March 14, 2013

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Russell Park Primate research center Apartments appeals citation of maltreatment of monkeys explosion court trial today

USDA does not issue fine, animal rights group continues to protest

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The USDA cited the California National Primate Research Center (pictured here) for maltreatment of the animals.

By STEPHANIE B. NGUYEN Aggie News Writer

In response to a complaint filed by an animal rights group, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cited the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis for maltreatment from 2009 to 2010, specifically the death of 19 monkeys.

UC Davis appealed the citation, and after continued investigation, the USDA recently decided not to issue a fine due to improvements since the deaths occurred.

Between October 2009 and June

2010, 19 rhesus macaque monkeys died in the outdoor breeding colony, and in response Ohio-based animal rights protest group Stop Animal Exploitation NOW (SAEN) sent a complaint to the USDA. The USDA issued a preliminary intent to cite and inspected the research facility as well as the necropsy records of the 19 primates in February 2011.

However, since this number is within the acceptable rates of mortality in large breeding colonies, the Primate Research Center and the university appealed the citation.

After a prolonged period of appeals

protesting, the USDA publicly issued the inspection report on Monday.

The USDA did not levy a fine for the research facility.

“There is no penalty action that will accompany the results of this inspection,” said David Sacks, USDA spokesman for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. “The UC Davis primate center is working to improve the care of its primates, and that is a good thing.”

Dr. Dallas Hyde, center director and professor of veterinary medicine at UC Davis, said animals in the wild have a threefold death and illness rate than in the center’s colonies.

“The large majority of deaths occur in young animals in which there is a short window of time to discover and treat the illness or injury,” Hyde said.

“We’re doing as well as any other facility in the country in terms of statistics. The USDA let the citation stand, but they didn’t fine us because the remedial steps that were taken to address the problem were impressive.

We tried to find improvements everywhere we could.”

According to the inspection report issued by the USDA in February, and made public on Monday, appropriate methods were not used to prevent, control, diagnose and treat diseases and injuries of several non-human primates housed at the facility. A majority of the primates died from lack of adequate nutrition and/or parental care.

The Primate Research Center is

David Snyder, a junior researcher who allegedly caused the Jan. 17 explosion at the Russell Park Apartments, will be tried today in Yolo Superior Court. Snyder was released on a $2 million bail after he was arrested on Jan. 19 in connection to the explosion, according to a UC Davis News press release.

Under the conditions of his release, Snyder is not allowed to return to UC Davis without notifying the UC Davis Police Department (UCDPD), said Claudia Morain, UC Davis spokesperson, in an email interview.

After Snyder was arrested, he was placed on leave from his junior specialist appointment, which ended on Jan. 31. He is not currently employed at the university.

Snyder was also charged with felony violations of California Penal Code 18715, custody of an explosive, California Penal Code 18720, possession of substances or materials used for making destructive devices or explosives, and two counts of holding a firearm on campus, according to a press release. The UCDPD is conducting a criminal investigation of the case, and further charges may be made.

Several agencies are handling the case, including Yolo County Bomb Squad, FBI, UC Davis Fire Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to Matthew Carmichael, UC Davis Police Department Chief of Police.

Carmichael also said the explosive materials and substances that were in Snyder’s apartment were destroyed by bomb squad experts close to the scene of the incident. The volatile items were destroyed in a field on the Student Farm using a process called thermal treatment.

See PRIMATE, page 7

See EXPLOSION, page 7

Chancellor’s 2020 Initiative to begin this May Initiative aims to increase student population by 5,000 between now and 2020 sors and a better environment for mentoring our students,” she said. “The most critical thing is to make sure we do it right ... We are not going to allow ourselves to fail.”

Students, who fear that the increase in student population may lead to a decrease in access to services offered on campus, should not worry, Katehi said. According to her March 7 announcement, revenue generated by this initiative will support staff and services.

Rahim Reed, associate executive vice chancellor for Campus Community Relations and member of the chancellor’s cabinet, assures that this initiative will be focusing heavily on the needs of the students.

He also conducted the Campus Community Survey earlier this school year, which assists with the goals of the initiative.

“The survey is designed to give us feedback on what kind of campus climate we have, what it’s like to be a student, to be a faculty member and staff here, to teach here and to learn here. Knowing this kind of information will help us to address, and be

By SASHA COTTERELL Aggie News Writer

Last week, Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi announced new developments in the 2020 Initiative — a strategy she has been working on to improve the university, announced Sept. 21, 2011 during her fall convocation address.

As one of the main components of the initiative, there is a plan to increase the student population by 5,000 — international, in-state and out-of-state students — in order to increase the school’s excellence and create a more diverse campus by 2020.

To offset the increase in student population, there will also be an increase in faculty by about 300 and additional classrooms to support the growing campus.

While these changes are major, they will be occurring gradually.

“We are going to start slowly,” Katehi said.

Katehi said that she, along with her advisors, will be working to ensure they address every need of current and future students.

“We need more TAs, better advising, more advi-

Junior UC Davis researcher to be tried in Yolo Superior Court

By KELLEY DRECHSLER Aggie News Writer

New research lab safety regulations to be implemented after delay

Undergraduates, researchers expected to wear protective equipment

See 2020, page 6

News iN Brief

Yolo MoveOn to host community forum

Snapshot Photo Campaign organized for Picnic Day 2013

On March 26, Yolo MoveOn will host a forum on “Creating Democracy and Challenging Corporate Rule” from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. at the Davis Branch Library Blanchard Room, 315 E 14th St. David Cobb, an attorney and organizer of the Move to Amend campaign, will be a guest speaker. He will discuss the recent U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) and speak about how local residents can work to abolish “corporate personhood” and reestablish the government to be of, by and for the people.

Move to Amend is a coalition aimed at ending corporate rule, building a democracy accountable to the people and advocating for social and economic justice.

According to the Move to Amend press release, the forum will focus on ways Yolo County can join the national movement against corporate personhood.

The Picnic Day 2013 team is organizing the Snapshot Photo Campaign for Picnic Day 2013 and asking for submissions of photos of the “perfect” Picnic Day. Selected photos will be compiled into a collage that is to be displayed at the MU, ARC and SCC during Picnic Day, according to the online event page.

The contest is open to students, staff, faculty and community members.

Participants can submit photos to specialevents@picnicday.ucdavis.edu or turn in a 4x6 hard copy to the Picnic Day office at 349 MU. The submission deadline is tomorrow.

— Claire Tan

— Muna Sadek

Today’s weather Sunny High 79 Low 49

Forecast Clear and sunny days are ahead. Perfect for studying right? But here’s a word of warning: the pollen count on Friday and Saturday will be in the highs. Prepare your sinuses.

Raymond Chan, atmospheric science major Aggie Forecasting Team

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The University of California’s new policy regarding protective personal equipment has been delayed to allow for more comments.

By NATASHA QABAZARD Aggie News Writer

In an effort to reduce students’ exposure to lab risks, UC officials released new policies regarding lab safety that were to be put into effect March 1.

However, the implementation of these policies has been delayed in order to allow for the review of more comments from campuses about the new regulations.

These regulations include required personal protective equipment (PPE) students must wear at all times while they are inside a lab.

PPE is chosen by supervisors based on their assessment of hazardous materials in the workplace and will be provided to students at no cost.

This new policy applies to students enrolled in academic courses where PPE is required by the instructor

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and/or indicated in the course syllabus.

These new policies came as a response to an accident at UCLA, where research scientist Sheri Sangji died in a lab fire four years ago after a small quantity of a chemical compound that ignites when exposed to air was spilled during an extraction from a sealed container.

There have been many reports about the accident and the ensuing lawsuit against the UC and her supervising professor, Patrick Harran, who faces up to five years in prison if convicted of the charges.

Some examples of PPE include flame-retardant lab coats, gloves, foot protection such as steeltoed shoes, eye protection which includes safety glasses or goggles, protective hearing devices like

See SAFETY, page 7 It’s Pi Day! For your entertainment, try singing the line “pi, pi, 3.1415” to the tune of Don McLean’s “Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie.” Amanda Nguyen

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THURSDAY

microbiome, HIV Pathogenesis and DNA integration in human gene therapy.

Last Kirtan Night of the Quarter & Langar 7 to 8 p.m.

CA House Come to join Sikh Cultural Association in the last Kirtan Night of the Quarter at the CA House. There will be food so come hungry! It is open to everyone and anyone.

You do not have to be Sikh to attend.

American Red Cross Club General Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

146 Olson The ARCC is an on-campus organization dedicated to emergency preparedness and community service. Join them for their final general meeting.

FLASH: A New Choreography 8 to 10 p.m.

Wright Main Theater Come see a new work devised and choreographed by Granada artist-inresidence Qudus Onikeku, whose Yoruba culture-based work often fuses hiphop, capoeira and Nigerian dance with acrobatics and explores themes of identity and exile.

FRIDAY Infectious Disease Seminar 12:10 p.m.

1005 GBSF Dr. Frederic Bushman will be giving a talk on “Systems Biology of HIV.” Dr. Bushman is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

His research focuses on host-microbe interactions in health and disease with particular focus on studies of the human

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incredible maturity over the past few days.

This team has practiced hard and prepared well.

They know that they can go toe-to-toe with any team in the Big West and they are ready to start claiming those close victories, instead of falling victim to them.

“We’ve got a hard week ahead of us but we’ll do everything we can to prepare,” head coach Jim Les said.

Senior Ryan Howley echoed Les’ thoughts.

The loss against UC Irvine meant Howley and fellow senior Paolo Mancasola lost their last games at home.

As if this team needed any more motivation after the

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late and that was a concern through the first nine games, but all areas of the game can improve for us,” said coach Matt Vaughn.

UC Davis comes into the series batting .296 as a team and consists of an offense of getting on base

Richard III 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wyatt Pavilion Theater Come down for this free performance of Richard III, written by William Shakespeare, presented by ShakespeareOn-a-Shoestring. For more information, go to theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

SATURDAY Richard III 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wyatt Pavilion Theater Come down for this free performance of Richard III, written by William Shakespeare, presented by ShakespeareOn-a-Shoestring. For more information, go to theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

SUNDAY Returning to the Tribe!

2:30 to 5 p.m.

280 South Come witness dances from the Ouled Nail (Algerian) and Ritual Zar Dance (Egyptian).

Learn about the women of the Ouled Nail and about the Egyptian Trance Dance (Zar).

Learn how to dance these dying authentic dance traditions. Let’s keep these ancient dances alive! $30 at the door or $25 prepaid through PayPal. 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.

Long Beach upset, they are more determined than ever to help these seniors end their Aggie careers on a good note.

“We need to make the most of these next few days to prepare for the upcoming tournament. We will learn from our mistakes and work hard at practice to prepare for our next game,” he said.

The Big West Championship Tournament will be held at the Honda Center this weekend. Every game will be televised on Fox Prime Ticket and they can also be viewed online via BigWestTV. Friday’s semi-final game will be aired on ESPN3 and will be aired at a later time on ESPNU as well.

— Kim Carr and doing the little things, such as running the bases well and stealing bases when possible, to win games.

The Aggies have a team ERA of 5.72 and have had strong starting pitching from Wolf (1-0) and relief pitching from freshman Max Cordy (3-1), whose ERA is 2.16.

—Luke Bae

slab (sorry for the metaphor vegetarian readers) (sorry for the pun everyone else).

And yet I don’t think I could give any better adJustin vice than that uttered at the Goss most recent farewells by Sandbox Vice President-Elect Bradley Politico Bottoms: “Take your job seriously, not yourself,” a familiar mantra but one ASUCD so desperately needs.

Those great accomplishments I listed at the top — they were achieved when the actors took self, pride, ego and greed out of the e join student govequation. They put the purernment to leave a suit above the person; that’s legacy — whatevwhen the real work gets er that means. To enact projdone. ects, bylaws, budgets and That’s right, the personal other machinations for the does not have to be political, student body to enjoy and and we are all better off when remember long after we’re the two don’t interact. gone.

Because student governYou see these legacies all ment, like college, can be over campus — from a reso easy when you let it. You tired fire truck turned tube have vast resources in front sock dispensary, to a coffee of you, augmented by years shop hippy hangout turned of historical fine-tuning, into one of the nation’s most and readily enhanced by lesuccessful university food vers of power small enough services. These legacies to be easily reachable but big rest in our state-of-the-art enough to shift the seismoARC, the bus system which graph. wouldn’t exist without stuCurrent senators, that is dent money and our health the kind of power within center which we’re still findyour reach right now; don’t ing out is a work in progress squander it. financially.

Truth be told, I don’t have This is the kind of unprecresolute faith in this current edented, student-led magic body. It’s a group of largely student government can efuntested and untrained novfect when ices sitting run properat that table ly, and with Student government will with the usuthe kind only succeed when the most al oversized of fearless and talented of us have a stake in platforms ambition good intenso approits success tions. priate to Student the sandgovernment, prove me box learning experience that wrong. Please prove me is college. You build your cas- wrong. No one is rooting for tle, marvel at it for a time and you to fail, least of all me. We then knock it down or build attend university to have our it bigger. ideologies tested and our igAre these pursuits always norance quashed, here’s successful? Absolutely not. hoping you can teach me Just ask Darwin Moosavi, un- one last lesson before I don der whom Kid Cudi never the cap and gown. came day or night but who As for the rest of you, hold also slapped a fee on plasthem accountable. As cyntic bags used on campus; acical as we’ve all become tual policy even the state of there’s still something magCalifornia is too scared to im- ical about elections and the plement. vote. Each of the 12 senators It’s this kind of guess-andrepresents a kind of promise, check, try-and-die mentala hope we imbued them with ity that makes student govwhen we thousands of unernment such a fitting analdergrads cast our ballots. ogy for the larger college exThat promise is the noperience. The willingness to tion that leaders and heroes try, and as my colleague Elli do exist. Those who can elPearson wrote on Monday, to evate above the day-to-day make mistakes. malaise that too frequently This column has been plagues our sensibilities, and half advice to the senate, and make things a little better for half philosophical wax dripthe rest of us. ping off the candle that is my Alright, enough said. brain — trying to establish When I exited senate a quarsome emotional-philosophter ago I bid farewell to the ical connection between the crowded Mee Room and the student government and its senate table. This time The student body.

Aggie has given an impendBut the one theme runing graduate the ability to ning consistently throughout address the student body at was the need to care. All the large. way back to week one when So ASUCD, and I mean all I wrote on ASUCD’s paraof you associated students, I doxes, the final line wasn’t bid farewell. grudging consent to systemic maladies, it was a cry for help JUSTIN GOSS will actually be back with — a call to arms. a bonus column on Monday but wanted Student government will to complete the ten-week arc he had only succeed when the most intended. If you want to talk about obsessive talented of us have a stake adherence to continuity do so at jjgoss@ ucdavis.edu. in its success — so bite off a

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Question: You said a few weeks ago that “ladies nights” are illegal in California. But if we have the right to free speech, can’t a bar just say that its “ladies night” is part of a religion? Would anyone still be able to sue for giving discriminatory benefits in favor of women?

— Faiq S., Davis, Calif.

Answer: The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution indeed protects the “free exercise” of religion.

California’s Constitution has a similar clause establishing a similar right to religious freedom. But this right is not unlimited.

Way back in 1996, the California Supreme Court considered this question in Smith v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission. A landlord tried to ban unmarried couples from living in her apartment complex, which violates California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act. When an unmarried couple sued, arguing that the landlord was discriminating against them, the landlord fought back.

She said her religion forbade couples to live together unless they’re married, and she didn’t want to encourage such behavior.

The Supreme Court re-

jected the landlord’s position. Although her religion may not permit her to rent to unmarried cohabitants, the right of free exercise does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a “valid and neutral law of general applicability.” In other words, the First Amendment will not defeat a law that applies to everyone regardless of religion.

The Court held that the statutory prohibition against discrimination because of marital status was a law both generally applicable and neutral toward religion.

The law is generally applicable in that it prohibits all discrimination without reference to motivation. It doesn’t say “religious people are banned from discriminating” or “you can go ahead and discriminate, but not if you’re discriminating because your religion told you to.” It just says, “you can’t discriminate.”

The law is “neutral” because its goal is to prohibit discrimination regardless of reason. Its goal is not to punish religious people; its goal is to stop discrimination.

If the law unduly burdened religion without a good reason, then the free exercise clause might defeat the law. But the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in businesses, does not unduly burden religion.

Imagine a world where the free exercise clause allowed people to get out of laws by claiming their religion made them do it.

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en grow up with, that their anatomy is inherently dirty and impure.

Marisa Besides making women Massara feel ashamed of their pherSex & omones, products like these Society can also be downright unhealthy. While every vagina has its own unique aroma (influenced by diet, exercise, normal bacteria, ovulation and menstruation), drastic changes in smell can indicate probcouple of days ago, in lems. Starting each day with the middle of a latea spritz of Morning Paradise night tampon run, I could disguise the strong, stumbled across a line of fishy smell that usually inproducts under the name dicates bacterial vagino“Summer’s Eve.” sis. Covering up with a layThe shelves in front of er of Delicate Blossom durme boasted an assortment ing your lunch breaks could of vaginal “cleansing” proddistract from the malty, ucts, including douchbread-like scent that is ofes, deodorants and travelten a precursor to yeast insize cleansing pads. They fections. came in an array of flirtaEven worse is douching, tious artificial scents, like or the rinsing of the vagiSweet Romance and Island nal canal. Despite the claim Splash. that Summer’s Eve products Turns out, Summer’s are gynecologist-tested, I Eve came under some have never heard any medpretty heavy criticism last ical professional advise the year when they ran a seuse of douches. Douching is ries of commercials tarnot only unnecessary; it can geted at different racial be quite harmful, too. For groups. In these ads, talkone, douching can dry out, ing hands meant to repreinflame, irritate and even sent each woman’s “wonder tear vaginal tissue, which down under” spoke in steincreases the risk of conreotyped white, black and tracting STIs. Hispanic accents. These Douching also messes pseudo-vaginas demandwith the female body’s nated the care and attention ural balance. Part of what they demakes vagiserved, and nas so fasFirst off, products like encourcinating is aged their these lead to the belief that their ability women to to self-regbe “BFFs” women’s vaginas should smell ulate dellike ... not vaginas with their icate pH, lady-parts. yeast and Most of the negative atbacteria levels. Rinsing the tention landed on the racial vaginal canal with water or stereotyping presented in even a “specially balanced” the commercials. But what Summer’s Eve solution can really irked me about these disrupt these levels, which ads, and the products in often lead to infection. general, was that the comEven worse, if these inpany was shaming women fections are present, douchinto something unnecesing can push them farsary — even unsafe — unther in toward the cervix or der the guise of embracing uterus. This increases the female sexuality. chance of developing PID First off, products like (pelvic inflammatory disthese lead to the belief that ease), a much more serious women’s vaginas should infection. If a woman tries smell like ... not vaginas. to use douching as a form They suggest that the natuof birth control (don’t), she ral scent of a healthy cunt is can even put herself at risk Tropical Rain, and that any- of an ectopic pregnancy, thing short of a potpourwhich can be fatal if left unri purse is desperately in treated. Unsurprisingly, the need of some Summer’s Eve “Vagina Owner’s Manual” “cleansing.” on the Summer’s Eve webThis is shaming women, site makes little to no mennot empowering them. tion of these dangers.

Sure, it’s great to see more The Summer’s Eve camopen discussion about paigns are irresponsible bewomen’s bodies in the mecause they make douchdia. But that’s not what this ing and perfuming the vais. On the surface, Summer’s gina seem like a basic part Eve is simply coasting on of female hygiene. Though the wave of trendy sexuthose trendy talking vaginaal liberation. Their webhands may seem to tell you site flaunts a “V Glossary,” otherwise, making women defining terms like G-Spot feel ashamed of their bodand Kegel, and other ads ies to increase sales is not in go so far as to call the vagithe best interest of vaginal na “the center of the unihealth. No matter how emverse.” Unfortunately, their powering the message may products’ implied messagseem, Summer’s Eve is simes are not tackling the stigply perpetuating the same ma attached to female sexexploitative body-shaming uality. In a way, they’re actu- they claim to be fighting. ally advocating this stigma in the name of increased MARISA MASSARA should be writing a sales, playing off of the con- Chaucer essay, but vaginas are more fun. She stant reminders most wom- can be reached at mvmassara@ucdavis.edu.

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Rastafarians could smoke pot. Jonestown cultists could murder people. And I’d sign up as the first Pope of the new religion, “Destroy-allleaf-blowers-ism.”

Question: Unitrans buses can get pretty cramped to the point of pretty awkward discomfort. When the bus is at what a normal person would figure is total capacity, the bus pulls up to yet another stop with 10 people, and we have to get even more packed.

The driver will yell that we can’t keep going unless every person gets on the bus. Is there a legal capacity to how many people they can shove into one bus?

— Ibram G., Davis, Calif.

Answer: Though it might not seem like it, there’s a legal limit to how many people you can cram on a bus.

According to California Code of Regulations § 1217(a), no driver shall drive a vehicle transporting passengers in violation of the following rule: “...The number of passengers (excluding infants in arms) shall not exceed the number of safe and adequate seating spaces, or for school buses, school pupil activity buses, youth buses and farm labor vehicles, the number of passengers specified by the seating capacity rating set forth in the departmental Vehicle Inspection Approval Certificate.”

That sounds like the capacity is determined by seating spaces, not square footage. If some weird party bus

had only two seats — but a huge dance floor — the maximum capacity would be based on those two seats, not the dance floor.

The only question is whether Unitrans is a school bus. If it’s a school bus, the “number of safe and adequate seating spaces” doesn’t matter. School buses must comply with the Vehicle Inspection Approval Certificate, which is usually issued by the California Highway Patrol.

It’s kind of like the “max seating capacity” signs you see in restaurants; the actual physical capacity doesn’t matter. What matters is the opinion of a state inspector.

And what did a state inspector say about the Unitrans buses? Check the sign at the front of the bus. There should be a Vehicle Inspection Approval Certificate that specifies the bus’ safe seating capacity.

Next time you feel cramped, start counting heads. If it exceeds the capacity, shout back at the ornery driver. Tell him the bus already exceeds the maximum legal capacity. The people waiting at the bus stop will hate you, the driver will hate you, but your fellow passengers will breathe a sigh of relief.

(Literally — they’ll be able to breathe. And they’ll thank you for that.)

Daniel is a Sacramento attorney, former Davis City Council candidate and graduate of UC Davis School of Law. He’ll answer questions sent to him at governorwatts@ gmail.com or tweeted to @governorwatts.

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Out with the old

In with the news As of next quarter, The Aggie will discontinue its four-day-a-week printing schedule and begin publishing weekly on Thursdays. If you didn’t know this already, that probably means you don’t read The Aggie enough.

Our goal is to have news readily available in your hands without the inky residue — a shift from having less print to having a greater online presence. Additionally, this transition will hopefully maintain viability and visibility.

So, what can be expected from these changes?

The Aggie’s website will be redesigned to feature a minimalist, streamlined look, with multimedia capabilities. There will be more online polls and the new website will be updated regularly with breaking stories — no more “I knew what happened before The Aggie published it.”

We will continue to tweet news in 140 characters or less, share news links

through our Facebook page and upload photos on our Tumblr for those social media junkies out there.

But we’re not trying to phase out the print version of The Aggie. Due to the decreased number of printing days, the paper will be fatter and loaded in quantity and quality. That means longer, in-depth articles, and more photos and more graphics to highlight a newly improved layout.

Since next quarter will be a pilot run, we’d like to recruit you, the reader, to help us out by giving us feedback on the changes. We plan to hold weekly public meetings for our readers to come to us with any story ideas and improvements that can be made, giving readers the chance to be a part of The Aggie.

The last paper for this quarter will come out Monday. We encourage you to pick it up and maybe make huge paper cranes after you’re finished with it.

Humanities

In celebration of things worth learning Amongst continued (and endless) debates about the financial value of an education and which departments deserve public funding, it is important to take a step back and give thanks and praise to the wonderful world of the humanities.

After all, what good is molecular biology, chemistry or physics if not to further and improve our existence as humans?

We saw such appreciation of haiku in The Aggie on Tuesday, an appreciation we would like to see more generously distributed throughout the minds and hearts of the people. (You people!)

Perhaps in an effort to demonstrate such appreciation, this editorial should have been written as a sonnet or a limerick, but this is a newspaper and we don’t have time for rhymes.

We do, however, have time to sincerely ask ourselves whether extending our lifespan through medicine is really that important in a world without art to visit for years to come. Is going to space worth anything if we aren’t moved by the poetic beauty of the infinite and unknowable? Is computer technology going to be used if we’re not instagramming photos?

Last summer brought a slew of Republican declarations that they would cut funding to cultural staples like PBS, adding on to the lifetime of endless articles on Yahoo! about useless majors.

Hardly cultural icons, these media attacks are markers of mainstream and widely accepted beliefs about what constitutes an acceptable use of your brain.

In 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a column by Massachusetts English professor James Mulholland, entitled “Time to stop mourning the humanities.” Instead of fueling the proverbial fire, the author endorsed a celebration.

“I propose that we stop talking about the ‘crisis,’ even stop using the word,” Mulholland wrote. “I suggest that we change our vocabulary and attitude, and begin to offer a cogent reassessment of what the humanities do and why they deserve to be maintained and expanded within the university. I want to link how we talk about the crisis with how we respond to it.”

So, here is to the humanities — the field that has inspired nearly every past high schooler that became an Aggie reporter; the field that created that weird University of California logo redesign and enabled the revolution that followed; the field that has very likely prevented society from making grave scientific mistakes that lead to robot revolutions and disembodied souls.

And, also, here’s to viticulture and enology. It may be a science, but what would the humanities be without it?

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Safe Harbor Crisis House in Woodland was the fortunate beneficiary of the Winter Weekend of Service project of the Community Service Resource Center at UC Davis this past Sunday, March 10.

Ten students came to perform much needed work at our facili-

In response to hate In our very own town of Davis, Mikey Partida was a victim of a homophobic hate crime. Mikey was severely beaten on I and 3rd to the point to where he had to be taken to the hospital. As a Queer Jewish student of color, and as many students, the fact that I constantly find myself walking around this very area at night totally erases my sense of safety in our own town. This incident completely obliterates the notion that Davis is a safe open environment and in fact raises the issue that we encounter hate crimes in our town all too often. This CANNOT keep occurring. One of the reasons I

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e live in a world full of death, suffering and extreme despotism. There are some hard problems to fix.

Some other highly pervasive problems are not so hard. The endurance of hard problems doesn’t need an explanation: We haven’t solved them because they’re hard.

But what is the explanation for the persistence of the easy problems? Well, I think their very existence is proof of a thesis that I frequently supply and that I want to try to further explicate here.

People cannot solve problems that should be easily fixed because some powerful institutions do not want those problems fixed. It would reduce their power.

Every institution acts in this way. This is what causes the manipulation of ideologies. The most powerful groups naturally filter information. By coercing information, our actions are controlled and the easy problems remain.

No one is forcing anyone to write anything. The world is comprised of institutions that craft the society to fit whatever upholds their power.

This has two important effects.

One — those people who honestly and sincerely hold the beliefs that uphold power will naturally be selected for. Megyn Kelly or Brian Williams, these people really believe the totally bogus stuff

ty. We want to recognize and thank Dianne Lansangan, Justin Ramirez, Kathy Rosales, Kevin Tam, Jonathan Chang, Henry Nguyen, Margarita Ramirez, Andy Yang, Virginia Hysell and Cynthia Ibarra for their service to our community.

Safe Harbor Crisis House is a program of Yolo Community Care Continuum. YCCC is a non-prof-

it organization established to better the lives of people with a mental illness through direct services, advocacy, education and volunteer efforts.

chose to study in Davis was due to its small size and the erroneous belief that it would be welcoming and tolerant to the vast diversity of its students. Although this incident did not occur to one of our own students, it may very well have. Furthermore, the enormous amounts of hate crimes that have occurred in My short personal stay at Davis, the Graffiti drawn on the old LGBT Center, the Noose hung during the Students of Color Conference, the swastika drawn on the dorms to name a few, puts in highlight that Davis, in all the contrary, is unfortunately a haven of Hate and Intolerance.

As a member of this student body and of ASUCD, I Will Not Passively

Allow This to Continue and Neither Should the Press. The Enterprise’s dubious coverage of this incident in which they still question this act as a hate crime is incredibly hurtful and destructive. It is for this reason that I am making my voice heard.

I plead with the Aggie to once and for all uncover the Hatred within Davis, as this is the only way to truly rid ourselves of this very unfortunate and horrendous vice. I refuse to leave this Institution with the same intolerance in which I have found it.

Janet Rubenking Associate Director Safe Harbor Crisis House Woodland, CA

Luis Saïd Curiel Fourth-year psychology major ASUCD Gender and Sexuality Commissioner

that they say. It’s not that the memyth of objectivity is as rampant dia is full of liars who want to upas it is ludicrous. There is no obhold power. jective standpoint. What is called It is full of people who were se“objective” is merely the very cenlected for success because they ter of accepting the framework of happened to be properly submisthe elites’ discourse. That center is sive to the ideology that they were non-challenging. “Objective” simindoctrinated into. Success in ply means “non-critical.” news media is the ability to seem People have assumed that fair ascritical and feel critical while besessment of facts means conforming ing really, really not critical. Have to the prevailing assessments. That you heard of any major muckrakis a failure. That is not what objecing journalists extivity is supposed posing big truths to mean. In fact, The world is comprised of lately? I haven’t. eminent biologist Second — pow- institutions that craft the society to Stephen Jay Gould erful institutions this very fit whatever upholds their power proposed can exclude or idea in the sciencminimize voices: “Objectivity es that would question the framemust be operationally defined as fair work in which they address issues. treatment of data, not absence of This topic is dealt with thoroughpreference.” ly by Democracy Now! host Amy The mere fact that news media Goodman. In her book “Breaking would choose to report one thing the Sound Barrier,” she argues that and not another is a statement through sheer volume, corporate me- of preference, a statement of valdia (the media most crafted by elite ue. Human speech is riddled institutions) drowns out real dissent. with implicit value judgments.

If there are hundreds of web To think that any report of news pages and news sites with heavy could be devoid of preference or advertising bombarding people, ideology is absurd. The myth of then the one skeptical page that objectivity is the most blatant exthey come across will seem weird ample of Newspeak ideology — and false. Furthermore, by repeanything that doesn’t sound like tition and reaffirmation, a sort of corporate media is radical and confirmation bias can be built into non-objective. people’s thinking.

Objectivity is good when it is real That is, people are presented objectivity — the fair treatment of with fact X and fact Y by corporate data. Ironically, if we treat the data media. Then later, they get fact Z. fairly, we will easily come to the All three facts cohere nicely, and it conclusion that major media is not all seems to fit. It all works; it must really objective, not even close. be true! Since X and Y seem true, Major corporate conglomerates then this gives Z credence. Since are not going to pay you to underZ seems true, it gives X and Y cremine worldviews that they bendence. It is a circular method of efit from. If you’re a real journalself-affirmation. It is an astoundist, then these groups will treat ingly effective form of manipuyou with hostility. If you are a fake lation. Now imagine this type of journalist, an intellectual submisconfirmation bias, not with three sive, then you may be in for a highfacts, but with thousands. ly successful career in journalism.

That is the framework of thought imposed upon us.

BRIAN MOEN doesn’t want to offend young journos, The underlying idea that enbut embolden them. He can be reached at bkmoen@ ucdavis.edu. ables this can be reduced. The

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Quarteto Nuevo Friday, 8 p.m., $10 students Davis Art Center, 1919 F St.

A cellist, percussionist, acoustic guitarist and soprano sax player make up this jazz quartet. They are to be the second featured performers for the Davis Art Center’s Classical Guitar Series. The concert organizer chose the multi-instrument quartet to enhance the relationship of guitar to other instruments. Tickets can be bought online from davisartcenter. brownpapertickets.com.

Your weekly dose of video games

By ANTHONY LABELLA Aggie Arts Writer

Game of the week StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm came out this week, meaning it’s time to jump back into Blizzard’s addictive real-time strategy franchise. The expansion pack acts as the second installment in a planned trilogy and picks up two years after the events of Wings of Liberty.

This time around, players will take control of Kerrigan and the Zerg race in a series of unique missions similar to the first entry in the trilogy. According to Blizzard, approximately 20 missions are included in the expansion in addition to unit additions/modifications for all three races — Terran, Protoss and Zerg.

Obviously the new units will have the biggest impact in the game’s online multiplayer component, and anyone familiar with the StarCraft name knows the series’ penchant for cutthroat competitive play. I’m admittedly terrible at StarCraft, so I stuck to the single-player campaign in Wings of Liberty. But I had a fun time with it, and I’m

usually not one to devote any reasonable amount of time to RTS games.

Based on the videos I’ve seen this week, Heart of the Swarm continues the tradition of solid single-player campaigns for those of us not interested in the multi-player offering.

The varying mission types, upgrade paths and unique skills are all there to be enjoyed.

I’m sure the multi-player is still great though. Even from a distance I respect the amount of skill involved in becoming a dominant StarCraft II player. Simply watching matches fascinates me — I have no clue what goes on, and yet I remain glued to the screen. I look forward to checking out some more competitive play now that Heart of the Swarm has been released.

This week in news SimCity came out last week, the first series entry in over a decade. The servers immediately collapsed, the video game community expressed its outrage, and here we are a week later with the same persisting issues.

The game’s stringent internet connection requirements are the source of the controversy. In order to play SimCity, the player must be connected to the game’s servers. I’m not simply referring to online multiplayer — even single-player content cannot be accessed without an internet connection. So when the servers essentially imploded, that $50 copy of SimCity became unplayable.

Some of the problems have been fixed by developer Maxis and the game studio — along with publisher Electronic Arts — has now set up a server status page to better inform players. Nevertheless, I still hear of people unable to access their wondrous cities due to these issues.

The fact that I have to be connected to the internet to access single-player content is silly to begin with. SimCity’s disastrous launch last week helps highlight the ridiculousness of such a requirement, so hopefully game developers and publishers will be a bit more careful about this in the future.

ANTHONY LABELLA can be reached at arts@ theaggie.org.

Cornucopia: A Celebration of Mediterranean Agriculture An art display on campus

By JOHN KESLER Aggie Arts Writer

ings this way and it was sort of fun.

Dr. Margaret Eldred, a former professor in the English department, has recently taken to painting agricultural scenes from all over the world after noticing the similarity in climate between Morocco and California. An exhibition of her work, entitled Cornucopia: A Celebration of Mediterranean Agriculture, is on display at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center until the end of March.

She will be present at the Buehler Center on Monday from 5 to 8 p.m.

MUSE: Where are the locations you painted?

Dr. Eldred: At the Buehler Center, I have at least three paintings that were done within bicycling distance of Davis, along with several done in California. There are also paintings from Morrocco and Italy as well as one of Turkey. While I have also painted Spain, there are none on display in this exhibition. I haven’t visited the Mediterranean areas in Australia and South Africa, but maybe someday I will.

MUSE: What led you to start painting these pastoral scenes?

Dr. Eldred: I was writing a travel book and drawing pen-andink pictures for it, which are on my website. Around the same time, I took a color theory class at Sacramento City College and for my final project, I had to paint a landscape with just yellows, reds and blues mixed with white. I got intrigued by this so I started doing big paint-

MUSE: Which painting was the most interesting to you?

Dr. Eldred: My first painting, which is of an olive orchard in Morocco. I like all the pictures of olive orchards because they’re so different in different parts of the world. In California, there’s a technique of planting olives known as super high density planting, in which the planters put the plants super close together and take the yield. It’s only been done for

the past 20 years and it’s interesting to see how they grow olives differently in different parts of the world. That whole series has been fun because they’re so different and I’ve learned so much about agriculture from doing this.

MUSE: Why did you choose the colors you chose?

Dr. Eldred: I really did it because that’s what I did in class but it also suits the pictures. I’m painting things that were in hot climates during the summer and hot, vivid colors are sort of what you see anyway in the summer, as colors are more muted in the winter. I had no idea what to expect when I first started painting that way.

At first, I painted a cypress tree by putting blue on yellow and it worked but I initially didn’t like it. I colored it out but then I went back, painted it again and liked it more.

MUSE: Any advice for younger artists?

Dr. Eldred: Work hard. I do a lot of work and research before the actual job of paint-

Science and Society 42 presents Earthtones Environmental issues and live performance come together

By BRETT BUNGE Aggie Arts Writer

All college students have dealt with final exams. For one UC Davis class, however, the final can be even more daunting: there is an audience.

That’s the premise of Science and Society 42: Earth, Water, Science, Song, which fuses studies and song. The class is taught by Professor Wendy Silk and seeks to combine environmental issues and live performance.

The official description sums it up.

“In this course students will fuse the intellectual power of environmental science with the emotional power of the performing arts.”

Darren Dinh, a first-year biochemistry major, simplified it.

“It’s an environmental class that focuses on water and soil systems,” Dinh said.

As part of the course, the students have to write and perform original environmentbased songs, which they perform in a show, titled Earthtones. Ellen Davis, first-year me-

chanical engineering major, explained the reasoning behind the unique final.

“The professor wanted to have a class where the final was a performance. There was a fusion of science and music. Almost all of the songs are original. We split into groups, and the groups write the songs,” Davis said.

“The show is considered to be part of the class; it’s our final,” stated Margaret Huang, fourth-year biochemistry major.

Davis shared some advice for anyone considering taking the class.

“If you’re looking for class that changes up the format, this is definitely a class for you,” she said.

The performances take place during the final week of the quarter. The first show took place on Tuesday, in the Plant and Environmental Sciences building. The next show will be held on Friday, at 7 p.m. at the Natsoulas Gallery, located at 521 First St. BRETT BUNGE can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

ing. If I want to paint something, I find out where some of these things are. For example, I want to do pomegranates so I emailed pomegranate grove owners. I find photographs of places where I’ve been and photographs my husband has taken. Before most paintings, I do black and white sketches of what I’m going to paint.

During actual painting, don’t be afraid to paint over it and start over.

MUSE: Anything else?

Dr. Eldred: It’s been fun! It’s really been so nice pursuing all these Mediterranean climates all over the world. As I do a lot of research, I have several books, including one on Mediterranean climates as well as a book on California’s agriculture that I carry everywhere I travel. I’m quite pleased the Buehler Center allows me to display these paintings. I’ve lived here for 45 years and I love it. I don’t want to live anywhere else.

JOHN KESLER can be reached at arts@ theaggie.org.

Egghead Music Walk Friday, 2 p.m., free “Egghead Walking Tour” UC Davis

Select members from the St. Louis Symphony will be performing pieces at the five different eggheads this Friday, heading north from “See No Evil/Hear No Evil.” The walk is the first of the symphony’s two free performances, ending with a Mondavi Center performance on Sunday. Tickets for the latter can be bought on the Mondavi Center website.

GenitaliAf(f)air All week, MU open hours, free King Lounge, UC Davis

GenitaliAf(f )fair is a multimedia art show featuring pieces of genitalia artwork by UC Davis students. The show is hosted

by ASUCD’s Gender and Sexuality Commission as a way to both entertain and inform the public about what is usually seen as a private matter. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, as a fair with informational booths and activities and will be shown for an indeterminate amount of time.

Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre & The Third Stage Sunday, 3:00 p.m., $12 Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop, 2720 Del Rio Place

The Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre is putting on the spring show of their 28th season with The Third Stage and the Pamela Trokanski Apprentice Company.

Pieces to be performed are Serendipity, Parallel Universes and Opening Pandora’s Box. Wear green and get your tickets for half-price but only at the St. Patrick’s Day show. Other performances will also occur at 8 p.m. on March 22 to 23.

The Cashore Marionettes Friday-Sunday, 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m., $17.50 student Mondavi Center

One-man marionette manipulator, Joseph Cashore, will be performing his piece Simple Gifts at the Mondavi Center.

Multiple marionettes of all sorts and species will be moving to the sounds of Strauss, Beethoven, Vivaldi and more. Tickets can be bought through the Mondavi Center website or at the ticket booth.

The Wizard of Oz Saturday, 2:15 p.m., $8 Davis Musical Theatre Company, 607 Pena Dr.

The classic American musical, The Wizard of Oz, is showing this and next weekend at the Davis Musical Theatre Company in the Young Performers’ Theatre. The actors are all 7 to 17 years old. To see other showtimes, go to dmtc.org.

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Davis Shakespeare Ensemble’s ‘Nightingale’ Straight from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

By CRISTINA FRIES Aggie Arts Writer

After performing its current production, Nightingale, in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore., the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble (DSE) will be performing an expanded version of the same production in Davis in April and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival in September.

Dedicated to the translation of classic texts into dramatic productions within a contemporary framework, the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble produces original renditions of two Shakespeare plays and one other classic text per season. The current production, Nightingale, is inspired by the medieval French narrative poem “Laüstic” by Marie de France.

At midnight of March 4, the 20-minute Nightingale production was performed as a part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Midnight Projects series. DSE’s Artistic Directors Gia Battista and Rob Salas co-wrote and directed the production in the exciting environment of one of the largest and oldest theater arts organizations in the nation.

“It was exciting to perform in the Midnight Projects series because of the fast-paced, collaborative nature of preparing for the show,” Battista said.

“We had actors from the festival work with us, and a lot of the writing, directing, and staging was formulated on the spot and in a collaborative manner with members of the team. We rehearsed up until midnight, and everything came together at show time, completely surpassing our expectations.”

As an assistant director of a production of As You Like It in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Salas encountered the opportunity to produce DSE’s Nightingale for the Midnight Projects series while working in Ashland. Salas described the experience of performing in OSF and the relevance of Nightingale’s theme to current social issues.

“Working in OSF’s rehearsal rooms, with actors from the festival, and with an amazingly supportive production team helped creative energy flow in a way I

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A promotional poster for Nightingale, a new production by the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble. have never experienced before,” Salas said in an email interview. “The subject matter of silencing women is something that we feel very strongly about. There is a tendency to turn away from this as a problem, but even on a subtle level, everyday women are too often ‘put in their place.’ Exploring this through articles, poetry and other sources was really great,” Salas said.

Battista described the storyline of the production and its integration of the

Electronic Music Concert to be held at TCS Building Current and former TCS students showcase sonic experimentation

By ANDREW RUSSELL Aggie Arts Writer

The popular contemporary image of the electronic musician as the megastar DJ, fist-pumping on an elevated stage while a set of pre-programmed beats causes a sea of drugged-out fans to undulate, is a fairly new concept; few realize what a long, illustrious history the genre has had. At it’s core, electronic music has always been about the ability to produce sounds that were impossible for most of our existence, to push the boundaries of what music can sonically achieve.

This Thursday evening, at 7 p.m. in the TCS Building, several young musicians with ties to the technocultural studies program will exemplify this aspect of the genre, performing music at the creative juncture between technology and art.

The event has been organized in close connection with TCS 122, a course in intermediate sonic arts taught by accomplished experimental musician Bob Ostertag, and will serve primarily to showcase some of the best work produced in the class this quarter.

Among the featured artists are alumni John Brumley and David Defelippo (both alumni), along with current fourthyear TCS major Roy Werner. All three have had a history in electronic music production courses, and have each developed a distinct take on sonic experimentation.

Much of their work has also been in-

dependently released on music networking sites such as Bandcamp or Soundcloud. The current Facebook event page for the performance provides links to these recordings, which provide a good idea of the unique talent organized for this evening.

Steven Gordon, a fifth-year English and TCS double-major whose work will also be featured, described the format of the show.

“It’s a series of pieces, most around 10 minutes in length, and all the student works feature a Buchla 200e Modular Synthesizer, an instrument very few colleges own,” Gordon said. “It will be a mix of live performances and precomposed pieces, with several songs blending the two styles together.”

Other artists on the roster for tonight, including Roy Werner, explained that there are often visual components in addition to their peers’ music, including experimental video art. When asked what he thought of the lineup for the event, Werner was enthusiastic.

“I think that those guys [John Brumley and David Defelippo] are making some of the most interesting stuff I have heard in a long time, conceptually and sonically.”

Ostertag, who also teaches TCS 122, is looking forward to the event.

“Anyone interested in music outside the box will find themselves right at home,” Ostertag said.

ANDREW RUSSELL can be reached at arts@ theaggie.org.

contemporary stories of real women who have been silenced after being attacked.

“We open the play by telling Marie de France’s poem, so it begins with a ‘once upon a time’ feel, and it is a love story about a woman who is silenced. For our expanded, one-hour version to be performed in Davis, we’ve woven into it more contemporary narratives of women who have been silenced after being violated or

abused,” Battista said.

The artistic directors use a fusion of various elements of theatrical design to tell the story of “Laüstic” and to depict the theme of the silencing of women in an artistic and visceral performance.

“The style of the production is a mix of physical theater and interviewbased theater because there is a lot of movement, live sound manipulation, music, as well as shadow puppetry,” Battista said. “We integrate the true stories of women found through various sources. One story we use comes from a blog post about a woman who experienced sexual harassment on the street.”

Richard Chowenhill, DSE’s associate artistic director and resident composer, discussed how his musical composition contributes to storytelling in the production.

“In order to contribute a unique sense of character to each story line, I decided to compose a different musical theme for each of the stories. As the individual stories develop, so too do their respective musical themes. This design adds a feeling of continuity and sense of depth to the work while also serving as a guide for the audience, as the actors move swiftly between the various storylines,” Chowenhill said in an email interview.

DSE was selected to perform Nightingale in the San Francisco Fringe Festival in September, and aims to create a dynamic, visceral theater performance for both Davis and San Francisco shows. Their final production of the season will be As You Like It, which will be featured in June.

From April 5 to the 14 at 8 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays and 6:30 p.m.

Sundays, Davis Shakespeare Ensemble’s Nightingale will be performed at Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop & Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $12 for students and seniors, and $15 for adults. Tickets sales and information are available at http://www.shakespearedavis.com/ box-office.

CRISTINA FRIES can be reached at arts@ theaggie.org.

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Raising the bar A guide to trivia nights in Davis

By ALYSSA KUHLMAN Aggie Features Writer

Do you know what your first Miranda right is? How about the colloquial name for the London Underground, a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom? Or what noun/verb fits the description, “to fill various items”?

Chances are if you didn’t get these answers right, The Scrambled Eggheads or The Ice Cream Socialists probably did.

Trivia nights throughout downtown Davis offer a night of puzzling questions and funny team names. Just follow the rules, feel free to buy food or drinks — especially if you’re there during happy hour — and collaborate with your teammates to pass this weekly bar exam.

Locations for these quiz nights include DeVere’s Irish Pub, hosted on Mondays at 7 p.m., Sophia’s Thai Kitchen and Bar, hosted on Tuesdays at 10 p.m., G Street Wunderbar on Mondays at 9 p.m., Ket Mo Ree onWednesdays at 9:30 p.m., Woodstock’s on Thursdays at 9 p.m. and Froggy’s on Wednesdays at 7 to 8 p.m.

While there are many opportunities for trivia nights, DeVere’s Irish Pub and Sophia’s Thai Kitchen and Bar are rated the most popular on Davis Wiki. Jane Hildeburn, a fourthyear managerial economics major, considers DeVere’s to be her preferred pick.

“I really like the setup. Everyone gets space to sit [and] to relax … [versus] at Sophia’s, [where] it’s cramped and you have to stand [if] you don’t get a seat. I [also] like it better here [than I did at Bistro 33] because you can see everyone [versus] at Bistro [where] everyone’s kind of hidden in their own little pocket,” Hildeburn said. Dr. Andy Jones, a University

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Writing Program professor, used to host the trivia nights at Bistro 33 until their last one on Sept. 26, 2011. He now hosts the trivia nights at DeVere’s Irish Pub. “[My favorite part of this is] all the friends that I’ve made, and just hamming it up. That and making on-the-fly jokes about people’s answers or at their expense while I’m walking around because I have a lot of friends that come,” Jones said.

At DeVere’s trivia nights, there are usually around 40 teams, which translates into between 200 to 240 people. Teams must be between four to six members. Rules also include no shouting out the answers, no outside help — such as smartphone or use of other technological devices — and no arguing with the quizmaster.

Prizes at DeVere’s Irish Pub include a $50 gift certificate for first place, a $25 gift certificate for second place, a $15 gift certificate for third place and often a fourth prize of swag, which can include any number of special items.

The second-place team of this Monday night, also the night of Jones’ birthday, says they try to practice for each week by paying attention to top movies of the week or reading top headlines in the media. Since they come every Monday, they also cleverly vary their team name. “[Tonight our team name] was Welsh for ‘Happy Birthday, Dr. Andy.’ We change names every week so people don’t hate us,” one of the second-place winners said.

Jones also stays tuned to the public trending news headlines, along with his reading and teaching, to help create questions for his weekly pub quiz.

“I’ve got a template for the types of ques-

exam.”

SAEN executive director Michael Budkie issued a press release Tuesday, which stated that primate deaths continue, and alleged that negligence has increased at UC Davis, as a dozen infant primates died in 2011 from the same causes that affected the primates that perished in 2009 and 2010. “[UC Davis] receives over $11 million per year, and they can’t even make sure the infant monkeys are surviving,” Budkie stated in the press release. “This is federal highway robbery combined with animal abuse on a massive scale. It is clear from UC Davis’s own veterinary records that infant animals are still suffering from maternal neglect and that the care given older primates has not improved — this negligence has led to multiple deaths. Nothing has changed; primates are still suffering and dying in violation of federal law.”

Hyde disagrees.

“We’re leading the field in how to raise animals in captive environments,” he said.

SAEN has filed another complaint for the deaths of a dozen infant primates in 2011, according to a news release on Tuesday.

More information on the California National Primate Research Center can be found at cnprc.ucdavis.edu.

Cont. from front page one of eight primate centers supported by the National Institutes of Health and houses 5,000 non-human primates for breeding and research in areas including behavioral disorders such as autism and Alzheimer’s; infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria; and respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic disruptive lung disease.

Since the complaint was filed, according to Hyde, the facility has instituted a mortality review committee and now conducts afternoon health checks alongside the existing morning health checks in order to identify more animals that need assistance. The center pays especially close attention to infant primates, who are often protected by their mother and hard to inspect from the outside of the field cage. By implementing positive reinforcement training for mother primates at risk, he said, the center is better able to inspect both mother and infant.

“We do not want to disturb the social bond between mothers and babies,” Hyde said. “By training them to come up to the field cage side with the infant, it really gives us the opportunity to do a quick inspection daily to have a better handle on how the infant is doing. STEPHANIE B. NGUYEN can be reached at campus@ It’s the best, least stressful way to do an theaggie.org.

explosion Cont. from front page Explosive items were also destroyed on the southwest side of campus on another open space of land.

“This was a critical incident that was handled the first night without injury to anyone other than Mr. Snyder,” Carmichael said in an email interview.

Morain said that though the public may be curious to know more details regarding

tions that I use … if I write a good question then I’ll recycle it every couple of years. So my questions have about a three-year shelf life. If it’s good I’ll put it [back] at the bottom of the stack. I’ve got a document with about over 200 questions from over the years,” Jones said.

DeVere’s extends happy hour on Mondays until 7 p.m. instead of the usual 6:30 p.m.

While DeVere’s pub quiz is open to all ages, the trivia nights at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen and Bar require a minimum of 21 years of age for admittance and at least one drink bought per group.

Two drinks purchased per listed team member will earn you a three-point bonus in the game. Drink stamping begins at 9 p.m. and teams can have up to six members, with three points deducted in increasing increments of three for each member beyond the six-person limit. There are two rounds, each with 20 questions and combined for a total score.

The prizes include a $60 to $100 gift certificate for first place, a round of drinks (redeemable the next week) for second place, a round of beer or well drinks for the thirdplace team, a round of drinks for the team with the median score to reward mediocrity, and bottles of wine that are awarded to the teams with the third-lowest score overall and the highest score in round two, and also to the team winning the tiebreaker question.

Creative team names at Sophia’s win a round of shots for the team with the best name. “[Our team name tonight] was ‘Irony: The opposite of wrinkly,’” said Richie Winn, a third-year geology major. “We’ve placed third

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two or three times, but we’ve never won the whole thing.”

Winn says he likes trivia outside of the fun quizzes at the downtown bars, and does not try to prepare for the trivia nights.

“It’s not really something you can study for,” Winn said.

Despite his opinion, other contestants try to stuff their brains with as much cosmopolitan information as possible before heading to trivia night. While this strategy may help, it’s not guaranteed to help you solve the random difficult question at Sophia’s.

Monday night’s stumper question at DeVere’s was “What is the length of Thailand’s coastline in Mongolian alds?”

Even if you usually measure things in the unit of alds, which is equivalent to the length of a man’s forearm, this question still stumped the entire bar of participants.

Whether you study science, political science or English or are just a movie buff, there is always a category you can find a strength in, such as science and nature, geography, gadgets and gizmos, movies and verb/nouns.

If you are too shy to go to your first trivia night, try quizzing yourself on Dr. Andy Jones’ yourquizmaster.com. The most important rule at every pub quiz throughout Davis is simple: Have fun.

The host of Sophia’s trivia nights, Kevin Wan, considers good times a must. “[Have] a good time tonight and a cab ride home … and of course, happiness is mandatory, have fun tonight, it’s only a fucking game.”

(Answers to opening questions: the right to remain silent; the tube; stuff.)

ALYSSA KUHLMAN can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

er level of minimum PPE for everyone just because of what appears to be potential liability exposure doesn’t seem to be an intelligently designed policy.”

Since 1970, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has had laws with rules that employers must enforce to keep employees safe in the workplace. Each campus has independently administered the requirements of these rules. However, because of the fatal lab fire at UCLA, UC officials elected to provide comprehensive policies that ensured consistent application of the laws, according to Jill Parker, UC Davis associate vice chancellor of Safety Services.

Parker said the policy drafted is a collaboration among faculty, staff, researchers, safety specialists, outside subject experts and attorneys.

“In our classrooms, we are teaching our next generation of scientists. Good lab practices are paramount to good science. All of these requirements are not only normal, but absolutely expected in every modern lab in the scientific community,” she said. “To prepare our students with a lesser standard than best practice would be failing in our obligation to prepare our students for their ultimate life profession and to keep them safe in the process.”

New guides and evaluation tools to help lab supervisors implement these new regulations will also be released. According to Parker, Safety Services staff at UC Davis will be assigned to work with faculty to help with all aspects of these new implementations to ensure consistent application and understanding.

Cont. from front page earplugs or muffs and hard hats.

These new regulations were to be put into effect March 1, however there have been delays due to the fact that the UCOP Office of Risk Services received over 300 comments on the new procedures and all comments need to be reviewed and assessed, according to Erike Young, director of Environmental Health and Safety. The expectation is that the policies will be in effect within the next 30 to 60 days.

Many students are glad to comply with the new regulations.

“I think it’s a good idea. Safety should always take the priority in policymaking. All students and faculty should take the utmost care in maintaining their own safety as well as the safety of others,” said Kevin Cappa, a third-year biomedical engineering student.

However, some believe these new rules are extreme.

Zac Lewis, a Ph.D. candidate in the Microbiology Department, believes these new rules are a reflection of how UC officials are out of touch with the day-to-day activities of UC students.

“The policy doesn’t reflect an understanding of how labs are different from each other. It appears to be written by someone who doesn’t recognize this, and is therefore out of touch,” Lewis said. “The hazards in a lab that uses ethanol as its most dangerous substance are very different [from] a lab that uses toxic heavy metals or studies Ebola virus. Establishing a high- NATASHA QABAZARD can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

the incident, the University is protecting Snyder’s privacy rights and the integrity of the investigation.

Some residents of Russell Park Apartments were disturbed to learn what Snyder was doing in his apartment.

Carmichael said a meeting was held for all of the residents who were affected by the incident, including inhabitants of The Colleges, Russell Park Apartments and Baggins End Domes. Residents expressed a combination of frustration for the inconvenience of being dislocated from their homes, as well as con-

cerns about the well-being of Snyder.

“Tandem has done an excellent job ensuring displaced residents had lodging and were kept informed as best as possible. [UC Davis] Student Affairs also supported the effort by providing meals at the dining commons,” Carmichael said.

The University has launched a review to recognize how to appropriately control the use of explosive materials on campus, Morain said.

“Our policies are already extensive regarding appropriate use of materials, but

cannot eliminate all risk of criminal acts,” she said.

Carmichael said he does not know of any previous incidents where a UC Davis researcher was arrested for an incident involving the possession of explosive materials or substances.

According to the news release, Snyder received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from UC Davis in 2004 and a doctorate in chemistry in 2011.

KELLEY DRECHSLER can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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Thursday, march 14, 2013

The california aggie

Aggies fall to Matadors in conference playoffs

By KENNETH LING Aggie Sports Writer

Women’s basketball finished their up-and-down season with a tough 61-40 loss to a thoroughly deserving Cal State Northridge team. UC Davis leaves the conference playoffs with a final overall record of 12-18.

Though the Aggies have been able to put points up in a hurry at multiple points in the season, they really struggled with shooting the basketball in the past few games. It cost them big-time on Tuesday night. In the previous four games before the quarterfinal matchup, UC Davis shot a rough 32.99 percent from the field.

Tuesday night was no exception to this trend as the Aggies once again struggled to find rhythm in their offense. They started off cold, shooting 28.6 percent from the field in the first half, and it would not get better in the second when they shot an even lower 18.8 percent from the field.

Sophomore Sydnee Fipps led the Aggies in scoring and

rebounding once again, with 13 points and eight boards.

However, she lacked her usual efficiency, shooting a lackluster 4-13 from the field.

The Matadors came out aggressive and jumped to an early 8-2 lead. Fipps fought back with back-to-back three pointers to tie the game.

From there however, the Aggies' shooting struggles emerged and the Matadors continued putting up points. The Matadors shot 55.2 percent in the first half, including a 13-0 run, on their way to a 33-17 lead with 1:55 remaining in the first half.

The Aggies managed to enter halftime with a bit of momentum with jumpers from freshman Celia Marfone and senior Blair Shinoda. This closed the gap somewhat, allowing the Matadors to go into the intermission with a smaller 12-point lead.

The Matadors managed to gain control once again during the start of the second half. They managed to keep the lead, expanding it to as much as 18 points with 7:33 left in the game.

At this time, the Aggies went on a small run led by fresh-

MEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW Teams: UC Davis vs. Cal Poly Records: Aggies 14-16, (9-9); Mustangs 17-12, (12-6) Where: Honda Center — Anaheim, Calif.

When: Thursday at 2:30 p.m.

Who to watch: The Aggies are headed to Anaheim, Calif. this weekend and all eyes will be on sophomore Corey Hawkins. Hawkins has been absolutely incredible for UC Davis this year, leading the Big West Conference in scoring and placing in the top ten for eight other individual categories.

The Goodyear, Ariz., native was granted First Team All-Big West honors this week, in addition to earning the Big West Newcomer of the Year Award. CBS Sports also named Hawkins the Big West’s Most Valuable Player.

Hawkins played a championship-caliber game against Long Beach State last Thursday night, but Saturday’s performance against UC Irvine was unusually muted. To be fair, the Hawk still finished the game with 21 points, 3 assists and 2 steals but he went 9-14 from the free throw line which is highly uncharacteristic for him. The Aggies want to be contenders for Sunday’s championship game and Hawkins will be a key component in achieving that goal.

man Alyson Doherty. A layup, a three-point play, and two free throws by Doherty, along with Fipps' three-pointer, allowed the Aggies to come within nine points of CSU Northridge with only 5:28 remaining in the game.

From there the Matadors exerted their will on the game and went on a 13-0 run to extend their lead to 23 points with only 25 seconds left in the game. A Marfone jumper managed to marginally close the gap to the final score of 61-40.

Marfone finished the game with four points and an impressive seven rebounds. Doherty, the catalyst for the second-half run, finished with seven points and two rebounds. She was the Aggies second leading scorer on Tuesday night.

In the end, the lack of scoring efficiency and output cost the Aggies their chance at advancing to the second round of the Big West conference playoffs.

"I think tonight we struggled offensively putting the ball in the basket," Fipps said. "I don't think we could put the ball in the basket as well as we typically do."

KENNETH LING can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

BASEBALL PREVIEW Teams: UC Davis at Seattle University Records: Aggies, 7-10; Seattle University 5-11 Where: Bannerwood Park — Bellevue, Wash.

When: Friday at 4 p.m.; Saturday at 1 p.m.; Sunday at 12 p.m.

Who to Watch: Junior Steven Patterson batted 4-9 over the weekend series against Cal State Bakersfield. The second baseman had a run batted in and scored a run.

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Sophomore Corey Hawkins takes a jump shot during the game against Long Beach. Hawkins has won many honors this season.

Did you know? Coach Jim Les has a knack for turning teams around. He took the head coaching position at his alma mater, Bradley, in 2003. Just three years later, that same faltering squad advanced to the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA Tournament.

Likewise, in his second year at UC Davis, he led them to a middle of the pack contender for the Big West Conference tournament. The Aggies are a dark horse to win the league after having gone 3-13 in conference last year.

Preview: UC Davis split games with rival Cal Poly this year. The Aggies took the first, winning 69-67 on a Hawkins buzzer-beater special. The

Mustangs charged back to snag a victory a month later, when they won 68-53.

It has been over a month since the loss in San Luis Obispo, and the Aggies are a much better squad. This team has experienced some incredible ups and downs during the past month and it has made them stronger as a result.

UC Davis lost both games last week. First, they lost a true heartbreaker to Long Beach State and then they followed it up with a second half collapse against UC Irvine.

Most teams would be defeated after a week like that, but this young roster has shown

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nings and allowing two runs in his win last weekend, junior Evan Wolf lowered his earned-run average to 2.42. He recorded his first win of the season in the four games that he has started.

Occasionally playing first base, Wolf found the majority of his playing time on the mound. Wolf has limited his opponents' batting average to .229 on the season. He has pitched 22 1/3 innings, while striking out five and walking six batters.

Born in Fresno, Calif., Wolf attended Clovis He has played in 15 games this season High School and graduated in the class of '09. and has a batting average that currently sits In his senior year, he accumulated a record at .333. He has scored eight runs and has of 24-8. He played both football and baseball nine RBI thus far. Out of the regular starters, for the Cougars and played tight end for his football team.

Patterson is second on the team He was selected to play in the in batting average to junior Nick 2009 Central Section City/County Lynch.

All-Star Game. He was also a 2009 Patterson grew up in Stockton, Rawlings/Perfect Game Preseason Calif. and attended St. Mary's High All-California Region honorable School. He had a great junior and mention. In his junior year, he was senior season for the Rams, winnamed to the TRAC All-Conference ning consecutive CIF-San Joaquin Team.

Section Div. I championships and Preview: Seattle University holds consecutive Tri-County Athletic a record of 5-11 this season and has League titles in 2009 and 2010. played 13 of its first 16 games on In his senior season, he batted Steven Patterson the road. Currently, it is ninth in the .341 with six homers and 34 RBI, junior Western Athletic Conference. which earned him a spot to AllThe Redhawks will be led by seTCAL honors.

This season is Patterson's first with the nior Sean Narby who has a batting average Aggies after he transferred from San Joaquin of .371, an on-base percentage of .451 and a Delta College where he was a 2012 California slugging percentage of .532. He has started Community College Baseball Coaches all 16 games and also leads his team in hits Association All-American and a unanimous (23), doubles (eight), and runs (13).

The Aggies are 7-10 and are coming off a All-Big 8 first team selection. In his final season, he batted .380 with 11 doubles, six home loss against Nevada. The slugfest resulted in the Aggies coming up short 11-10. runs, and 33 RBI. "We need to keep making strides in all Steven's father, Fred Patterson, is a UC Davis alum of 1980 and played two years on areas. We have played better defense of the Aggie football team.

See BASEBALL, page 2 Did you know? After pitching 7 1/3 in-