, however, is that arguments will be made in front of three judges instead of one. “You almost always have a better chance in appellate court when you have new judges looking at it,” McClenahen said.
One thing Gelman said the defense team will certainly use to help in their appeals process is a statement lead prosecutor Joe McGettigan made June 21 during closing arguments, which implied Sandusky’s silence during his trial was a clear sign of his guilt. “He had the complete capacity to exonerate himself at the time,” McGettigan said, according to the trial transcripts. McClenahen said that McGettigan made a “rookie mistake” by saying that, as it is the defendant’s Fifth Amendment right to remain silent during his trial, as previously reported. The Attorney General’s office declined to comment Wednesday on the denied postsentence motions. Read more here: http://www.collegian. psu.edu/archive/2013/01/31/Cleland_ denies_post_sentance_motions_in_ Sandusky_case.aspx
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The california aggie
Tuesday, february 5, 2013
Rise of the Davis sugar daddies
Old dog, new tricks Understanding the reformed general education requirements By RITIKA IYER
Aggie Features Writer
UC Davis sugar babies seek means to pay tuition
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Men messaged the writer proposing relationships. SeekingArrangement.com works to faciltate matching men and women looking for these relationships.
By NAOMI NISHIHARA Aggie Features Writer
With our current economy and rising tuition costs, a growing number of college students across the country appear to be dating sugar daddies, wealthy older men who pay for young female companionship. At UC Davis, this year’s 220 percent rise in our sugar baby population shows that we are quickly joining the trend. Sugar daddy dating is commonly understood as young, attractive girls dating older, wealthier men for an allowance, and according to Angela Jacob Bermudo, the public relations manager of the world’s largest sugar daddy dating website, SeekingArrangement.com, college-aged sugar babies receive an average allowance of $3,000 each month. To explore this phenomenon in which female college students appear to be turning to sugar daddies when they can’t can’t pay tuition, I delved into the economic and gender aspects of sugar daddy dating and additionally decided to make a sugar baby account for myself. SeekingArrangement.com — In brief According to Bermudo, there are about 2 million members on the website worldwide, though sugar babies outnumber sugar daddies significantly. These sugar daddies average between ages 35 and 45, and according to Bermudo, are generous, wealthy men who may run their own businesses or be high-level CEOs who can’t be bothered by the stress of regular dating. The average sugar baby is 21 to 27, and generally is struggling to make ends meet. Safety and confidentiality is emphasized on the site. AccordingtoBermudo,members are always advised to only date verified members, as SeekingArrangement.com offers to conduct comprehensive background checks on both sugar daddies and sugar babies. Sugar daddies also have the option of being Diamond Members, which means that the website will confirm their actual income to make sure that they’re not pretending to be wealthy. Once two people have met and an arrangement has been made, however, both sugar daddy and sugar baby are on their own, and if a sugar daddy refuses to pay his sugar baby, she can’t blame the website. “You can’t come back and say, ‘Oh, we broke up,’” Bermudo said. “It’s just like any other dating website. We’re not involved in that.” My dip into SD dating To explore the phenomenon myself, I created a 20-year-old student and non-smoking sugar baby persona seeking a sugar daddy and expecting $1,000 to $3,000 a month. Before I could use the Mailbox feature of the web-
site to contact other users, my profile and photo had to be approved, which took about two days. Once they were up and available for viewing, sugar daddies began writing to me. “Wow you are beautiful,” wrote a 55-year-old sugar daddy. “Among other things, I’m interested in a SD/SB relationship where we spend some quality adult time being naughty in the bedroom — three to four times a month. If that interests you please give me an idea of the amount of support you would need to make that work.” “I had a Sugar Baby for five years, so I know what it takes to keep someone happy,” wrote another 55-yearold sugar daddy. “Monthly allowance, gifts, etc.” “I liked your profile, so I thought I would give you a shout,” the above-mentioned sugar daddy wrote. “My specialty is spoiling! Mentor, benefactor, lover (world class) — all rolled into one! But would you be open to an arrangement with someone who is married?” A 34-year-old sugar daddy took the time to type up and send specific instructions to me. “It’s generally two times a week, two hours each of [those] nights. Of course if you want to hang out beyond that, grab dinner, a drink, coffee — that’s up to you. What you do when you’re not around is your own business and [is] never discussed so long as it doesn’t affect me. Your life remains your own, without drama or nonsense.” He then requested that I send him recent pictures with measurements for my true height and weight included, and mentioned that I would need to be on birth control. “That’s all we’ll be using,” this 34-year-old sugar daddy said. “I take my time and want to feel everything. If it works out, I can pay for part of that too.” Other sugar daddies sent a variety of offers, several suggesting that I travel to see them, but the vast majority simply requesting that I explore their profiles and message them back if interested. Others had more interesting requests. “How are you?” wrote a 53-year-old sugar daddy. “I am looking to meet a very dominant female. Have you ever had a fantasy about being dominant?” “I would definitely want to make friends with such a smart person and help her succeed in life,” a 46-yearold sugar daddy wrote. “Let me know if you would let me be the wind for the kite you are flying!” Competing perspectives — Dating vs. new-age prostitution Amina Mama, director and professor of women and gender studies at UC Davis, views the practice negatively. According to Mama, women are doing it for the money, which means that when an economy gets worse or gets more unequal, there is often
a rise in transactional sex. “It’s the oldest profession,” Mama said. “All women can fall back on it if they are excluded from other opportunities.” Bermudo disagreed about the sexual part of this sugar daddy-sugar baby transaction. “Prostitution is a one-time transaction; it is black-andwhite money for sex. [At] SeekingArrangement.com, our mutually beneficial relationship does not involve sex. Sex is not part of the arrangement. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship,” Bermudo said. “[If] a man is showing a woman that her time is worth his money, that woman in turn doesn’t give what a normal relationship would: jealousy, selfishness or a constant demand on [his] time.” Both Bermudo and Mama agreed that the current economy is most likely a large part of the recent rise in collegeaged sugar babies. Bermudo stated that when parents lose their jobs or face financial hardships, their collegeaged children must often find their own ways to support themselves. “I think it reflects the persistence of gender and economic inequalities, which in fact are growing,” Mama said. “It’s a fact that women are paid less for doing the same jobs [as men]. So because more women are poor, especially younger women, it follows that men are more often in a position to pay for sex.” Mama stated that because sugar babies are of age, sugar daddy dating can’t be called child abuse. However, the age difference is significant and is neither new nor old. “We object to child marriages, and we’re very critical of sex with minors — there’s a name for it: The Lolita Complex,” Mama said. “[The idea of] old men who want to have sexual relationships with young women and girls is not well-regarded, but it is common. It’s a problem because there is already inequality between men and women, so when you compound that with the sugar daddy’s age, his gender advantage and his economic power, these relationships are far from equal.” Mama stated that the economy is creating an atmosphere where sugar daddies can take advantage of young students in need of tuition money. “What worries me about this is the large number of young people in need of selling their sexual services for money,” said Mama. “That confirms that it is economically driven and that young people, including students, tend to be the poorest.” Bermudo made clear that SeekingArrangement.com is not attempting to target students by claiming that sugar daddy dating is the only way to pay their bills. “We’re saying that this is a viable option,” Bermudo said. “But if you’re the type of person who is OK with earning money with a part-time job, then that’s for you.” NAOMI NISHIHARA can be reached at features@theaggie.org.
General education (GE), also known as the unavoidable units to some UC Davis students, is something that we all must complete and poses a unique opportunity to study interesting topics. Ever since the requirements changed two years ago for all UC Davis students entering in or after Fall Quarter 2011, understanding the transition from the old “GE two” to the new “GE three” has been confusing for a large part of the UC Davis community. “When the new GEs came out for the advisors, it was very difficult for us as advisors to implement them,” said Kate Shasky, undergraduate adviser in chemical engineering and materials science. “I can only imagine the frustration and confusion the students might have.” For the previous GE two, students were expected to complete a certain amount of classes, rather than a set number of units. Also, taking a course for pass/no pass was not an option under GE two, unlike the new requirements. “Because GE three allows for pass/no pass, students are allowed to take a lot of classes they really like without feeling the pressures of a grade holding them Irisa Tam / Aggie on,” said second-year communication and psychology double major Kenny Tran. “Whereas in GE two, even though it’s much smaller, students aren’t really able to take classes of interest without them feeling like it’s not going to anything.” Both GE two and three include a topical breadth section that includes requirements in arts and humanities, science and engineering and social sciences. A minimum of 52 units is needed in this area for the GE three, as opposed to nine classes for GE two. A core literacies section was added only to GE three as part of the change, and totals to 35 units. There are four parts within this area, including requirements in literacy with words and images, civic and cultural literacy, quantitative literacy and scientific literacy. “Professors wanted their classes to be included in the GEs,” said fourth-year science and technology studies major Lexi Farris. “They wanted student experienc-
es to be more enriched, and want to make sure you are really well-rounded here at UC Davis.” In order for students to finish their requirements on time, the university allows “double-dipping” between the topical breadth and core literacies sections, or using one GE class to fulfill two requirements. However, double dipping is not allowed within each section. An example of this is Anthropology 2: Cultural Anthropology, which fulfills requirements in social sciences within the topical breadth and in the core literacies section. “Think of the topical breadth areas as different ice cream flavors, and the core literacies areas as toppings,” Tran said. “Your ice cream cone can only hold one scoop of ice cream and one topping. If you have two flavors, it’ll fall over.” Since those under the GE three requirements are expected to complete more units than previous years, many students found it difficult to manage their major requirements with GEs when the changes were implemented. “Depending on the major, it’s an added workload,” Shasky said. “It makes completing a degree in time for engineering students much more difficult.” Shasky said she sees students every day that are nervous about not finishing the GE requirement in time to graduate. “I always recommend summer school if you want to guarantee graduation in four years, because that’s the best way to ensure it,” Shasky said. “GEs are a great thing to take during the summer because there is lots of variety in Davis, community college or abroad.” Although student difficulties may have increased with the new GE three, many people think the benefits of the change outweigh the negatives. “I am jealous of the new one because I feel like students have more opportunities to take fun classes,” Farris said. “I felt like the courses they wanted you to take were limited, but I feel like now you can take courses that are more tailored to your needs.” Tran said he likes being on GE three
See GENERAL, page 5