May 9, 2013

THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE

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VOLUME 132, ISSUE 45 | THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013

OPINION Pages 2 & 3

NEWS Pages 4 & 5

MUSE Pages 6 & 7

BRIAN NGUYEN / AGGIE

ASUCD Senator Alyson Sagala speaks in support of Senate Resolution 30, which called for the University of California to divest from companies profiting from the Palestinian Occupation.

Divestment resolution fails in ASUCD commissions, will not move forward Resolution urged for divestment from companies profiting from Palestine occupation

By LAUREN MASCARENHAS and RITIKA IYER Aggie News and Features Writers

On May 7, the ASUCD Business and Finance Commission voted against passing Senate Resolution 30, which supported the University divesting funds from cor-

porations that profit from the occupation of Palestine.

Many people on both sides of the issue have expressed the belief that this will not be the end of the issue on the UC Davis campus.

“I don’t see any suspension of dialogue happening. I see this as just a start

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of things to come,” said Matt Hamou, a Business and Finance commissioner.

Members of the Business and Finance Commission rejected the resolution with a vote of two in favor, five against and two abstentions.

“Going in, my personal goal was to make sure that both sides left feeling that they had been treated respectfully and equally, independent of the vote count,” said Rylan Schaeffer, Business and Finance Commission chair. “Abstentions are rare.

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BACKSTOP Pages 16 & 17

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Campus to celebrate Whole Earth

BRIAN NGUYEN / AGGIE Police office Ralph Nuno escorts U.S. Bank employees out of their office. The Davis Dozen were charged with acts related to blockading the branch.

Zero-waste, annual festival features music, food, art, workshops

By MELISSA GAHERTY Aggie News Writer

Davis Dozen settlement reaches plea deal before trial Protesters agree to community hours, infraction ticket

By MUNA SADEK Campus News Editor

Twelve protesters who were charged last March for obstructing movement in a public place and conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, following demonstrations outside a UC Davis branch of U.S. Bank, agreed to a plea deal Monday.

The deal comes nearly one month before the scheduled June 17 trial date in Yolo Superior Court.

The group of one UC Davis English faculty member and 11 students, otherwise known as the Davis Dozen or Bankers Dozen, previously faced up to one year in jail. The group believed U.S. Bank had a hand in increasing student costs and student debt, and the privatization of the university.

They agreed to 80 hours of community service and an infraction notice ticket, which the group described in an email interview as similar to “when the neighbors complain about your stereo” and bears virtually no implication on the recipient.

According to Alexis Briggs, one of the attorneys for the group, many factors were taken into consideration before a final agreement was reached. This included the District Attorney’s office making an offer for 80 hours of community

service in exchange for misdemeanor pleas for everyone, and the University and U.S. Bank stating that both organizations were not planning to seek restitution. Briggs also said she received a large amount of internal documents from UC Davis and U.S. Bank.

“That gave us a much better understanding of how those decisions were made, and throughout that process, we were engaged in discussion with the District Attorney’s office about resolving the matter though an infraction,” Briggs said.

“For the last month, the discussion has been revolving almost exclusively around the amount of community service that the district attorney found acceptable to resolve it for an infraction.”

Briggs said that the court initially intended to split the case into two separate trials, which were estimated to run a span of six weeks per trial, which would have utilized a substantial number of taxpayer dollars.

The case was taken on pro bono, with the exception of public defender representation for one of the defendants, she said.

“We were fortunate that a number of highly respected and renowned attorneys volunteered to take our case pro bono; there was also an outpouring of support, communal and financial, from places around the world. It would have been nice if the UC Davis administrators driving this case had had such support rather than spending [students’] funds on a petty and illfated prosecution. For obvious reasons, they did not,” the group stated in an email interview.

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Since 1969, UC Davis has celebrated the annual Whole Earth Festival from Friday to Sunday the second week of May, promoting wellness, art and the environment.

The UC Davis Quad will be filled with arts and crafts tents, live music, food vendors and educational spaces from May 10 to 12. The free, zero-waste, student-run festival is a selfsustaining ASUCD unit and made possible by a large team of volunteers, who have been working since January.

“We have entertainment

from throughout the county, including educational speakers, yoga masters, artists and crafts vendors,” said Chris Hong, a UC Davis alumnus and Whole Earth publicity spokesman.

“Our event invites a diversity of visitors from children to the elders, mixed races and ethnicities, and people with various religions and traditions. We love the diversity that the festival brings, and how we all share a common viewpoint or ideology and love for this Festival.”

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Designing for the future Campus seeks awards better than Platinum

By ALAN LIN Aggie Science Writer

UC Davis has been considered environmentally conscious for a long time, a reputation that seems to be deserved.

The school and city’s shared enthusiasm for the environment can be seen in many aspects of local life, from the numerous bike paths found throughout the city to the well-cultivated patches of greenery present almost everywhere. The message of sustainability is even seen in the design of many buildings found around campus. UC Davis enjoys ownership in three buildings that are certified as LEED Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental

Design, and represents a scoring system used by the USGBC to evaluate the environmental impact of a building. Points are awarded for features that promote sustainable energy usage like solar panels and utilization of hydrogen fuel cells as sources of power. Builders are also encouraged to utilize recycled materials such as metals, ceramics and lumber in construction. Furthermore, the program rewards construction projects that promote non-motorized transportation with the inclusion of ample bike parking and pedestrian walkways.

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Opinion THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE

EDITORIALS FROM THE BOARD

Divestment

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Editor’s note: A proposed ASUCD Senate Resolution supporting divestment was moving through commission meetings last week and was rejected by the Business & Finance Commission on May 7. The Editorial Board had split views on divestment. These two editorials represent those views.

Support

Don’t Support

Over the past two weeks, hundreds of students have been engaged in discussions about whether or not ASUCD should urge the University of California to divest from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

If it had been passed, the non-binding resolution would likely have been of little consequence to Israel, Palestine or the UC Regents, but the suggestion has brought up an important concern about the University irresponsibly investing student and state money in contentious and potentially unethical companies whose goals are incongruous with the University’s values.

The University of California should, we believe, divest from companies profiting from the Israeli occupation of the Gaza strip. As a public entity, the UC should divest from all companies whose political allegiances take a side in divisive issues on campus, or whose values or actions do not support free education for Californians. This includes investments in the coal industry, and until recently, included the tobacco industry, as well as investments in the wartorn Sudan. Divestment movements aren’t new to the UC system, as the UC continues to do business with entities that many students are opposed to.

One concern brought up at the commission meetings is that such a resolution is intimidating or unsupportive of Israeli, Jewish and Zionist students.

ASUCD should take to ensure that such students feel welcome on this campus, and welcome to support Israel by their own means.

However, not supporting Israel financially is different from being unsupportive of Israel. Whether or not one supports doing business in the Gaza strip, the University of California has effectively chosen a side by investing student and state money in these companies. Divestment is not anti-Israel; it is neutral. But continued investment is as good as

To divest or not to divest. That is the question. At least, that’s the question that faces the UC system currently.

The University of California is being pressured by various student groups on different campuses to withdraw its investments from several companies that profit from the occupation of Palestine. These companies include General Electric (GE), Raytheon, Caterpillar, Cement Roadstones Holdings and Lockheed Martin.

While it is true that these companies have a significant presence in these war-torn areas, is it really worth taking our investments away just to show support for one ideal or another? The answer is no. Divestments are meant to make a statement. In this case, the divestment would show that the UC system does not support these American companies profiting from conflict in the Middle East. This viewpoint could not be more shortsighted.

The University of California initially invested in these companies not because we support their corporate ideologies, but because these companies are successful, and investing in them can generate another source of income for the cash-strapped campuses. While it is true that these companies are profiting from the conflict, that profit is not coming from our investments. It is coming from the government contracts that bring them there. Taking our money out of these companies may send some limp statement that we don’t support conflict, but the divestment will also result in a major loss of revenue ... revenue that is paying for our education.

It’s a slippery slope. GE makes the majority of the light bulbs we use on campus. Should we stop buying GE light bulbs? They also make most of the jet engines that fly you home every vacation. It seems you will have to find another way home since you are no longer supporting that company. Or make sure that you only fly on Airbus planes — they use Rolls Royce engines.

The moral quandary is understandable, but this is not the right time or place to take even more money away from the University. These investments pay the bills, and these misplaced ethics will do nothing to keep the lights on and the water running.

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Edge Diving

Environmentalism

CULTURE FIEND with KATELYN RINGROSE

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uck, fuck, fuck. My stockings are falling,” declared the woman wearing 7-inch platform heels and enough fake hair to comfortably nest dozens of baby birds. Her false eyelashes threatened to abandon her face, and the same birds would have loved her impressively arched blue eyeliner and shadow, as it was reminiscent of the blue daytime sky.

She couldn’t adjust her hose, because the ropes holding her to the iron St. Andrew’s cross barred free movement, but she could wiggle around and look helpless — to the satisfaction of

My filthy black boots were held together by safety pins, my nipple tape was peeling off ... her dominant. He was behind her, a lopsided smirk above a body clad in black pleather, flicking a small rubber whip at her ass. “Nasty slut,” he would occasionally whisper up the curves of her hips and past the channels of her back.

Stopping for a moment, he traced her contours with the handle of the whip.

Instead of pulling away, she arched back towards him and the blunted torment.

Curled into the fetal position, on a couch opposite their scene, I looked down at my own outfit. My stockings didn’t have any runs and were holding up fairly well, but I was far from classy: My filthy black boots were held together by safety pins, my nipple tape was peeling off and I had chewed off my bright red lipstick hours before.

Nerves. Spinal cord. Brain. The path that pain takes seems simple. Yet even on this fairly straightforward journey, endorphins, natural opioids, are triggered in order to help our bodies

handle trauma. Just like the synthetic drugs prized by so many narcotic abusers, natural chemicals induce a hangover once the high has ended.

While my own high, brought on by a wooden paddle and some well-placed electrodes, was starting its downward journey, the other play party invitees were just beginning to feel the euphoria that often accompanies such extreme passions as pain, fear, lust, anger and jealousy.

Around the room, people engaged in kink scenes that, intentionally or not, harmonized with the beat of the dark industrial music that was playing over wall-mounted speakers. One older man was using a cane, a tiny piece of bamboo resembling a wand, to rhythmically slap the two collegeage girls whom he had balanced on his lap. They screamed and cried, but when he stopped they kissed his lined cheeks, begging for more.

Slaves and servants, clad in chains and collars but little else, wove around undulating bodies and handed out drinks. They would periodically stop to pour water into dog bowls on the floor for pets, the few adorable fur and ear wearing players who meowed or barked with gratitude.

A gorgeous dominatrix, in the corner of the dungeon, stood over two younger men who looked as though they were bowing, but upon closer examination turned out to be licking and sucking each of her bare toes. Every minute or so, she would gently kick one of them in the face and remind them to clean her “nasty feet” more to her exacting standards.

Swaying bodies, anchored to the ceiling by a huge amount of intricately knotted rope, would every so often stretch, yawn or look over at me and smile — half-awake.

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TREE OF LIBERTY with TRISTAN DE LIEGE

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hole Earth Festival is coming up, and this is a good time to think about environmental issues. We frequently encounter people praising “sustainability,” “eco-friendliness,” and being “green.” But what do these terms really mean? Often these terms are associated with taking care of the environment or “minimizing our impact” on the environment.

The environment is really just our surroundings — not just the complex biological and physical relationships in nature, but also the human environ-

There is no form of energy for humans that does not create waste ... ment. But if we care about living long and healthy lives and getting access to the most efficient and reliable sources of energy to promote the human environment, we have to exploit nature.

That is the means by which humans have always conquered the problem of survival.

It was capitalism (the political-economic system that protects individual rights and leaves people to pursue their values and act on their judgment free of government coercion), and the industrial progress that followed its establishment, that allowed men and women to continually improve our human environment. We developed systems to purify water, discovered ways to reduce the presence of diseasecarrying germs and discovered how to contain waste in safer ways through sewage systems.

With fossil fuels taken from nature, we have made our lives immeasurably superior through automobile,

airplane and train transport. Many of our clothes are even synthesized with oil products. Our lives are amazing and long, and our population is more than a hundred times larger than it was when this country was founded. That is a true achievement.

When people speak of minimizing our impact on the environment by being “sustainable” (in capitalism, no mode of production is “unsustainable” due to the system of prices) or “green,” they are clearly not speaking of the human environment. They speak of the non-human environment — the polar bears, the whales, the trees, the soil and so on. Minimizing our impact on these really means lowering our standards of living and the quality of our production for the sake of nature.

It means rejecting the greatness of industrial progress.

Don’t think that environmentalists who call for minimizing our impact on the environment are looking out for the interests of humans. Aside from advocating for rights-violating regulations and often opposing nuclear power (which is extremely safe: the Fukushima disaster, an unusually disastrous failure, did not result in any deaths), environmentalists call for the use of inefficient energies such as solar and wind power.

If those energy sources were really better, they would win out on the free market, without help from the coercive government subsidies that environmentalists often cherish.

To be sure, the burning of fossil fuels creates waste, as does nuclear energy. There is no form of energy for humans that does not create waste: Consider the fossil fuels that are necessary to mine the metals required to build and transport solar panels and wind turbines.

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Recycling exes

Cleaning up

SEXPLANATIONS with MARISA HERRERA

SOME SHAKE with LEO OCAMPO

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s a single girl in college, living in a small college town, recycling is important to me. I put my bottles and papers in the designated bins and also scroll through my contact list late at night when I need to scratch my proverbial itch. I recycle exes, hookups, friends with benefits and really any sex partner that I’ve deemed worthy enough to have an afterlife.

To recycle your favorite sex partner is doing your part to save energy so that you can focus on the more important factors in your life. It is difficult enough without the con-

The better the terms, the shorter the conversations, the better the sex stant worry of how you are going to handle your human desire. And to have a contact list full of potential bed buddies is a luxury that must be explored. It is a massive waste of a perfect, untapped resource.

I like to reuse the hookups I enjoyed the most — the carefree and spontaneous hookups that ended without any malice or spite, the ones that rank on my top 10 adult sleepovers. Those are the most reuse worthy. That’s the name you want to press on at 3 a.m. when all else has failed.

My other favorite recyclable is the overtly attractive hook up, the one that you are the most proud of snagging and banging — we all have those. The chemistry is obviously eminent and is ready to recycle, no need to butter up with tedious foreplay. The best thing about this recyclable is that there are no ties and no emotions to get in the way of the matter at hand. The connection probably never was established and never will be and that’s fine, since they’re just your recyclable, your good time.

My favorite reusable pleasure is a friend from high school, with green eyes, dark hair and the ability to carry me around — he is perfect.

When in town, he is my go to recyclable. With him, there is always a good conversation pertaining to nothing serious and then the actual act. After, it’s a good “see you later,” and that’s it. It is, in essence, the perfect demonstration of recycle, reduce, reuse. The better the terms, the shorter the conversations, the better the sex.

Through my couple of years of being single and implicating the recycle, reduce, reuse routine, I have also accidentally recycled exes that should have been either composted or thrown promptly into the trash.

These non–recyclables can be designated into the discard bin as soon as you realize that you are emotionally scarred or exhausted by them. I find that my exes from two or more years induce this in me, since I once tried to recycle a very prominent ex and it got messy fast. The sex was great and everything was going accordingly. But emotions were very much present — that is not the ideal circumstance for a reusable ex.

To deem an ex worthy of the recycle bin and the late-night booty call attempt is risky. I have never executed this perfectly, but have faith that most people can. All in all, the ex just cannot be recent. You do not want residual feelings to spill into your reusing ventures.

Consider using exes from a separate sphere of your life, someone who has his or her own life and won’t intrude on yours. With no bitter feelings and a mutual desire for one another, recycling should be made obscenely simple.

To recycle and reuse does not mean to permanently keep in your life. Recycling relationships is something that can be saved for an entirely different column.

In this world of ex and ex sex, to recycle means to keep around for intercourse. They know what you want and how you want it.

It is how most college kids can contribute to the recycle, reduce, reuse movement.

MARISSA HERRERA can be reached for sexual inquiries at mdherrera@ucdavis.edu.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

In a pig’s eye Despite overwhelming public opposition, the California State Fair (July 12 to 28) again plans to display the cruel “farrowing crates” in the fair’s animal nursery. Pregnant sows will be imprisoned for three straight weeks, unable to turn around, barely able to move and forced to give birth on a bare metal grid: a true “crime against nature.”

CalEXPO’s new boss, Rick Pickering, was CEO at the 2012 Alameda County Fair, which allowed no farrowing crates. Instead, a mother sow and her piglets (born offsite) enjoyed a large pen, in deep sawdust: Happy pigs, happy public.

Our State Fair could (and should) do likewise. All veterinary stud-

ies recommend against transporting expectant animals about to give birth.

UC Davis Vet School (which oversees the nursery) should practice what it preaches. This is a true “no-brainer.”

Nor should the fair’s vendors be allowed to give away goldfish as prizes, or sell hermit crabs as “pets.” Most will die within weeks, or be flushed down the toilet.

Please contact Rick Pickering, CEO, and the Fair Board, at CalEXPO & State Fair, 1600 Exposition Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95815; email — calexpoboard@calexpo.com. Pigs and public alike deserve better.

Thanks for caring.

Sincerely, Eric Mills Coordinator for Action for Animals (510) 652–5603

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SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES DO NOT WORK

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f you think you have a drug test coming up, you should stop smoking now.

The cheapest and most common type of screening is the classic piss test.

It is also the easiest one to pass.

If you’re a heavy smoker, you should take about a three-week break before a urine test. During this time, drink as much water as you can. And of course, you should not ingest marijuana in any shape or form, including edibles, concentrates or shakes.

Instead, drink tea. And go on runs and get sweaty.

Avoid other smokers. Secondhand smoke is not only mischievously alluring, but it can also get into your system

After a while you should cut out weed completely, and only smoke the herbal mix and make you fail your drug test.

Sometimes, it is the act of smoking that people get used to, not particularly the weed itself. These people find it pretty easy to give up getting high so long as they have cigarettes or hookahs or Spice to turn to. It is true that these alternatives are legal and won’t fuck up your drug test, but they will take a toll on your health.

There are many other safer, smokeable alternatives. The Happy Herb Shop, online and in Berkeley, has a line of “non-addictive herbs for relaxation, pleasure, happiness and breaking habits!” Smoking these mixes provides an effect comparable to that of getting high, and you can even choose between herbs meant for sleeping, stimulation and general “happiness.”

The idea is that you should start off by mixing these herbs in with the weed in your bowls or blunts. As you get used to smoking this new stuff, slowly and casually begin to use less weed and more mix in your sessions. After a while you should cut out weed completely, and only smoke the herbal mix. It is much easier to quit smoking weed if you ease out of it instead of dramatically cutting it out of your diet.

If you do end up resorting to tobacco, try to remind yourself that you only want to do it for a little while. It is

understandable if it is one of your early steps on your way to quitting weed, but it shouldn’t be a permanent solution, and you should plan on eventually easing into less toxic alternatives.

Oh, and never, ever resort to Spice. It isn’t natural, and it fucks up your brain.

If you need more evidence that Spice is bad, Google “spice and psychosis,” or “spice and suicide.”

If you find yourself missing the psychedelic effects of marijuana, then you might benefit from trying a little bit of salvia.

Unlike the other herbs, which provide more of a numbing, sedative effect, salvia produces a hallucinogenic high that is similar to the trippy effects of THC. It can be a very intense experience, so it’s a good idea to start off with a small, dainty bowl, especially if you’ve never tried it before.

Salvia is legal, safe and relatively cheap. It comes in different potencies, with 10x being the gentlest, and 80x the strongest. It is definitely not an everyday herb like tea or marijuana, but a little toke might satisfy your urge to feel high.

Avoid detox kits. These are expensive and usually don’t work. Urine tests can even detect the chemicals in these detoxifiers, though testing probably won’t even be necessary since your piss usually turns blue or green after trying them out.

While urine testing isn’t too stressful, hair and blood testing can be a pain in the ass. These analyses can detect weed in your system up to three months after your last smoke; some even claim to be able to detect it after a year! Fortunately, because these tests are very high-tech, they are more expensive, and less common.

Finally, oral tests can only detect marijuana in your saliva for a couple hours after your last smoke. For this reason, hardly anyone relies on them.

While you might find testing a little unfair and unnecessary, you have to remember that it is within an employer’s every right to do so, especially after some sort of workplace accident.

You should also remember that having a doctor’s recommendation does not protect you from drug tests, and you can still be fired (or not hired) regardless.

LEO OCAMPO can be reached at gocampo@ ucdavis.edu.

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09 / Thursday BME Alumni Seminar: Dr. Andrew Hamel, director of R&D, Stryker Endoscopy 4:10 to 5 p.m. | 1005 GBSF

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Drug initiative in Davis targets unused prescription pills Unused medication poses poisoning, addiction hazards

Dr. Hamel received his bachelor’s in electrical engineering and materials science, as well as his masters in biomedical engineering from UC Davis. He currently works in the endoscopy division of Stryker, which focuses on development, manufacturing and distribution of endoscopic medical devices used in minimally invasive surgery.

Conversations with Writers: Jay Feldman 4 to 6 p.m. | 126 Voorhies Jay Feldman is the author of the critically acclaimed non-fiction books, When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes and Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America.

Natural Ways to Overcome Academic Anxiety 5:30 to 7 p.m. | Zinfandel Lounge, 260 South Silo This Experimental College workshop, offered by Elizabeth Emerson, M.A. offers new alternative stress management education, including holistic approaches and simple spiritual practices. Take notes for stressed-out friends who could use these valuable tips. The cost is $20 for non-members. Register online at ecollege. ucdavis.edu/courses/9850 or by phone at (530) 752-2568.

American Red Cross Club General Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. | 146 Olson The ARCC is an on-campus organization dedicated to emergency preparedness and community service. Join them for their third general meeting of the quarter.

Telemark Dance Troupe Presents: ‘Feel This Moment’ 8 to 9:30 p.m. | Wright Main Theatre Telemark Dance Troupe is proud to present their annual dance showcase, Feel this Moment. Come and enjoy a sexy, exciting night of tango, jive, bollywood, theatrearts, waltz, hip-hop, bachata, East Coast Swing, cha-cha, Salsa and Samba.

Admission is $8 for students.

10 / Friday 30 Ceramic Sculptors 7 to 10 p.m. | John Natsoulas Center for the Arts Come down for the opening reception with the best and the brightest of the ceramic arts. Over 30 talented artists contributed to this group show with over four floors of art.

Telemark Dance Troupe Presents: ‘Feel This Moment’ 8 to 9:30 p.m. | Wright Main Theatre Telemark Dance Troupe’s annual dance showcase returns for a second night.

Admission is $8 for students.

11 / Saturday Whole Earth Festival All day | UC Davis campus Take your shoes off and dance around for the annual Whole Earth Festival, a celebration of Mother Nature and all her beauty. Find delicious eats and meet eccentric travelers as they flood the campus with brilliant hippie-dom.

Senior Recital: Nicole Tanner, soprano and trombone Noon to 1 p.m. | 115 Music Listen to a free senior recital by Nicole Tanner as she plays the trombone.

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble 2 to 3 p.m. | Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble will be performing works by San Martin and Messiaen. Admission is $8 for students and $20 for adults.

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The Davis Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency are collaborating on the Take Back Initiative, aimed at reclaiming unused prescription drugs.

By SYDNEY COHEN Aggie News Writer

On April 27, the Davis Police Department (DPD), in collaboration with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), participated in the Take Back Initiative, which gives community members the opportunity to dispose of unused, unwanted and expired prescription medication. This is the sixth year that the DPD has participated.

“During the span of those four hours that we did the event, we collected 315 pounds of unused, unwanted or expired medication,” said Lt. Glenn Glasgow.

Unused prescription medications are a public safety issue because they can lead to poisonings, accidental overdoses and in some cases, abuse

of the narcotics, Glasgow said.

Additionally, a survey done in 2011 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that more than 70 percent of prescription medication abusers got the medication from friends or relatives.

“This is a way of removing the opportunity for people who may have an addiction to these pills, [it is a way] to get [the pills] out of the house and to hopefully start the treatment process,” Glasgow said.

Participation in the Take Back Initiative is done on a voluntary basis by individual police departments all over the country. According to Glasgow, there were 211 collection sites in Northern California and the Central Valley this year. The DPD holds two collections a year — one in

the spring and one in the fall.

“We view it not only as a community service to assist people in discarding their unused, unwanted and expired medication properly because it could pose a threat to the environment if they are discarded improperly. We also view it as a way of hoping to avoid people being able to access prescription medication that was not prescribed to them,” Glasgow said.

Glasgow said that preventing abuse is particularly important because taking prescription medication without the prescription from a doctor can be potentially lethal.

Second-year economics and communication double major Michelle Wolff said that whenever her family has prescription drugs left over, they remain in the house. Wolff said that she would use the service of prescription pill collection for medication that she knew she would never need again.

Wolff does not agree with selling or allowing others to use unused prescription drugs.

“I would never go to do [prescription drugs] to get high or to try it. I think people that use [prescription drugs] like Adderall to study when you don’t need it — in a way, I think it’s cheating,” Wolff said.

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League of American Bicyclists honors UC Davis University adding new bike paths to campus

12 / Sunday ‘Oklahoma!’

2:10 to 4 p.m. | Davis Musical Theatre Co. The Davis Musical Theatre Company presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! for the 70th anniversary of the production. First written and produced in 1943, the show, with its many Broadway revivals, sets the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the 20th century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story.

13 / Monday Why Do We Want Our Computers To Improvise?

4 to 6 p.m. | 115 Music George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University and will be discussing the complex field of interactive music as it draws upon artificial intelligence, cybernetics and practices of free improvisation.

The Protection of Children In Our Globalizing World 5 to 6 p.m. | 100 Hunt Dr. Susan Bissell, Chief of Child Protection for UNICEF will be speaking on “The Protection of Children In Our Globalizing World: Change, Challenge and Champions.”

14 / Tuesday Interdisciplinary Creative Practices 12 to 2 p.m. | 1246 Social Sciences and Humanities Please join the Technocultural Studies Department, the Center for Science and Innovation Studies and the Program in Science and Technology Studies for a talk on interactive media art by Simon Briggs (media artist, writer and curator). Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at tinyurl.com/SimonBriggs051413.

Welcome to the Terrordome: Muslims, Malcolm X and Post9/11 America 6:30 to 7:30 p.m | 1001 Giedt A public lecture with Dr. Sohail Daulatzai on “radicalization,” white supremacy and capitalism in post-9/11 America.

15 / Wednesday Aggie Idol 7:30 to 9 p.m. | Freeborn Hall It you’re itching to hear the warm and sultry pipes of student-athletes, you can’t miss the sixth annual Aggie Idol. The proceeds of this intercollegiate studentathlete charity variety show benefit Team Davis, our local Special Olympics group.

The event is open to the public, is G-rated and features performances this year by student-athletes from approximately 18 UC Davis intercollegiate teams. Tickets are $8 in advance, available at the UC Davis Ticket Office, and $10 at the door.

16 / Thursday Queer, Feminist and Trans Studies and the Undisciplining of Science

10:30 to 5 p.m.

The Queer, Feminist and Trans studies research cluster will be holding their annual conference entitled “Queer, Feminist and Trans Studies and the Undisciplining of Science.” This year’s conference will feature Wendy Kline and Toby Beauchamp.

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By PAAYAL ZAVERI Aggie News Writer

The League of American Bicyclists awarded UC Davis a platinum bicycle friendly business award April 22. UC Davis is the first university to be awarded a bicycle friendly business award. The award reinforces the university’s status as No. 1 “Cool School,” as judged by the Sierra Club.

The League awards business awards based on employer efforts to create a more bicycle friendly atmosphere for employees, staff and students.

They announced the awards on Earth Day and gave 63 businesses Bicycle Friendly Business status.

“More and more business leaders are realizing that bicycling is a simple and costeffective way to move toward a more productive company,” said Andy Clarke, the President for the League of American Bicyclists, in a press release.

UC Davis first applied for Bicycle Friendly University status in 2010-11, said David Takemoto-Weerts, Transportation and Parking Services bicycle coordinator. The League awarded UC Davis a gold award for being a Bicycle Friendly University in March

2011. Takemoto-Weerts said they were shocked to receive the gold award rather than the platinum award, which is the highest.

“We decided to apply again for the Bicycle Friendly Business award after the League visited UC Davis for other reasons and told me we should consider applying,” Takemoto-Weerts said.

Takemoto-Weerts described the application process and said there were no specific qualifications, but applicants had to fill out a form with 100 questions which the League uses to evaluate them.

UC Davis cited bicycle accommodations such as restricting vehicle traffic in central parts of campus and the Bicycle Education and Enforcement Program (BEEP). The ASUCD Bike Barn and TAPS do-ityourself repair stations around campus were also considered valuable resources.

“The university also has facilities that encourage faculty and staff to ride bicycles,” Weerts said. “We offer faculty and staff access to shower facilities in the ARC if they feel the need for it after bicycling to campus.”

These facilities are part of the TAPS goClub incentive program, and also offer emergency

rides and complimentary-use parking permits to use when the weather keeps people from bicycling.

As a result of the award, the University will be granted access to a variety of new tools and assistance to remain bicycle friendly. Weerts said the first step of this will be the League providing feedback on their application and suggesting areas where they can improve.

UC Davis is always seeking to improve its bicycle facilities on campus. The 2008-09 Bicycle and Transit Network Study was an effort to improve bicycle transportation and meet demands for future growth.

“Our main effort with the study was to find areas on campus that would need improvement for current and long-term conditions,” said Matt Dulcich, assistant director for environmental planning at the UC Davis Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability.

Dulcich said they found three main areas that needed improvement: the Hutchison Corridor that connects with A Street, the North Quad Corridor that connects downtown and West Village, and the Hutchison and Bioletti Way intersection.

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Davis City Council proposes next fiscal year’s budget Deliberation on solutions for budget imbalance in progress

CITY BUDGET FOR 2013-14 $2 million structural imbalance in the General Fund (GF) The GF expenditures are projected to increase by around $1,265,143 due to employee benefit costs and compensation, street maintenance needs, water cost increase and water conservation efforts.

Greatest expenditure challenges are the CalPERS projects — a 50 percent increase over the next five years, the Pavement Condition Index being at danger level for city streets — the city plans to slowly fund the repairing of roads — and city water costs that are projected to increase by $2.1 million in the next five years The GF will be providing funding for water and sewage, which will result in a net increase in utility costs of $700,000 and $2.3 million that will go toward street maintenance.

At the Davis City Council meeting on April 30, the council presented the city budget for 201314, which begins July 1 and runs through June 30, 2014.

The city is met with many challenges, the most critical being the $2 million structural imbalance in the General Fund (GF). However, they foresee much improvement in the next few years with their proposed plan.

After lengthy consideration, the council has proposed that the GF — encompassed by property taxes, sales taxes, fines and interest — is the most viable source of revenue.

The GF expenditures are projected to increase by around $1,265,143 due to employee benefit costs and compensation, street maintenance needs, water cost increase and water conservation efforts.

In the budget, the city believes that the GF will decrease

by $949,000 from sales tax, municipal services tax, property tax, state pass-thru revenue/subventions, developer project revenue and developer reimbursements.

“We have a council that is willing to take on these hard issues. I know we can get our arms against these things. In the long run, with these revenues versus expenditures, we’ll have to get more creative every year,” said City Manager Steve Pinkerton, at a community budget meeting at The Avid Reader on May 6.

Currently, the greatest expenditure challenges in the current and long-term are the CalPERS projects — a 50 percent increase over the next five years, the Pavement Condition Index being at danger level for city streets — the city plans to slowly fund the repairing of roads — and city water costs that are projected to increase by $2.1 million in the next five years.

Potential solutions are being implemented and continue to be brainstormed. For 2013-14, the

A student was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for cheating during an exam. The student’s eyes were wandering during his psychology exam when the professor first noticed the suspicious behavior. The professor then made an announcement to the class to keep their eyes on their own tests.

Shortly after the announcement was made, the student started to look at the exam of the student in front of him. After conferring with one of his TAs, the professor decided to move the student to the front of the room to prevent any further cheating. After the exam, the student was referred to SJA for cheating off other students’ exams. The student took responsibility for his actions and agreed to be placed on disciplinary probation until graduation.

Disciplinary probation means that if the student receives any further violations, he will most likely be suspended for a minimum of one quarter. The student also agreed to complete 15 hours of community service.

A professor referred a student to SJA for submitting a plagiarized paper in a social sciences class. The student’s paper was submitted two days after the deadline, and was extremely high quality work. However, the professor noticed organizational mistakes throughout the paper that did not meet the prompt’s requirements. The professor then searched online for suspicious phrases from the student’s paper and found an online article that was clearly the uncited source of the student’s paper. When the student met with a Judicial Officer, he admitted to plagiarizing his paper and agreed to be placed on deferred separation status. Deferred separation means that the student waives his right to a formal hearing if he is referred in the future for any kind of academic misconduct. He also agreed to complete an assignment about plagiarism and 10 hours of community service.

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The Davis Fire Department will have a staffing level of 11 instead of 12 firefighters per shift — a change that would result in an additional $443,663 and $500,000 to be budgeted for water conservation measures and updating infrastructure

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The GF assumptions are believed to decrease by $949,000 from sales tax, municipal services tax, property tax, state pass-thru revenue/subventions, developer project revenue and developer reimbursements.

By GABRIELLA HAMLETT

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GF will be providing funding for water and sewage, which will result in a net increase in utility costs of $700,000 and $2.3 million that will go toward street maintenance.

The Davis Fire Department will have a staffing level of 11 instead of 12 firefighters per shift — a change that would result in an additional $443,663 and $500,000 to be budgeted for water conservation measures and updating infrastructure.

The proposed budget was met with support and some speculation by the Davis community.

“The budget they proposed is pretty fairly balanced, and I think we’ll see savings down the line,” said Davis Progressive Business Exchange President Bob Bockwinkel.

Other ideas are being considered for the future.

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In an Asian American studies course, a student was referred for plagiarizing a blog assignment for the course. Two students were identified for having virtually the same blog entry for the week. However, after the professor and the TA met with the students, one of them admitted to using the other student’s work as a template to help him write the blog entry. He stated that although he did not intend to plagiarize the material, he took full responsibility for the fact that his blog entry was plagiarized. The SJA officer offered him disciplinary probation until graduation as well as a plagiarism assignment and 10 hours of community service, which the student accepted.

POLICE BRIEFS city@theaggie.org

2 / THURSDAY Green living A large tent and items indicating habitation were found in the bushes at the greenbelt at Albany Avenue and Benbow Court.

Hitchhoming A man carrying luggage and a blanket went to a person’s backyard door and said he was looking for a place to sleep at Southfield Court.

3 / FRIDAY Mother of the Year A woman parked at Emerson Junior High School smelling of alcohol and slurring her words said she was there to pick up her son.

Whose house? Our house!

Two people pushed a bouncer at Our House Restaurant at Second Street and refused to leave.

4 / SATURDAY Extreme Makeover: Condo Edition

Restaurant chains branch out to Davis Jack’s Urban Eats, Wingstop open this month

A week ago, someone witnessed a man vandalizing a condo at Bermuda Avenue by ripping the landscape out, removing the dishwasher and taking several items, but was too scared to call at the time.

5 / MONDAY Sourpuss Someone saw a man walking through her neighbor’s backyard at Anderson Road and asked what he was doing, and he said he was picking lemons.

6 / WEDNESDAY Driven crazy A passenger on a Unitrans bus was yelling insulting slurs at the driver on Fifth Street and told him that he was going to wait until he got off work; it was unknown what he was going to do then.

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

WEEKLY WEATHER tntilmont@ucdavis.edu Irisa Tam / Aggie

Short Term Forecast The cooler and grayer weather we’ve seen these past few days is coming to an end. Warmer and sunnier weather is expected to return with highs in the low 80s and nighttime lows in the mid 50s on Thursday, May 9. On Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11, the temperatures should hit the upper 80s with nighttime temperatures in the upper 50s.

Justin Tang, Aggie Forecast Team

Long Term Forecast

By PAAYAL ZAVERI Aggie News Writer

A number of restaurant chains are opening new locations in Davis. These include Huong Lan Sandwiches, Jack’s Urban Eats, The Melt, Wingstop and Yogurtland.

Huong Lan Sandwiches opened in early 2013 in the space previously occupied by International Bistro at 213 E St. in downtown Davis. The restaurant serves fresh Vietnamese bánh mì sandwiches, bubble tea, assorted fried food and customizable pho. The Davis location is the sixth Huong Lan store, with the others located in San Jose, Newark, Sacramento and Milpitas.

Jack’s Urban Eats opened on May 2. Jack’s Urban Eats is a Sacramento-based chain with about seven locations in Sacramento and the greater Sacramento area. The Davis location will be located in The Marketplace in North Davis.

The restaurant serves American food such as sandwiches, salads and specialty sides including sweet potato fries, mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese.

Owner of Dos Coyotes and Jack’s Urban Eats Bobby Coyote said they are famous for their urban fries.

Coyote said he saw an open space and that gave him the opportunity to expand in Davis.

Manager of Jack’s Jeremy Goebel said that the first Jack’s restaurant opened in 1998 and they have been expanding in the Sacramento area since then.

“We have seen a wide range of customers so far — students, families, professionals,” Coyote said. “It’s a similar demographic to Dos Coyotes and we are happy to open and are having fun serving good food.”

The Marketplace will also be home to Yogurtland, which is taking over the old Cold Stone Creamery location. The location has been vacant since December 2010. Yogurtland is an Irvine-based frozen yogurt chain that was founded in 2006.

It is unclear exactly when Yogurtland will open, but construction is underway and there is a “Coming Soon” sign hanging above the entrance.

Wingstop was the next restaurant to open in Davis on May 8, and it is located at 408 G St., right next to El Mariachi in downtown Davis.

“We are really excited to bring Wingstop to the students,” said Bal Randhawa, co-owner of Wingstop.

Bal said she and her husband Sukh Randhawa decided to bring Wingstop to Davis because they felt college students would flock toward a place that serves beer and wings.

“I’m excited [for Wingstop to open] because if I craved wings, before I would have to drive to Vacaville for Buffalo Wild Wings or go some place in Davis where wings are just a side dish,” said Shan Hansra, a thirdyear neurobiology, physiology and behavior major.

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We are going to have another hot one this coming week! Temperatures will be in the high 80s to low 90s throughout the week of May 12. There will be sunny conditions with some clouds coming in Thursday and Friday.

Expected Highs: high 80s and low 90s Monday, May 12 through Friday, May 16.

Expected lows: high 50s Megan Simone, Atmospheric Science Major

Climate Average temperatures for this time of year typically range in the upper 70’s.

Thursday, May 9 and Friday, May 10 will be a few degrees warmer than seasonal, while the weekend and early next week will be nearly 10 degrees above average. This trend of warmer than average temperatures should persist through the next two weeks.

Almanac Last week’s observed temperatures and rainfall (May 2-8)(Hi/Lo): Thurs: 91/61 Fri: 93/51 Sat: 90/59 Sun: 73/52 Mon: 73/55 (Rain 0.61 in) Tues: 72/57 Wed: 76/55 Brian Rico, Atmospheric Science Major

Weather News The wet cold spring has caused corn farmers in the Midwest to have planted only 7 percent of their normal crop, while the four-year average for this time of year is to have 48 percent in the ground. While this may seem bad, the next few days should be sunny and nice enough to plant new corn crops. This may seem bad, but with the new technologies that have come up in the last 20 years, they will likely have much of the crop put in by the soft deadline of May 15. In fact, in 1992, they put in a record amount of corn in one week, 43 percent of the crop, so there still is hope.

Tyson Tilmont, Atmospheric Science Major

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MUSE ARTSWEEK MUSIC Folk Music Jam Session Friday, May 10, noon, free Wyatt Deck, UC Davis Arboretum

Bring your acoustic instruments, fiddles, guitars, banjos, mandolins, squeeze boxes, etc. to play during the lunch hour. All skill levels are welcomed, and listeners are invited. This event happens almost every Friday.

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Saturday, May 11, 2 p.m., $20/$8 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center

The UC Davis Department of Music presents Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, made up of Jerry Simas on the clarinet, Anna Presler on the violin, Tanya Tomkins on the cello and Eric Zivian on the piano.

Curtis 20/21 Ensemble

Sunday, May 12, 2 p.m., $38/$19 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center The Mondavi Center presents Curtis 20/21 featuring Curtis President and violist Roberto Diaz and Curtis students. The ensemble is the Curtis Institute of Music’s contemporary music ensemble. The group offers a different look at works that continually maintain the ability to surprise audiences.

POETRY Poetry Reading Thursday Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., free Logos Books, 513 Second Street

This is the last poetry evening of the Quinton Duval Poetry Series this year. Katherine Hastings and Iris Jamahl Dunkle will read, and attendees can purchase books and poetry collections signed by the authors at the end of the evening. Light refreshments will be served, and there will be an opportunity to chat with the poets and other guests.

ART/GALLERY 2nd Friday ArtAbout

Friday, May 10, 5 to 9 p.m., free Downtown Davis This monthly evening features open galleries and artists’ receptions at businesses, galleries and other art-friendly locations in Downtown Davis.

Events occur year-round, are free and are open to the public. Many of the venues include receptions, refreshments and opportunities to meet artists.

The schedule of the evening can be found at davisdowntown.com.

DANCE Les 7 Doigts de la Main

Sunday, May 12, 3 p.m., $49/$24.50 Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center Les 7 Doigts de la Main (The Seven Fingers of the Hand) presents PSY, a performance that delves into the underworld of the human psyche.

Psychological issues are contrasted with circus arts language to bring out the humor, beauty and commonality of various disorders. The power of the individual to rise above problems is featured while characters find strength, courage and joy, all while flying through the air.

OTHER Author event: A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson Thursday, May 9, 4 p.m.

Nelson Gallery

A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson

by Jonathan Fineberg is the focus of Thursday evening’s lecture, book signing by the author and reception at the Nelson Gallery. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

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The Great Gatsby is out in theaters on May 10.

By ADAM KHAN Aggie Features Editor

Like Van Gogh’s paintings or the female anatomy, I don’t fully understand The Great Gatsby — they’re all pretty, confusing and taught in my 10th grade curriculum. Unlike the first two, however, I had the chance to see Baz Luhrmann’s newest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel in person at an advanced screening this week.

Well, they say the first time is always painful.

When Fitzgerald completed his literary masterpiece in 1925, he probably didn’t envision a cinematic rendition featuring Jay-Z with a giant BeDazzler. But such is Luhrmann’s style, boldly blending lavish modernity into vintage material, often to beautiful cinematic and financial success. Like polishing old silver, Luhrmann demonstrated a flair for buffing out beloved classics with shiny lights and popular songs with hits like Moulin Rouge! and Romeo and Juliet.

This time around, however, the brilliance of the source material is coated by too thick a layer of polish, murking the story’s power and message with a beautiful, gloopy veneer.

Every student should know the plot of Gatsby from high school English. The film pulls most of its dialogue straight from the text, and follows the plot almost true to form, with only a few liberties taken for cinematic purposes.

Fitzgerald’s motley crew of soulless characters are impeccably cast. Leonardo DiCaprio pulls off a perfect Jay Gatsby, hungry for vindication and success. You can feel his drive, frustration and deflated ego with every determined smile — but then again, DiCaprio has yet to win an Oscar. He is Jay Gatsby.

Tobey Maguire fits the narrator and lonely protagonist Nick Carraway with ease, with the ability to both frolic in the lavishness of Luhrmann’s ridiculousness and distance himself from the debauchery of his peers. But then again, he’s the crying Spider-Man meme. He is Nick Carraway.

Carey Mulligan is absolutely hateable as the illustrious and ethereal Daisy Buchanan, which is a testament to her acting ability. She actually makes you loathe her angelic, somber face as she ruins the lives of everyone around her with grace and reserve.

Joel Edgerton delivers a standout performance as scumbag husband Tom Buchanan, staring down our lovable Leo with mannish swagger and a pure confidence that only money or muscle can instill. Buchanan came from money. Edgerton was totally ripped in Warrior. It works.

Other notable performances include Jason Clarke (who is used to playing the crazy rage card) as the tragic murderer George Wilson, Elizabeth Debicki as gossipgirl Jordan Baker and a delightful surprise with Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan as grizzled gangster Meyer Wolfsheim.

Despite a form-fitting cast and solid acting, the actors lose themselves in the grandeur of Luhrmann’s visual imagination and the film’s jumpy pacing. The plot, tense and natural in the book, seems inorganic and sloppily pieced together in between “Fergalicious” party scenes filled with glitter and champagne. It seems Luhrmann

Original Woodstock acts headline Whole Earth Festival Canned Heat, Barry “The Fish” Melton to perform Saturday

By ANDREW RUSSELL Aggie Arts Writer

In 1969, a small group of art students on our campus organized an event called “The Art Happening,” channeling the spirit of the times into a celebration of love and creativity known today as the Whole Earth Festival. In the same year, on the other side of the country, a weekend-long celebration of peace and music informally named “Woodstock” became a pivotal moment for our society.

Forty-four years later, Whole Earth is proudly playing host to two emissaries of that larger happening, who remain forever linked to it through their era-defining music.

Barry “The Fish” Melton, best known as co-founder of the seminal ’60s rock band Country Joe and the Fish, will be one of the big names present on Saturday evening at the festival’s main stage. This will mark the second time Melton has visited

the event in capacity as a musician, having graced the stage at the first festival circa 1971.

He has long played a prominent role in the local area, retiring in 2009 from the position of Yolo County Defender. His upcoming campus performance is yet another reason to claim him as an upstanding community member.

Melton will be playing alongside the immensely popular blues-rock band, Canned Heat, whose 1969 performance of the hit song “Goin’ Up the Country” was immortalized in the Woodstock motion picture. Colin Borges, member of the local band Tha Dirt Feelin, is particularly excited about Canned Heat’s performance, and with good reason.

“I'm hoping to play flute on stage with Canned Heat on ‘Going Up the Country,’” said Borges, who has been practicing the song with friends in the last few weeks. “The ‘back-to-nature’ lyrics and driving tempo really get us into the festival spirit.” In addition, Borges will have song sheets available for audience

The Pretty Good Gatsby The book we all hated comes to life (again) only had fun filming the grandiose aspect of the book without bothering to capture the sadness behind it.

Another terrible misfire was letting superstar Jay-Z pick the soundtrack for the film, which includes pieces from Florence + the Machine, Lana del Rey, Jack White, Fergie, Beyoncé, Emeli Sandé and the numerous tracks from the trigger-man himself.

Yes, many of the artists featured on the soundtrack are wonderful. But their songs are crudely thrown into the film without any attempt to blend into the actual era, or into the film itself. Florence’s brilliant track gets about 20 seconds of playtime and is too quiet to hear for the majority of its short-lived appearance. Sandé joins the lavish party only to sing a Beyoncé tune. Beyoncé sings Amy Winehouse. Fergie peed on stage in 2005. Why does nobody remember this?

Overall, the majority of modern tracks featured are from HOVA, whose random appearances are so jarring they actually make you laugh. It feels as if Jay walked into the sound studio, pointed at the screen and said, “Movie looks good. But uh, I’d like my songs here, here, here and here. I’d like my wife here, here and here. Also, throw in some Lana for the ladies.”

People will either flock to this film to see Leonardo DiCaprio smile at the camera or because they absolutely love the book. For everyone in between, there’s not much enjoyment to be had.

In the end, The Great Gatsby remains a novel fully appreciated by aged readers and youthful fringe fanatics. Thus, while Luhrmann’s film takes the work in fantastical new directions cinematically, it accomplishes little for the story.

The Great Gatsby stars Toby Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Isla Fisher, is rated PG-13 and opens May 10.

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members keen to join in.

The sense of anticipation around the musicians and their important cultural legacy is reflected on the choice of theme for this year’s festival, the enigmatic but evocative phrase “Time is Art.” “Art is timeless and is an expression of belief, conviction and dedication to a cause, springing from the mind of the interpreter,” said festival director and fifth-year sociocultural anthropology major Brett Lemke, in an email interview. “This year we are taking the festival back to its roots with two timeless bands from the Woodstock era that transcend labels.”

Lemke has also worked closely with Canned Heat as a web designer, biographer and tour manager, making the group’s appearance at Whole Earth possible.

Saturday’s performances will be a highlight of the weekend and prove that the festival is a vital celebration of music, art and community. Skip Taylor, the longtime manager for Canned Heat, provided a closing word for this standout event at 2013’s Whole Earth Festival.

“Personally, I do hope that as many folks as possible come out to enjoy a band that is still at the top of their game and take this opportunity to watch and listen to four of the best musicians anywhere in the music industry, in any genre of music today. And, as one of the founders of Canned Heat, Bob “The Bear” Hite, who is now playing the blues in heaven, used to say, ‘Don't Forget To Boogie!’”

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

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UC Davis alum judges Discovery Channel competition ‘The Big Brain Theory’ places engineers in different mental challenges

By JOHN KESLER Aggie Arts Writer

A new Discovery Channel show can be summed up as “The Apprentice,” but with engineers. The show, called “The Big Brain Theory,” places engineers in a series of challenges, which include disarming bombs on speeding trucks, creating a machine that can feed tourists and creating a robot that can compete in multiple athletic events. One of the judges is Dr. Christine Gulbranson, a UC Davis graduate. MUSE spoke with Gulbranson about her career and her work on “The Big Brain Theory.”

MUSE: Your website says that you have five degrees from UC Davis. How long were you here and how was the experience?

Gulbranson: I believe I went there for eight years. I absolutely adore Davis. It’s a phenomenal campus, small enough to feel like you're at home but big enough to let you study many different subjects at the same. When I was there, I earned a bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. in material science and engineering, a bachelor’s in physics, and an MBA. I earned my MBA in 1996 and my Ph.D. in 1997.

MUSE: What did you do after graduating from UC Davis?

Gulbranson: My first job out of school was as the director of research collaborations for [the] UC Office of the President.

It was fantastic and was my first foray into investments, and I managed to fund a collaborative effort between the campuses and some national labs at the time, including Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Then I went to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in their indus-

trial partnership and commercialization department and started an incubator, which facilitated sending out technology from the national laboratories. After this, I received an award from the MIT Technology Review as one of the top 100 incubators of the 21st century, which was a turning point for me, as I became a venture capitalist after that.

I left my first firm after that to gain some operational experience, forming some startup companies in the nanotechnology field.

I also went into the strategic advising field, advising Fortune 1000 companies and various international governments. Along the way I joined the Kaufman Foundation, a 2-million-dollar fund that goes into creating more entrepreneurs, the backbone of our economy. I was the CEO and started the first renewable energy accelerator, the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization. I have my own strategic advisory firm, Christalis, which I have had for many years. Most recently, about a year ago, I started and launched another group, the Advanced Energy Economy, which is a national business federation that represents the advanced energy industry. And then I became a full time judge for “The Big Brain Theory.”

MUSE: How did you become involved with “The Big Brain Theory”?

Gulbranson: It emphasizes how important your social network is. A friend of mine said they were looking for judges and that I should consider it. I sat with that for a day, wondering if I wanted to go into television because it was a new experience for me. I ended up reaching out to the casting director and it went on from there.

MUSE: Who have you worked with on the show?

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UC Davis graduate Dr. Christine Gulbranson is a judge on the Discovery Channel’s “The Big Brain Theory.”

Gulbranson: Kal Penn is the host, so he's there full time. The other full time judge is Mark Fuller, who is the CEO of WET (Water Entertainment Technologies) Design.

We also have a slew of guest judges including Buzz Aldrin, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, Mars Rover flight director Bobak Ferdowsi, Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson, Mike Massimino, who was the first astronaut to tweet in space and Adam Steltzner, another UC Davis graduate. I am sure there are more I am forgetting, but Mark and I were there every week.

MUSE: How was it like to work on “The Big Brain Theory”?

Gulbranson: It was a blast. It was amazingly fun to see such talented competitors being given these amazing challenges and

13th annual UC Davis Film Festival selects student films Varsity Theater hosts festival this month

By CRISTINA FRIES Aggie Arts Writer

Students will be given the opportunity to feature their films on the big screen at the 13th annual UC Davis Film Festival. This twonight event at the Varsity Theatre presents short films by UC Davis undergraduates and recent graduates, providing an opening night party at Vini Wine Bar, live entertainment, a raffle and awards for students with best films.

Each year, between 60 and 80 films are submitted, and only about two dozen are selected by professors to be featured at the festival.

“The festival’s purpose is to celebrate film and to show Davis and our community that student film can be very well-produced.

Our students on this campus

have so much creativity and talent, and to have a chance to show their work at The Varsity is amazing for all of our submitters,” said Jessie Philipps, executive student producer and fourth-year communication major.

The creative works range in length, style, genre and approach.

Technical director and third-year technocultural studies and English double-major Kathleen Stilson said the films students submit fall under a variety of genres.

“There are no categories for submission, so people can submit whatever genre they’d like, and this is done for the purpose of creativity. We have a lot of good talent and we get many different types of films,” Stilson said. “There are dramas, animations, claymations, experimental films, documentaries, commercials, live-action — it’s all

over the map.”

Over the years, the Film Festival has seen film styles evolve due to changing technologies, film techniques and popular taste of the time.

“As time goes on, I’d say that different types of films have become more frequent, like documentary and live-action films.

There used to be a lot more experimental film and individual projects and I think now it has become a lot more of a collaboration where people are using production crews,” Stilson said.

“It’s interesting to see how the film community has grown and evolved.”

The event first began through the Department of Theatre and Dance and has since expanded, collaborating with the art studio and technocultural studies departments.

seeing how they perform. What excited me about this show was the promotion of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), and that this was an amazing venue and platform to promote STEM and get people of all ages excited for engineering, math and science.

MUSE: Do you have any advice for college students today?

Gulbranson: For those who are studying science and engineering: it is doable. It may look scary at first, but take a look at how individuals built up and got out there to create something. You can do whatever you set your mind to. That's always been my philosophy.

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

However, this is the first year that the UC Davis Film Festival is run by a student organization.

Philipps said that this allows the group to grow a stronger presence on campus.

“This year, we’ve expanded our outreach and gained many sponsors for the event. Although it’s a UC Davis production, it’s also a community event, and we wanted to outreach to the broader region, like Woodland and Sacramento,” Philipps said.

Vini Wine Bar in downtown Davis will be hosting an opening night event, providing discounted wine for audience members. Thanks to sponsorships, the event will include awards for the best films and a raffle for audience members. Prizes vary, from Rocknasium passes, Whole Foods and Yolo Berry gift cards, to cooking classes at the Davis Food Co-op and more.

“This year is going to be much bigger than last year’s event. We’re going to have a red carpet, media coverage, performers outside the theater and a party at Vini Wine Bar on opening night. We’re setting the festival up to be one of the major events on campus. This year’s event is the precedent and it’s only going to get bigger,” Stil-

son said.

Not only will this festival entertain audiences, but it also provides rare opportunities for students and it can possibly inspire future artists.

Emilio Rychard, assistant student director and fourth-year film studies and philosophy doublemajor, noted the importance of such an event for both students who hope to follow a career in film and those who merely enjoy filmmaking as a pastime.

“I’m excited for the students to have a chance to make films and present them at the Varsity Theatre. Maybe they’re aspiring filmmakers, and now they have the opportunity to show their work on a big screen as undergrads,” Rychard said. “Those who are selected and who win awards show effort, drive and talent that will take them far in their careers.”

The UC Davis Film Festival runs from May 22 to 23 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 for one night and $10 for both nights and can be purchased at The Varsity Theatre or at the UC Davis Film Festival booth in front of the Memorial Union.

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

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Unitrans has been building a fleet of sustainable buses that run on compressed natural gas.

A NEW GREEN PARADIGM UC Davis leads by example in sustainable policy

Unitrans fleet strives to be green UC Davis buses utilize natural gas

By HANNAH KRAMER and NICOLE NOGA Aggie Features Writer and Aggie Science Writer

With UC Davis’ eco-friendly biking community, some cringe at the thought of climbing aboard a diesel-guzzling city bus. But with Unitrans now operating 44 of its 49 vehicles on alternative fuels, students can hitch a ride without worrying too much about excessive emissions.

For the past 20 years, Unitrans has been slowly building a sustainable fleet of classic buses, London double-deckers and Tipsy Taxis through a methodical process of replacing outdated diesel engines with ones that burn compressed natural gas (CNG).

“There have been many people pushing [for CNG use] in the transit world,” said Unitrans Maintenance Manager Andrew Wyly.

Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel.

It is composed mainly of methane, and products of natural gas combustion are carbon dioxide and water vapor. Coal and oil energy sources are composed of more complex molecules, making more harmful products such as sulfur dioxide, in addition to ash and other particulate matter.

Compressed natural gas produces 70 percent of the CO2 compared to gasoline. In the United States, over 100,000 vehicles run on natural gas, and 62 percent of those vehicles are transit buses. “[Compressed natural gas] utilizes the same kind of gas that you would get from your stove at home, except we compress it at 3200 psi and deliver it to our vehicles,” Wyly said. “The majority of our fleet runs on natural gas — about 44 out of 49 [vehicles] — including one of the retrofitted antique double deckers.”

Upon realizing that there was a high supply and relatively low environmental impact associated with natural gas, federal and state entities began to set aside incentive dollars to help with Unitrans’ and others’ initial startup costs.

While substituting natural gas for gasoline inherently results in the release of fewer environmentally detrimental emissions, monetary cost is severely reduced as well.

“The great advantage is the price. When compared to the price of gasoline, we’re paying less than $1.50 per unit of natural gas [compared to $4.00 per unit of gasoline],” Wyly said.

Performance and efficiency are not lost in the changeover, and when considering the environmental and monetary benefits, it’s no wonder that Unitrans saw natural gas as an attractive fuel source.

Despite speculation over fracking, an environmentally-unfriendly method of obtaining natural gas, workers at Unitrans feel that the benefits are too great in the long term to pass up.

“The environmental benefits of using natural

gas outweighs [the impact of fracking],” said Beccah Warmack, a fourth-year biotechnology major.

Warmack went on to say that while fracking is an unfortunate practice, when comparing years’ worth of diesel emissions with natural gas emissions, CNG is the cleaner way to go.

As Unitrans approaches a full fleet of sustainably-fueled vehicles, the group has tackled the toughest project of all: refurbishing the iconic London-style double decker buses.

“It’s sustainability to the extreme: We’re reusing a product that’s been on the road since 1950, and we’re keeping it on the road using modern technology,” Wyly said.

The older-style buses proved tougher to work on than modern vehicles, and with a different engine and battery location innovations were needed to keep the buses up to standard. Students and engineers decided to move the CNG tanks from the roof of the buses to underneath the chassis, a move that came with its own set of problems, according to Marissa Reis, UC Davis alumna and contracted Unitrans shop worker.

Thanks to creativity and problem solving, the team was able to devise a solution by moving the location of the batteries to ensure proper ventilation.

“These buses, because they are so old, need to be remodeled every 10 years anyway,” Reis said. “When it was time for this guy, we thought, it’s time that we switch the engine over to CNG. The bus itself will run longer with natural gas, and it will burn so much cleaner.”

When considering whether to continue burning diesel every day for 10 years, or take the time to replace the engine with something that would burn cleaner, Reis said that it was a no-brainer to do the right thing for the environment.

In the coming years, Wyly expects the lighting in Unitrans facility will eventually be LEDs (light emitting diodes), cutting operation costs and energy usage. Rather than buying new materials for retrofitting, the Unitrans facility reuses parts of older vehicles. Wyly also discussed the possibility of converting the newer double decker buses to run on natural gas in the future.

However, there are structural complications involved that could take time to sort out.

According to the UC Davis Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS), around 46 percent of the campus population uses bicycles as their primary form of transportation, while 24 percent drive alone, 18 percent take the bus, 6 percent carpool, 6 percent walk or skate, and 1 percent use the train.

“Our goal is for more people [to] ride their bikes or walk to campus,” said Scott Weintraub, Unitrans operations manager. “But overall, public transportation is much more environmentally friendly than one individual driving their car to campus every day.”

HANNAH KRAMER can be reached at features@ theaggie.org. NICOLE NOGA can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

By KELLY MITCHELL Aggie Science Writer

UC Davis continuously pushes toward sustainability in many aspects both on campus and off, including energy conservation, waste reduction, efficient transportation and others. UC Davis’ policies have made us the No. 1 “Cool School,” according to Sierra Magazine. UC Davis prides itself on being an environmentally friendly campus and constructs and utilizes these policies to ensure we have the smallest environmental footprint possible.

All across campus, people are striving to be more sustainable. This includes the dormitory buildings and dining commons, who ship off all the leftover food to become compost.

Project Compost takes this food away from the Silo and several other locations on campus, including the three resident dining commons and Gunrock Pub, and turns it into nutrient-rich compost at the UC Davis Student Farm and the Zamora Composting Facility, north of Woodland. The compost is used by farmers and vintners to fertilize their soil.

UC Davis’ policy extends far beyond waste reduction, however. UC Davis’ construction policy aims to construct new buildings that conform to the highest environmental standards. Even older structures have been improved over time to improve their efficiency.

Sid England, the assistant vice chancellor of Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability, elaborated on how UC Davis continues to move toward sustainability, even in older structures.

“We give them [a] tune-up, just like how you take care of your car. We go through to make improvements to keep old buildings up to date,” he said.

Another part of UC Davis’ sustainable campus life is the campus and city transportation, Unitrans. As a major part of student life, Unitrans has also taken great strides to be a convenient and environmentally sustainable mode of transport.

“Almost all our buses have been converted to run on clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG) ...

Out of our fleet, only a few run on biodiesel,” said Teri Sheets, Unitrans assistant general manager.

Since 1972, Davis Waste Removal has been responsible for dealing with off-campus waste. By 1976, DWR had taken over the Davis recycling program and now allows 24/7 drop-offs for recycling.

“In 2012, we diverted 21,025 tons from the landfill. This total includes green waste, food waste — a pilot project — and the usual recycled materials [such as] paper, glass, cans, plastic and cardboard,” said John Geisler, an operations manager from Davis Waste Removal. “I’d like residents and students to know that they can recycle all the same materials whether they live in a single-family home or an apartment complex.”

Both UC Davis and the City of Davis continue to improve their sustainability through research.

Another piece of technology to come out of UC Davis’ green research programs is a biodigester created by Ruihong Zhang, a UC Davis professor of biological and agricultural engineering. The biodigestor is capable of taking our waste and converting it into usable energy for our campus. Using anaerobic respiration, bacteria in the biodigestor break down our food waste and create methane gas that we then burn for energy.

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The Ramble relies on sustainable energy to power the complex and was developed to be zero net energy.

Cool Davis organizers aim for more sustainable city Carbon neutrality top priority for community, city leaders

By PAAYAL ZAVERI Aggie News Writer

The City of Davis is known for its sustainability and commitment to energy efficiency, as Davis was the first city to adopt the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. A Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, also referred to as the Climate Action Plan, was created in 2010 to achieve this goal.

As a result, a group of citizens came together and started the Cool Davis Initiative, a grassroots organization intended to help the city achieve the goals from its Climate Action Plan.

“We started with a small group of people to implement the city’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan,” said Lynne Nittler, one of the founding members of Cool Davis. “Now after three years, we have a lot more people involved and name recognition in the community. We are ready to seek out grants for new projects.”

Since 2010, Cool Davis has held a festival each fall to help promote their cause and inform the community of new efforts they are undertaking.

Over the last year, under the leadership of Cool Davis, the City of Davis has been participating in the Cool California Challenge. The campaign encourages cities to lower their greenhouse gas emissions one household at a time. Residents are encour-

aged to visit the Cool California Challenge website and log their utilities and transportation usage.

According to Cool Davis volunteer Christine Backman, Davis is currently in first place and they are hoping to win the challenge, which ends on May 31.

Previous workshops Backman described the many workshops Cool Davis has hosted to help encourage and inform residents of ways to reduce their energy usage.

One of the their most recent workshops in February was a Cool Home workshop held at the Mary L. Stephen’s Davis Branch Library. It was open to community members who wanted to learn how to measure their energy usage and improve home energy use.

“We showed people how to log on to the Cool California Challenge website and how to use the PG&E [Pacific Gas and Electric] website to do a self-audit of their energy use,” Backman said. “We also informed people that the library rents out wattmeters for free.”

A wattmeter measures how much energy a particular appliance consumes.

Nittler said that getting 75 percent of households involved and lowering their carbon footprint by 2015 is one of their short-term goals.

After the Cool California Challenge ends, Cool Davis will launch a new campaign in 2014 called the One Cool City Campaign, which has the same goals: reducing greenhouse gas emissions in transportation, energy usage and consumption.

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New interpretive center to be built at west end of Arboretum UC Davis takes green approach to renovations, seeks to lower carbon emissions

By LAUREN MASCARENHAS Aggie News Writer

As California architecture continues to become greener, UC Davis is leading the charge, making sustainability a key point in its renovations and plans to expand more campus facilities into the Arboretum.

“All of UC and our campus in particular has ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing water use and reducing waste,” said Bob Segar, assis-

tant vice chancellor of Campus Planning and Community Resources, in an email interview.

These goals are going to be kept in mind when expanding the campus.

According to Segar, they are planning a new interpretive center at the west end of the Arboretum.

“The building will maximize use of the passive architecture and on-site systems,” Segar said.

This approach to expanding the campus will allow buildings to be shaped by their surrounding environment, utilizing natural lighting and cooling techniques.

Natural resources will be incorporated when constructing buildings in the future, as well.

“We try to take advantage of what Mother

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LIVING GREEN AT UC DAVIS The Ramble apartments offer zero-net energy living for students

By ALYSSA KUHLMAN Aggie Features Writer

West Village, a housing complex located on the UC Davis campus, is the largest zero net energy planned community in the nation.

The community currently offers The Ramble Apartments for UC Davis students, Viridian Apartments for UC Davis undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and will be opening 475 single family homes in the next few months. Solstice Apartments are also currently under construction and will house more UC Davis students. West Village also includes the campus of Sacramento City College, a part of the Los Rios Community College District.

This community, a $280 million project funded with the help of $7.5 million in federal and state grants to study zero net energy systems, offers residents a sustainable atmosphere that saves the environment and teaches them to live in an eco-friendly fashion.

The apartments include floors made of 50 percent recycled material and countertops made from recycled quartz, water-saving toilets, showers and ceiling fans. This all contributes to West Village’s 50 percent reduction in energy usage compared to traditionally designed buildings.

Kendra Chan, a second-year evolutionary, ecology and biodiversity major, said she liked the fact that The Ramble had solar panels on the roofs of the buildings, along with other aspects of the apartment complex.

“I definitely like it here, the atmosphere is relaxed and the facilities are really nice,” she said.

Sid England, assistant vice chancellor of Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability at UC Davis, reports that West Village measures its net energy annually to assure that it equals zero.

Zero-net energy involves a process in which the amount of energy being put in is the same amount that comes out. This is usually made possible by solar panels, geothermal or hot water heating, along with wind and solar power. This can significantly reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and fossil fuels.

According to Erika Perez, the marketing and relations manager of West Village, residents are also encouraged to turn off their lights before leaving the room, close the blinds to keep the apartment cool and open up the windows in the evening to have the natural delta breeze current come and cool the apartment.

“Our residents, on top of having [many] green aspects [in the community], really take an active role in incorporating green techniques in their everyday lifestyles to really help achieve the overall goal of being a net zero energy community,” Perez said.

While the 1,280 residents of The Ramble primarily include UC Davis students, there is also a small number of Sacramento City College students living in the complex. A certain percentage of Sacramento City College students are allowed to live at The Ramble, yet the community is still primarily for housing UC Davis students.

As West Village offers living for more students, it also serves as an inspiration for the inception of other sustainable environmental goals, such as UC Davis’ prospective first ever biodigester. The biodigester would be on the far western end of campus on the old landfill site.

The biodigester would further carry out the energy-saving goals modeled in West Village, according to England.

“It’s a winner,” England said. “We get to avert waste from landfills, generate green renewable energy, and we get to promote our own research products from the campus with our own research technologies.”

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

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Science +Tech THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE Security For those who believe in government conspiracies, here’s a good one for you. There has long been talk in the internet security community to create what is known as the “quantum internet,” otherwise known as an internet with perfect security. Apparently, researchers at the Los Alamos National Labs have had a quantum internet up and running for over two years. A quantum internet would function on the principle that observing a quantum particle would change its properties such that any individual who is authorized to view the data would immediately be able to know if it had been viewed before.

This kind of security would completely eradicate hacking attempts on banks and other government and financial institutions.

Human Brain Until recently, scientists have thought that fungi were the only organisms that could naturally produce antibiotic agents, or chemicals that can kill bacteria. A recent brain study has found that the immune cells in the human brain produce a substance known as itaconic acid, which effectively inhibits bacterial growth. It is the first ever “endogenous” antibiotic discovered in a mammal.

Disease Well, scientists have gone and done it again, flaunting knowledge perhaps a little too indiscriminately. In past years, the human populace has been terrorized by the infamous H1N1, and more recently, the H7N9 and H5N1 flu viruses. By mixing genes from the H1N1 and H5N1 viruses, geneticists have created a hybrid flu that can be transmitted effectively through the air. Since these viruses are particularly effective against mammalian DNA, another pandemic could be in the works if the hybrid is not properly contained.

Medical Breakthrough If you’ve ever watched the movie Sphere, you may remember the super futuristic scuba suits they wore, the ones where the divers had to breathe liquid oxygen. They did that because the liquid oxygen was less susceptible to compression at great depths than its vapor counterpart. Recently, scientists have created “injectable oxygen” that can open up many pathways for deepwater exploration. The discovery came as a side product of the development of a nanoparticle that stores about three to four times as much oxygen as a normal red blood cell.

It is meant to be injected into patients who are suffering respiratory failure, and can keep those patients alive, preventing them from getting brain damage or a heart attack from lack of oxygen.

Addiction Researchers at the Scripps Institute in San Diego have just created a “vaccine” for heroin that completely removes a patient’s desire to seek out the drug. Although not yet tested on humans, the vaccine is ready for human trials after extensive testing on rats. Heroin-addicted rats were put through withdrawal, given the vaccine, and then put into close proximity to heroin again. The rats that were given the vaccine made no effort to seek out the heroin. The vaccine is meant to help patients who are trying to quit and to prevent relapses, not to immediately remove an addiction.

Life Expectancy UCLA researchers have discovered that by boosting the efficacy of a single gene in fruit flies, they were able to increase the average lifespan by 28 percent. The gene, known as Parkin, has been shown to be closely related to the onset of Parkinson’s disease when defective. The gene’s normal function is to recycle old proteins and mitochondria inside of cells. When mitochondria deteriorate throughout our lives, we begin to see the signs of “aging,” and boosting this gene can prevent that deterioration from occurring as quickly.

Double-edged sword One of the most commonly used substances in building construction and product manufacturing is flame retardant. These substances save countless lives by preventing fire from consuming things as quickly. However, this same substance has also recently been linked to lower IQs and extreme hyperactivity in young children. For every two-fold increase in a mother’s exposure to these materials, their infants experience a one-point drop in IQ. Flame retardants have also been shown to damage mammalian thyroid systems and brain development in newborns.

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

UC Davis, LEEDing the way to a brighter future RMI and Teaching Winery take giant steps toward change

By EMILY SEFEROVICH Aggie Science Writer

Upon the very first glimpse of the UC Davis campus on the central valley skyline, it’s likely that freeway passerby and prospective and current students alike will have seen the modern-esque facilities located on the Interstate 80 face of campus — The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and the North and South Mondavi Institute (RMI) buildings. These structures, which were built with the help of a $35 million donation by viticulture tycoon Robert Mondavi and his wife Margrit, attract an undeniable amount of attention from artistic thrill-seekers and viticulture experts alike.

“UC Davis has been a true partner in building the international reputation of the California wine industry,” said Robert Mondavi in an interview posted on the UC Davis RMI homepage. “California wines are equal to the world’s best in quality, diversity and excitement. We are now leading the way with UC Davis graduates at the helm of many of our finest wineries.

We are greatly honored to support UC Davis with new facilities that ensure its position as the world’s leading educational center for viticulture, enology and food science.”

Acting as more than just additions to an attractive campus, the rust-colored RMI North and RMI South buildings, which add a pinch of aesthetic bling to the UC Davis gateway, are in fact a part of UC Davis’ groundbreaking sustainability efforts that have garnered both international praise and noteworthy certification. Additionally, July of 2010 saw the opening of a revolutionary adjunct to these collegiate sustainability efforts in the form of the UC Davis Research and Teaching Winery.

These “green” facilities, all of which traditionally harbor laboratories and offices exclusive to the various nutrition, food science, food chemistry and viticulture majors, are an entirely new breed of collegiate facility. The Robert

Mondavi Institutes of Wine and Food Science are some of the first collegiate facilities to be LEED certified, and the winery itself is one of the first buildings in the world to be furnished with the elite LEED Platinum certification, the highest possible ranking given to sustainable architecture.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is an internationally-recognized green building construction standards agency that measures the sustainability of materials used and overall structural design of a building.

“The new teaching and research winery and vineyard are game-changers for the winemaking and grape growing program at UC Davis,” said Andrew Waterhouse, a renowned UC Davis viticulture chemist, in a press release. “They will help California winemaking advance dramatically in both quality and sustainability.”

The new winery, designed for viticulture-based research, is continuously used as a testing ground for sustainability experimentations on viticulture techniques — water, soil, energy and computerization methods are enacted to conserve energy and maximize efficiency. The objective of the experimental winery is to assist in the development of streamlined practices that can be implemented across the entire wine industry.

“The ultimate goal is to make the winery entirely self-sustainable,” Waterhouse said. “The new Jackson building will contain systems that make it possible for the winery to be operated solely from rainwater, sequestered CO2 and solar energy. The Jackson will be the first certified UC Davis campus building to yield net zero energy, only the second in California.”

Waterhouse emphasized the fact that UC Davis-based facilities such as these are not only iconic of campus ingenuity and sustainability efforts, but also act to inspire a positive ripple effect of architectural inventiveness for viticulture centers on an international level.

“No other viticulture and enology research organization has a facility with these capabilities,” said David Block, vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology.

Over and above the sustainable approaches implemented by the RMI science facility and teaching winery, it’s crucial to note the pioneering viticultural techniques, methodologies and technologies that are employed within these buildings. To maximize the potential of the various brewing processes, an intricate, mathematically integrative series of smart-sensors responsible for meeting the meticulous desires of the wine-makers have been installed.

“The creation of these sensors involved applying complex mathematical procedures in order to extract precise measurements from an inherently ‘noisy’ (ambiguous) fermentation environment, and then transmitting that data to a secure computer server using the latest radio frequency technology,” said Roger Boulton in a press release regarding the specific benefits of the new RMI and wine teaching facilities.

Boulton is a winery engineering expert and the Stephen Sinclair Scott Endowed Chair in Enology at UC Davis.

In the technological era in which we live, the search for “green” technology is irrefutably coupled with the imminent progression and pursuit of the technology itself. Sustainability, a concept that is paramount in the minds of consumers and producers alike, is an enduring expectation laced throughout the foundations of modern industry — a response to the caveat of global climate change. The UC Davisbased architectural and viticultural initiatives, which take further steps to increase efficiency and minimize industrial impact on climate, may very well lead the way in the pursuit of sustainable innovation in the global viticultural and enological industries.

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

Gradebot speeds up grading experiAutomated grading program aims to increase student-faculty interaction

By RITIKA IYER Aggie Features Writer

The notion of a future where learning environments are dictated by machines is an uneasy one at best. However, the Gradebot, a new automated grading program developed by UC Davis Computer Science Associate Professor Hao Chen, is being used to reduce an ever-increasing workload for professors and faculty and provide more time for one-onone interaction with students.

“The Gradebot is a tool and a service which allows the system to grade a massive number of homework assignments quickly,” Chen said. “Whenever the student submits a homework assignment, the Gradebot will grade it immediately and will provide feedback to the student, so the student can receive immediate feedback.”

When a student registered in either Engineering Computer Science (ECS) 30, 40 or 60 needs to complete programming homework, they can log on to the Gradebot website, gradebot.org, and work on it an unlimited amount of times before the deadline. Each time a student submits a program, Gradebot runs testing scripts on the work and immediately gives the student feedback on which test cases their programs passed and failed.

“You can get a lot of the tests right, but if one of the tests is wrong and you keep on changing your program and it doesn’t work, it’s frustrating,” said third-year managerial economics major and ECS 30 student Vinzent Davies. “I feel like Gradebot is a small child that is really picky about what they eat. Gradebot won’t eat your program unless it’s exactly what it wants.”

In winter of 2011, Chen spent two weeks creating the core functions of the Gradebot, mainly for the purpose of combating increased enrollment in computer science and engineering classes. This, paired with budget cuts, has decreased the department’s teaching assistant count as well, creating an even larger problem.

“I taught programming classes and these are the problems that I observed myself, and so those became the motivation for developing the Gradebot,” Chen said. “When these problems happen, students are not happy and I’m not happy. I wanted to make the classes more efficient and more effective.”

An example of a large class in need of teaching assistants can be seen in computer science professor Premkumar Devanbu’s ECS 30 class, in which the 225 students are given two to five programming assignments each week. Before

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Devanbu became one of the first professors to use the automated grading program in his classroom last quarter, his teaching assistants were spending 20 to 25 hours grading 1,000 programs every week.

“I think it’s a perfect tool to solve a pressing problem. On one hand, we have the budget cuts, so we have fewer and fewer instructional resources. On the other hand, we have more and more students,” Chen said. “The Gradebot is the perfect tool to solve both of these problems at once.”

When students have a problem with a programming assignment on Gradebot, they are encouraged to seek help from undergraduate tutors, teaching assistants and their professors, who now all have more time for these interactions. Davies said that with Gradebot in his ECS 30 class, he has collaborated with his fellow students and outside help more than ever.

“Face-time is really important, especially in these big classes and for freshmen that are new to this whole university experience,” Devanbu said. “I’m grateful for Gradebot because it promotes this opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the students.”

For some staff at UC Davis, the Gradebot demonstrates a huge step forward in the development of a detailed and structured grading system, in which students benefit from innovative teaching strategies for large class sizes.

“If you use an online teaching tool well, it can really improve teaching and learning,” said Rosemary Capps, assistant director at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. “Auto-graders are really good at working on assignments where details matter and details need to be exactly right.”

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The cat’s meow Veterinary professors create guide for finding the perfect ball of fur

By ADAM KHAN Aggie Features Editor

In an age of constant motion, utter uncertainty and continual change, the idea of raising a pet that will love you for decades to come is easily frightening to most college students. What better way to circumvent this fear than by adopting a cat, who will probably hate you no matter what you do?

UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine professors Benjamin L. and Lynette A. Hart recently published a comprehensive guide for selecting the perfect feline companion, entitled Your Ideal Cat: Insight into Breed and Gender Differences in Cat Behavior. Detailing the differences in personality traits between the most commonly owned breeds, the Harts provide an easy-to-follow roadmap for selecting the right kitten to complement an individual’s personality.

Dr. Benjamin stated that his motivation to complete the work was based off of people’s lack of knowledge between the many breeds available today.

“When we think about people getting cats, they don’t think in terms of behavior differences,” Benjamin said. “They don’t even recognize the diversity of cat breeds out there. We think that people would like

information to give them more thought to the kitten they’re going to adopt.”

Like dogs, different breeds of cat are reliably associated with varying personality traits, from aggression to cleanliness to vocalization. Unfortunately, most adopters choose their little balls of fur off of morphology instead of personality, sometimes to disastrous results.

Third-year landscape architecture major Sarah Skinker adopted two Bengal kittens in September of 2012 from the Veterinary Medicine Center Feline Research Facility.

When it was announced in her freshman seminar that many of the Bengals used for research would likely be euthanized, she sympathized and rescued two beautiful babies with her roommate.

Unbeknownst to her, Bengal cats are a hybrid of domestic shorthair (the most commonly found house cat in the U.S.) and the Asian Leopard Cat, a wild feline that roams the forests of Asia. Thus, while Bengals are easily one of the most beautiful breed of cats, they are also the most energetic and wild.

“Immediately upon getting them as kittens they destroyed furniture, knocked over everything in sight, constantly ran around in circles around my apartment and got into everything they could,” Skinker said. “We thought it was a kitten phase, but never stopped.”

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The Hutchison Corridor project is under construction and the Hutchison and Bioletti way intersection has already been completed.

The North Quad Corridor project is currently in the planning stages.

There were many recommendations according to Takemoto-Weerts, but some didn’t take into account the cost of the projects.

One project that was completed in April 2013 was the conversion of Old Davis Road to a bike-and-pedestrian path only, said Kurt Wengler, project manager.

“The road will now connect to A Street and close off the Arboretum to vehicle traffic,” Wengler said. “It is now a much safer path for bikes and pedestrians. We also made improvements to paths in the Arboretum itself.”

As of May 2013 the project is mostly completed with the exception of a gate at the Arboretum center. The project cost about $2.9 million.

Wengler said the next project they would be working on is the conversion of Putah Creek

Over the next year, Skinker and her roommate attempted to live peacefully with their two feline housemates, but their energy and wild side proved too much to handle with the demands of college life. They resolved to giving the pair to family friends, where they’ve been living peacefully with more space for over a year. While Skinker was happy to have saved their lives, she admits she’ll think about the type of cat before jumping into another rough relationship.

That’s where the Harts and their handy guide come in.

The married duo was already familiar with the process of gathering viable data on personality traits after they published a similar guide on dogs. They surveyed feline veterinarians who treat a wide range of breeds multiple times on a daily basis. Over a period of two years, they gathered veterinary specialist’s opinions on each breed, ranking them on aggression, fearfulness, urine marking, vocalization, predation on songbirds and more for 17 different breeds. They then took the data and, with the help of a statistician, produced a useful visual system for comparing the

Lodge Road to a bike-and-pedestrian path only. Another aim of this project is to improve connectivity to the Health Sciences district.

The estimated cost for that project is $3.4 million, an amount that includes costs for parking lot improvements in addition to the bike path projects.

The bike path project, which includes narrowing of the path, landscaping work and a turnaround for cars, is estimated to cost about $200,000.

“We really want to improve connectivity from central campus to the Health Sciences District,” Wengler said.

Dulcich said there are no other roads planned for conversion to bike-and-pedestrian paths only, but improving existing bike paths and allowing for safer pedestrian traffic is an important goal.

One example was Kleiber Hall Drive, which was expanded to make room for a separate pedestrian walkway.

“UC Davis provides a safe, efficient and welcoming environment to encourage campus employees to choose cycling as their preferred commute method,” Takemoto-Weerts said.

PAAYAL ZAVERI can be reached at campus@theaggie.org

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work,” said Mayor Joe Krovoza at the community budget meeting.

Additionally, the city established a public-private partnership in March with techDAVIS, a nonprofit business association meant to further the connections between the city and the technology industry. The city and techDAVIS have equally shared funding a new municipal Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) in the hopes of improving the current budget, fostering technology-based economic development and, ultimately, generating more revenue for the city.

“As Davis strives to expand its technology sector, the newly created CIO position will significantly enhance the city’s economic development capabilities. Utilizing my strong ties to the San Francisco East Bay and the federal research labs, I

am hopeful that the partnership between the city and techDAVIS will result in an opportunity to accelerate research, entrepreneurial activity and growth in technology businesses across Davis,” said Interim Managing Director of techDAVIS David Morris in a March 6 press release.

With the new proposals, along with speculation for new creative approaches to revenue accumulation, the City of Davis has yet to determine what budget path to take.

“With the latest changes we have had to function in, I feel confident that this community will survive and thrive,” Pinkerton said. “Change is always painful, but this budget in particular signals that we can manage and overcome.”

GABRIELLA HAMLETT can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

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In fact, the program is still evolving to fit the needs of both students and faculty. Since its inception, Chen has been adding features to the Gradebot, specifically in securing the system from outside threats, including blocking cheating between students.

Other features of the current Gradebot include the teacher’s ability to track their students’ homework progress, a scoreboard for students to see how their peers are performing in the class, designed to encourage competition, as well as program plagiarism recognition.

The newest teaching method added to the program, to be implemented in Devanbu’s ECS 30 class in the coming weeks, is the in-class quick quiz, in which students submit a short assign-

spread of behavior for both gender and breed.

In the end, the Harts feel that finding the right cat is about empowering yourself with knowledge and finding a breed that suits your needs.

“People are going to live with a cat longer than a dog,” Lynette said. “It will be a rewarding relationship if they match your personality.”

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2011 than the number of those who regularly used cocaine, hallucinogens, heroin and inhalants combined.

“We encourage all of our law enforcement partners to participate in this outstanding community event by hosting a collection site,” Rettig said in an email interview. “The goal of the program is to allow citizens of Northern California to deliver all of their unused, unwanted or expired medications to law enforcement officials who can, in turn, dispose of these controlled substances in a safe, secure and non-hazardous manner, potentially saving lives and protecting the ecosystem.”

The disposal of the pills is done through incineration, in accordance with federal and state environmental guidelines, according to Rettig.

“The biggest risk for harm with regard to expired medications or medications around the house that aren’t being used is that they will be accidentally ingested by children,” said Dr. Tom Ferguson, medical director and physician at UC Davis Student Health and Counseling Services.

“Medications that control blood pressure in adults can kill a child from heart blocks.”

According to Ferguson, the abuse of prescription narcotics and ADHD medicine is quickly becoming a leading cause of death in young adults in the United States.

“People ingest opiates recreationally or become addicted to opiates, and there is a fine line between abusing for recreation and stopping your heart or stopping breathing,” Ferguson said.

SYDNEY COHEN can be reached at city@ theaggie.org.

in session.

“We feel Davis is a good location because [it] is a community that loves good food and is willing to pay a little more for it,” Coletta said. “We are targeting college university centers like Davis, and we already have locations near two universities — UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California.”

The franchise has been in business since September 2011 and they have 15 locations across California. Some are restaurants and some are buses.

The chain has a fleet of buses that serve the full menu and are permanently located at bus stops.

Coletta said they value the quality of ingredients and use no artificial ingredients or flavors.

With the rise of chain locations in Davis, it seems that small businesses are suffering.

for processing that information after the class session. However, in the flipped model, students get new information before they come to class via online resources. They then come into class to process the new information with their professor and peers.

“Faculty can use the in-class time to model the ways that colleagues in their field approach projects and then to coach students in practicing those approaches,” Capps said. “The students can use their in-class time to work on complex problems and ask questions to their teacher and peers.”

Even though the flipped model has proven to be successful at many universities across the country, Devanbu said he is skeptical of replacing all lectures with online videos and homework assignments, and would rather have online resources complement students in the classroom.

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Bal said that currently their hours will be 11 a.m. to midnight but they are still deciding on the possibility of remaning open until 3 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

The owners are also planning a grand opening sometime in the near future, but a date has not yet been decided.

On May 11, the Budweiser girls will be at Wingstop to promote the new location.

The next chain location to open in Davis is a Bay Areabased restaurant called The Melt. The restaurant serves what they call “grilled cheese happiness.” Paul Coletta, chief marketing officer and general manager of The Melt, said they are planning to open in late August, before school is back

ment at the beginning of a class period.

With the immediate results reported to the instructor, lectures can be modified to fit the students’ needs.

Although Gradebot is quick to give students feedback on their work, it is not yet fully designed to say which parts of their programs specifically have errors. Rather, the results will tell the student what test cases they failed, and it is up to the student to figure out another way to solve the problem.

Devanbu said he thinks developing a part of the Gradebot to diagnose student failures by differential analysis will take one to two years to happen.

Integrating the Gradebot’s techniques into other teaching methods, such as the flipped model of learning, has been of particular interest for the future.

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Common Grounds Coffee, located at Oakshade Town Center, lost its lease at the end of March when their landlord did not want to renew it. After a few months of uncertainty, owners Son Chong and Michelle Kim were able to get a new lease.

Chong said the new location will open in August. They will be serving beer, wine and appetizer-type food in addition to their current coffee menu. Another change is that they will be open until 10 p.m. every day except Sundays.

“We were able to get a new lease next door to the old location because of pressure from the community,” Chong said.

“The new location will be a cool place for people to study and we will have more seating and a patio.”

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

Thinking about the evolution of teaching and how Gradebot can have a direct role in any coming transitions is important to Chen, but for now, he is focused on honing Gradebot into something that can assist the UC Davis community in the coming years, on a more short-term scale of time.

Both Chen and Devanbu are hopeful for the future of Gradebot in their department, as well as its spillover effect into other colleges and departments on campus.

“As long as the answers can be graded objectively, such as programs or clicks or multiple choices, then they can use the Gradebot,” Chen said. “I would love other people to use it. The more people who use it, the more kinks can be found and so that it can be improved.”

RITIKA IYER can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

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Save Mart to pay $2.55 million settlement Lawsuit accuses grocery chain of violating hazardous waste laws

By MEREDITH STURMER Aggie News Writer

On April 4, a settlement was reached among 35 California counties — including Yolo County — in a civil law enforcement action against Save Mart Supermarkets. The complaint, filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court, alleged that the supermarket chain violated California hazardous waste control laws.

The complaint alleged that Save Mart, which operates one store in Davis, “violated California laws for the safe storage, handling and disposal of hazardous waste generated from spills and customer returns of hazardous products,” according to a press release issued by the Yolo County District Attorney’s (DA) office.

DAs from multiple counties filed the complaint, including Supervising Deputy DA David Irey, under the environmental and consumer protection division of the San Joaquin County DA’s office.

Court documents regarding the case can be accessed at the San Joaquin County Superior Court, located in Stockton.

“San Joaquin County has always had a very aggressive environmental protection program, and their DA’s office has always sought the upholding of environmental protection laws,” said Heidi D’Agostino, senior enforcement officer of the Yolo County DA’s Environmental Protection Unit. “Once a resource is spoiled, you don’t get it back.”

Allegations According to a press release issued by Save Mart, the case did not concern any fresh grocery items or other items sold to customers, nor did any customers sustain injuries resulting from hazardous waste.

According to the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in regulatory terms hazardous waste is defined as any waste product appearing on one of four lists outlined in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA): the F-List, the K-List, the

P-List and the U-List. Any waste product that is not included among these lists is still considered hazardous waste if it is ignitable, corrosive, reactive and/ or toxic.

“We reached out to the folks at Save Mart, and they were very forthcoming with us that there were issues and they worked very quickly to resolve them,” D’Agostino said.

Save Mart Supermarkets, based out of Modesto, operates throughout California and includes the Lucky, Maxx Value Foods and Food Maxx brands. The alleged violations occurred over a period of several years at both Save Mart stores and distribution centers, including Albertson’s stores bought by Save Mart in 2007 and rebranded as Save Mart or Lucky.

The violations were addressed collaboratively between Save Mart, the prosecuting district attorneys and investigative agencies. Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig stated in the press release that the case “was a team effort where we worked with other district attorneys and law enforcement agencies statewide. We also appreciate Save Mart’s efforts to work cooperatively with us to rectify this problem.”

Environmentally unfriendly Under the settlement, Save Mart must pay $2.55 million in civil penalties and costs along with “expenses for supplemental environmental projects furthering consumer protection and environmental enforcement in the state,” according to the Yolo County DA’s press release. Save Mart will also be bound under an injunction to prohibit such environmental violations in the future.

The settlement additionally awards $14,000 to the Yolo County DA’s office for aquatic toxicity studies, as stated in the press release, and $225,000 to fund trainings specifically regarding hazardous waste laws and the handling of hazardous waste. Trainings will be held in Yolo County along with six other counties in California.

According to D’Agostino, these threeday trainings, titled “RCRA Unraveled,” address current federal and state policies regarding hazardous waste.

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A lawsuit regarding hazardous waste has been settled with Save Mart. The settlement awards Yolo County with $14 thousand as well as other penalties.

The aquatic toxicity studies test the safety of consumer products, according to D’Agostino.

“The money has been provided as part of the Save Mart settlement specifically for the testing of consumer products,” D’Agostino said. “It cannot be spent on salaries or employee benefits and is set aside entirely for scientific research and lab analysis.”

D’Agostino emphasized the importance of environmental protection in all counties, including Yolo County. According to D’Agostino, landfills have closed in Yolo County in the past.

“Environmental crimes are unusual in that they impact every Yolo County citizen,” Reisig said in the press release. “Illegal disposal of hazardous wastes affects citizens by compromising a finite amount of resources. There is only one landfill in Yolo County and we all share it.”

Collecting waste Issues regarding the legal disposal of hazardous waste are not restricted to businesses. Individuals may not realize that items they dispose of such as lightbulbs, batteries or pharmaceutical drugs are considered hazardous waste and must be

disposed of accordingly.

Davis Waste Removal, in operation since 1972, provides waste management and recycling services for the City of Davis but does not collect hazardous waste.

“The landfill is three miles away from Davis,” said John Geisler, operations manager at Davis Waste Removal. “It’s not an option here due to the expense involved in it. Every time you take something to the landfill, they charge a fee, and it’s [hazardous waste collection] funded by the fees we pay.”

Yolo County residents can dispose of their hazardous waste on Fridays and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Yolo County Central Landfill, located in Woodland. There is no cost to drop off hazardous waste, according to Geisler.

“I think I have a pretty good understanding of what materials are hazardous, but in my two years here, I don’t think I’ve ever actually had to dispose of any,” said Aaron Shuler, a second-year computer science and music double major.

“There should be a collection center in every city in Yolo County.”

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

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By TAYLOR CUNNINGHAM Aggie News Writer

On May 16, from 4:30 to 9 p.m., citizens of the City of Davis can head to Community Park at F Street for an afternoon of family friendly fun and to support local businesses at Celebrate Davis.

The 10th annual Celebrate Davis event is put on by the Davis Chamber of Commerce to highlight local businesses. The event attracts 10,000 to 12,000 attendees annually and has over a hundred booths that feature local businesses, nonprofit or service organizations and clubs.

Celebrate Davis originated as the Davis Business Expo in 2003, a similar but more formal event. The event became so popular that it expanded into the popular social gathering that it is today, combining business and fun. “[It’s] a way for the chamber to facilitate a night where people are encouraged to bike and walk to the park,

come together and celebrate all of the best parts about Davis,” said Bob Bowen, the City of Davis public relations manager.

According to Margaret Wong, an event planner for Celebrate Davis, the event is all about promoting what Davis has to offer.

“We advertise for the event locally — it gives our businesses the opportunity to market themselves to a familyoriented audience,” Wong said.

The event is nonprofit and the money earned from the fees charged for booth space goes back to improving the event.

Jennifer Anderson, the owner of the downtown Davis Ace Hardware, considers having a booth at the event beneficial for all businesses. “[For us] it’s a long term investment in the popularity of the store. It allows us to have a chance to connect with the customers and the community,” Anderson said.

Kid-friendly events include bounce houses, a petting zoo, pony rides, a climbing wall, dunk tank, interactive video games and a skateboard/BMX exhibition.

The music played at the event is young adult-oriented and will feature a Battle of the Youth Bands. Beer and wine booths are also on-site and there are various places to pur-

chase a picnic dinner from a variety of different vendors.

There will also be a fireworks show at 9 p.m. to end the night. The event is held near the soccer field so that there is enough fallout space available.

Heather Mariano, a Davis mother of three, has attended Celebrate Davis for the past five years and said that she loves how everyone can find something to do. Her kids span in age from kindergarten to junior high, and Celebrate Davis has activities for all of them. Mariano said she enjoys herself as well. “[Some of the kids’] favorite activities include the bouncy house and a game at the Ink Monkey [a graphics screen printing shop] booth, where they throw a monkey through a hoop to get a prize,” Mariano said.

Mariano said that her family stays as long as it takes to get through all of the booths and have a picnic dinner. “[The] best part is that everyone gets to pick what they want to eat. There’s no deciding who picks what we’re having for dinner,” Mariano said. “Because Davis has such a small-town feel, we often know the people that are working at the booths. I also find businesses that I didn’t know about.”

TAYLOR CUNNINGHAM can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

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Even amidst all these lures, my gaze kept falling back on the couple in front of me. Crying had turned her mascara into two black rivers, and the underarms of his black shirt were soaked with sweat. Their clothes had fled: he had taken off his huge trench coat, and she was stripped down to a pair of blue panties. But they still kept scening, surges of dopamine released in response to their every sensation.

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for abstaining were complex, a key aspect definitely had to do with the controversial nature of the resolution, as well as the magnitude of the issues it sought to discuss.

Israel-Palestine is one of the most complex issues in the international arena today and is not something one votes lightly on without feeling absolutely certain about their decision.”

The meeting started at 7 p.m. and lasted for hours, with a significant amount of public discussion from both sides of the issue.

When I first arrived at the front door of the non-descript San Franciscan building, I was all giggles and fresh make-up, full of adrenaline and energy drinks. Finally burned out, sitting on a couch that had probably been soaked with all sorts of bodily fluids during its lifetime as a piece of dungeon furniture, I sat and watched. A voyeur lost in a sea of exhibisionism.

KATELYN RINGROSE at knringrose@ucdavis. edu would like to invite you to a party — one celebrating the Earth. Whole Earth festivities will be occurring on May 10, 11, and 12.

Some felt the resolution would create a divisive campus and were opposed to the resolution.

“This resolution completely turns a blind eye to the other violators of human rights in the world and singles out Israel,” said a speaker from the public.

However, proponents of the resolution said they needed to stand in solidarity with Palestinians.

“How can you value money over human rights?” asked a supporter of the resolution.

ASUCD President Carly Sandstrom and Vice President Bradley Bottoms publically announced their opposition to the resolu-

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Tahoe Environmental Research Center, the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science (RMI), and Gallagher Hall, home of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.

However, Davis’ pledge to sustainability extends far beyond designing for an external point system. The design philosophy taken when approaching the construction of the RMI wasn’t to simply produce a LEED Platinum building. The objective was to make a model for sustainability. Roger Boulton, a professor of viticulture and enology, explained that the RMI and the forthcoming Jackson building are intended to be buildings that are not only carbon-neutral, but water- and electricityneutral as well.

They accomplish this with innovative solutions like reducing thermal intake during the warmer seasons by orienting buildings to lie east-west to reduce power consumption from air conditioning systems. The buildings utilize rainwater capture tanks to decrease dependence on local reservoirs. The buildings also have roofs angled to optimize exposure of solar panels, which subsequently charge hydrogen fuel cells to power nighttime operations.

Though the RMI has achieved an exemplary LEED Platinum certification, Boulton acknowledged that the building was envisioned a little differently.

“If the university is going to stay ahead of the pack on sustainability, it will have to strive to achieve and outperform the others,” Boulton said. “The RMI was designed to be a template for a sustainable winery that could be

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needed,” Glasgow said.

Members of the Davis community say the festival doesn’t have the dramatic impact on downtown that Picnic Day does. Those involved in the Davis Farmers Market, for example, observed Whole Earth as a friendly and undisruptive event over the past few years.

“There are no people getting out of hand on Whole Earth; they are all peace and love,” said Randii MacNear, the market manager of the Davis and UC Davis Farmers Markets.

are known to partake in illegal drugs.

“We are aware drug use happens at these festivals. We will arrest or cite those who abuse the law,” said Lt. Glenn Glasgow of the Davis Police.

Though Whole Earth is a significant event for Davis, it does not have the same regulations and complications as Picnic Day has. There is no safety enhancement zone and there are no increased penalties for breaking the law.

“We don’t experience an increase of MELISSA GAHERTY can be reached at city@ calls for service in the city, so it is not theaggie.org.

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The point is that we should not merely focus on the negatives and then deem these energy sources unsustainable or dirty. Given the context, i.e. how our lives depend so much upon fossil fuels and exploiting the environment more generally, we should figure out constructive ways to deal with problems such as pollution. We need to keep it away

tion in a press release.

“The ASUCD Executive feels that passing this resolution will not be fully representative of the student body at large. The issues this resolution addresses are grave and personal for many students. If passed, it runs the risk of furthering the divisiveness of these issues and further separating members of our community,” the press release states.

On May 6, the resolution passed through the Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission. The Business and Finance Commission was the fourth commission to vote on the resolution and the third to reject it,

self-sufficient and reconstructed anywhere on earth.”

The UC campus has not only met the minimum requirements for points in certain categories, but has far surpassed some. According to LEED criteria, a perfect rating of three points for a building’s usage of renewable energy is awarded when 30 percent of a building’s energy depends on renewable sources. With the RMI, close to 50 percent of the energy comes from renewable sources.

One key factor in the building’s energy conservation lies literally in the walls of the buildings. The facilities at the RMI and Jackson building are incredibly well-insulated. While standard homes have a thermal resistance rating, or R-value, of 15 in the walls, the RMI has walls with an R-value of 65, and a roof with an R-value of 85.

The increased resistance to heat transfer allows for inside temperatures to remain stable and less affected by the unforgiving winters or sweltering summers found in the Davis area.

Moreover, the RMI saves on lighting costs (both fiscal and environmental) by forgoing electric lighting completely in some cases. Light tubes on the roofs take natural sunlight and distribute it throughout some rooms.

The benefits of these tubes are two-fold. Obviously, the absence of artificial lighting helps cut energy usage, but additionally, the broader spectrum of light waves found in natural sunlight has been found to bolster the human mood and alleviate the infamous seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

The sustainability doesn’t stop at simply saving on a power bill. The importance of the innovations at a university campus goes far beyond the desire to have a building that doesn’t leave a big footprint on the earth. A

Visitors eat their lunch and relax at the 2012 Whole Earth Festival.

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that were blocking access it would’ve been appropriate for law enforcement to ask for identification and issue a citation for them to later appear in court, no arrest needed to be made, certainly the creation of ongoing charges ... escalated all of this to the point where there were 21 misdemeanor charges,” she said.

The group said they will not be entirely content until “education has been entirely disentangled from student debt, banks cannot profit from desires for freedom and class society is in flames.”

Director of Public Affairs Claudia Morain released a statement on behalf of the University.

“We appreciate the hard work of the Yolo County DA’s office on this case,” the statement read.

According to Briggs, U.S. Bank documents stated that a number of U.S. Bank employees and other people working with the UC Davis Police Department were posed as bank customers to create a blockage situation. She also said that after the Nov. 18 pepper spray incident, the University decided not to employ law enforcement practice.

MUNA SADEK can be reached at campus@ “If there were certain individuals theaggie.org.

from the air people breathe or water people drink (which, by the way, can be done with individual property rights).

Take a moment during the Whole Earth Festival not to condemn the impact of humans on the natural environment, but to celebrate how we have improved our condition through the ingenious use of natural resources.

TRISTAN DE LIEGE can be reached at tflenaerts@ ucdavis.edu.

along with the External Affairs Commission and the Internal Affairs Commission.

The resolution will therefore not move forward to Senate, but supporters of the resolution suggested that they were looking to bring the issue back next fall in a Facebook post by the UC Davis Divest group.

“The commitment to divestment is now even stronger. As a community we can now give each other the energy and motivation to bring this back in the Fall,” the status read.

LAUREN MASCARENHAS and RITIKA IYER can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

great deal of the importance comes from the very people who enter and interact with the buildings regularly — the students. In Professor Boulton’s classes on winery design, he doesn’t formally include sustainability in his lectures. Instead, he lets the campus facilities speak for themselves. Day in and day out, students are immersed in these environmentally conscious surroundings and they unconsciously become familiar with techniques used to build a better winery. The idea is that when they get out and start actually participating in industry, they will already see the value in systems such as rainwater capture systems and structural orientation.

Julie Nola is a director with the campus department of Design and Construction Management, and understands the importance of introducing students to sustainability through innovative building design.

“We show [students] how these buildings are helping them save water, avoid automobile [overuse] and use energy efficiently,” Nola said.

Dongha Luong, a UC Davis alumnus and practicing enologist, appreciates UC Davis’ environmentallyfriendly mindset.

“I think I’ve always been eco-conscious, but it was nice being at a school that shares those values,” Luong said.

Ultimately, the university has achieved an exemplary milestone with the LEED Platinum buildings, but like any true leader of thought, UC Davis isn’t content to simply rest on laurels and accolades. With these buildings, UC Davis hopes to better the world through education and lead by example in sustainability.

ALAN LIN can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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City efforts Cool Davis works toward the Climate Action Plan’s goals by focusing on getting the community involved with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to supporting the efforts of Cool Davis, the city hosts various forums on issues such as transportation, energy conservation, household carbon reduction programs, walkable neighborhoods and local food sources.

Nittler said the city and Cool Davis are currently mapping out the city in order to plan out alternative transportation methods for different neighborhoods. Based on the commuter patterns of the majority of residents in a particular neighborhood, the city will suggest different modes of transport, including biking, busing or carpooling.

Chris Granger, a member of Cool Davis, said that the city is in the middle of a new energy plan to help them achieve their goals by 2050.

“The city is working on looking at ways we can develop our own municipal utility services with Community Choice Aggregation (CCA),” Granger said. “CCA would allow the city to purchase power for the whole city and therefore be able to provide alternative energy sources.”

Granger said Marin County and Richmond have already adopted this model.

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young people to engage in environmentally-themed plays and activities in order to show them the joys of being outside.

Falyn and Dawkins said they are grateful for the opportunity to present their plays at the Cool Davis Festival in the past.

Village Homes, a passive solar community built in the 1970s, joined Cool Davis as a partner in order to spur individual homeowners into action. They want to further efforts to conserve water, produce zero waste and provide alternative transportation methods.

Additionally, in order to encourage individual residents to live more sustainably, Cool Davis awards Eco Hero awards each year. The awards are intended to highlight actions of ordinary citizens who model incorporating sustainable practices into their civic and everyday lives.

Mayor Pro Tempore Dan Wolk also presented businesses and organizations that model ways to reduce their environmental impact, and lead others toward climate stabilization with Climate Solutions awards.

Davis Bike Collective, Local Government Commission and the Davis Flea received this award.

Student opportunities The UC Davis student branch of Cool Davis is called Make Davis Cool. They reach out to students and organizations on campus that help people live more sustainably.

“Students are a wonderful force for good,” Granger said. “They have an opportunity to recognize values of sustainability in all aspects of the community, including the dorms and alternative transportation with bikes and buses.”

Cool Davis produced a pamphlet entitled “Cool Solutions: A Renter’s Guide to Sustainable Living,” which students living off campus could find useful, Nittler said.

In Fall Quarter 2010 and Winter Quarter 2011, Make Davis Cool organized a class called “The Field Guide to Sustainable Living in Davis” and taught close to 50 students about living sustainably in Davis.

Backman said that people can start with simple steps to living sustainably, such as drying clothes on a clothesline.

“Every person we contact helps to improve our project,” Backman said. “It helps us work towards our ultimate goal: engagement with 75 percent of the community in working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be carbon neutral by 2050.”

Community involvement Cool Davis has a number of community partners that help them work toward the goal of carbon neutrality. A few include B&L Bike Shop, Davis Chamber of Commerce, the Davis Farmers Market, Davis Pedicab, Unitrans and the Valley Climate Action Center.

The newest partner of Cool Davis is the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation.

“Being part of a larger ‘green’ community such as Cool Davis will help us to focus our efforts. Just bringing us into the community with other organizations with sustainability as part of their mission will help to strengthen our resolve,” said pastor Dan Smith.

A variety of local organizations have teamed up with Cool Davis because they share the same goals of carbon neutrality and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to live more sustainably.

Jeff Falyn and Lyndsay Dawkins of Nature’s Theater, a group that produces environmentally-themed books and plays for children, said their mission is to get PAAYAL ZAVERI can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

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(CARB) cap-and-trade program. UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Irvine, UCSF and UC Davis (including the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento) have carbon emissions above the 25,000 mtCO2e limit set

by CARB. The University has focused on energyefficient projects, including renovating current buildings.

“We’ve completed over 100 energy efficiency projects since 2009 and saved $4.6 million in energy costs,” England said.

Plans for the new building in the Arboretum are still in the early stages. But not all students are thrilled with the idea of having a building in the middle of the Arboretum, which many view as a natural sanctuary.

“I’d prefer the Arboretum to be just nature,” said Bobby Moir, an undeclared first-year.

Nature gives us,” said Sid England, assistant vice chancellor of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability.

California has design standards in place for energy conservation, but UC Davis is committed to going above and beyond these standards.

“We try to beat the California design standards by 30 percent,” England said.

“We also planned to reduce our carbon footprint to what it was in the year 2000 by 2014. We have already accomplished that goal, and we are planning to go even lower.”

As of 2008 UC Davis’ carbon footprint is 250,000 metric tons CO2e (mtCO2e).

Officials plan to decrease the figure to 210,000 mtCO2e by the year 2020.

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The ASUCD commission discussions taking a pro-Israel stance in the name of were largely rotund and superficial, students and their tuition dollars. leaving students on both sides disIf the Regents are listening, which tracted and marginalized. Rather than we doubt they are, a resolution from ASUCD in favor of divestment would be fighting one another about international a symbolic nudge toward depoliticizing politics, students should band together and ask the UC Regents why a UC eduthe UC’s financial agenda. cation comes with such a great sacrifice Whether or not it is ASUCD’s place to rule on divestment is a separate ques- and compromise of politics and identity from our diverse student body. tion. We do not believe that ASUCD

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UC Davis has reached and surpassed the carbon footprint goal years ahead of schedule. If UC Davis continues these sustainable policies with the same fervor, the university can hope to become one of the greenest campuses in the country, and set a strong example for sustainable institutions worldwide.

“Starting very soon, most likely in the next few weeks, we will begin construction on a biodigester for [the] Davis campus,” England said. “It will create energy for [the] campus from waste.”

The new biodigestor will divert thousands of tons of biodegradable waste away from landfills and compost heaps, and turn it into usable energy for the city and campus.

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women’s golf to compete at NCAA regionals in Oklahoma

Men’s season comes to a close, Raber to compete at regionals

By MATTHEW YUEN Aggie Sports Writer

While the UC Davis men’s golf team’s season came to an unfortunate end, the women’s team will continue its hot streak at the NCAA Central Regional at the University of Oklahoma.

The men’s team placed third at the Big West Conference Championships behind Pacific and Cal State Fullerton in a close battle.

The Tigers and the Titans went to a playoff round with identical 887 scores, which Pacific pulled out to take the league title. The Aggies closed up with a tidy 890 at the Country Club at Soboba Springs in San Jacinto, behind the two tied first-place teams.

The Aggies were hoping to receive an atlarge bid into the NCAA regional at Washington State, but were not selected. Thus

closes the 2012-13 campaign for the UC Davis men’s team, finishing up at 69th in the rankings.

“We were excited to be right in the hunt for consideration to be selected,” said head coach Cy Williams. “Even though we didn’t get selected, we have a great group of guys and I know they would have been ready to play.”

For some individuals on the men’s team, the season is not yet over. Senior Tyler Raber was selected to compete in the NCAA men’s golf regional championships. This will take place at Palouse Ridge Golf Club in Pullman, Wash. on May 16 to 18.

This is Raber’s third appearance in the regional championships. He has been the Aggies’ low scorer this year, averaging a 72.3 this season. His top finish was fourth at the U.S. Intercollegiate at Stanford in March with a six-under total.

Experience on the pro circuit in his red-

Baseball preview Teams: UC Davis vs. Pacific Records: Aggies, 16-30 (3-15); Tigers, 12-31 (4-14) Where: Klein Family Field — Stockton, Calif.

When: Friday at 6 p.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m.; Sunday at 1 p.m.

Who to Watch: With the Aggies struggling again as of late, there is a scarce amount of players who have really shown that they are capable of being a consistent threat. However, sophomore Tino Lipton has been pretty consistent.

The first statistic which jumps out when looking at Lipton's stat line are his stolen bases. Lipton leads the team in stolen bases with seven steals in nine attempts. This is a pretty solid conversion rate and definitely helps the Aggies get more runners in scoring position.

Lipton, who is also hitting a respectable .298 and has two triples on the season, has been able to get on base quite frequently. As a result, he boasts a solid .376 on-base percentage. Lipton's ability to get on base has allowed him to be third on the team in runs scored, with 23 runs scored this year.

Once again, the Aggies simply need to find a way to drive in the much needed runs. Hopefully, senior Paul Politi, sophomore John Williams and junior Steven Patterson — the three RBI leaders on the team — can drive in some runs over the weekend.

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UC Davis is tied for first place in the Big West conference in terms of team batting average, alongside UC Irvine. With a .285 team average, after the weekday game against Sacramento State, the Aggies have been hitting the ball pretty well.

With players like junior Nick Lynch, who is hitting a blistering .362 this season, it is no surprise that UC Davis is so highly ranked in terms of batting average. However, the Aggies’ struggles lie not in getting on base, but in keeping runs off the board.

UC Davis is ranked second-to-last in the conference in ERA. With a team ERA of 5.36, the Aggies’ pitching staff is simply not giving the offense any room for error. UC Davis simply cannot allow other teams to score this many runs, as it forces the Aggies’ batting order to have a phenomenal game every game, which is simply unrealistic.

Preview: There is hope for the slumping Aggies as they play the second-worst

team in the division, the Pacific Tigers, during this upcoming three-game weekend series. The Tigers, who have struggled mightily this year, are last in the Big West in both team ERA and batting average.

They simply have not been able to hit the ball, with the leading run producer, freshman Brett Sullivan, hitting only .233. Sullivan has only two home runs and 23 RBI, which are far from gaudy numbers. This is very much the norm for the toothless Tigers' batting order.

Pacific only has four batters who have contributed significant at-bats and are also hitting above .270.

In comparison, the Aggies have been hitting the ball well, especially of late.

With eight of the UC Davis players who have received significant at-bats, hitting over .270, the Aggies definitely have the edge in terms of hitting prowess.

Senior Paul Politi has a chance to have a monster weekend. As the Aggies’ major power hitter, with five home runs and 31 RBI, Politi should fare well against a Pacific pitching staff which has given up 19 home runs this season.

This weekend will be a true pitching battle between the Aggies and the Tigers. However, it will probably be for all the wrong reasons, as both teams have struggled tremendously pitching the baseball. With Pacific boasting a massive 5.55 ERA and UC Davis holding a marginally superior 5.36 ERA, this weekend will most likely be a run-scoring frenzy.

Whichever team is able to manage to slow the other team's offense down at least a slight bit, should have a significant edge. Junior Evan Wolf did pitch pretty decently in his last start against Cal State Northridge, surrendering only three earned runs in six and two-thirds innings.

The weekend series seems to be the perfect scenario for the Aggies to pull out of their struggles. The Tigers have had a bad year hitting the ball, so they should pose no significant threat for the Aggies in the one area which UC Davis has struggled with all year: pitching.

The hot bats of the Aggies should be able to tear up the poor Pacific pitching staff and UC Davis should be able to provide plenty of run support for their pitchers. Hopefully, the Aggies can bypass the Tigers on their way up from the bottom of the conference with a few wins.

— Kenneth Ling

shirt season last year should help Raber out in his quest to improve on his 43rd and 45th place finishes in 2009 and 2011, respectively.

Should Raber finish as the top individual not on a team, he will advance to the national finals that will take place late in the month in Atlanta, Ga. On the women’s side of the course, UC Davis has had slightly more success. The Aggies won the Big West Championships and are currently ranked 16th in the nation.

They will play at the Central Regional on the Jimmie Austin Golf course at the University of Oklahoma in attempts to qualify for nationals, held at University of Georgia later in the month.

The Aggies are seeded sixth at their regional under head coach Anna Temple in her first year after succeeding coach Anne Walker, who migrated over to Stanford to coach.

Seniors Demi Runas and Amy Simanton will be fighting for their last collegiate competitions to continue on a bid to get to the National tournament, backed by this year’s Big West freshman of the year

Andrea Wong, second time all-conference first-team selection sophomore Beverly Vatananugulkit, and freshman Betty Chen, All-Big West honorable mention.

Runas, the Big West player of the year for the third season, will lead UC Davis in a field that consists of two teams in the top five — Duke and Oklahoma — and a couple other teams ranked higher than the Aggies. In the NCAA rankings, UC Davis places 25th, compared to their golfstat. com ranking of No. 16.

Either way, the Aggies will come in looking to place in the top eight teams in order to adva nce to the national tournament in Athens, Ga. “We have been practicing really well and our team is really motivated to continue our good play this spring,” Temple said.

“This is a new course for us so it will be key to gain as much information as we can in the practice round and then just play one day at a time.”

UC Davis tees off on Thursday at 6:36 p.m. grouped with No. 10 Washington and No. 15 Arizona State.

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

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM finish the season strong Aggies end season with an upset win against Stanford

By SHAUN MONCADA Aggies Sports Writer

There’s an age-old saying in sports: it is not how you start, but how you finish. The UC Davis women’s lacrosse team, although finishing with a 6-9 record overall and going 3-5 in conference play, was able to finish the season out strong.

Replacing former head coach Elaine Jones, first-year head coach Kate Henwood understood the expectations heading into the 2012-2013 season.

“This was a transition year for us with a new coaching staff. It was our job to try and find a way to harness the talent of our five seniors and use the energetic underclassmen into a system that could work for us,” Henwood said. “Elaine did a phenomenal job, turning lacrosse from a club program to a Division II program and then to a Division I program. I’m not here to be mediocre, but for us to be the best in the West.”

Although the Aggies lost their season debut to the thirdranked team in the nation, Florida, they claimed their first win of the 2012-13 campaign with an 18-4 shellacking against Stetson University. In the victory, Aggie seniors Stephanie Guercio, Elizabeth Datino and captain Hannah Mirza each scored three goals.

The Aggies kicked off their Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) conference play against St. Mary’s. In a close contest that saw four lead changes and Datino scoring five goals, St. Mary’s scored the fateful 16th goal in an overtime thriller. Although defeated, Henwood and the team learned a valuable lesson.

A near upset against the 20th-ranked Denver Pioneers may have been the turning point for the team. With three unanswered Denver goals, the Pioneers held a 9-8 lead. The Aggies fought hard, eventually equalizing at 11-11, but key defensive steals from Denver ensured their 13-11 victory.

“In the big picture, it shows a lot of growth. The team is getting better every single outing. But we're not satisfied with the outcome either,” Henwood said. “We’re disappointed that we had them for the entire game and let it slip out of our fingers. All of those little things, which

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The Aggies finished their season by defeating Stanford. come down to staying focused and sticking to our game plan, came back to bite us.”

The Aggies would go on to win their last three out of four conference games with victories over Fresno State and San Diego State. However, the 15-14 overtime stunner against Stanford was one of the most memorable games of the year.

“We had nothing to lose,” Mirza said. “Not making the MPSF playoffs, we viewed it as our championship game.

We wanted to fight until the end.”

Tied 13-13 going into overtime, the Cardinals drew first blood with an early goal, but a late goal by Aggie sophomore Meghan Jordan leveled the score 14-14. With five seconds remaining in overtime, Mirza fired a shot out wide in what appeared to have sent the game into sudden death.

But Aggie senior Anna Geissbuhler won the ground ball and flipped it to Datino, who ran around the side of the net to pop the game-winner. UC Davis’ victory over Stanford ended a streak of 19 straight losses in the series and also

Aggies looking for a strong finish UC Davis track team anticipating a solid Big West Championship

By KENNETH LING Aggie Sports Editor

Track and field, which is considered by most as an individual sport, still has a championship that is in some ways defined by a team effort. While most distance runners, sprinters, throwers and jumpers participate in individual events, except for the relays, the success of the such individual events is also a success for the schools. One sprinter or thrower cannot win a Big West team title for the team. It takes a complete team effort of a stellar cast of athletes to claim that particular crown.

The Aggies hope that they have the particular group of athletes needed to win both men’s and women’s Big West Championships. The women in particular have recently put on a fine showing at the Causeway Duel, where they tied with Sacramento State in overall team points 94-94.

Sophomore Ashley Marshall raced her way to an incredible showing in the meet, as she ran to victory in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Marshall put up blazing times of 11.48 seconds in the 100 and 24.11 seconds in the 200.

Sophomore Cekarri Nixon also competed well in the meet as she placed third in both the 100- and 200-meter sprints. With times of 11.94 and 24.63 seconds in the 100 and 200 respectively, Nixon looks to be in fine form just in time for the Big West Championships.

Sprinters are not the only runners who seem to be running well for the women’s team, as junior Alycia Cridebring has had an excellent season thus far. She is the current holder of the Big West Female Track Athlete of the Week distinction, and it is no surprise when looking at her times this season. Cridebring is the owner of the Big West and UC Davis records for the 5,000-meter run, posting the time of 15:49.05. She is ranked sixth in the NCAA West Region as well as 12th nationally.

In the Sacramento State Open, the last tune-up before the postseason, senior Tonie Williams ran a 55.62 in the 400-meters to clinch first place. She was just shy of her personal record of 55.45 seconds. Williams looks to be confident as she heads into the

400-meter race in the championship.

The women are in great shape to succeed in the Big West Championships, but so are the men, as they have posted some impressive numbers in the past few weeks leading up to the championship.

Sophomore Corey Hobbs placed fifth in the 100-meters in the Causeway Duel with a time of 10.88 seconds. He also had a strong 200-meter race, blazing his way to an outstanding time of 22.05, good enough for second place.

Senior Kaio Sena is also heading into the postseason races looking good, as he ran his season best time in the 200-meters, 21.86. Sena ran this in the Sacramento State Open and looks to be pumped and ready for an outstanding race in the Big West Championship.

Again, the strength of the Aggies’ team is not in one area, but in a wealth of talent spread throughout various events. Sophomore Trevor Ehlenbach is another example of this, as he won both his 800- and 1,500-meter runs with times of 1:53.44 and 3:51.95, respectively, in the Causeway Duel.

"It’s impossible to overstate the importance of carrying momentum and good health into the championship season,” said head coach Drew Wartenburg.

Indeed, the Aggies are definitely bringing the best performances and a great deal of momentum into the conference’s postseason event. UC Davis must rest up and make sure it is ready for some tough competition. With the top athletes in the conference entering the championship, the Aggies will need to produce some amazing scores and times in order to earn that Big West title.

The Big West Championships will start on Friday, May 10 and conclude on Sunday, May 12. Both of Friday and Saturday will be packed with events during the allday meets. The championship will be held at Cal State Northridge’s track facilities.

In an interesting side note, UC Davis will be the host of the Big West Championships in 2014. Hopefully, big things are to come for the Aggies’ track team in the future.

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

represented the first time the Aggies have ever defeated a team ranked in the top 20 of Division I. “We played to the level we could have played all year. It was a moment of extreme pride for me to see them finally be able to play at that level,” Henwood said. “The best part about it was that Stanford didn’t play a bad game. We led the whole game. We showed the conference that UC Davis is here to stay.”

Although the Aggie lacrosse team will be losing five seniors, which include Datino and Mirza who were both respectively named 2013 All-MPSF, Henwood has recruited six incoming freshman for the fall as well as now seasoned veterans such as Mary Doyle, a first-year undeclared major who garnered second team honors MPSF, as well as another dedicated group of seniors. The future is indeed promising.

SHAUN MONCADA can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

softball preview Teams: UC Davis vs. Cal Poly the season strong,” Castello said.

Records: Aggies, 22-27 (8-13); Mustangs, This year, UC Davis’ spring sports have 19-31-1 (8-13) established their dominance over the CarWhere: La Rue Field — Davis, CA dinals. With the baseball team besting the When: Friday at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.; Satur- Cardinals on March 26 in a 2-1 win and day at 12 p.m. an overtime 15-14 win from the women’s Who to Watch: As the school year comes lacrosse team to beat No. 14 ranked Stanto a close, so does UC Davis’ ford, Aggie spring sports can high-action spring sports, inbe proud of holding their own cluding softball. Rolling into against a school known for betheir final series against Cal Poly, ing an athletic powerhouse. many of the players, both starters Preview: The team was not and subs, can be proud of a solid able to carry the momentum season both individually and as from the win against Stanford a team. into their away series against A huge midweek win against Long Beach State last weekend Stanford on May 1 at La Rue Field Cat Guidry on May 4 and 5. Although they gave the team a lot of confidence Freshman came up short in their Saturgoing into their final away games day doubleheader with two against Long Beach on May 4 and 5. The losses, 2-0 and 6-1, they showed some spectacular sisterly duo of Cat and Chris- spark coming into their final away game tina Guidry contributed more than their on Sunday. fair share in the big victory against StanAfter throwing six innings the day beford. Scoring one apiece, the sisters made fore, and only giving up four hits and up two of the five runs the Aggies needed two runs, Justine Vela came out again in a to best Stanford in a well-played seven- pitcher’s duel against the 49ers’ Erin Jonesinning match-up. Christina reached base Wesley, who also threw the first game Satwith a leadoff single to start the seventh- urday, earning the 2-0 win. inning rally; two at bats later, her twin, Cat, Sunday’s game displayed both Vela capitalized with a single up the middle to and Jones-Wesley’s pitching prowesses. score Christina.

Throwing zeros across the board Cat then scored on a single to throughout the first seven inleft by fellow freshman Christa nings, the girls forced the duel Castello, who has established into extras. Tragically, UC Davis herself on the field as the starting came up short just after a 49er shortstop. Castello’s hard work pinch hitter was hit by a pitch all season has not been overwith the bases loaded to score looked by coach Karen Yoder. the only run of the game. Even “As a freshman coming in and with those three losses down earning a starting roll, Christa south, the Aggies still hope to Christina Guidry has done nothing but grow Freshman finish their season on a high throughout the year,” Yoder said. note.

“So many freshmen and sopho“We fell short of our goal for mores have tremendous potential to be a conference, but we have had some trebig part of this team.” mendous highs this year,” Yoder said. “Any Did you know?: This midweek time you are in competition you want to matchup win against Stanford shows the strive to excel; we play to win.”

Aggies’ dominance against the Pac-12 Bringing their final games back to La school, as they have won two of their Rue Field, the Aggies start the weekend last three meetings between the two West with two against the Mustangs on Friday.

Coast schools. With the seventh-inning Infamous rivals Cal Poly share the same rally that allowed the Aggies to make a 8-13 conference record as Davis, which fucomeback, Yoder and freshman shortstop els the competitive spirit of this final home Christa Castello shared their thoughts on series. Not many things are more gratifying why the girls won that clutch game and than ending one’s season with three wins what it means going forward. at home.

“We had all cylinders working in our faFirst pitch against Cal Poly will be vor, good defense, good pitching and good thrown at La Rue Field, Friday at 1 p.m. hitting,” Yoder said.

“This win gives us the confidence to end — Sloan Boettcher

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