April 18, 2013

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VOLUME 132, ISSUE 42 | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013

BRIAN NGUYEN / AGGIE

A police investigator enters the crime scene after Davis residents Oliver Northup and Claudia Maupin were found stabbed to death on Sunday night.

New MU venue expected in summer 2015 ASUCD to contribute $500,000 to east wing renewal

By LILIANA NAVA OCHOA Aggie News Writer

deaths as homicides.”

A statement released by the DPD said it was clear that both victims had suffered stab wounds. The Yolo County Coroner's Office identified the official cause of death as multiple stab wounds and the manner of death as homicide.

Doroshov said the police have not yet identified if there was a motive behind the homicides.

“They were the kindest, most caring and gentle people,” said Wayne Ginsburg, Northup’s fellow band member.

“It’s just a shock and a great loss, and the method of loss makes it even more upsetting and devastating.”

Neighbors said the streets south of the condominiums, in particular Vista Way, faced a recent string of burglaries.

However, neighbors said most of the burglars entered through open windows or doors. One neighbor said she

The Memorial Union (MU) is scheduled to receive a new venue in July 2015.

During the renewal project of the MU, the space that is currently occupied by the post office will feature an entertainment venue which will also function as a pub.

The addition of this venue to the MU will be a component of the $19 million east wing renewal project. The east wing renewal project consists of renovating the outdoor spaces on the Quad, the first two floors of the MU and the bookstore.

The east wing renewal project will begin in January 2014 with the renovation of the Bookstore, according to John Campbell, executive director for Campus Recreation and Unions.

The east wing renewal project is scheduled to be completed in July of 2015, as well.

According to ASUCD President Carly Sandstrom, since the venue will be located where the post office is now, there will not be any structural changes.

The MU renewal project has provided an “opportune moment” to bring this entertainment venue to campus, according to Sandstrom. Bringing a pub to UC Davis was one of the platforms of Sandstrom and Vice President Bradley Bottoms. However, the idea originated from the previous term’s executive office. Sandstrom and Bottoms are collaborating with Campus Recreation and Union on the MU east wing renewal project and creation of the venue.

“We really just want to have a pub on campus because we think we need a new center for student life. We want something that will also be a headquarters for Aggie pride. We just really need something that is kind of the basis for that, since we think that’s something that’s so lacking on campus, is that sense of tradition and pride,” Bottoms said.

The cost of the venue is still uncertain.

According to Campbell, it is estimated that the venue will be 2,800 square feet and that construction will cost between $400 to $500

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Double homicide in South Davis incurs shock, sadness Victims were known as prominent community members

By PAAYAL ZAVERI Aggie News Writer

Davis Police are continuing their investigation of the double homicide of an elderly couple in South Davis. On April 14, police were called to the 4000 block of Cowell Boulevard around 9:20 p.m. after receiving a call for a welfare check.

The Yolo County Coroner's Office released the names of the victims on April 16, and neighbors and family members confirmed them as longtime Davis residents Oliver “Chip” Northup, 87, and Claudia Marie Maupin, 76.

Northup was a local attorney and was part of a local band called the Putah Creek Crawdads, which often plays at the Davis Farmers Market.

Maupin was involved with the local theater. The couple had six children and were married for 15 years.

“We are deeply saddened and in shock over the sudden and tragic deaths of two members of the extended Crawdad family,” said a statement on the Crawdads’ Facebook page.

“The warmth in Chip Northup’s singing voice matched the warmth in his heart and spirit; he and his wife (and our dear friend) Claudia Maupin were two of the most generous and giving people anyone could hope to meet.”

According to the Davis Police log, the couple’s daughter called for the welfare check after she had not heard from her parents all day. She saw her parents’ car in front of their residence at 4006 Cowell Blvd., and noticed that the lights were on.

"During the course of the investigation, officers discovered signs of forced entry to the residence," said Davis Police Lt. Paul Doroshov in a statement.

"The Davis Police Department (DPD) is currently investigating the two

Sports cuts reexamined in light of increasing athletics debt Officials, former student-athletes look at Title IX’s role

By HANNAH KRAMER Aggie Features Writer

In April of 2010, Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and former Athletics Director Greg Warzecka announced that UC Davis would be cutting women’s rowing, men’s swimming and diving, men’s wrestling and men’s indoor track and field. The decision came at the cost of athletes’ careers and sporting legacies, but it was expected to save an estimated $2.4 million.

The intention was to ease the Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) debt, but instead, the deficit has doubled.

Some question if the reasoning behind cancelling teams was as financially pressing as reported, especially in light of the application of sex equality laws and administrative silence toward the directly impacted student-athletes.

With a newly appointed Athletic Director in place who stresses more transparent proceedings, some see the future of UC Davis sports as a positive one. But others fear facing the same closed doors and questionable motives that were experienced in 2010.

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Trajectories change in aftermath of athletic cuts Former UC Davis student-athletes find new schools, sports, passions Editor’s note: Three years ago, four sports were discontinued. While most of those 153 athletes are long gone, a handful of seniors remain. We caught up with them — and seniors who transferred schools — before the last directly affected class graduates.

JANELLE BITKER Aggie Editor in Chief

Josef Stitts was 8 years old when his older sister brought home an Olympic gold medal. After that, his chief goal in life became to get to the Olympics and make his family of swimmers proud.

Everything seemed to be in place.

He had already been swimming competitively since the age of 4. He went

undefeated in high school and was recruited to swim at UC Davis — a Division 1 school. In his first quarter as a college athlete, he was swimming 20 hours a week and still made the Dean’s List. He fell in love with the university and the town. He got a scholarship.

He was having a great season. He was even getting faster.

Then April 16, 2010 happened. Citing a financial crisis, UC Davis dropped the hammer on four sports — men’s swimming and diving, men’s wrestling, men’s indoor track and field, and women’s rowing. Suddenly Stitts had no team.

“Everything I believed in was taken away from me,” he said.

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BIJAN AGAHI and BRIAN NGUYEN / AGGIE

Top right: Josef Stitts was on the men’s swimming team before it was cut. Top left: Michael Nakagawa was on the wrestling team before the team was cut.

Bottom: Melanie LaCava and Geneva Azevedo were on the women’s rowing team before it was cut.

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Opinion THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE Janelle Bitker Editor in Chief Hannah StrumwasseR Managing Editor Jonathan Wester Business Manager BEAUGART GERBER Advertising Manager Muna Sadek Campus Editor Claire Tan City Editor BECKY PETERSON Opinion Editor Elizabeth OrpinA Arts Editor ADAM KHAN Features Editor Matthew Yuen Sports Editor Hudson Lofchie Science Editor JOEY CHEN Copy Chief RICHARD TRUONG Asst. Copy Chief Brian Nguyen Photography Editor

EDITORIALS FROM THE BOARD

Picnic Day | Happy 99th This Saturday, April 20, is Picnic Day, and like all red-blooded UC Davis students, The California Aggie editorial board is stoked for a full day of campus celebration and cheer. Since many of us have gone through the wringer a few too many times, we would like to give fresh-faced freshmen (our main reader base) a full 7 inches of tips, tricks and protocol to make 98 years of past Picnic Day-ers proud.

Since past editorials have focused on campus safety and behavior, we won’t waste too much space reminding you that under no circumstances should you hang out with visitors from Woodland. Do not invite these people into your apartment. Do not tell them “where the party’s at,” and do not, DO NOT get into a friendly brawl with these visitors on Third Street. This rule applies to visitors from nearly every regional suburb, though is especially

true for citizens of any town that can be reached via Hwy 113.

If you want champagne with your orange juice, buy it early. Over 50 local businesses that serve or sell alcohol have pledged to alter their offerings — they’re limiting sales before 11 a.m. and are not having special alcohol promotions. Not to mention, by April 19, liquor store shelves will be stripped of college student budget-friendly drinks, such as plastic handles of vodka.

While it may be tempting to leave room in your stomach for rage cage losses and soon-to-be-expelled bile, nothing beats Picnic Day in the dining commons, or a long, indulgent brunch with your friends. Please eat, or risk becoming a woo-girl.

(This applies to everyone.)

Once you’ve eaten your weight in cereal, explore! The best times may be

had at some North Davis megacomplex. But other really fun times can be had in Wellman, where there are often kittens, student films and kittens.

Be sure to bring cash. You never know when the ASUCD Coffee House registers will go down, or when you’ll need to be Pedicabbed across town. Unitrans charges $1 on Picnic Day, too.

If drinking isn’t for you, and the date 4/20 means nothing to you, Picnic Day is still a lovely time to sit on the grass and listen to live music. If “drinking isn’t for you,” do not choose Picnic Day for your first time on hallucinogens. Not only will the crowds be overwhelming, you will regrettably be awake during the citywide 3 p.m. siesta.

More tricks and tips can be found in our Picnic Day insert. But if you read it, don’t do anything we wouldn’t do.

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Pub Ed | Pull up a stool There have been some rumors circulating recently that there will be a new pub opening at UC Davis. We just want you all to know that this is, in fact, true, and it will be located in the east wing of the Memorial Union where the post office is currently located. Soon, instead of sending a letter to a loved one, you can drink the pain away like a true adult.

While many of the Aggie staff members are thrilled to have a bar so close by — even Hemingway said to write drunk and edit sober — we had a few questions about some of the important details of the new pub.

Looking at the popularity of the current pub on campus, Gunrock Pub, we have to ask ourselves:

Will anyone actually go to a bar on campus? We think yes. It will just be harder and harder to find time for all these classes between beer breaks.

Will the new pub be open on weekends? That would be nice.

It would take some of the crowds away from the ruckus of downtown.

Who will perform at the entertainment venue? Will there also be live music on the outdoor patio where we can soak in the sun while we sip on the suds?

There should definitely be an 18-and-over trivia night. Just make sure that you don’t give any embarrassing answers in front of your hot TA. In all seriousness, however, a pub on campus would be a great resource

for students who are looking for a study spot slightly more lively than the 24-Hour Room. The pub could play soul music, while the 24-Hour Room only sucks out your soul.

There are a few other semi-important questions that need to be answered before the pub opens, such as how to prevent minors from drinking.

Where will the financing come from, and where will the profits go? Will there be pub food, and who will be making it? Can Professor Charlie Bamforth create a new Aggie beer for us?

And of course, most importantly, will the basement dwellers get a discount?

We just hope that no one will try to sing karaoke while we are trying to study.

Islamophobes THE ANARCHIST with BRIAN MOEN • BKMOEN@UCDAVIS.EDU

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ome readers might take my statements against Sam Harris, atheist author and pseudo-philosopher, as an indication that I am a theist. I am not. In fact, I take any opportunity to assault religious thought to its maximum.

However, some anti-religious arguments are absurd, and much worse, others accidentally endorse extremely anti-human thought.

That second category has been skillfully, masterfully brought to a glorious apex by Harris, most of all in his recent writing on Islam. The mainstream discourse on the topic of religion, especially in regards to what is “politically correct,” is very blurry. Before excavating the blatant stupidity of Harris’ writing, it will be

necessary to dispel some of the falsities When someone calls a certain analysis built into the discourse in which he and Islamophobic, the automatic response is most Americans are something like, “Oh, operating. so we can’t criticize It is a credit to the Islam, eh? You are ...what are the propaganda machine the PC Police, blah, characteristics of an of elite institutions blah, blah...”

Islamophobic analysis, that such confusion The trick in that can exist in a society response is that they as opposed to an of literate people. force the false asenlightened critique?

One glaring and sumption mentioned ridiculous mistake is above, that either all that people either assume that criticizanalyses are Islamophobic or none are. ing Islam is always Islamophobic or it Most people aren’t quite quick enough never is. The real answer — that some to beat this dirty move in the heat of an criticisms are, while others are not — is exchange, so it wins. somehow never conceived.

Clearly, certain types of analysis are This is at the core of many arguments.

Islamophobic; this is beyond question.

So, now that we have this stock response of Harris and his ilk out of the way, we can ask the two natural next questions — what is Islamophobia and what are the characteristics of an Islamophobic analysis, as opposed to an enlightened critique?

Both of those questions yield so much fruitful thought that I will not come close to answering them in full. But briefly sketching out what a reasonable answer might look like will show the horrors and the lack of rigor in Harris’ thinking.

Islamophobia is not merely a hatred of the religion of Islam and what it preaches. Harris, Fox News pundits and other See MOEN on 11

Cherry pop SEX & SOCIETY with MARISA MASSARA • MVMASSARA@UCDAVIS.EDU

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hen I write the word “virginity,” you won’t reach for the dictionary in confusion. The word is well-known, and most people assume they know what a virgin is: one who has not had sex.

And for many, the proof of one’s virginity lies in an intact hymen.

This assumption raises a myriad of issues. For one, it places the importance of virginity solely on the woman, the keeper of this mysterious membrane. In many societies, women are expected to retain their virginity until marriage. For men, on the other hand, this expectation is far less extreme.

The importance of an intact hymen also objectifies women who are to be

married, like checking a horse’s teeth isn’t involved. before buying it. In this case, a woman’s Is “sex” defined as an act that induces worth is only as good as her ability to orgasm? In this case, does one lose their prove that she is virginity when “pure.” they masturbate to Defining virginity completion? Most of Defining virginity with with the hymen also the gay men I know the hymen also creates count their virginity creates a very narrow (and very heteronoras “lost” when they a very narrow (and mative) definition of have anal sex for the very heteronormative) sex. Many people, first time — but does especially in our anal sex in a heterodefinition of sex. generation, hold the sexual couple have view that oral sex the same meaning? does not “count” in regards to virginHardly, if the hymen remains untouched. ity. But what about oral sex between Virginity is a social construct, not a two women? It seems silly to define all physical state. lesbians as virgins just because a penis But perhaps the biggest issue I have

with this cultural obsession is the myth surrounding the hymen itself.

Arguably the most popular euphemism when discussing virginity is the act of “popping the cherry,” or “breaking” through the hymen. Personally, this kind of language makes me imagine stabbing through the film of a microwavable meal, or dropping an anvil on a trampoline.

It’s violent, it’s nerve-wracking and it’s definite. This sort of thinking facilitates the distinction between “virgins” and “non-virgins,” erasing the gray areas I described above.

In reality, the hymen cannot be “popped” or “broken.” Hymens come See MASSARA on 11

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Pest control LAUGHING THROUGH LIFE with MARCI MONTANARI • MCMONTANARI@UCDAVIS.EDU

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y folder hit the head of the gentleman in front of me with a thud. To be fair, I was attempting to save him from malaria.

I am a regular traveler on the Unitrans J-line. The other day I was sitting in my seat, looking over my transcripts to ensure I had met all my graduation requirements. The bus was packed, and I sat enraptured in my planning for a majority of the ride.

However, a sudden motion caught my eye as the bus entered a roundabout. A massive mosquito had just landed on the head of the passenger directly in front of me. I watched as the bug tucked in his wings and allowed his mud-brown legs to rest upon an unsuspecting college student’s head. I knew it would only be seconds before the young man would become a meal that would allow this large insect to subsist.

A million thoughts raced through my head as I contemplated my course of action.

Should I ignore the insect? Would I allow this gentleman to contract malaria or West Nile virus? This was unfathomable. Yes,

I know malaria isn’t really present in the been hit on the head by a stranger would. I United States. Still, I was concerned. replied, “There was a mosquito on your head.

I could swat away the creature, but that But don’t worry, I gots it.” Apparently I was would leave other bus under the impression passengers in danger. I that more informal could attempt to warn speaking, in the form ... swift movement the passenger and ask of improper grammar, and loud exclamapermission to touch would ease the tension. his head, but there just The gentleman tions are a good way was not time for this. replied, “Oh, thanks,” to garner attention In my mind, this was though I questioned while on a bus a life or death situation the sincerity of that and I had a nanosecstatement. As he said ond to make a choice. that, another motion caught my eye. I hadn’t I decided I was going in for the kill. I done away with the creature! Again, my raised my manila folder and sent it swooshduty to be a good citizen forced me into acing towards this stranger’s head without tion. I screamed, “Oh I don’t gots it!” warning. My folder hit the young man’s At this point, a majority of the bus pasblack hair and the mosquito with force. sengers in my section were watching the The traveler turned around and stared encounter. Apparently swift movement and at me. Although I don’t encourage judging loud exclamations are a good way to garner people on their appearances, from what I attention while on a bus. I stared as the moscould gather, this young man was a relatively quito landed on the window next to me. shy, studious individual. He looked at me With all the swiftness of a lioness going quizzically, as I suppose anyone who had just after an antelope, my manila folder hit the

mosquito, crushing it against the window pane. To all the mosquito-lovers out there, I would like to formally apologize. I did it for the greater good. Someone has to protect J-line passengers from malaria. I screamed, “I GOTS IT!” again — apparently when in hunting mode I automatically forget the conventions of the English language.

There is now a prominent brown smear on my human development advising folder. I view it as a battle scar, making that folder much more interesting than the rest of my files. It has served a purpose far nobler than organization.

So, to the J-line passengers who I rescued from malaria, West Nile virus and red, swollen bug bites — you’re welcome.

I’ll be on the J-line the rest of the school year to help you out with your insect needs. To the sweet gentleman who I hit on the head, I apologize for startling you.

MARCI MONTANARI encourages students with questions, comments or words of praise for her courage to contact her at mcmontanari@ucdavis.edu.

Doctor’s orders ANALYZE THIS with BEN BIGELOW • BABIGELOW@UCDAVIS.EDU

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eople love doctors. And, more importantly, people love TV shows about doctors. “ER” ran for 15 seasons, launching George Clooney’s career. “Grey’s Anatomy” introduced M.D.s nicknamed McDreamy, McSteamy and Katherine Heigl. She doesn’t need a nickname; she’s perfect the way she is.

These TV doctors solve so many problems: Gregory House, for example, can deduce in a trivial 45 minutes that Patient A does not have an antibioticresistant strain of Ebola, but suffers from hypochondria. Yet for all their knowledge of disease, doctors — real and fake — are not able to solve the most diseased part of our healthcare system: its costs.

Earlier this year, Steven Brill published a special report in Time Magazine to answer one question: Why does health care cost so much? Essentially, he found out, because it does.

Hospital prices are based on a centralized document called a chargemaster, which lists prices for every procedure or service. But I’m a vibrant, youthful 18 to 25-year-old, you say. This doesn’t affect me.

I thought the same thing, until the healthcare system touched me — literally and

figuratively — when I dropped what I was something right! Just kidding. But not doing to drop my pants in the doctor’s office really.” The chargemaster for the UC for a physical exam.

Davis Medical Center Over spring break, (UCDMC) provides I had a physical exam insight into and eviWe need to demand because I like to be dence of the broken more transparency told that 135 pounds healthcare system in is a healthy weight for the United States. from healthcare a 20-year-old, 5-foot-9 An arm cast providers and less male. It’s the opposite from UCDMC costs from their latex gloves $1,273. If you choke of what I get told in the ARC weight room. in the ER and a nurse After the exam, I needed to get a human performs CPR to save your life, that’s papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. $1,400. Men, if your, ahem, “syringe” A few days later, I saw the physical becomes engorged with fluid (and not the cost $50 and the vaccination was $150. If wink-wink-nudge-nudge type), incision syringes cost that much on the free market, and drainage will set you back $1,800. heroin addiction would drop to zero; no Women, you might receive a bilateral one would ever again be forced to see Jared magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to Leto’s infected arm in Requiem for a Dream. screen for breast cancer; but at $7,439.50, Seriously though, that was almost as gross the procedure requires too many Benjamin as watching Kevin Ware break his leg.

Franklins to pay for to fit into any size cup.

Because of the sticker shock, I decided My recreational drug and makeshift to research the UC Davis chargemaster. poker chip of choice, aspirin, costs $1 Luckily, California has a law requiring per pill. Compared to Amazon.com hospitals to disclose their chargemasters, prices (4 cents per pill), UCDMC marks which you can now search online. It’s it up 2,500 percent. The other 96 cents called the Payers’ Bill of Rights. As White must get you great service.

Goodman said, “The hippies finally got A power gradient exists between doctors

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

and patients. Katherine Heigl can run a line down my throat to administer feeding fluid; I can run Google to look at pictures of Katherine Heigl. I’d like to think that they require the same level of skill, but they don’t.

Consequently, we defer to M.D.s and don’t question them as we should. But we need to. Doctors don’t grace us with their presence: They work in a service industry. Just like we have a right to ask for fries with that at Mickey D’s, we should have a right to assert ourselves with our healthcare providers. At $1 a pop, no, I don’t want aspirin with that.

For $50, I’d like more out of my annual “turn-and-cough” exam. A hearty red wine and rib-eye steak would be nice.

So ask more of your doctors and accept your role as a patient with rights, not just responsibilities.

We need to demand more transparency from healthcare providers and less from their latex gloves. I implore you to hear my cry to action, because the $95,760 cochlear implant that could help you hear it is probably out of your price range.

If you would like BEN BIGELOW to turn and cough for you, contact him at babigelow@ucdavis.edu.

GUEST OPINION

Response to: ‘Capitalism and the poor’

Give international students tuition break

In Tristan de Liege’s April 11 Op-ed, “Capitalism and the poor,” an attempt is made to justify laissez-faire capitalism. The justification rests on two faulty premises: that capitalism is justified by the alleged benefits it brings, and that in a capitalist society wealth is distributed on the basis of voluntary choice.

Firstly, economic and political systems cannot be justified solely on the basis of the benefits they bring. Even if we were to accept, as de Liege asserts, that capitalism will improve the standard of living for the majority of individuals, this is no justification. Slavery certainly “improved” the standard of living for slaves and their masters. It is common knowledge that immediately after slavery was abolished in the South, many former slaves found themselves worse off than they did when they were still slaves. Does this justify slavery? Certainly not.

Have you ever wondered how much you pay for tuition in comparison to your friends each quarter? Certainly, California residents pay way less than nonresidents. Yet, local students moan about the tuition hike and how much it hurts Californian families. How about nonresidential students?

Simply, if you are not a California resident, you get charged with a higher price for the same education. Although California residents pay taxes to fund California universities while nonresidents and international students do not have to, the tuition for non-residents and international students is still unfairly high. Perhaps, American students still get financial aid support. International students especially suffer the most of all.

If you took a basic microeconomics class, the case of imposing two different tuition prices is the perfect illustration to explain the abstract concept of price discrimination. From the start, UC Davis tuition discriminates into two sub-categories: California residents and nonresidents.

The nonresident and international student’s tuition includes the amount that California residents pay, plus the “Nonresident Supplemental Tuition,” costing $22,878 yearly. With this $22,878, a California

Secondly, wealth has historically not been distributed on the basis of voluntary choice in capitalist systems for multiple reasons. First, capitalist systems ignore past involuntary wealth transfers. Even Robert Nozick and other radical libertarians agree that history has been so full of unjust involuntary transactions such as colonialism, slavery and wars of aggression that in the short term a radical redistribution of wealth would be justified.

Second, the fact that one needs wages for human survival means that contracts cannot be considered voluntary.

If one is completely dependent on wages for his or her own survival, as many in society are, employment contracts can reasonably be seen as a form of compulsion.

Evan Sandlin Political science graduate student

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student can afford another year of school, including books, groceries, housing and perhaps shopping. What hurts most international students more is that there is no health insurance included, whereas some American students may have this paid by their parents.

Every year, the most exciting news for us — international students — is not who won at the Super Bowl, but whether Gov. Brown’s UC Regents budget allocation is adequate so there is no big increase in yearly tuition. Especially harsh for students who come from countries with high inflation and exchange rates, their families possibly can’t continue to support further education for their children overseas.

In conclusion, there are arguable reasons to explain why California residents should pay less. However, tuition for nonresidents and international students is still unfairly high. As Spring Quarter is starting with a new wave of bright student senators, please put more attention to help this group of silent minority — international students.

In the end, we are the people who have the weakest voice on the campus.

Vy Nguyen Third-year economics major mvhnguyen@ucdavis.edu

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18/ Thursday Picnic Day Pre-Week Presents: Spring Carnival Noon to 1 p.m. | The Quad Come down for day four of Picnic Day Pre-Week for Spring Carnival. Free food and entertainment will be provided.

19 / Friday Sexy Feminism 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. | The Avid Reader, 617 Second St. Bloggers and authors Heather Wood Rudulph and Jennifer Armstrong will discuss their new book, Sexy Feminism.

Davis Contra Dance 8 to 9 p.m. | Davis Athletic Club It’s time for a night of fun and frolic with caller Talib Huff and the Faulkner Family as they teach you special dances. Get your tickets soon and don’t forget to bring a snack.

The Foreigner 8 to 10 p.m. | Wyatt Deck, UC Davis Arboretum Come down for Common House Productions as they present The Foreigner, a riotously funny two-act comedy. A quiet retreat to rural Georgia for a “foreigner” who is not what he seems turns into a crazy plot rife with deception and revelations that shines a light on what people are willing to divulge when they think no one is listening.

20 / Saturday Picnic Day All day | Davis, Calif.

Have fun and be safe for the 99th annual Picnic Day celebration in Davis. See the Picnic Day insert for a list of more specific events.

21 / Sunday Food Not Bombs 1 to 3 p.m. | Central Park, 405 C St. Enjoy a free vegetarian meal with people who believe that food is a right.

22 / Monday Earth Day Bag Exchange 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. | Whole Foods, 500 First St. Bring in one of your worn-out, reusable bags and Whole Foods will provide a fresh, new one.

23 / Tuesday Vegetable Literacy 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. | The Avid Reader, 617 Second St. Davis native and chef Deborah Madison will discuss her new cookbook, Vegetable Literacy.

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New York Federal Reserve reports student debt tripled Some UC Davis students less affected, study group says

By MELISSA GAHERTY Aggie News Writer

On Feb. 28, the New York Federal Reserve released a report stating that student debt has tripled in the past eight years.

The federal report indicated that the increase in student debt is a result of more people attending college and graduate school, as well as staying longer in college. Additionally, discarding student debt is difficult and the balance stays with the borrower.

“Due to increasing enrollment and rising cost of higher education, student loans play an increasingly important role in financing higher education. Student debt almost tripled between 2004 and 2012, and stands at $966 billion as of 2012,” said author Donghoon Lee in the Federal Reserve’s Household Debt and Credit: Student Debt report.

Joyce Cleaver, data analyst for the UC Davis Financial Aid Office, responded with a different take in regard to debt at UC Davis.

“This [student debt tripling] has certainly not been the case at UC Davis. We feel very good about the fact that our students are graduating with far less debt than the national average, and roughly 44 percent of the undergraduates who graduated in 2011-12 did so without taking out any loans while on our campus,” Cleaver said in an email. “Each year, our campus has seen an increase in the amount of financial aid that we provide to our students.”

Ann Stevens, chair of the UC Davis Department of Economics, participated in a study group on access and affordability, again stating that UC Davis is less affected by debt than other universities.

“Students who usually get in trouble with loans are those who attend expensive private universities or forprofit schools — such as art institutes and culinary academies — where they must borrow more money. Some even

Visit the UC Davis Farmers Market, which offers fresh produce and lunch options for busy students, staff and faculty. Every weekly market has live music, games, and giveaways.

POLICE BRIEFS city@theaggie.org

WEDNESDAY 4/10 The perfect crime An unknown suspect entered a home through an unlocked door and stole three MacBook Pros on Apple Lane.

THURSDAY 4/11 Extreme couponing A customer swung at the manager of a restaurant because he was upset over not being able to use a coupon on G Street.

SATURDAY 4/13 Footloose and fancy pee

Joyride Two adult males with overstuffed backpacks and shaved heads were riding small pink bikes on Second Street.

A+ signaling Someone driving a white pickup swerved, flipped people off and threw a drink at the vehicle behind her on Fifth Street.

MONDAY 4/15 Distractions can be taxing Somebody complained that she couldn’t focus on her taxes because some officers had a suspect detained in front of her house, and her dog was going crazy on Olympic Drive.

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

MELISSA GAHERTY can be reached at city@ theaggie.org.

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loans.

“I have a lot of debt, which will probably take me four years to pay back. I wish I could have avoided loans altogether, especially private loans,” McSpadden said. “The ability to pay back loans is entirely dependent on whether you get a job or not after college, which does not happen easily.”

Miriam Wyatt, a first-year international agricultural development major, takes out two federal student loans — the Federal Perkins Loan and the Federal Direct Stafford Subsidized Loan. Both are need-based and subsidized, meaning that they do not accrue interest until after the student graduates. Unsubsidized loans are not need-based and begin accruing interest once the loan is taken out.

“Students are afraid to take out loans because they don’t know anything about loans,” Wyatt said. “Many assume there [are] only unsubsidized loans and that there is debt always accruing at high interest rates.”

Wyatt isn’t worried about the debt she’ll have after college, saying it’s manageable.

“I’m in a successful environment here and have more opportunities than anywhere else,” Wyatt said.

Steve Turkowski, a second-year electrical engineering major, said he has no experience taking out loans and has a more cautious outlook on doing so.

“I will probably have to take out loans eventually, but my grandma said I should never take out student loans because they are a rip-off. I [would] end up borrowing loans from my grandma since she would give me zero interest rates,” Turkowski said.

“People are afraid to take out loans because it is possible that we will graduate and not get a job, and be left with only debt.”

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borrow their full tuition amount,” Stevens said.

Steven’s study group also researched the manageability of debt among graduate students at UC Davis.

“The bottom line is that students at UC Davis, or [the] vast majority, have manageable loan amounts. The average loan debt is around $17,000, which is a repayment of $200 a month,” Stevens said. “There’s a lot of hype and scare around paying off student loans.

It is easy to go to the web and calculate how much you will have to pay back. Students should not be afraid, but informed about loans.”

In Stevens’ study, it was reported that in 2009 the average California graduate student between the ages of 25 and 28 earned $45,000, which compensates for the average $17,000 loan debt. Between 2010 and 2011, 54 percent of UC Davis graduates had loan debt. Eighteen percent of those had greater than $25,000 in debt and 1.8 percent had over $50,000 in debt.

Jennifer McSpadden, a fifth-year graduate student in French literature at UC Davis, has taken out two different loans — a federal and a private loan — over her 10 years of schooling both at Texas Technological University for undergraduate studies and UC Davis for graduate school.

“The federal loans I receive here at Davis are manageable and as long as I’m in school there is no repayment.

However, when I started college at Texas Tech, I was 16 and they advised me to take out a private loan from Wells Fargo, their corporate partner.

This private loan has a higher interest rate and starts accruing interest before I even graduated. It runs very much like a business,” McSpadden said. “I was young and completely unaware of the consequences of this loan. When I found out all the information, I was shocked and I did a lot of grieving, but now it is just a part of my reality.”

McSpadden advised fellow students to be wary when taking out student

By PAAYAL ZAVERI Aggie News Writer

On March 29, the City of Davis was served an amended lawsuit over the city’s water rates.

The new suit alleges that the city’s wastewater and water rates are in violation of Proposition 218, which states that a ratepayer cannot be charged more than the cost of supplying water to their property. Additionally, the lawsuit states that the City of Davis has not been charging itself for its water and wastewater usage.

The plaintiffs, Yolo Ratepayers for Affordable Public Utility Services (YRAPUS) and John Munn, the former president of the Yolo County Taxpayers Association, are represented by former Davis City Council member Michael Harrington.

“We’re going after them for the wastewater rates because they treat themselves like they do water,” Har-

rington said. “The rates we think are illegal and in fact, the city knows it.”

The plaintiffs believe the wastewater rates are illegal because monthly fees are based on potable water usage rather than the actual amount of water that enters the city’s wastewater system. Wastewater rates are calculated from November to February because that is when the least irrigation takes place.

A press release from the City of Davis stated that “the city firmly believes the water and sewer rates are legally valid and the lawsuit is without merit. This is based on legal analysis by statewide experts on rate structure legalities.”

Deputy City Manager Kelly Stachowicz said that the city doesn’t know what other aspects of the lawsuit were changed in the amended suit.

The city sent a response to Harrington and the plaintiffs, denying every allegation made against them regarding the water and wastewater rates.

“As part of our research into the rate structure, we uncovered problems with the wastewater treatment rates,” Harrington said. “We became convinced that the rate structure doesn’t comply with [Prop.] 218.”

The amended lawsuit retains the original allegations regarding the city’s water rates to be in violation of Prop. 218.

YRAPUS filed the original lawsuit in January and city officials answered and acknowledged not paying for their water consumption.

The city’s statement in response to the original lawsuit said “the city does not separately account for water used at city facilities, [but] the city also does not charge the water division rent for its use of city park space where some wells are located, and the reimbursement of other city services and facilities is overdue for reconciliation and an update.”

Interim Public Works Director Bob Clarke said the city has already budgeted its water consumption for the 2013-14 fiscal year.

As a result of Measure I, water rates

are expected to increase starting May 1. Measure I was approved by the Davis City Council on March 19. The lawsuit states further rate increases will be in violation of Prop. 218.

Measure I will raise water rates over the next five years to pay for Davis’ share of the $245 million WoodlandDavis Clean Water Agency surface water project. By 2018, water rates are expected to triple.

In light of the rate increases, the City of Davis has created an effort to help residents reduce their water consumption.

“Rates are going to increase and we want to give an added incentive for people to conserve,” Stachowicz said.

The city teamed up with San Francisco-based WaterSmart Software to create a program with which residents can monitor their water consumption. Residents can sign up on the city’s website to view their water usage online and receive water reports by email.

“The residents of Davis are eager to do their part to conserve water,” said City Manager Steve Pinkerton.

“WaterSmart Software has provided us with a cost-effective way to do just that. With WaterSmart, water customers in Davis can track their water use, compare their usage to similar households and learn about simple ways they can do their part to conserve.”

The city is moving forward with the rate increases and implementing new programs related to water consumption.

“It is unfortunate that the Yolo Ratepayers for Affordable Public Utility Services group are not satisfied with the outcome of the Measure I election.

Based on the Measure I vote, the city has a duty to move forward and meet the city’s future water needs,” the city stated in a press release. “The city will vigilantly defend itself and the ratepayers against this lawsuit. Regretfully, the Davis ratepayers will bear the cost of defending this lawsuit.”

PAAYAL ZAVERI can be reached at city@ theaggie.org.

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Community members advocate breaking cycle of gun violence

CAMPUS JUDICIAL REPORT Tardy for the Party One night in the dorms, two resident advisors (RAs) were doing their routine rounds in one of the buildings around midnight. They were heading to the stairs when they heard residents talking loudly, and as they listened closer they heard some comments regarding alcohol. The RAs knocked on the door of the dorm room where they heard the talking, and after about 30 seconds of items being shuffled around and people moving, the resident of the room opened the door. The RAs stated that it smelled like alcohol and asked for the residents to take out any alcohol. However, the resident claimed that he had nothing but soda in the room. The RAs could tell that there had been alcohol in the room, but he insisted that he had none, so the RAs copied down his ID number and informed him of the documentation process. The resident received a censure, a formal warning from Student Housing, and referral to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Intervention Services.

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Assault weapons, like these used by Navy sailors, are among the center of a gun control debate in California and across the United States.

By PAAYAL ZAVERI Aggie News Writer

As a result of numerous incidents of gun violence across the country, the City of Davis hosted a forum on ending gun violence on Feb. 19.

Renowned gun violence researcher Dr. Garen Wintemute from the UC Davis School of Medicine spoke at the forum, along with Amanda and Nick Wilcox from the California chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

The forum prompted a group of Davis officials and community members to submit a letter to state and national legislators expressing support for a change in gun control and safety in order to reduce incidents of gun violence, said Susan Lovenburg, a member of the Davis School Board.

The letter expressed support for gun control legislation at the state and national level, and also said that mental health services must be improved.

A group of officials who signed the letter attended the California Senate Public Safety Committee’s public hearing on April 16 for the LIFE (Life-saving Intelligent Firearms Enforcement) Act. The LIFE Act is a set of eight bills aimed at improving firearm safety and protecting the community from gun violence in California. The LIFE Act was passed by the Senate Public Safety committee by a 5-2 vote with Republican objections on April 16. The legislation will now advance to a second senate committee for further consideration.

“We are closing loopholes in our current laws regarding assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” Amanda Wilcox said. “There’s a bill that would regulate ammunition. [There are] bills to keep firearms out of dangerous hands, [which] would add to the list of people who are prohibited from owning a firearm and provide more funding for the Department of Justice to disarm dangerous people who own a gun. There’s also an education piece that states that to get a firearm, you have to take a safety test.”

The City of Davis is working to start a Yolo County chapter of the Brady Campaign as a result of the February forum.

According to a press release distributed by the Brady Campaign, California is one of the top states when it comes to gun control legislation and the state already has some of the firmest gun laws.

The gun legislation debate Support for the new legislation is not unanimous. There are many California citizens who disagree with the eight bills in the LIFE Act. Sim Sangha, a third-year sociology major, disagrees with the new legislation. Sangha is studying to become a police officer and has had internships in law enforcement for many years.

“Personally, I think it’s OK to have them because it is a part of our constitution,” Sangha said. “I purchased all my firearms legally, so I should be able to own them. However, when new owners come and buy firearms, I definitely feel like there should be some kind of training that comes before they are able to purchase it. Just because we have the Second Amendment, doesn’t mean you should be able to purchase them right away.”

Currently in California, prior to purchasing a firearm, individuals are required to take a 30-question test beforehand. Afterwards, there is a 10-day waiting period when an extensive background check is conducted. Additionally, owning firearms in California is considered a privilege and people who fail to pay bills and taxes on time lose their right to purchase a gun.

“You really have to know about firearms to know what all these propositions are saying because so many of them contradict each other,” Sangha said. “It’s not fair that the people that have no knowledge of these are the ones that are trying to implement them.”

Debates over gun legislation are often polarizing because both sides feel very strongly about the issue. However, many of those who disagree still talk of the need for laws to regulate gun purchase and ownership.

“There are a lot of classes out there that teach safe gun ownership, but they are really expensive,” Sangha said. “There are gun safety classes offered for free that a lot of people just choose not to go to. A lot of people take guns and think they are toys, and they are definitely not.”

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Event sparks free speech debate among campus community UC Davis Ayn Rand Society organizes event on Middle East

An evening discussion section for an upper-division course took a surprising turn when a student proceeded to interrupt the TA about a particular exam question. The professor requested that all students submit regrade requests in writing. The student disregarded this and disrupted the class loudly, using profanity and complaining about the structure of the exam. Another student then jumped on the bandwagon and continued the cursing over the exam. The TA reported that he did not feel threatened despite the bad language that was used, but the students were still referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA). While meeting with the Judicial Officer, the students came to realize that they had been disruptive to such an extent that they had violated University policies. Both students recognized that their behavior was inappropriate, and were warned that if such behavior were to happen again, they could face more serious consequences.

Buddy System In a lower-division class, two students were referred to SJA for suspected cheating on a quiz and then on a midterm. During an in-class quiz, one of the students was missing and texted her friend that she was not going to make it to class and asked if she could fill out the quiz for her. The friend in class wrote the answers to the quiz on two pieces of paper, putting her name on one and her friend’s name on the other. Not long after, during a midterm the TA noticed that the student who had been absent for the quiz was looking at the paper of the same friend who had filled out the quiz for her. The TA separated them and after collecting the exams, it was apparent that there were numerous identical answers on both their papers. The student who had been copying met with a Judicial Officer who explained how copying from another student was strictly against the University’s policies. As a result, she accepted disciplinary probation and 10 hours of community service. The situation with the friend was handled separately.

WEEKLY WEATHER Short Term Forecast It’s gonna be a hot one! Get ready for summer because this weekend we can expect some warmer weather. There will be sunny conditions throughout the week with some cloudiness closer towards the end of the weekend.

Expected highs: Highs will stay in the mid to high 80s throughout the weekend of April 20.

Expected lows: Nightly lows will be in the low to mid 50s.

Megan Simone, Atmospheric Science Major

Long Term Forecast For the week of April 22, we are expecting temperatures in the 80s. Monday will be a bit breezy, but the wind should settle down as the week progresses. Conditions will be sunny for the entire week, with no chance of precipitation.

Expected highs: 83 on Monday, 82 on Tuesday.

Wednesday through Friday should be around 85 degrees.

Expected lows: Overnight lows will range in the mid 50’s throughout the week.

Brian Rico, Atmospheric Science major

By JESSICA GRILLI and MUNA SADEK Aggie News Writer and Aggie Campus Editor

On April 11, a forum featuring Elan Journo, fellow and director of policy research at the Ayn Rand Institute; Daniel Pipes, writer, founder and director of the Middle East Forum; and Larry Greenfield, political commentator and columnist, was held in 1001 Giedt Hall to discuss conflicts in the Middle East and their stance on current issues on Islam.

The event, titled “Islamists Rising in the Middle East: Where next for America?” was hosted by the Ayn Rand Society at UC Davis. Students, faculty and staff gathered in the audience and were able to submit written questions as well as stand up and pose verbal questions to the forum speakers.

Speakers stated that extremist Muslims aim to exercise their right over non-Muslims and women.

Organizers and audience members had concerns of potential disruptions or quarrels involving speakers, but the event ran smoothly.

Among the audience were Arab and non-Arab students, including fourth-year biological systems engineering major and former president of the Arab Student Union Ahmed Desouki.

“I am extremely offended. [The speakers] were talking about my country and my state as if they are experts on it. Everything was misinformation, false,” Desouki said. “I definitely feel that we are misrepresented on campus and by the administration.”

Speaker Journo told TheBlaze.com before the event that the speakers relied on the University and security to uphold the freedom of speech of the panelists by preventing any potential disruptions from audience members.

“It is ludicrous, if it were not so sad, that public discus-

sion of the Islamist movement is somehow a taboo. This is the ideological movement behind al Qaeda, Taliban, Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. Surely the more people learn about it, the better,” he said.

The Ayn Rand Society did not receive any funding from the campus for this event, according to a letter by Ralph J. Hexter, provost and executive vice chancellor.

In response to letters from the campus community, Hexter sent out a letter on April 11 on behalf of Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi. In the letter, he stated that the administration abhors “hateful” speech based on individuals’ religion and national origin, including that directed at students of Middle Eastern descent or Muslim and Jewish students.

“We want you to know that the University is deeply committed to providing a safe educational environment that is free of unlawful harassment for all of our students, and has been proactive in addressing the event this evening,” the letter stated.

Hexter also said that there would be staff from Student Affairs, the campus engagement team and Aggie Hosts in attendance to address any concerns, disagreements or violations of campus protocol.

Four ASUCD senators, Alyson Sagala, Armando Figueroa, Reuben Torres and Yee Xiong, submitted a letter to the Chancellor on their concerns about the event.

“We acknowledge that free speech is a cherished civil right, but hate speech and racist mischaracterizations of demographics’ entire cultures and life histories are not conducive to an academic environment that promotes a safer campus climate,” the letter stated.

JESSICA GRILLI and MUNA SADEK can be reached at campus@theaggie. org. KELLEY DRECHSLER contributed to this article.

Weather News At this time last year, we were worried about the very hot Picnic Day, and some trolls were worried about rain. But this year the worry seems to be wind.

Don’t worry, the weather for Picnic day should be beautiful to come out and watch the parade, see some dog races and watch an epic battle of melodies, harmonies and counterpoint.

Picnic Day should start out in the mid to upper 60s, by the time lunch rolls around it should be near 76 degrees, by the beginning of battle expect temps near 80 (plus of minus 2 degrees), and by the time the sun sets and it’s all over, expect temps near a nice 69. Winds should be calm, and the sun should be shining bright.

Tyson Tilmont, Aggie Forecast Team

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‘Batboy: The Musical’ Comedic musical to play Wyatt Pavilion Theatre

By JOHN KESLER Aggie Arts Writer

This month, Studio 301 Productions presents a comedic musical with themes of social acceptance, gothic overtones and a half-man, half-bat protagonist.

Batboy: The Musical tells the story of Batboy, a monster who is found in a cave in West Virginia. Batboy is adopted and educated by a local veterinarian. However, a cattle plague kills the town’s livestock, causing the locals to scapegoat Batboy, kicking off the plot.

“The musical is based in gothic literature and horror films and it gets bloody and gory, but in a fun way,” said Christopher McCoy, a performance studies Ph.D. candidate and the show’s director.

McCoy saw the original off-Broadway production in 2001 and loved it. “At the time it was so fresh and new to see a musical that was a parody of other musicals, but now we’re very used to this type of humor. I felt like it would be fun to return to one of the originals and reinvent it for our time,” he said.

McCoy showed the musical to Alexander Stalarow, a musicology Ph.D. student who had previously worked as an assistant music director on RENT. “I gave it a listen and my first thought was that it was going to be really hard to pull off, since there are a lot of tight harmonies, meter changes, rhythmic irregularities and musical styles,” Stalarow said.

Stalarow joined the production as the musical director after being convinced by McCoy and began to work through the score.

“The show parodies other styles of musicals, and the music goes along with it,” Stalarow said. “There are numbers right out of vaudeville, country, rock and heavy metal.

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Stalarow noted that the show has appeal to audiences regardless of their knowledge of musicals.

“If you’re into musicals, you’ll have a lot of fun with all of the parodic moments. If you’re not, the music is catchy, clever and fun enough to keep you engaged,” he said. “The live musicians from the music department are very talented, the singers are wonderful and we put together something that sounds very good.”

Cheyenne Splinter, a second-year animal science major, is the stage manager for Batboy, and it’s the first time she’s held this position for a UC Davis production.

“I did stage managing in high school, and I’ve been an assistant stage manager here,” Splinter said. “The experience was different than I thought it would be, but in a good way. I expected this to be more difficult than it turned out. The cast works really well with me and each other. This is one of the best experiences I’ve had as a stage manager.”

The cast is also very engaged in the musical. Marcos Sastre III, a junior specialist at the UC Davis Center for the Mind and Brain, stars as Batboy.

“Batboy starts as an illiterate bat-child who eventually becomes an erudite literary scholar.

He comes into his own and discovers how he fits into society. It has been interesting to develop this character honestly and exhibit his

changes in a way that keeps to the spirit of the play’s mock nature,” he said.

Sastre has high praise for the crew as well.

“There’s a lot of stuff that goes on in this musical and both Chris and Alex provide specific guidance, which has helped me grow as an actor. I’ve been grateful to have had them and everyone else in the cast to guide me,” he said.

Sastre urges people to come and see the show.

“It’s not what you may expect. It’s really funny, it features a talented group of individuals and I’m shaving my head for it,” Sastre said.

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

BATBOY: THE MUSICAL will play at the Wyatt Pavillion Theatre from April 25 to 27 and from May 2 to 4 at 8 p.m. as well as April 28 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for students and $12 for everyone else. McCoy notes that the play is “PG-13, definitely for middle school and up.”

ARTSWEEK POETRY/OPEN MIC Sunday Afternoon Howl! Open Mic Sunday, April 21, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., free Little Prague Bohemian Restaurant, 330 G St. As a celebration of a traditional pub, Little Prague is hosting a multimedia Open Mic Sunday afternoon.

The call is for poetry, prose, impromptu bar songs and acoustic jam sessions. Art materials will also be provided to paint or craft while listening to performances. This event is for all ages and is open to the public.

BOOK/AUTHOR EVENTS UC Davis Book Club: Travels with Charley Tuesday, April 23, 7:10 p.m., free 206 Olson Hall UC Davis Book Club’s first meeting of Spring Quarter will occur this Tuesday in Olson hall. Present members will discuss John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley, the chosen reading for April, and then discuss book selections for May. Sexy Feminism Friday, April 19, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., free Avid Reader, 617 2nd St. Heather Wood Rudolph and Jennifer Armstrong, the bloggers and authors behind sexyfeminist.com, are coming to the Avid Reader to discuss their new book, Sexy Feminism. The book is intended to lead young women to and through feminism and dispel any stereotypes associated with the word. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signings will take place after the event.

Vegetable Literacy Tuesday, April 23, 7:30 p.m., free Avid Reader, 617 2nd St. Deborah Madison, cook and former Davis resident, will be speaking on her new cookbook at the Avid Reader.

The book focuses on the ins-and-outs of 12 plant families and features over 300 recipes for their use.

Author Talk: D.R. Wagner Monday, April 22, Noon to 1:30 p.m., free MU Store Lounge D.R. Wagner, a lecturer for the Davis Design program, will be speaking on his new book, 97 Poems by D.R. Wagner, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Wagner is also a musician and visual artist, and has published over 20 books of letters and poetry.

BY TANYA AZARI University of California, Davis Tuesday, April 23, Noon to 1:30 p.m., free King Lounge, Memorial Union Dennis Dingemans and Ann Foley Scheuring will be presenting their book, University of California, Davis, consisting of 200 black-and-white images describing the history of UC Davis. Dingemans is a geography professor at UC Davis who co-authored the book Woodland, and Scheuring is the author of Abundant Harvest: The History of the University of California, Davis.

Kitty Kindergarten Wednesday, April 24, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., free Blanchard Room, Davis Public Library, 315 E. St. Dr. Sophia Yin, animal behaviorist and veterinarian, is coming to speak at the Mary L. Stephens Davis Library.

Her talk will be about the early socialization of cats in order to create kind and outgoing kittens. Refreshments will be provided.

MUSIC Picnic Day Entertainment Showcase Friday, April 19, Noon to 1 p.m., free Quad Picnic Day 2013 presents this Friday’s Entertainment Showcase as the culmination to its Pre-week events. The showcase will feature Clouds Like Mountains, a “postpowerpop” band from Fresno, and San Francisco indiepop band Finish Ticket. Free food will be provided.

ART/GALLERY Picnic Day Fashion Show Saturday, April 20, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., free Freeborn Hall This Picnic Day, the runway will be run by student models and designers. UC Davis’ Fashion and Design Society, made up of UC Davis design majors, will present their works in an annual fashion show. The event is very popular and fills up quickly, so show up early for seats.

DANCE Davis Dance Revolution Saturday, April 20, 7:30 p.m., $15 tickets Freeborn Hall This Picnic Day will see the eighth annual Davis Dance Revolution, a dance battle wherein 14 UC Davis dance teams compete in modern- and traditional-style dances

for a $1,000 prize. Student tickets are $13 presale at the UC Davis Ticket Office or $15 at the door.

THEATER/MONDAVI The Foreigner Thursday to Saturday, April 18-20, 8 p.m., $8 student tickets Wyatt Deck, UC Davis Arboretum In collaboration with the UC Davis Arboretum, Common House Productions will be performing Larry Shue’s The Foreigner, a comedic play about a foreign man who believes that everyone around him is “lost in translation.”

Tickets can be reserved at commonhouseproductions@ gmail.com.

Oklahoma!

Friday to Saturday, April 19-20, 8:10 p.m., Sunday, April 21, 2:15 p.m., $16 student DMTC Performing Arts Center, 607 Pena Dr. Acclaimed musical Oklahoma! is coming to Davis, as presented by the Davis Musical Theatre Company.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the play, which is a multi-emotion-evoking musical centering around the forbidden love held between a cowboy and a farmgirl.

San Francisco Symphony Thursday, April 18, 8 p.m., $52 student tickets Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center The San Francisco Symphony will be performing two pieces, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 and Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5. The talented and renowned Herbert Blomstedt will be conducting, and the performance will feature Augustin Hadelich as the soloist for Beethoven’s only violin concerto.

Arlo Guthrie Friday, April 19, 8 p.m., $29 student tickets Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center Still celebrating his father after his 100th birthday in 2012, Arlo Guthrie will be performing solo at the Mondavi Center on Friday. A great contribution to the American folk genre, Guthrie will be performing as part of his Woodie Guthrie “Here Comes the Kid” tribute tour.

Firebird Ensemble Monday, April 22, 7 p.m., $8 student tickets Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center A collective of young musicians, Firebird Ensemble will be presenting six separate and collaborative pieces this Monday. Their music is intended for varied audiences, and is well-known all across the United States. Monday’s performance is the first part of their program; Program II

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Student dance groups to compete for $1,000 prizes UC Davis emeritus Davis Dance Revolution coming this Picnic Day 7:30 p.m. in Freeborn Hall, Saturday, April 20. Presale student tickets are $13, and $15 at the door.

By CRISTINA FRIES Aggie Arts Writer

One of the more popular Picnic Day events, the annual Davis Dance Revolution (DDR) will feature 14 student-run dance organizations competing for two $1,000 prizes Saturday, April 20.

DDR began nine years ago as an event to allow student-run dance organizations to perform for audiences and showcase diversity through modern and traditional dance, upholding UC Davis’ Principles of Community.

Seven dance groups compete under each category, modern and traditional, with each category offering a grand prize of $1,000.

“It’s important to see the richness of the diversity of our campus, and the event shows the power of dance through showcasing the talents of our students,” said Lori Fuller, DDR coordinator. “The performances speak volumes to who we are as a community on this campus.”

Due to the popularity of the event for both performers and audiences, DDR has expanded this year, adding Agape, SoNE1 and Salsa Adiccion to the lineup.

“This year we have 14 groups performing, and there were many other teams that wanted to participate but there was no more space in the show,” Fuller said. “It’s a show that’s growing, and it’s a show that people are interested in.”

In its ninth year, dance clubs continue to up their game in hopes of wowing the crowds and winning the highly coveted grand prizes.

Groups under the traditional dance category include Davis Ballet Company, Golden Turtle Lion Dance Association, FILAH: Filipinos in Liberal Arts and Humanities, JASS: Japanese American Student Society, Na Keiki ‘O Hawai’i, PASE: Pilipino Americans in Science & Engineering and SoNE1.

Bryan Ramirez-Corona, one of the main choreographers for Na Keiki ‘O Hawai’i and a fifth-year genetics major, discussed the group’s preparations for this year’s tough competition. “‘O Hawai’i club has competed every year of DDR. Our DDR performance is a subset of one of the several different dances that we perform for our main annual event, the Luau,” Ramirez-Corona said. “For DDR, we perform one of our Tahitian dances. We start preparing for DDR very early on in the year; we have tryouts in the fall, we start practicing right away and we put a lot of effort into our preparations because a $1,000 prize is at stake.”

‘O Hawai’i is frequently one of the top three final-

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construction will cost between $400 to $500 per square foot. “[ASUCD] would have the build out responsibilities [in] regards to the food service. [They] are still trying to come up with that platform and [the kitchen],” Campbell said.

He also said that the type of furniture usually seen in a pub will be included.

The funding for the MU east wing renewal will come from the reserves of the memorial fee and bonds. The memorial fee is an $85 fee students pay annually and between $5 million and $7 million of those reserves will be used for the project, according to Campbell. The remaining balance will then be financed through bonds.

“There had been a feeling all along by the associated students or at least the leadership of the associate students that they need to participate at some level with the program,” he said.

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ists and has won first prize under the traditional dance category in 2010 and 2011. This year, Ramirez-Corona hopes the group will take the prize by demonstrating their talents and adherence to Polynesian heritage.

“Every year, we try to have a ‘wow’ factor. In past years, we’ve incorporated sticks into the choreography, had a giant banner drop and increased the difficulty of our dances. This year’s dance is the most traditional choreography we’ve had in five years, and we are excited to use music I found in Tahiti,” Ramirez-Corona said.

In addition to using authentic music and choreographies, part of ‘O Hawai’i’s effort to uphold tradition is the incorporation of elaborate, hand-crafted costumes and Polynesian body painting.

“What separates us from other groups is that we are very hard-core about being traditional. We make all of our costumes by hand. We have costume-making parties where we will all sew together pieces of real grass and greenery, beads and shells — and I paint animal symbols on each of the dancers for the performance,” Ramirez-Corona said.

Groups competing under the modern dance category are Agape, Breakdance Club, MK Modern, Mobility, Popping Club, Salsa Adiccion and Released Contemporary Dance Company (RCDC). RCDC co-director Elyan Shor, a fourth-year animal science major, discussed RCDC’s experience with DDR. “Released is a fairly new company to Davis, and we’ve only been competing in DDR for the past four years.

It’s a really exciting experience, and we start putting together our piece in January,” Shor said. “It’s a great opportunity for members of the group to contribute their ideas to the choreography.”

As one of the only non-hip hop groups in the modern dance category, RCDC uses its unique style to stand out for the audience.

“Contemporary dance is hard to define, but it’s a bit like a mixture of jazz and modern dance. It’s not as structured as jazz, and it’s a lot more free. It’s tough to compete against the talented hip hop and breakdance groups, and one challenge is our size — we’re a smaller group compared to the others, and we try to stand out by putting something creative out for the audience to respond to while still staying true to what we’re good at,” Shor said.

Never having won first place in the competition, RCDC revamps its performance strategy by having a clear thematic focus and strengthening their technique for this year’s event.

“It’s a showpiece, so you need to have a theme to make your piece cohesive. When it comes to DDR, we try to focus on a theme or emotion to convey. In the past we got carried away with more complex themes that took away from our performance, so this year we wanted to have a really strong dance piece while using a simpler theme to tie it all together,” Shor said.

Davis Dance Revolution presents a unique opportunity to view the talent and cultural diversity of many of Davis’ student-run dance groups. Tickets are available at the Aggie Stadium ticket office, tickets.ucdavis.edu and at the door.

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

ASUCD will be contributing approximately $500,000 to the MU east wing renewal project, according to Sandstrom.

“The more money we invest the more we’re going to get out of it and I don’t know the exact number of how much the pub will be per se, but overall it’s a pretty expensive project. What’s great about it is that we’re not increasing student fees for it.

We’re taking all kinds of money that we either already have or are in our reserves or are preparing for this project in taking out bonds to pay for this slowly in time,” Sandstrom said. “But we’re not increasing student fees and I think that’s the great ingenuity of UC Davis being really committed to not increasing fees.”

The space is still in the early stages and there are many things that are still to be determined including the name, the hours and the menu of the pub.

Campbell expects that it will be open between 85 to 100 hours weekly.

“It’ll be open as much as the

students want it to be open ...

When completed, the Memorial Union will be open for extended hours much more than it is today. It will probably follow the hours of this facility [ARC] closely,” Campbell said.

The menu is currently being discussed, but the food that is expected to be served is the “CoHo’s take on pub food,” according to Sandstrom. The beef will come from grass-fed cows and the chicken from cage-free chickens. Healthy options will also be available for those who prefer them.

“I think the people that we would be serving our pub grill concept is completely different from what Gunrock Pub is. It’s more that student environment and really I think the only maybe competition we have is with the Coffee House — and it would be run by the same management; so we’re really happy about that,” Bottoms said.

The entertainment venue is being modeled after other university student unions, pubs and bookstores that Sandstrom, along

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professor’s work focuses on Picnic Day Roland Petersen shows his view of Davis

By BRETT BUNGE Aggie Arts Writer

Picnic Day is a staple of Davis culture. In its 99th iteration this year, it remains a timeless way to celebrate the unique qualities of this fine city and campus. In fact, one painter has chosen to transport Picnic Day onto his canvas, and he brings with him his first exhibition in the area since the late 1990s to the Elliot Fouts Gallery in Sacramento.

Roland Petersen, a former UC Davis professor, is one of the founding members of the Art Department, which started in 1956. From there he taught at UC Davis until 1992. Known for his focus on Picnic Day, Petersen’s work defies traditional conventions.

“The subject matter is unique. It’s a purposefully confusing manner; it requires the viewer to think. The way that he portrays a simple subject in a complex way makes the subject his masterpiece,” said Michelle Satterlee, 2010 UC Davis art history graduate and director of the Elliot Fouts Gallery.

Petersen’s work is rife with contrasts that form his unique style of printing and painting. From the way he uses shadow and light to portray his subjects to the mood that his work evokes, his paintings twist standard ideas and show Picnic Day in a whole new light, as well as celebrate the uniqueness of the event.

“Picnic Day embodies the values of Davis: family, friends and reunion. It allows people to celebrate campus and the community,” said Jonathan Wu, a fourth-year neurobiology major and Picnic Day chair. “While the event has picked up some negative stigma, especially since the incident in 2010, we’ve had much more community support in the last couple of years.”

Indeed, Petersen’s works, both new and old, remain an example of the Davis community and alumni being involved in Picnic Day. The theme for this year is “Snapshots,” something that Petersen’s work embodies.

“Picnic Day is an opportunity for people to showcase the university,” said Chris Hong, 2013 alumnus and Special Event director. “The community has become much more involved.”

The Elliot Fouts Gallery’s new exhibition Roland Petersen: A Journey Through Time is being held now through May 7 and will have 20 of Petersen’s works on display.

“The show is significant in that Roland hasn’t had a formal exhibition in the area since the late ’90s,” Satterlee said on the significance of this particular exhibition. “He rose to national attention, and has influenced other UC Davis graduates. The works span from 1950 until 2013.”

Besides the exhibition, Petersen’s work can be seen a bit closer to home. Shields Library contains several of Petersen’s paintings, including a large mural near the circulation desk.

BRETT BUNGE can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

with Campbell, former ASUCD controller Melanie Maemura and former President Rebecca Sterling toured.

“We didn’t like that [UC Irvine] didn’t have a very Irvine feel to it and here we have so many bars, the bar scene kind of goes along with Davis because what else do you do? ... We really have to identify ourselves as why you want to come here and it looks cool, it feels cool and it’s a multifunctional space that you can study at you can drink it you can have fun at all in one,” Sandstrom said.

The new part of the MU will feature an indoor and outdoor venue along with space that permits performances, something that is not currently possible.

“We’d have karaoke, trivia and local bands play. KDVS and Entertainment Council are really excited to start working on the entertainment aspect of this because we don’t have anything like that, that small to midscale show,” Bottoms said.

Although alcohol will be served, the venue will be avail-

able to all, and students will be asked to provide identification at the bar when purchasing an alcoholic beverage, according to Sandstrom.

According to Campbell, alcohol will not be served the whole time the venue is open.

“It’s a different scene from the bar scene in downtown on the weekends. It’s a completely different concept where we’re looking to have it be a fun activity space rather than a heavy drinking space,” Bottoms said.

The space will also feature entertainment in the form of shows, trivia and showcasing Aggie away games.

“We really want it to be an environment where people can feel the presence of the history of where we come as a university to where we are today, and kind of the culmination of that and we think it’ll be a really cool location for that in addition the whole Aggie pride thing,“ Bottoms said.

LILIANA NAVA OCHOA can be reached at campus@theaggie.org

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Science +Tech THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE Medicine Medical researchers have recently developed a “nano-sponge” that can enter your bloodstream and soak up deadly bacteria like MRSA that are resistant to conventional antibiotics. The nanosponge, which measures about 1/300,000th of an inch, is surrounded by a membrane that mimics a red blood cell. The harmful bacteria attach harmlessly to the sponge and then get transported to the liver for removal. The new method was developed at UC San Diego.

Physics The best place to try to figure out the origins of the universe is not on top of a mountain with a telescope; it is deep underground. These caves contain some of the most sensitive scientific instruments ever created and form the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) project. The sensors at CDMS have recently detected three “WIMPs,” or weakly interactive massive particles, that could shed light on the nature of dark matter and the origins of the universe. The CDMS project is located in the Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota.

It is a collaborative project between Stanford University, and the University of Minnesota.

Biology It turns out that life is very much like a computer in the way that it increases in complexity.

By using Moor’s law, or the idea that computing power will double every two years, computer scientists regressed the equation for the human genome, and calculated that life in our universe originated somewhere between eight and 10 billion years ago … more than twice the age of the Earth itself. Whereas computing power doubles every two years, gene size doubles every 367 million years. This was calculated by looking at the number of base pairs in human DNA, comparing it to the number of base pairs in the DNA of other animals on Earth whose evolutionary age we know and creating a linear progression backward in time. The research comes out of the National Institute of Ageing in Baltimore, and the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in Florida.

Now you see it... with NICOLE NOGA • science@theaggie.org

Most people are familiar with the image of corporate America. An image of men in business suits in a very tall building comes to mind. We associate these images with wealth

the most powerful women, and two of the most powerful people, in the country. However, even though these women have become successful, the fact that there are only a handful of

It turns out that women only comprise 21 percent of the science and engineering fields ... and status, which have always been very important societal values. Wall Street, Fortune 500 companies and other big business, and even many scientific fields all exhibit discrimination characteristic of the glass ceiling.

We don’t tend to think about it too often, but I pose the question: Why is it that when we think of wealth and status in regards to careers, women take the backseat?

Although corporate businesses have admitted there is still a glass ceiling, you will find that the invisible ceiling is present in more than the corporate world, and science, renowned for prizing facts over bias, is no exception.

One may argue that the statistics for women look great right now.

More women are attending college than men, and more of these women are moving forward to successful careers than ever before. The recession is finally starting to subside and females are moving into the working world. Women like Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, and Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, have beat the odds, becoming two of

women in similar positions throughout the country is indicative of an ongoing problem.

A report recently came out from UCSD, examining professions in law, medicine, science and engineering.

These fields were chosen based on two characteristics; they are traditionally male-dominated fields, and they contain some of the highestpaying jobs. It turns out that women only comprise 21 percent of the science and engineering fields and only 34 percent of medical doctors. In the field of law, the percentage seems a bit more promising at 45 percent, but of that percentage, only 15 percent are senior (equity) partners.

The report also examines the gender pay gap, taking into account work time, specialization and experience. Women earn at most 86 percent of what their male co-workers earn.

For female surgeons and physicians, the percentage is 79 percent. Keep in mind this is just a pay gap between genders; it gets even uglier when delving into categories like race.

If you believe in equality at all, you will probably agree that this is not fair. If you are like many Ameri-

cans, you will probably also shrug your shoulders and say there is nothing you can do about it. There is no such thing as a one-(wo)man army, but there is such a thing as combating apathy. Perhaps you are wondering why anyone should care; after all, the problem is swept under the rug so often, it has become a disappearing act.

While some discrimination is due to men in power preventing women from taking controlling roles in their fields, much of the remaining discrimination is due to innate cultural practices that have yet to conform to modern society. For example, in the last decade, women have gone from a major minority in receiving scientific degrees, to receiving a majority of all scientific degrees. However, despite the growing number of women in scientific fields, they are still dramatically underrepresented in the highlevel positions of those fields.

At UC Davis, four out of the five nominees for the U.S. Presidential Awards are men, nine out of 13 members of the National Academy of Engineering are men and 19 out of 22 UC Davis members of the National Academy of Sciences are men.

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Genetics April 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project. Ten years ago, an international team of researchers succeeded in decoding the 3 billion letters in human DNA. Sequencing the first DNA strand cost $1 billion and took months, but after 10 years of fine-tuning the algorithms, software and hardware, that same strand of DNA can be decoded for between $3,000 and $5,000, and in only two days. This research has saved many lives with the treatments that have arisen from it. Last year, the entire catalog of known genes and their functions was published online on the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project.

Psychology A group of doctors at the Indiana University School of Medicine recently discovered that in patients with addictive personalities such as alcoholics, simply tasting beer is enough to release a flood of rewarding dopamine in the brain.

The surprising part is that the beer the researchers had patients test was non-alcoholic. The researchers conducted brain scans on men after they had tasted Gatorade; they then conducted a second test after the patients had tasted the non-alcoholic beer. The differences were especially pronounced in patients whose families had a history of alcoholism.

Social Media A new study from The Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island recently showed that female college freshmen spend nearly 12 hours a day interacting with some form of social media, be it Facebook, YouTube or even talking on the phone and texting. Heavy online media use was linked to a lower average GPA. The researchers tested 483 freshmen women for the study. They also found that reading newspapers and listening to music was linked to a higher average GPA.

Evolution Opponents of evolution love to point out the inability of natural selection to produce structures like the eye or brain. Biologists have recently proposed an alternative theory; instead of these complex structures emerging bit by bit and becoming more complex, they instead became complex by subtraction. This means that the structures started out inefficient and unwieldy, and were winnowed to their most efficient form through natural selection. Using a computer program that mimics the process of inheritance, mutation, recombination and reproduction, the researchers created a simulation of simple black and white squares that followed simple rules to create a structure. Over time, the squares learned how to become more efficient at their task, enforcing the theory behind this new idea. This research comes from researchers at Duke University and the Phylogenetics lab at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

HUDSON LOFCHIE can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

Present different, present better You have to give a presentation.

Whether it be for class, for work or in a desperate attempt to try to convince your parents of something, presenting an idea can be a daunting task. In such a situation, nearly everyone turns to their trusted friend: PowerPoint. It’s the simple, standard way to organize ideas and ensure that there is a coherent flow to a presentation.

Unfortunately, therein lies the problem: nearly everyone chooses it.

Put yourself in your professor’s shoes and imagine their excitement level as yet another student loads a PowerPoint presentation — it’s going to be pretty low, and nothing will bring your grade down like putting your professor to sleep.

YouTube pro YouTube, one of Google's most popular services and the third most popular website worldwide, offers the most features and content of any video sharing website to date. With roughly a billion unique visits every month, the company is constantly upgrading and adding features. Naturally, it is useful to know some of the tips and tricks to help improve your browsing experience.

Before watching another video, one of the first options is to opt into the HTML5 beta testing for YouTube. The setting is like a performance boost. This means less time yelling at your computer or complaining about slow internet (especially off-campus) when watching hilarious videos. This option can be enabled by going to youtube.com/HTML5 and joining the beta trials.

While many of the videos have already been encoded in this format, videos that contain ads have not yet all been converted. This feature can be enabled natively in the Chrome browser or any browser that supports HTML5, which is just about every browser available on the market.

Now that you have this performance boost for video streaming, you should know how to efficiently share your favorite videos with friends and family.

Time and time again, I receive links from friends

The Solution: Prezi. Prezi is a free, online presentation software that allows you to escape from the one-dimensional timeline format of powerpoint. Prezi allows you to turn your boring timeline presentation into something more like a navigable map that can easily jump between points using visually stimulating transitions.

Although it may not sound like a big change, adding an extra dimension opens a plethora of options, including zooming and rotating within your presentation.

Most Prezi presentations will start with a large-scale overview and zoom in from there, allowing a visual representation of your argument's flow into more indepth analysis.

Points at each level of analysis can be physically connected to one another with arrows and lines, allowing the viewer to visually follow the progression of ideas. Even the background and color scheme can be custom-made to fit the subject of your presentation. You also have the option of choosing from the site’s pre-made themes.

Although in the end Prezi and Powerpoint are very similar on the most fundamental level (both can be used to make presentations), Prezi is far more visually striking and will break your audience out of whatever daze they have fallen into by the time you present. I have even heard rumors of professors granting extra credit points out of gratitude for the change of pace.

Mere words cannot encompass the possibilities that Prezi offers. To see some samples, head to Prezi.com and watch their demo video. There is even an iPad app to take your presentations with you on the go.

— Kyle Scroggins

with messages such as “go to this time and watch this part.” There's an easier and quicker way to share the moment. Simply right-click the video at the specified time, and select the option to “copy video URL at current time.” This will allow users to share a video with a link that will go directly to the specific time, making video sharing just a little less complicated.

YouTube isn’t just meant for videos; it can also be a useful substitute for a music-streaming service. As one of the most popular music video upload sites, YouTube has virtually unlimited access to free music.

For those of you who use Pandora, Spotify or any other music streaming services, YouTube offers an alternative service called Disco. This simple-to-use interface allows people to look up songs, artists or genres and create a playlist of the searched item. The advantage of this feature is the ability to make playlists without all the commercial breaks, limited number of songs that can be skipped or data stream limit — all for free.

Another new feature for 2013 is the ability to opt out of ads. Originally, the only way to do this way to use a program such as AdBlock. Now, YouTube allows users to skip ads completely under the settings option, saving you some time when you're on a video marathon.

These are only some of the features that help make YouTube a little friendlier to browse, but there are many more.

— Allen Guan

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Hot topics in global warming Soil bacteria create nitrogen oxides, contribute to temperature increase

By EMILY SEFEROVICH Aggie Science Writer

Day in and day out, the U.S. population is bombarded with controversial opinions and claims about global warming.

As with many mainstream scientific issues that implicate mankind of wrongdoing, there appears to be a split in popular belief. There are even those who simply have no desire to acknowledge different arguments.

Some people are of the opinion that global warming is a hoax generated by the scientific community.

Others have concluded that global warming is an entirely natural process that the earth experiences in cycles (and is in no way, or is insignificantly influenced, by human action). The third hypothesis is that global warming is a natural process accelerated by man-made industry.

By what is a seemingly inevitable process, most people find themselves caught somewhere between these three schools of thought with no idea as to what is fact or fiction.

Global warming is literally defined as “the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans.” It is a process that has been observed since the late 19th century and is under scrupulous investigation by a congregation of the world’s leading scientific institutions, including UC Davis.

The William Horwath Biogeochemistry and Nutrient Cycling Lab at UC Davis is focusing on aspects of global warming influenced by soil-dwelling microorganisms.

“CO2 (the main greenhouse gas) concentration today is almost double what it has been for the last 600,000 years until about 100 years ago, and the increase of its concen-

tration is accelerating,” said Martin Burger, a researcher at the UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, and a member of the Horwath Lab team. “The changes occurring in many ecosystems because of global warming will be dramatic. Climate change will also impact how and where we grow food on the planet. In some areas, it will be very difficult to live.”

This study also investigated the role of ammonia-based fertilizers and the process of nitrification in the fashioning of the highly potent greenhouse gases nitric and nitrous oxide. UC Davis researchers found that nitric and nitrous oxide production, via the process of nitrification, increases with decreasing oxygen concentration.

Nitrification is a metabolic process carried out by microorganisms that live in soil-based environments.

It was previously believed that as the availability of oxygen in the soil decreased, the process of nitrification (and the resulting production of the greenhouse gases nitric and nitrous oxide) would decrease in a similar fashion. However, UC Davis researchers were able to amend this previous assumption.

“The main findings of this study show that nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitric oxide (NO) production via ammonia oxidation pathways increased as oxygen (O2) concentrations decreased,” said Xia Zhu, a researcher in the UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in an email interview.

The results of the team’s research pointed to some areas of agricultural practice that have a particularly heavy influence on these soilbased microorganisms.

“Our results show that we must

pay more attention to the soil conditions when nitrogen fertilizers (most are ammonia based) are applied,” Burger said. “We also found that some fertilizers result in more nitrous oxide than others.”

UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources researcher Timothy Doane asserted that the study conducted would potentially help to set standards for what soil conditions, fertilizers and industrial practices should be utilized in order to decrease the production and dispensation of such volatile nitrogenous compounds. “[This study] may help to reinforce exactly what soil conditions favor more or less emission of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide, as well as why this happens,” Doane said in an email interview. “Management decisions may then be modified to take this into consideration.”

Ultimately, regardless of whether or not industry contributes to the process of global warming, it is crucial that the scientific community continues to seek the answer to two very pressing questions.

First, does human-derived industry in fact contribute to the process of global warming? And second, how can industrial practices be altered in ways that diminish the potential impact these industries may have on global warming?

To the groups that acknowledge the reality of global climate change, this study will help to enlighten potentially contributing industries on the importance of soil and fertilizer management. In doing so, these industries can begin to take measures to mitigate any possible impact they may have on global warming.

EMILY SEFEROVICH can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

Smart cells Electricity’s role in wound healing

By ALAN LIN Aggie Science Writer

Editor's note: This article is part one of two in a series about the human intersection of technology and medicine.

Although the body is one single entity, it is one single entity that is far greater than the sum of all of its many interconnected parts. Look at the body as a set of systems — skeletal, neuronal, muscular, digestive, respiratory, circulatory, immune, lymphatic and many many more, all working in concert to make one lean, mean, Call-of-Duty-4-playing yet socially “successful” machine.

These systems contain parts, all moving and interacting in ways that modern science is still playing catch-up to understand. While I understand that my head bone is connected to my neck bone, until a few days ago, I had no idea that taking a bite of polar bear liver could make me die of vitamin A poisoning ... par exemple. Recently, medical science took a sizable leap forward in regenerative medicine, spurred by a discovery in an unassuming, unexpected field: dermatology.

Researchers at UC Davis’ stem cell research center, the Institute for Regenerative Cures, have observed that cells and cell fragments (membranous vesicles that lack organelles and DNA) migrate in response to both naturally occurring and artificially applied electrical fields.

“The research first came from looking at wounds.

When there is a wound, you would notice the cells moving and dividing directionally toward it,” said Min Zhao, a lead investigator in the study.

Let’s take a step back and look at some of the ways parts of the body get along with one another. We’ll recall that all cells have a membrane, which takes on the integral role of keeping the outside out and the inside in. Some of these units managed by a cell’s membrane are ions, particles that have a positive or negative charge that create a field that acts on surrounding charged particles, otherwise known as an electric field.

Alex Mogilner, a professor in the UC Davis Math Department and another key investigator in the study, had the following to say about how cells sense fields.

“One important thing is [that] negative electric fields cannot enter the inside of the cell, [the] same [way they] cannot penetrate any good conductor. So, all sensing of the electric field has to be done on the cell surface,” he said. “We demonstrate that it is not the flows of ions, but spatial redistribution of some charged proteins in the cell membrane dragged by the electric field to the cell edge, that is the initial sensing mechanism.”

When something goes wrong in the body, like a cut or other wound, membranes are damaged and the balance of charged bodies changes. This upsets the homeostasis of the existing electric fields in play and triggers a series of events. In response to the changed ionic field, the body restores equilibrium by preferentially producing more cells and membranes in the wounded area to restore homeostasis.

The idea is that by drawing extra materials and resources to the site of the wound, the wound would heal faster than if the same task was accomplished with local materials. It’s as if one were to build a house. You would build it much quicker if you had brought in additional lumber, rather than waiting for trees to grow and cutting them into convenient 2x4 beams on-site.

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State representatives, students promote four student debt bills

Neighborhood Court to be established in Davis Program provides alternative path to criminal court system

Rally at State Capitol addresses private loan debt issue

By GABRIELLA HAMLETT Aggie News Writer

A press conference was held on the South Steps of the State Capitol on April 8, where State Representative Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), State Controller John Chiang (D-Torrance), members from the California State Student Association (CSSA) and other California higher education students expressed support for several bills focusing on reducing the $1 trillion student loan debt. There were around 150 people in attendance with five speakers.

According to College Board Trends in Student Aid for 2011-12, undergraduate students received an average of $13,218 per full-time equivalent (FTE) student in financial aid, including $6,932 in grant aid from all sources and $5,056 in federal loans. In addition, students borrowed about $8.1 billion from private, state and institutional sources to help finance their education.

Wieckowski’s four bills — Assembly Bill (AB) 233, AB 391, AB 534 and Assembly Joint Resolution 11 — use a dual approach to the student debt issue that focuses on preemptive financial literacy education as well as alleviating the financial stress from paying off student loans for graduates, according to Wieckowski.

Student Bill of Rights AB 233 was approved by the State Assembly on April 11 with a vote of 50-22 and will go to the State Senate. The other bills are still moving through the Legislature.

AB 233, also known as Student Loan Wage Garnishment, would require creditors to work out a repayment plan with debtors to prevent a maximum of 25 percent of a student’s disposable income garnished by a creditor.

AB 391, also known as the “Common Cents Curriculum,” would increase financial literacy by adding economics curriculum standards to K-12 education.

AB 534, the “Know Before You Owe” bill, would require entrance and exit loan counseling to students and would be applied to all private loans.

Assembly Joint Resolution 11, the “Financial Fresh $tart Act,” would allow students

to file for bankruptcy for private loans.

Information about the assembly bills was compiled from the Student Bill of Rights package summary.

“This is a crisis that is getting worse. A college education is supposed to improve your financial security, not destroy it. That is why I have introduced a Student Bill of Rights,” Wieckowski said in a released statement.

Progressive support needed Supporters at the rally said there needs to be change soon before the student debt issue worsens.

“We are one small recession from the student debt being an urgent issue again.

What we saw from 2006-08 in terms of the banks’ practices in private student loans didn’t ease up when the economy got better in the way health loans got better, so all the practices are still there waiting,” said rally volunteer and former instructor at UC Santa Cruz Tamara Belknap.

The bills are supported by the CSSA, a nonprofit student association governed by a student board of directors composed of the officially recognized representatives of each of the 23 CSU campuses that address issues affecting students statewide and system-wide. There were around 100 CSSA-affiliated students in attendance at the rally.

“I think Wieckowski’s bills address an important piece of the puzzle,” said CSSA executive director Miles Jason Nevin. “We need to do a better job earlier in student life for financial literacy education. If it’s mandatory in the K-12 curriculum, we should see better financial decisions being made.”

Student advocates from the CSSA spoke at the rally, sharing personal stories of their own experience with private student loans and debt.

“Financial literacy is certainly part of the problem. I think the bills are one way to address the issue but they aren’t going to answer the whole problem. A lot of students don’t understand how debt and the whole financial system works,” said CSSA Vice President of Legislative Affairs Pedro Ramirez.

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In May, Yolo County will become the second county in California to employ Neighborhood Court, a method of restorative justice, in Davis and on the UC Davis campus.

This program, a partnership between Yolo County District Attorney (DA) Jeff Reisig, the Davis Police Department and the UC Davis Police Department, will handle low-level, nonviolent adult criminal offenses that would normally proceed through the criminal court system. There will be a separate neighborhood court for the UC Davis campus and another for the Davis community.

According to Reisig, the process of establishing a Neighborhood Court in Yolo County began in January, although he first began to consider the idea after a conference with other district attorneys about a year ago. Inspired by the success of the neighborhood court implemented in San Francisco by District Attorney George Gascon, Reisig believed a neighborhood court would be suitable for Davis as well.

“What intrigued me about it was that it’s a total alternative to the criminal process for low-level crimes,” Reisig said. “I was an undergrad at UC Davis, lived in the Davis community and knew it would be a good fit for Davis.

It’s a diverse community, a sophisticated community, and there are a lot of

people who would be interested.”

According to UC Davis Chief of Police Matt Carmichael, the neighborhood court process would begin like one for a typical misdemeanor: The offender is either cited or arrested for a low-level misdemeanor such as vandalism, theft, public drunkenness, loitering or being a minor in possession of an open container of alcohol and is issued a ticket with a court date.

“These are victimless crimes, but the victim is the community,” Carmichael said. “With a typical misdemeanor, the victim doesn’t have a role in the process.”

However, starting on Picnic Day, April 20, when the program officially begins, the offender will also receive a notice to contact the district attorney’s office within two weeks if they are interested in participating in the Neighborhood Court. If contacted, the district attorney’s office will determine the eligibility of the offender. The incident must be a first offense, and the offender must participate voluntarily.

“This is not a venue where people will go to determine guilt or innocence,” Reisig said. “The guilt of the offender is already established and the goal of the process is to make the victim whole. However, it is also a huge opportunity for the offender. The DA won’t file a criminal complaint, it won’t go on their record and they won’t have See NEIGHBORHOOD on 14

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s t ud e n t s s imu ltaneously c onnec te d,

disconnected

By ALYSSA KUHLMAN Aggie Features Writer

Upon introducing himself, third-year economics major Dao Ho usually gets the same response from every new friend he makes: “Why and how do you not have a Facebook?” He can’t receive event invites online or comment on the funny pictures everyone is talking about. However, Ho says that not having the social media platform makes him feel more in touch, rather than out of touch, with others.

Has our culture become so dependent on technology that face-to-face communication (FTF) seems to be the last resort behind sending a text or an email or using video chat? These mediums of communication that require technology fit into the category of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and may impact our ability to communicate in person normally.

Computer-mediated communication can be understood as interpersonal communication where two or more individuals interact with each other using computers.

Professor Catherine Puckering, a communication lecturer at UC Davis, says that CMC and FTF are often viewed to be at odds, and many people tend to believe that using CMC may result in lower usage of FTF. “Social Information Processing Theory [created by Joseph Walther] tries to compare developing a relationship face-to-face versus developing a relationship online,” Puckering said. “[Walther] posited that people who communicate online — [such as with] email, online chat … text-based environment — had a much more positive view than his peers in the communication discipline.”

However, it is noted that communicating through text-based communication takes much longer than in-person, faceto-face communication. “Text-based conversations take four times longer than a face-to-face conversation, so 15 minutes of face-to-face takes an hour of text-based communication,” Puckering said.

No nonverbal cues with CMC “[With CMC] I can’t see your facial expressions, I can’t hear your voice, I can’t see your body posture, and so I miss a lot of the nuances of maybe who you are and maybe what it is you’re trying to communicate to me,” Puckering said.

Video streaming applications, such as Facetime or Skype, may communicate nonverbal cues better than text, but they’re still CMC.

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in all shapes and sizes, but the most common are circular (hollow loop) and annular (half-moon shaped) membranes on the fringe of the vaginal opening. Come puberty, the increased estrogen in a woman’s body prepares her vagina for penetration by making the hymenal tissue (which has estrogen receptors) more elastic.

For the most part, penetrative sex does not break or puncture these types of hymens; instead, they stretch. Most

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American imperialists will insist that their hatred is merely directed at the views in the Quran, and if that is Islamophobia, then they’re happy to be Islamophobes.

Their mistake is that they end up attributing barbarism to Muslims broadly, and they slip between criticizing the belief and the belief holder, probably without realizing it.

One week ago, on April 11, the UC Davis campus was disgraced by the Ayn Rand Society’s “Islamist Rising” event. A quick search on theaggie.org for “Islamist Rising” will show a list of the hate-filled, xenophobic, racist zealotry of some of our fellow students, those that put on the event. Like Harris and the Fox News pundits, they don’t know that they’re racists. They’re sure they aren’t.

By repeatedly denouncing those views as

“[Facetiming may be] more reliable than texting but … there’s still something about being able to see someone’s complete body language, and just being physically present — [and] it’s easier to get distracted because you can turn them off,” said Grace Scott, a first-year biological sciences major and frequent user of an iPhone and MacBook.

One way modern technology has become more personal to make up for the lack of nonverbal cues is through emoticons, or the Emoji language on the iPhone.

“The Emoji helps … communicate sarcasm, moods and joking so you can get an overall sense of my mood,” Puckering said.

Despite all those winky faces and colored hearts you can text through Emoji, communication experts like Puckering still agree that it is not the same — or as rich a medium — as a basic in-person conversation.

Emoticons can sometimes also be interpreted with the wrong tone. Scott feels that sometimes using too many emoticons is worse than using none.

“I think it’s just one of those things where I categorize [an emoticon] with an annoying laugh, as if after every time someone says something, there’s an annoying laugh,” she said.

Breeding self-doubt in the classroom Katherine Grasso, a second-year communication graduate student, has witnessed a definite change in face-to-face communication due to students’ dependence on computer-mediated communication.

“It scares me … noticing college-age students being really reluctant and unable to speak up in class to give a synopsis of what they read (if they read) and form a critical opinion about [it],” Grasso said.

Not participating in class may be a sign that our minded generation can no longer speak confidently in face-to-face situations.

“It scares me that it might become the norm for people … I think that will have detrimental effects on people’s ability to communicate,” Grasso said. “I think that practice makes perfect and nobody has to practice anymore.”

Technocultural studies professor Jesse Drew, who currently teaches Media Archaeology (TCS 5), agrees that technology contributes to weaker social skills.

“Heavy users of technology [tend to] lack certain social graces [and] they confuse formal interaction with informal interaction,” Drew said. “People who are used to texting [and using] Facebook …

are way too informal, and it can often be disrespectful.”

Not being able to distinguish formal communication manners can often impact students’ academic opportunities also.

“If students lose that [oratory] skill or don’t develop it, I think that’s going to have a negative impact on them,” Drew said.

This lack of confidence or communication can potentially damage a student’s promise of landing a job when it comes to an interview.

“For some people it will have detrimental effects, because you see that now when people don’t know it’s inappropriate to put their phone on the table at a meal with friends. You’re supposed to be present, and I think if somebody did that at a job interview they wouldn’t be called back,” Grasso said.

Boon to the shy, detriment to the easily-distracted “For some people [CMC is] actually very good and allows them to develop relationships they might not have been able to develop any other kind of way,” Puckering said.

Texting, emailing and online chatting can aid shy or anxious personalities into becoming more social — despite it being mediated. But this positive effect of CMC is paired with the negative effect of giving individuals more distractions.

Depending highly on technology to communicate can mean spending less time

of the anecdotal discomfort is a result of nervousness or inexperience, like rushing or not being relaxed enough to be fully turned on (which would provide more natural swelling and lubrication). In these cases, sometimes tiny tears can form in the hymen, which would cause the telltale bleeding.

Other, less common types of hymens can also result in more discomfort than normal. For example, some women have microperforate hymens (with only a pinhole-like opening), while select others have cribriform hymens (which have many small holes, but extend across the

vaginal opening).

Even after a hymen has been stretched or torn slightly by penetration (or horseback riding, or gymnastics, or traumatic fence-jumping incidents), over time the hymenal tissue can re-form if it is left alone. Some women are even born without hymens.

In many cultures, not having hymenal “proof” of one’s virginity can be lifethreatening. This has led to websites like hymenshop.com (which sells artificial hymens which leak red fluid when broken) and surgical procedures like hymenoplasty (in which the hymen is reconstructed with

necessarily barbaric, Harris ends up saying that everyone who holds these beliefs is barbaric. Now, once again, Islam can be critiqued in a way that does not do this, but these shifts between critiques of ideas and critiques of people are the core of racism.

When he says “all civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth,” in his piece “The Reality of Islam,” he does imply very clearly that being a Muslim necessarily entails holding militant, terroristic views.

Furthermore, a speaker is responsible, even if he does not mean his view to be taken as hate-speech, to ensure that it will not.

Even if I critique Islam in a legitimate way, it is upon me, so long as I live in such a xenophobic society as this one, to ensure that I am not legitimating Islamophobic views.

For example, if I say to an audience that Islam can be a catalyst for terrorism,

in fairness I must qualify it with a statement that informs the audience that this should not lead us to believe that many Muslims support jihad or that “those people” are terrorists. Extensive polling shows that only a small fraction of Muslims support terrorism.

Glenn Greenwald, in his recent column in The Guardian, already elucidated the implicit racism espoused by Harris. But reframing the discourse is a must for any of us who are interested in challenging illegitimate power.

The real payoff for the elites is that Islamophobia legitimates murderous, criminal U.S. policies in the Middle East.

This is what hate-speech towards Muslims does. It makes killing their kids with drones seem legitimate. It isn’t.

BRIAN MOEN hates religion, but he also hates racist versions of anti-religious thought. He can be reached at bkmoen@ucdavis.edu.

in the present for in-person interactions.

As smartphone users commonly browse social media or check emails, they are more likely to be distracted while in the middle of a face-to-face conversation. Multi-tasking face-to-face communication and computer-mediated communication requires paying only half of one’s attention to each in order to do both simultaneously.

Scott believes that this bad habit of distraction due to CMC does not necessarily mean that those phone-obsessed individuals will lose the ability to converse normally face-to-face — it’s a matter of choice.

“I think they’re definitely able to communicate face-to-face, there’s just a lack of will. I think they’re able to if they put their phone away,” Scott said.

Meanwhile, Facebook-less Dao Ho continues to be teased It’s true: Ho will not “like” the latest Justin Bieber status. He will not post pictures of his breakfast at IHOP and check the comments in the late hours of the morning. He will miss out on many facets of the computer age.

But unlike so many others, he will rest assured knowing that when in the presence of another human being, he can communicate free of distractions and not find himself oddly enough — just 3 feet apart — inexplicably disconnected.

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

dissolving stitches, often advertised to “restore virginity”). Though we may not think it, U.S. culture is not immune to the hymen myth. In fact, most orders from the Hymen Shop come from the U.S. In short, there is no definitive way to “prove” one’s virginity. This is especially true as we come to understand that it is not only our traditional understanding of sex that is antiquated, but our understanding of the hymen as well.

MARISA MASSARA wants to know your personal definition of virginity. She can be reached at mvmassara@ucdavis.edu.

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remembers hearing about neighborhood watch meetings on the street behind her as a result of the break-ins.

“There have been some burglaries in the area, but not with violent confrontations like this, so it is unclear if the two are related,” Doroshov said.

Residents reported over 18 burglaries and break-ins in the neighborhoods

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ICA and students’ wallets As the department continues to forge ahead in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 1, Athletics Director Terry Tumey envisions having UC Davis’ academic and athletic prestige on level ground.

However, this dream will not be realized unless the budget crisis within the athletic program is resolved.

According to the UC Davis Athletics 2011-12 financial review and 2012-13 budget, the net deficit increased from to $1,429,858 to $3,612,220 in one year.

The athletics department blames accounting discrepancies for a portion of the high numbers.

“We had an accounting shift this last year where the NCAA revenues we receive are now accounted for in the following year, so it makes [the deficit] look a whole lot worse than it actually is,” Tumey said. “That being said, it means no excuse. The [athletics department] needs to go out and do more in the way of raising revenue.”

Although the 2010 cancellations were expected to save the university $2.4 million, the ever-increasing deficit raises serious concerns as to where the supposedly saved money is going, and why the teams were eliminated if their removal did not make a significant impact on the debt.

“The lion’s share of the costs are due to scholarships, the P.E. program, and salaries and benefits,” Tumey said. “[In regards to the 2010 cuts] there was a definite effect on the financial bottom line.”

UC Davis students support 75 percent of ICA’s budget through various student fees paid along with tuition — $18 million. Athletics takes a share of the Student Activities and Services Initiative (89 percent), the Campus Expansion Initiative (36 percent), the Facilities and Campus Enhancements (22.47 percent) and the Student Services Fee (6.96 percent) paid by each student, for a total of $654 per year. With the cancellation of sports not effectively negating the debt, some are concerned that these fees will increase with the ICA deficit.

“Student fees are not expected to increase — students are the reason why we are succeeding as a department and as a university, and we don’t [want their athletic fees to increase],” Tumey said.

“Instead, we are looking to cover the deficit through fundraising and fostering corporate sponsorships with those who share our value system.”

Funding is more likely to come as UC Davis receives more nationwide attention, like the recent ESPN-televised CSU Long Beach basketball game, he added.

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around Cowell Boulevard over the last three months, according to the DPD’s interactive crime map.

Doroshov said homicides are a rarity in Davis and because of the violent nature of the crime, police deployed extra patrol officers as a precaution.

This is the first homicide in Davis since Oct. 1, 2011, when James Elron Mings fatally strangled Kevin Gerard Seery in Seery’s J Street apartment. The case was identified as a case of assisted suicide. Mings will go

on trial later this month.

The crime scene is near the Clearwater Apartments — formerly the Tennis Club Apartments — where in 2004, Dennis Edward Thrower was shot in the doorway of his apartment. The assailant, Eric Steven Chase, Jr., is serving a 20-year sentence for his crime.

“While Davis achieves a high degree of safety through our police and the watchful eyes of all, we are not im[m]une from terrible acts,” Mayor Joe Krovoza said in a

statement. “Let us all redouble our efforts to protect our fellow citizens and give support to those who have suffered this irreversible loss.”

Doroshov said the DPD is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, State Department of Justice, Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, Yolo County Coroner’s Office and West Sacramento Police Department to follow numerous leads.

Sacrificing interest for equality While the four teams were never provided a detailed explanation as to why they were singled out to be cut, university officials noted that Title IX compliance had to be upheld no matter what.

Title IX requires that public schools allocate proportional spending — for both the team’s expenses as well as scholarship dollars — on male and female sports based off of demographical populations, as well as to provide proportionate numbers of male and female positions on teams.

Public education institutions must be in compliance with the Title in order to continue to receive funding from the government.

“First, a school can comply by offering male and female students athletic opportunities that are substantially proportional to the percentage of undergraduate male and female students who are enrolled at the institution,” said Title IX Chief Compliance Officer Wendi Delmendo in an email interview. “Second, a school can comply by demonstrating continuing expansion of its athletic program for the underrepresented gender ... Third, the university must survey its student body about the athletic interests and establish that it is providing opportunities that satisfy those interests for the underrepresented gender.”

UC Davis only needs to uphold one of the criteria to be in compliance with law, but instead upholds all three. While this can be a cursor to the administration’s own progressive, firm stance against sexism, some see upholding all three prongs of the title as an unnecessary amount of legal red tape.

“Things like this have a tendency to work themselves out based on interest level. If nobody shows up to try out for a sport, [and] if the interest level is low, then it makes sense that it would get cut.

That just wasn’t the case with wrestling,” said Morgan Flaharty, a fifth-year exercise biology major and art minor and former wrestler.

Administrators stand by the law and the decision to uphold all three criteria.

“Title IX was not set up to minimize opportunities for men, it was put in place to allow women the same opportunity and access as men ... It is unfortunate that financial burdens have been so widespread across the country and athletic departments are not immune from that. Both men and women’s programs have been affected, so to say that it is detracting from male opportunities is a common misconception,” said Nona Richardson, senior associate athletics director, in an email interview.

Some say this forced numbers-game may suggest why men’s swimming and diving, wrestling and indoor track were

chosen to be dropped: the combined 80 deny Daneke’s and Zelsky’s versions of men could balance the 73 women on the what happened in regards to fundraising. rowing team.

Aftermath The cuts Although the 2010 cuts continue to Although there was some indication cause distrust and bitterness toward the that budgetary cuts were expected in perceived intentions of administration, 2010, the manner in which players and Tumey is committed to bettering the coaches were notified continues to con- future. fuse those involved to this day.

“We are still paying for the cuts. People “The way my teammates and I were were hurt, we saw some financial relief, told that wrestling was getting cut was but it was at the cost of student opportuthat on Picnic Day, we got a text mes- nities. In moving forward, we need to be sage,” Flaharty said. “We all thought we smart and find solutions to maintain our were safe; we had a really big alumni current [teams],” he said. community, UFC world championship Tumey said that he has no plans for backers, and we were successful in our more teams to face cancellation, and league. It just didn’t make sense.” that the topic of conversation needs to The women’s rowing team was especial- change. ly surprised at their discontinuation, con“The concentration on deletion of sidering the recent growth of the sport. sports has been such a continually “Most schools are actually adding row- picked on and such a sensitive subject. ing teams. They use that as one of the ‘big It isn’t productive, and it doesn’t allow women’s sports’ to balance [the rosters]. for growth to continue,” Tumey said. “I It was unusual that we were cut. It was understand that a lot of people are still unheard of,” said Emily Neary, president impacted by the cancellations. Although of the club women’s rowing team, which ICA tried to mitigate the impact it had formed following the 2010 cut. on students [by] ensuring that scholarThe players were not the only ones ships were still honored, nothing can rekept in the dark regarding the Athletics ally lessen the blow or make it less of a Department’s proceedings. traumatic experience.”

“I found out that wrestling was being Following the cuts, administration cut ten minutes before the press release,” made strides to ensure that scholarships said former head coach Lennie Zalesky, awarded to athletes were still honored who now coaches wrestling at California and that opportunities to continue on a Baptist University. club-team level were made.

The cuts were not due to athletes’ lackHowever, the reality of the situation ing talent. In 2007, the wrestling team turned out to be very different for some. had a NCAA Weight Class Champion, Daneke said he left Davis because he lost and Scott Weltz from the men’s swimming a scholarship that he was set to receive team went on to compete in the 2012 his sophomore year. However, the 2010 Olympics after graduating in 2010. cuts happened at the end of his first year, “I never would have made the Olympic meaning his promised scholarship was Team going to any other school. I loved nullified. my time at UC Davis, and I still love be“I wasn’t financially prepared for that ing a part of the Davis community,” Weltz money to be gone,” he said. “I tried going said in an email. “I would not have at- to the athletic department with the email tended Davis without a swim team be- that said that the scholarship would still cause swimming in college and being a be honored, but it was no use. I love Dastudent athlete was very important to me. vis, but I couldn’t afford to go back.”

Without a swim team at Davis, I would Even with women’s club rowing exhave gone somewhere that had one.” periencing success, the transition was Zelsky said the wrestling team wasn’t difficult for many. There is not a single given the option to fundraise. women’s rower from the ICA team cur“We attempted to save ourselves finan- rently on the club team. cially, but there was not a whole lot of “There is still a really big group of pastalk. The doors got shut on us,” he said. sionate players out there, but the transiSwimmers said they raised enough tion from being paid to play a sport to money to self-sustain, but were also paying an upwards of a thousand dollars barred from continuing their program a year per player [on club] was hard [for independently. former rowers],” Neary said.

“The athletic department didn’t like Others wonder how future students that style [of independent fundraising]; will react to the decrease in available they said it wasn’t a sustainable way sports programs. to keep the program going,” said Alex “I do not feel bitter, but I feel sad the Daneke, who transferred to swim at CSU others might not ever get to experience Bakersfield. “We just wanted to raise what I did at UC Davis,” Weltz said. enough to play until everyone on the team graduated.”

HANNAH KRAMER can be reached at features@ University officials didn’t confirm or theaggie.org.

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The announcement Stitts was biking all over campus trying to find his coach to confirm the rumors. Others were huddled outside the conference room waiting for officials to utter the news. Others were hanging out in the dorms, unaware of what was happening until they received a startling text message.

“People were already emotional. But when the announcement came, it was a total, complete breakdown,” said Geneva Azevedo, managerial economics major and former rower.

In February of that year, Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi set out to cut $36 million campuswide for 2010-11. The athletic cuts were to amount to to $2.4 million in savings, directly affecting 73 female student-athletes and 80 male student-athletes as well as the coaching staffs. Athletes who chose to stay at UC Davis were able to keep most of the perks, including their scholarships.

Azevedo, Stitts and other studentathletes were warned in advance that cuts were inevitably happening, and that their teams were on the chopping block. The exception was the wrestling team, who athletes say had been explicitly told that they were safe.

“We had no idea,” said Sean Dougherty, sociology major and former UC Davis wrestler. “It was devastating watching all these guys you’ve gotten so close to crying in a locker room.”

Athletes tended to use the same words to describe how they felt: in disbelief, betrayed, angry and most of all, defeated.

“Everyone went separate ways immediately. It was like shattered glass,” Stitts said. “I had friends drop out of college.

Others turned to alcoholism.”

Defeat Just after the cuts were announced, athletes from all four sports rallied and protested while parents, alumni and community members persistently called administrators to no avail.

April 17 was Picnic Day, and athletes passed out fliers to students and visitors to raise awareness. For Stitts, the lack of support marked a major point of defeat.

“People actually said to me, ‘I’m glad the team was cut.’ That’s when it became a reality — I am not a studentathlete anymore. People don’t care. Fall in line.”

Some held onto hope that they could fundraise enough money to reinstate their teams. Hope was lost when they heard the numbers.

“It was a slap in the face to say we needed $10 million in four weeks. Obviously that wasn’t going to happen,” Stitts said.

Wrestlers remember being told to raise $14 million — $7 million for the men’s team and $7 million to endow a women’s team. The endowment would have been necessary to comply with Title IX, a law aimed at preventing sexbased discrimination in educational programs. On top of that, they say the university sold the wrestling mats without warning, eliminating the chance for a club team to form.

“It seemed like they were trying to

get rid of us,” said Michael Nakagawa, an international relations and Japanese double-major and former wrestler. “It felt like a back-stab.”

University officials said they weren’t familiar enough with what happened to confirm or deny the athletes’ recollections about fundraising, or about the wrestling mats being sold off.

Melanie LaCava, wildlife, fish and conservation biology major and a former rower, said some athletes gave up on their sports because they felt abandoned.

“We worked so hard fighting, and all that effort was completely lost,” she said. “We felt like children disowned by their parents.”

‘A life-changing decision’ With rosters at other universities filling up, athletes had to decide quickly whether or not to transfer schools. And then they had to scramble.

“It was a life-changing decision that no one could prepare for,” Dougherty said.

Dougherty transferred to a junior college in order to eventually transfer to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo — the only option in California to wrestle D-1 besides Stanford.

Conrad Snell, a business major and former UC Davis wrestler, left for the University of Wyoming but had trouble adjusting. It wasn’t what he expected, and he felt too far from his family, friends and even UC Davis, which to this day is still his favorite school. He transferred again, making another 1,000-mile move to San Francisco State University.

Jeremy Smith, economics major and former UC Davis swimmer, took a year to figure things out. His junior year, he joined a couple of other Aggies at UC San Diego.

Those who switched schools say they don’t regret their decisions. They had to adjust to new workouts and team dynamics and deal with unit transfers that ultimately set them behind academically — but at least they still have their sports.

Stitts ultimately chose to stay at UC Davis — the school he adored — and thereby end his swimming career. He started focusing on his art studio major, hoping his sport could be reinstated before he graduated.

“Leaving meant abandoning all hope of resurrecting. We thought that if we kept fighting, used logic, we’d get it back,” he said.

A club team emerges Led by a passionate coach, women’s rowing successfully transitioned to club status.

“Rowing still had to have a presence on campus,” LaCava said.

Even still, some rowers transferred to other schools and others couldn’t afford to pay $600 per quarter to get the team started. Out of 73 rowers, nine returned to build a team from scratch.

“We knew that year would be awful. But we thought if we got through that first year, the team would survive,” LaCava said.

Now, rowing is an established club sport that LaCava is both amazed by and proud of.

The transition was difficult though, particularly without the ICA perks. The lack of funding meant no scholarships

and little recruiting incentive. The lack of priority registration meant the team would have to practice at 5 a.m. to avoid class conflicts. And the lack of access to trainers and physical therapists proved perhaps most distressing to LaCava, who had to end her rowing career as a sophomore due to a back injury.

“It’s hard to say if I could still be rowing if I had access to those facilities,” she said. “I try not to think about it.”

‘Why us?’

The most frustrating part for many of the affected athletes — particularly the wrestlers and swimmers — is that they still don’t know why they were cut.

“The only answer we got was ‘budget cuts,’” Smith said about the swimming team. “It all seemed very shady to us. We wanted to know why it was our team that got cut over other teams.”

Administrators used a variety of criteria in the decision-making process, but potential financial savings and Title IX compliance were at the top of the list.

Affected athletes blame Title IX, the school’s allegiance to football and other high-profile sports, and the Chancellor and former Athletic Director Greg Warzecka themselves.

UC Davis was the last UC campus to have wrestling — the college sport has been getting cut all across the nation.

Within the past five years, CSU Fullerton, CSU Bakersfield, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Portland State University, Duquesne University and other schools cut their wrestling teams. Boston University is ending its wrestling program after the 2013-14 season. Even the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee recommended dropping wrestling from the 2020 summer Olympics.

“Wrestling’s an easy target. It’s not as popular in the public mind,” Snell says.

The sport that felt the cuts least was men’s indoor track and field. Indoor athletes could still compete in their same events during the outdoor season.

“It wasn’t too integral to our sport,” said Blake Asbill, a former indoor thrower who quit to focus on his studies in computer science. “But there was sadness for all the other teams who were

left with nothing.”

New opportunities Nakagawa considered transferring at first, but he couldn’t find a school where he could wrestle and still get an education comparable to UC Davis. He stayed and went through withdrawals until he discovered a passion for mixed martial arts. He’s now in his second year of training and plans to make it his career.

“A lot of us lost our spark until we found something else,” he says. “I feel very fortunate.”

Azevedo contacted the women’s diving coach and nabbed a spot on the team her sophomore year. Her past training as a gymnast served her well, and she’s grateful to still be a student-athlete.

Meanwhile, Stitts is enjoying his college experience in a way that would have been impossible had he continued swimming. He’s made academics a priority. He picked up gardening at the Experimental College. He’s stayed connected to the water through lifeguarding.

“It’s a new zest for living.”

Never forget For the most part, the student-athletes said they feel like the campus has forgotten about their sports. The majority of current undergraduates, after all, weren’t around when the cuts were made.

But the students themselves think about their old teams often and still stay in touch. LaCava and Azevedo are roommates and best friends, and rowers have gone to Azevedo’s diving meets to cheer her on. Dougherty and Snell regularly visit Davis for unofficial wrestling reunions — like Picnic Day this year. Snell remarked that, in his friend’s houses, he still sees “Save Wrestling” and “Support Athletics” posters hanging on the walls.

And despite all the feelings of defeat, some still believe their sports might be reinstated one day.

“It’s been repressed and beaten back, but I don’t think I’ve ever given up hope,” Stitts said.

JANELLE BITKER can be reached at editor@ theaggie.org.

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to live with the stigma of a criminal offense.”

The restoration of the victim, according to both Reisig and Carmichael, is the overarching goal of restorative justice. In the Neighborhood Court, this restoration is achieved through community service, to be agreed upon by the panel and the offender.

Depending on the nature of the crime, this may include actions such as writing letters of apology or volunteering in the UC Davis Arboretum.

“The aim is to make the community whole and to fill in the gap created by the offender,” Carmichael said.

Annually, there are approximately 5,000 misdemeanors in Yolo County, 1,000 of which are issued in Davis, Reisig said. In addition to saving the time and money incurred through the court process, the Neighborhood Court has further benefits as well, according to Reisig.

“The problem with the traditional system is that the penalties are not meaningful for the parties involved,” Reisig said. “Davis is a college town with a young population base, and most of the offenders in crimes such as these are not ‘bad’ or destined for a life of crime.

These are often just stupid decisions, and it [the Neighborhood Court] gives them the opportunity to make it right and avoid the stigma of a criminal offense.”

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the finger at the big bosses for these issues, but we really should be pointing fingers at ourselves. No matter how progressive the world is becoming compared to decades past, many people are still unaware of how they personally contribute to the perpetuation of social stereotypes.

A father and a son get into a car accident.

The father escapes with cuts and bruises. but his son is badly injured and unconscious.

The paramedics quickly rush him and his son to the hospital operating room, but when the surgeon sees the man’s son on the gurney, the surgeon stops and says, “I’m sorry, I cannot operate on this patient; he’s my son.”

Figure out the riddle yet?

volunteers and receive approximately 20 hours of restorative justice training before participating. Neither the Davis panel nor the UC Davis panel is intended to be an unbiased decision-making body such as a jury — on the contrary, the UC Davis panel is composed of UC Davis undergraduate and graduate students, faculty or alumni who are part of the community.

“These are confidential hearings,” Reisig said.

“They’re not open to the public or the media and are really a dialogue between the offender and the community. The program has proven successful in San Francisco from talking to the panelists and participants involved there.”

According to Reisig and Carmichael, the Neighborhood Court will never consider serious or violent crimes such as assault or rape. The goal, they say, is to ensure it is safe for everyone involved to participate.

“We’re primed for this,” Carmichael said. “I’m impressed we’re moving forward and am excited to be a part of it.”

Anyone interested in volunteering on a Neighborhood Court panel can apply at yoloda.org, which receives applications on a rolling basis.

The program has been met with positive reception by the UC Davis and Davis communities thus far, according to Reisig and Carmichael.

“The only criticism so far is that it should have started sooner,” Reisig said.

MEREDITH STURMER can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

If it seems like nonsense, you just proved my point. The first step to making everything a level playing field is acknowledging that there is a problem, and it needs to be fixed.

Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook summed it up pretty well: “The blunt truth is that men still run the world.”

The next step is to change; easier said than done. Changing hundreds of years of culturally ingrained stereotypes is no small feat.

Only 50 years ago, African Americans were not allowed to vote or drink from the same water fountains as Caucasians. Only 60 years ago, women were expected to be baking in the kitchen in a homemade sundress while ironing their husbands’ shirts. Needless to say, we have a long way to go.

NICOLE NOGA says the answer is the Mom. She can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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issues within California, but the problem stands on a much larger scale.

“It needs to be addressed federally. Student debt is a national issue. That being said, I do think California is leading the way and protecting its students,” Ramirez said.

experience.

“By the time I graduate, I’ll have $20,000 in loans. It’s something you don’t really think about while you’re in college but as soon as you’re done you have to think: Well, how am I going to pay this back? I had some background on student loans education in high school. My teacher showed us how to calculate compound interest and how to manage funds. I still find it helpful so I support [Wieckowski’s] financial literacy bill,” said third-year environmental policy and planning major Ashley Goldlist.

Supporters of Wieckowski’s bills believe this issue is gaining support and can benefit from widespread student advocacy.

“A call to your local assembly member will truly build a lot of momentum,” Belknap said. “It is astonishing how much attention gets paid to the calls, letters and emails in support and in opposition to bills. I encourage all students to get involved and take part in the decision that will directly affect their futures.”

Challenges accepted Some individuals foresee some challenges that will come along with Wieckowski’s bills.

“There will be challenges because the bills will require some funding from the public system. [Wieckowski] will have to find resources through the appropriation committee.

However, the economic payoff is so much greater that we don’t see it as an expense but rather as an investment to provide students the tools to be conscious consumers,” Nevin said.

The student debt problem is prevalent among UC Davis students as students must deal with private student loans very GABRIELLA HAMLETT can be reached at often. One student shared her city@theaggie.org.

Action support common sense gun laws that are acceptable to both sides. The definition of what those gun laws might look like differ on opposing sides of the issue.

Moms Demand Action is a grassroots campaign movement started by a mother in Indiana after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut. They are a nonpartisan group and aim to find a balance in opinions that is difficult to achieve when discussing gun legislation, said Melissa Bauman, a member of Moms Demand Action.

“Our focus is at the federal level,” she said. “We feel that state laws are a good stepping stone, but if some states have weak gun laws, it just means that guns can be purchased in those states and then transported across the border.”

On the state level, Connecticut and New York recently passed new gun control legislation. On the national level, the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force appointed by President Obama has met with people on both sides of the issue to come up with a set of laws that they feel respect the Second Amendment and would help protect the community.

However, on April 17, the senate defeated that set of bills aimed at increasing gun control. The set of bills included a ban on assault weapons, a ban on high capacity magazines, and a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks for all gun purchasers.

According to The New York Times, Obama called it “a pretty shameful day” when he spoke at the White House after the votes.

opposed these federal bills and said in a statement that “the last thing America needs is more failed solutions to our nation’s most pressing problems. Congress should instead focus its energies on the things that will actually keep our families and communities safer — prosecuting criminals who misuse firearms, securing our schools and fixing the broken mental health system that keeps dangerously ill people on the street.”

Bauman and Amanda recognized that mental health and gun control are overlapping issues, and making changes in gun control requires working just as hard in making changes in parallel with mental health.

Wintemute discussed the public health aspects of gun violence, including mental health, at the forum. His research focuses on the nature, determinants and prevention of firearm violence.

“Mental illness, by itself, is not a major risk factor for violence,” Wintemute said in an email. “Mental illness combined with alcohol or controlled substance abuse, or with a prior history of violence, is an important risk factor.

But we should note that alcohol abuse, controlled substance abuse and a prior history of violence are important risk factors whether mental illness is present or not.”

Wintemute said in an op-ed article in The Sacramento Bee that although California has done a lot in the area of gun control, there is still more that can be done. Over 3,000 people die from gunshot wounds in California each year.

“A college campus is not immune to gun violence, and a weapon in the hands of a dangerous person, whether it’s in a movie theater or a first-grade classroom or a college campus, presents a danger,” Amanda said.

Linking mental health The National Rifle Association (NRA)

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has generally been able to produce at least two or three runs a game. If the Aggies can hold their opponents to a few runs a game, they stand a good chance of turning their season around.

Preview: Good news for Aggies’ fans: the UC Davis baseball team recently managed to snap their seven-game losing streak against Saint Mary’s by the score of 16-15. Bad news for Aggies’ fans: the Aggies were swept by Long Beach State after the win against Saint Mary’s.

The Aggies are now 0-9 in conference play as they have been swept by Cal Poly, Cal State Fullerton and now Long Beach State. Of the three, Long Beach State seemed to be the most winnable game, as the Dirtbags’ record was far from impressive.

However, UC Davis must now look past their rough Big West conference start, and look toward the next series against UC Riverside. The Highlanders have a better record than the Dirtbags, but are a team which the Aggies can beat.

One of the biggest struggles which the Highlanders have faced is win-

CELLS Cont. from page 9

This phenomenon illustrates beautifully how no system in the body is completely autonomous and operates in a vacuum. A process like cell division has the faculties to occur on its own, but when it acts without guidance from the body’s internal stimuli, we give it another name: cancer. When cell division is applied properly and plays well with others, it saves lives and helps people grow. When left to its own devices, it becomes an almost insurmountable affliction.

Through the efforts of researchers such as Zhao and his colleagues, we understand that electric fields play a role in the direction of cell motility and growth. Theoretically, if we could better understand the mechanisms by which cells interpret these fields, we could one day manipulate the way cells move and divide in the body.

Wouldn’t it be something if there was a cheap, lightweight and effective way to produce electric

ning on the road. They have a 5-11 record on the road, while maintaining a perfect 11-0 record at home. Hopefully their struggles continue as they come to face the Aggies.

The UC Riverside pitching staff has struggled to keep runs off the board as evidenced by their 4.59 team ERA. This includes a starting pitching staff with an ERA of 4.71. The Aggies’ batting order led by junior Nick Lynch and senior Paul Politi should be able to take advantage of the weak Highlander starting pitching. The more runs UC Davis is able to score, the better the chances are of winning the weekend series.

However, senior Trevor Frank has a 4-0 record with a 0.75 ERA. The Highlander relief pitcher has more wins than any other pitcher on the pitching staff. This might not be impressive, were it not for his 26 strikeouts. Frank has one less strikeout than the Highlanders’ leading strikeout pitcher, junior Ben Doucette, but has pitched 17.2 innings fewer than Doucette. The Aggies may run into some trouble against Frank if his name is called on often to relieve UC Riverside’s starting pitching.

— Kenneth Ling

fields around the body on something like a bandage, augmenting the body’s natural ability to direct cell movement?

Ric Kaner, a researcher in the UCLA Department of Inorganic Chemistry, and his colleagues have recently designed a graphene microsupercapacitor. The “micro supercap” represents a cheap, organic way of storing electricity. The brilliance of this is that the device is lightweight, theoretically cheap to manufacture and has the potential to hold a charge to power a circuit.

But wait, there’s more! As a carbon-based material, it lacks any of the hazards associated with keeping heavy metals in batteries near open wounds.

“It’s cheap, highly conductive and if you give it a high surface area, you’d have the ultimate electrode,” Kaner said.

So how are tiny organic batteries and directed cell replication related? See part two in next week’s Aggie.

ALAN LIN is just filled with ions and can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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Women’s tennis to host Sonoma State in Picnic Day feature Men traveling for three weekend matches to close regular season

By MATTHEW YUEN Aggie Sports Editor

By MATTHEW YUEN Aggie Sports Editor

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f there was a fantasy sport where you got points for being loyal, I think I’d be a key player. I’m not sure what makes me buy into the whole “‘till death do us part” with everything in my life.

That being said, you already know Derek Jeter is staying as my starting shortstop on my fantasy team. Yes, he was my first-round draft pick. Yes, he may not come back until June. And yes, to answer the question you already know the answer to, I am in last place in my league.

Either way, the new generation of baseball players is coming up and I am hopelessly behind in the baseball world.

The realm of sports is changing so fast and so often that the only player whose stats I can reel off right now are Derek Jeter’s. Partly because he’s my favorite player, but mostly because he has stepped into the batters box this season as many times as Mulan’s father talked about his son Ping.

I think I need to add a fantasy category, one that won’t change as the old replaces the new.

If there was a fantasy category for players that have the best names, I’d really have to give it to sophomore John Williams. Not only is it an incredibly uncommon name, but it is also the name of the greatest movie composer of all time.

This is the father of Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Superman and Jaws, to name a few. That sort of prestige puts Williams at the top of any stat category as a dependable top performer.

A safe second-round draft pick would be sophomore Beverly Vatananugulkit from women’s golf. She definitely packs a lot of punch and is a good power player to have on the team.

As I continue here, I realize why I’m not the one who makes the statistical categories for fantasy sports. I’ll stop there before things get too foolish.

I’m aware that it’s all my fault, my refusal to adapt to the times, to change my strategy as the game changes. As my favorite players start getting older, so do I. In terms of fantasy baseball, I keep drafting them and, for some reason, my team seems to get worse every single year. The big issue with sports is that when your players end their careers, you have to replace them. Because you continue to love the sport, but they cease to play it.

It makes me wonder whether, when I graduate, I will still feel the need to live vicariously through college athletes, or whether I will just feel like Simba once his father dies. One second he can’t wait to be king, but when he is removed from that environment, it’s the last thing on his mind.

But that’s beside the point. Being loyal can be one of the hardest things about being a fan. But it’s also most rewarding.

Even if the fantasy stat categories remain the same, I’ll still be choosing Derek Jeter. Even when he’s on the disabled list. Even when he’s retired. Even when I don’t even play fantasy anymore.

I can’t be saying goodbye to him because Jeter’s a trooper and I’m sure he’ll play until he’s using his bat as a cane more than to hit balls. But the fact that he’s sitting out the first half of the season is a bit of a wake-up call that I’m going to have to find someone else to root for; his career may end eventually, but I know I can’t just stop loving baseball.

The game is changing, as are the players, which is probably why I’m currently dead last in my fantasy league. But I could never live with myself if I started with someone instead of Derek Jeter in my shortstop slot.

And what an applicable time to be talking about this. As my fourth year ends … This is what happens when you listen to Jurassic Park music while writing. Darn you John Williams. I’ll stop now. There’s still a long season ahead of us. Interpret that as you may.

MATTHEW YUEN got sunburnt for the very first time in his life this weekend in Arizona. He’ll be staying inside for the rest of the year, so reach him at sports@theaggie.org.

The beating winds will blow, Picnic Day festivities will come but the tennis will not stop. The UC Davis tennis teams are entering their final weekends of competition before the Big West Conference Championships tournament.

The men’s team is coming off a tough weekend with tightly contested matches.

They faced off with Cal Poly on April 12 and fell 5-2.

Three of the matches went to three sets, but only junior Kyle Miller was able to pull his out. Junior Parker Kelley contributed the other Aggie point at No. 3 singles.

The next day, UC Davis matched up with UC Santa Barbara and fell in a close battle by a score of 4-3. The Aggies lost the doubles point but bounced back to win half the singles matches.

Unfortunately this wasn’t enough, as the Gauchos’ three singles points were enough to edge the Aggies. Kelley took a three set victory at three while freshman Brett Bacharach won at four by a 6-4, 6-4 score.

Senior George Horowitz took a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 victory at six for UC Davis’ final point.

Looking forward, the 6-11 UC Davis team is 0-4 in the Big West Conference and will have three straight away matches

this weekend. The Aggies will face off at Loyola Marymount on April 19 before traveling to UC Riverside and UC Irvine on April 20 and April 21, respectively.

UC Davis should get a win over the Highlanders, but traveling conditions will be difficult, with several different stops within 48 hours of each other.

The match against the Lions will be a good matchup for the Aggies, who could use all the matches they can get before the conference tournament that will take place April 25 to 28.

The Anteaters will provide a considerable challenge for UC Davis, since they have already beaten several ranked opponents this year.

Most recently, UC Irvine took down Cal Poly in a 4-3 upset that displayed the Anteaters’ strength in singles. The Aggies are in sixth place in the conference, ahead of UC Riverside, while UC Irvine is 2-1 and in third place in the Big West.

The matches this week will get progressively difficult for UC Davis, and the men will need all the focus they can muster to close out their season strong before the Big West Conference tournament.

As the UC Davis women’s tennis team steps onto the courts, they will be doing so for the last time in the 201213 regular season.

The Aggies will take on Sonoma State

at 11 a.m. at Marya Welch Tennis Center for a Picnic Day feature.

UC Davis just recently closed out conference play with a 5-2 loss to UC Santa Barbara. The Aggies won the doubles point, but got blown off the court in singles play.

Several of the matches were tightly contested, but only junior Melissa Kobayakawa was able to grab a singles win in her 1-6, 6-0, 6-2 match in the fourth slot.

On April 12, UC Davis took down Pacific in a match at home by a score of 5-2.

The Aggies swept the doubles competition to grab a 1-0 lead entering singles play, then took victories in the bottom four singles slots for the win.

Senior Lauren Curry came back from a 6-1 first set loss and took the next two 6-1, 7-6 (3). Senior Ellie Edles finished her match 6-4, 6-1 and Kobayakawa took a 6-2, 6-1 win at five.

As the Aggies play their final match at home, their seniors, Edles and Curry, will be honored for their services to UC Davis tennis. After, they will set their sights on the Big West Conference Championships.

UC Davis currently stands at 4-5 in the conference, good for sixth place as they enter competition for the Big West tournament.

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

Women’s golf looks to four-peat at Big West Championships Men’s golfers in final tune-up before Conference tournament

By MATTHEW YUEN Aggie Sports Editor

While most will be complaining about standing around in the heat at Picnic Day this weekend, the UC Davis golf teams will have no time to whine as they soldier on to their respective tournaments.

The men’s golf team will co-host the Winchester Classic in Meadow Vista, Calif. from April 19 to April 21.

Last year, the Aggies finished in a three-way tie for second place and were led by current junior Matt Seramin and sophomore Mike Brockington.

Seramin played a consistent couple of rounds to tie for second in the tournament, as he never dropped out of the top-five individual competitors. Brockington put up a 68 to boost himself up eleven spots from 15th to fourth.

UC Davis has enjoyed the return of senior Tyler Raber this year, as he has been posting low numbers for the Aggies all year long.

The tournament at the Winchester Country Club, just as it has in the past, precedes the Big West Conference Championships and will act as a good warm-up for UC Davis.

Raber will bring an abundance of experi-

ence to the course for the two-time defending champion Aggies when the Big West Championships arrive. UC Davis took a young roster last year and stunned the golfing world by surging ahead to take a conference championship The Aggies are coming off of an eighth place finish at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational, where junior Jonny Baxter fired a 212 total to stand in 11th place overall. Raber followed that up with a 215 over three rounds to tie for 23rd.

On the women’s tees, UC Davis has enjoyed considerable success this season as expected. The Aggies will compete in the Big West Championship tournament on Sunday April 20 through April 23.

UC Davis has taken the past three Big West titles and shows no signs of slowing. The Aggies are currently ranked 16th in the country, led by No. 22 Demi Runas.

The senior is coming off of a second place performance at the Ping/ASU Invitational, which is, in fact, a step down from her performance at the tournament last year despite a lower score this year. Runas shot a 209 this past weekend, a couple strokes more than in 2012, when she shot a 212 and placed first.

Still, the Aggies are more than just a strong

top-player. Their depth is truly what has gotten them far in these tournaments. Though Runas has led UC Davis in most of the competitions this year, the Aggies have had substantial contributions from every player playing in the subsequent spots.

From senior Amy Simanton, sophomores Blair Lewis and Bev Vatananugulkit, freshmen Andrea Wong, Betty Chen and Raegan Bremer and junior Jessica Chulya, all have gotten playing time and all have put up impressive numbers.

This will provide some safety and relieve some of the pressure on the players, knowing they can depend on anyone that gets the call to play.

This well-balanced attack will be difficult for other teams to overcome at the Big West tournament, where the Aggies have had considerable success in the recent past. Last year, it was Vatananugulkit that posted the top score for UC Davis with a 220 en route to the Aggies’ first place finish.

If the Aggies are to four-peat as Big West champions and continue their dynasty-in-themaking, they just need to play how they have been all season.

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

Baseball Preview Teams: UC Davis vs. UC Riverside Records: Aggies, 12-22 (0-9) ; Highlanders, 17-15 (6-3) Where: Dobbins Stadium — Davis, Calif.

When: Friday at 2:30 p.m.; Saturday at 1 p.m.; Sunday at 1 p.m.

Who to Watch: The lack of recent run support for the Aggie pitchers cannot be blamed on junior Nick Lynch. Lynch’s batting average stood at a blistering .349 after the Long Beach series. UC Davis has struggled to hit the long ball and has only managed to hit six home runs this season. Lynch has two of those six home runs to go along with his 18 runs batted in.

In other words, Lynch has hit a third of the Aggies’ home runs and has driven in almost 12 percent of the Aggies’ runs. Lynch has been UC Davis’ most consistent offensive threat, constantly getting on base.

Lynch is currently sixth in the conference in batting average. He is one of three UC Davis players currently ranked in the top of the conference for any given statistic.

As such, Lynch’s production is not simply

impressive in comparison to the team, but in comparison to the conference as well.

Lynch bats in the middle of the order and as a result should have some great opportunities to drive in runs. However, the Aggies simply do not get on base enough for Lynch to do some damage. If UC Davis can manage to get runners on base, Lynch should be able to catalyze the Aggies’ offense against UC Riverside.

Did you know?

The Aggies have a 3-0 record when they hold their opponents to two runs or less. This is a little surprising as the Aggies have had trouble bringing in runs as of late. However, it does highlight the importance of solid pitching.

UC Davis does manage to score a decent five runs per game. However, they have also been giving up around 6.5 runs a game. Thus, the Aggies’ pitching staff needs to buckle down and hold teams to fewer runs. The 5.31 team-earned run average is simply too high for UC Davis to consistently compete and win games.

As evidenced by the statistic, if UC

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Senior Ben Burke pitches the ball. The Aggie pitching team must allow fewer runs to consistently compete in games.

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When: Saturday, April 20 at 12 and 2 p.m.; Sunday, April 21 at 12 p.m.

Who to Watch: Freshman Christa Castello has been a terror on the base paths this season. She is tied for sixth in the Big West for stolen bases, with 11 steals. This along with her impressive .287 batting average and 11 runs batted in, as of after the UC Santa Barbara series, will definitely cause UC Riverside’s less than stellar pitching staff some problems.

With the Highlander pitching staff prone to giving up home runs, the addition of Castello on the bases gives the UC Riverside pitchers something else to think about. Thus, the Highlander pitchers may not be as focused on making the best pitch and could make a costly mistake leading to big hits for the Aggies.

UC Davis needs to find consistent run production, and the series against UC Riverside seems like the perfect opportunity. Castello should be able to help spark the Aggies’ batting order in the weekend series.

Did you know?

Senior Kelly Shulze has been hit by a pitch 15 times this season, taking the phrase “take one for the team” to a whole new level. Shulze’s resiliency to keep getting in the batter’s box is impressive. She has also shown impressive patience at the plate, drawing 14 walks this season.

Her propensity to draw walks and get hit by pitches has earned her an impressive .433 on-base percentage. This is the fifth highest in conference. Her ability to get on base should prove helpful for the Aggies as they attempt to jumpstart their offense against the Highlanders. Hopefully this does not involve Shulze getting injured.

Preview: The UC Davis softball team has had an up-and-down year so far. They have had impressive wins this season, such as the 14-1 stomping of Santa Clara. However, they have also struggled mightily this year, as evidenced in Arizona State’s 12-3 rout of the Aggies.

However, the Aggies do have hope heading into the weekend series in Riverside against the Highlanders.

Though UC Davis lost the past weekend’s series against UC Santa Barbara, the pitching was stellar. They held the Gauchos to only two runs the entire series. Such

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Sophomore Justine Vela pitches the ball against Pacific. Vela has an 11-6 record.

impressive pitching has been a recurring theme this season as the Aggies have a combined earned-run average of 2.40.

The pitching staff is led by sophomore Justine Vela who, as of the series against UC Santa Barbara, owns an 11-6 record as well as an outstanding 2.14 ERA. In her recent performance against the Gauchos, Vela pitched a complete game shutout, only allowing three hits and striking out five. Such dominant pitching displays will make winning the weekend series against UC Riverside a lot more attainable.

The real challenge for the Aggies is consistent hitting. In the last series against the Gauchos, UC Davis scored an impressive eight runs in the first game.

However, they were subsequently shut out by UC Santa Barbara in the next two.

The bats of sophomore Amy Nunez and senior Kelly

Picnic Day sport events Women’s tennis — 11 a.m. at Marya Welch Tennis Center The UC Davis women’s tennis team will have its last match of the regular season on April 13 against Sonoma State.

The Aggies have already finished Big West Competition and sealed a sixthplace finish in the league with a 4-5 conference record. UC Davis holds a 9-12 overall record and is coming off a split weekend.

UC Davis grabbed a 5-2 victory over Pacific on April 12 and then fell in a tightly contested match to UC Santa Barbara 5-2.

The Aggies will face off with the Sea Wolves and hope to get a win in order to swing momentum in their direction as they prepare for the conference tournament, in which they will most likely face off against UC Santa Barbara.

Women’s Water Polo — Noon at Schaal Aquatics Center The 19th-ranked UC Davis women’s water polo team will face cross-town rival Pacific on Picnic Day, an intense matchup that has become quite a tradition for the Aggies.

UC Davis is coming off a 13-5 trouncing of Cal State Monterey Bay, improving their record to 13-15 overall. Still, the Aggies’ 0-6 conference record does not bode well for the team as they get ready for the Big West Championship tournament.

Senior Carmen Eggert put down five goals for UC Davis and leads the team in scoring this year, with 66 goals on the season. This will be the Eggert’s, as well as Jessica Dunn, Hannah Breen, Kathryn Bailey, Riane Woods and Danelle Kenny’s final game at Schaal Aquatics Center.

Baseball — 1 p.m. at Dobbins Stadium The UC Davis baseball team will face off with UC Riverside in this Picnic Day matchup, a very winnable game for the Aggies.

The Aggies’ recent slump, in which they lost 10 out of 11 games, has them standing at 12-22 overall and 0-9 in conference. Still, UC Davis has had bursts of impressive baseball.

The Aggies just took down Nevada 10-7, product of a six-run sixth inning that propelled the team over the Wolf Pack. UC Davis has lacked runs this season but have shown they are capable of putting up offensive numbers.

UC Riverside should be a good team for the Aggies to try to get into a groove with another month of competition remaining.

Track — All Day at Toomey Stadium The UC Davis track team will host the Woody Wilson Classic on Picnic Day. This is a chance for athletes to compete individually and prepare for the high-level meets that are approaching.

Other than displaying their strong talent in the field, UC Davis will also be warming up for the Causeway Classic Dual with Sacramento State as well as the Big West Championships that are to come in a couple of weeks.

The Aggies just finished competition at the Mt. SAC competition and the Mondo Mid-Major Challenge at Sacramento State. The women placed third and the men fifth.

— Matthew Yuen

Schulze, which have produced five of the Aggies’ eight home runs this year, may prove crucial in the series against the Highlanders.

UC Riverside’s pitching staff has given up a total of 34 home runs this season and as of their game against San Diego State, hold a team ERA of 5.37. Obviously, pitching is not one of the Highlanders’ strengths. The Aggies must take advantage of this, and could possibly have a field-day jumpstarting their offense.

The Aggies should head into the weekend series with a sense of confidence. The Highlanders are a very pedestrian team and should give the UC Davis’ offense the spark which they have needed this season. Hopefully, the Aggies can turn their season around starting with UC Riverside.

— Kenneth Ling