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Theta Xi placed on conditional registration for two years after disturbance of peace over summer Probationary period for fraternity follows appeal of revocation of registration

BY AARON L I SS campus@theaggie.org

Over the summer, the Theta Xi fraternity was cited for a disturbance of the peace complaint regarding fireworks being set off from its lawn.

Initially, Theta Xi faced revocation of its UC Davis chapter’s registration, however, the members decided to undertake a judicial and student housing appeals process. As a result of the successful appeal, there will be two years of conditional registration — essentially a probationary period.

Donald Dudley, the director of Student Judicial Affairs (SJA), spoke about how the appeals trial of Theta Xi was handled, explaining how conditional registration restricts the fraternity.

“The appeal process has been completed,” Dudley said. “The appeals committee reduced the revocation to two years of conditional registration. The conditional registration means if they violate campus policy, or local codes [and] state laws during that period, then registration would likely be revoked.”

With regard to what initially sparked the revocation, Dudley confirmed that it was based on an “incident related to disturbance of the peace conduct that raised concerns for health and safety.”

Jonathan Montes, a fourth-year psychology major and the president of Theta Xi as well as their Interfraternity Council representative, stated that the incident in question involved three individuals setting

off “illegal fireworks” in the backyard of Theta Xi’s Chapter House.

One of the individuals was a former member of the Theta Xi chapter.

Montes said he was “disappointed at the outcome” of the appeal.

“The real perpetrators of the incident involving fireworks escaped without being charged while the chapter as a whole was punished for something it had nothing to do with,” Montes said. “The appropriate action for the University would have been to dismiss the original decision in its entirety.”

Courtney O’Connor, the assistant director of policy and conduct at the Student Housing Office, confirmed another incident involving a Theta Xi president reportedly trespassing onto the fraternity house’s neighboring funeral home in the fall of 2016. O’Connor said that this event was unrelated to this conditional registration enforcement.

“From what I heard, it was that noise complaints violate university policies,” Bull said. “If they break rules, then it goes to university trials. Why it was so strict, I don’t know, because I feel like two years is a long time.”

Bull said that she heard firsthand from Theta Xi members attending Panhellenic meetings that no members were living in the house over the summer when the firework incident is said to have occurred.

“Theta Xi came into one of our meetings for Panhellenic,” Bull said. “They said that it was an alumni, that no one in Theta Xi lives in the chapter house over summer. It was an alumni that came in and THETA XI on 9

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Internal wage audits reveal inconsistency in uC system

Inspections across UC campuses show little compliance with UCOP’s pledge to increase minimum wage

BY EL I Z A BE T H M E R C A DO campus@theaggie.org

A recent review of audits conducted across UC campuses and medical centers has revealed that the UC system has shown inconsistent compliance with the Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan announced in 2015

by UC President Janet Napolitano. The plan was announced to the Board of Regents through the UC Office of the President in July of 2015 and pledged “that the minimum wage for its workers — both direct and service contract employees — will be raised to $15 an hour over the next three years.”

Part of the criteria to successfully implement this policy is mandatory audits independently performed on UC contractors employed for services exceeding $100,000. Contracts are required to contain language of the policy stated within and audits must be paid for and conducted by an independent auditor the supplier hires. Afterward, the contractor provides a certificate signed by the independent auditor to their respective campus proving their annual audit was performed.

Each UC campus’ Audit and Management Advisory Services reviewed its university’s processes, contracts and compliance with the

Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan. The audits revealed that the systems in place to monitor universtiy agreements related to independent contracting were lacking. The purpose of a monitoring system is to ensure that contracts fall under the criteria relating to the Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan; however, the review showed that parts of the system were flawed. The review also found a recurring failure to conduct audits among service contractors and vendors who were plainly violating the Fair Wage/Fair Work policy with no repercussions.

“What these audits expose is [that the] UC has not been enforcing this Wage/Work plan,” said John de los Angeles, the communications director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest UC employee labor union. “Contractors are skating under the radar and they themselves are not even sure which contractors need to be following this policy.”

UC Davis’ review showed that since the plan’s announcement two years ago, the campus and UC Davis Health are still trying to create effective systems to track independent contracting agreements. UC Davis is also trying to become stricter when it comes to certifying WAGE on 9

Chamber of Commerce's homelessness meeting sparks debate Search continues for solution to end homelessness

BY DY LAN SVOBODA city@theaggie.org

On Oct. 24, the Davis Chamber of Commerce held a panel discussion at the Veterans Memorial Theater to address the growing homelessness issue in Davis.

The discussion was free and open to the public. The panel was made up of 10 local leaders, including a number of social workers, downtown Davis business owners and government officials. Guests were encouraged to share their input on the issue.

Darren Pytel, the City of Davis’ chief of police, opened the discussion by touching on the challenges of panhandling.

“From a constitutional standpoint, panhandling in a nonaggressive way is protected speech,” Pytel said.

Pytel also indicated that the City of Davis’ police department recently hired a social worker whose sole purpose is to reach out to the homeless community.

Davis resident Jack Armstrong, the co-host of the Armstrong & Getty radio show, told a chilling story about an expletive-filled interaction he, his wife and two young children had with a disheveled man at Dos Coyotes in Davis.

“I would like [Davis] to stop being a magnet for those people,” Armstrong said.

Pytel commented on the severe drug and mental health issues these individuals are dealing with and how low drug prices are leading to more rampant drug use. Pytel also attributed the rise in car burglaries to drug use.

Many guests, most of them residents of Davis, expressed their concerns over such actions and the number of homeless people in town.

Jon Adler from Harm Reduction Services in Sacramento attended the meeting as a guest and shared his thoughts from his unique perspective as a former “unhoused” individual.

“Living on the street is a traumatic experience,” Adler said. “Until there is compassion, there won’t be any progress. There are people who go to Davis High School who commit crimes.”

Davis Mayor Pro Tempore Brett Lee stressed the importance of behavior when describing the homeless. He pointed out the parallels between his fraternity-row neighbors with their “non-neighborly” actions and the homeless population.

Lee also noted the necessity of cooperation between Yolo County and the City of Davis in solving the crisis.

Adler, who lived on the streets of Davis for five years and has 20 years of experience working with the homeless in the Sacramento area, stressed the importance of compassion and understanding.

“People don’t want to live outside,” Adler said. “That is a myth in itself. It’s not something you choose. When you hear the term ‘homeless,’ you hear ‘drug addict,’ ‘criminal,’ ‘mentally ill.’ The fact is there are more drug addicts, criminals and mentally ill that live in houses.”

Adler also touched on why Davis is an attractive place for the unhoused.

“This is a f--king great town,” Adler said. “Community Gardens.

I can eat like a king. Everybody recycles. I can make $20 an hour recycling here. I can go to sleep and not worry about getting my head kicked in. That’s going to be attractive to everyone.”

Bill Pride, the director of the Community Meals program in Davis, believes the cause of the issue is a lack of affordable housing in the region. He noted the increase in students living in his hometown of Woodland, which is 15 minutes north of Davis.

According to the Yolo County Homeless and Poverty Action Coalition, homelessness is slowly on the rise in Davis. Homelessness is up 11.4 percent from 2015 and 28 percent since 2009.

In 2016, the State of California’s homeless rate was 30.1 people for every 10,000 people, according to the most recent study on homelessness conducted by the U.S. Interagency Council. In Yolo County’s most recent homeless count in 2017, Davis’ homeless rate was 21.4 people for every 10,000.

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Third interim senator sworn in on Oct. 26

BY RO D N E Y TO M P K I NS campus@theaggie.org

The ASUCD Senate was called to order by Vice President Adilla Jamaludin at 6:09 p.m. on Oct. 26 in the Mee Room

of the Memorial Union. Senators Julie Jung and Matthew Yamaguchi were absent. All commission chairs were present.

The Senate received a presentation on future student housing projects from Emily Galindo, the associate vice

MIKE WEBB NAMED CITY MANAGER

chancellor for Divisional and Auxiliary Services. Two four-story buildings and one five-story building will be added to the Cuarto housing area, featuring new floor plans in an effort to expand the university’s second-year housing. Tercero Dining Commons 2, which will be built on Hutchison Drive in response to crowded food venues, will provide 500 additional dining seats as well as a retail store.

Additionally, the Orchard Park and West Village expansion development projects are being looked into, with affordability being the primary goal. The Orchard Park development would feature family and single rent units at 90 percent of the market value. In the West Village development, there would be single- and double-occupancy housing available to transfer students.

The final open interim senator position was then filled by Shaniah Branson, a third-year transfer student and communication major. Branson said she was interested in representing the transfer student population at UC Davis. She was confirmed with no objections.

Next, the Senate unanimously voted to confirm Ryan Gartner, a second-year

political science public service major, as the Judicial chair.

Abigail Edwards, a third-year sustainable agriculture major, was re-confirmed as the Academic Affairs Commission chair.

Then, Gender and Sexuality Commission members Eori Tokunaga, a third-year human development major; Alexander Nguyen, a first-year political science major; Alex Lopez-Ambriz, a fifth-year psychology major; Kristy Tran, a fourth-year sociology major; Justin Choi, a fourth-year plant breeding and genetics major; and Ray Rubens, a first-year gender studies major, were confirmed unanimously by the Senate.

Dream Committee members Angeles Cruz Arango, a second-year Chicano studies major; Claudia Gutierrez, a second-year political science public service major; Rocio Perez, a third-year political science major; Mireya Santiago Paz, a second-year art history major; and Bianca Montes, a second-year political science major, were all confirmed with no objections.

The Senate took a 10-minute break at 7:46 p.m.

Following the break, the senators

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Dirk Brazil steps down, City of Davis appoints new city manager

BY PR AC HI TA C HAW L A city@theaggie.org

Davis City Manager Dirk Brazil has decided to retire after a three-year tenure. In a closed session a few weeks ago, the City Council voted 5-0 in favor of replacing Brazil with Mike Webb, who was previously the assistant city manager and has been the director of community development and sustainability for the past four years.

“Mike has a long history with the city,” said Davis Mayor Robb Davis. “He knows the city very well and has spearheaded a lot of ongoing projects. He was a very strong internal candidate, and the council was unanimous to bring him in and create a sense of continuity in all the various initiatives that we have underway. Had we gone on a search, we would have been hard-pressed to find anybody as qualified as him.”

To move forward, the City Council has its established council goals, which are constantly being worked on. The City is facing a fiscal deficit of about $450 million, along with housing and police oversight issues at a more public level.

“There are several elements that are currently at the forefront, including the city’s fiscal posi-

unanimously passed a bill which would dissolve the International Undergraduate Student Committee due to the effectiveness of Services for International Students and Scholars, which receives more funding.

The confirmation for a bill that would allocate $379.98 to the UC Davis Mental Health Initiative to supplement the Active Minds National Conference registry was passed as amended. Additionally, a bill appropriating $20 to purchase an ASUCD Senate meeting procedure infographic was passed.

There was no proposed legislation.

Naeema Kaleem, the Elections Committee chair, provided more information about the new write-in system, in which a candidate can win as a write-in candidate, but can potentially be disqualified if they do not abide by other campaigning guidelines.

Vice President Adilla Jamaludin then provided a presentation for the newly sworn-in interim senators.

Following ex-officio and elected officer reports, minutes from the Oct. 19 meeting were approved without objection. The meeting adjourned at 9:21 p.m.

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tion,” Webb said. “Keeping a balanced budget while being mindful of cost and revenue strains is a key area — the other is housing. We have a number of other projects that are being reviewed in one way, shape or form or even under construction right now that are not necessarily student housing. The entire Cannery project, which is under construction and partially occupied, has a wide variety of unit types, like more affordable apartment units, units more suitable to professionals and families, attached and detached single family homes as well as condominiums that are just now starting to be constructed.”

The City Council works to find a balance between how much housing the university provides, what housing the City is considering and how those two aspects correlate. According to Webb, a multitude of other projects are under construction or review. A mix of family-, seniorand student-oriented residential units are all in the works.

“In terms of security and police oversight, that is a conversation that is still to be had with the general public,” Webb said. “There are more stringent security requirements in place. This helps ensure that currently operating business-

es continue to operate responsibly as well as for those who may not have been [operating responsibly] or for new businesses coming to the community, it provides clear expectations and standards according to which they need to operate,” Webb said.

Webb will begin his term on Dec. 4. The city is currently working on numerous housing and development projects — Webb’s area of expertise, as he was originally the head of the city’s planning department.

“He’d been our assistant city manager for a few years and had been doing very good work,” said Davis Vice Mayor Brett Lee. “When our current city manager decided to retire, it seemed like an obvious choice. We were pretty familiar with the candidates out in the market, and we thought that Mike held his own against any of the potential candidates that we might have found.

There was also the benefit of a fast transition.

We thought we’d go ahead and make the offer to Mike, and we’re glad he accepted [...] The city deals with a wide variety of issues, but over the next few years, there’s going to be a lot of focus on these development proposals, and it’ll be good to have him advising us.”

Oct. 25 “Signs posted two days ago regarding no parking, three vehicles in violation.”

“Vehicle taken within last two hours — spare key left in the vehicle.”

“Male dressed in clown costume knocking on doors stating he was coming to get people.”

Oct. 26 “Vehicle partially blocking rear exit at dumpster area.”

Oct. 27 “Approximately three subjects talking in the backyard and vomiting.”

“Child yelling ‘911,’ then got on line and said he didn’t want 911 and not to come out.”

Oct. 29 “Vehicle windows smashed, nothing taken.”

“Upstairs neighbor, loud banging and screaming.”

Oct. 30 “Stoplights malfunctioning. Reporting party advised the lights would be red and green at the same time.”

“Possible theft from unlocked vehicle in which an unopened case of Dove soap was left behind — requested pickup of property.”

UC DAVIS STUDENTS MAKE CHROME EXTENSION TO HELP STUDENTS BUILD SCHEDULE

BY CLARA Z H O U campus@theaggie.org

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Extension finds conflicts in student schedules, integrates professor ratings into Schedule Builder

Just in time for Winter Quarter pass times, second-year UC Davis computer science students Sergei Chestakov and Miguel Acevedo released a Google Chrome extension called Schedule Helper, which helps students choose classes and build their schedules more efficiently.

With the extension, when a student searches for courses on Schedule Builder, different colors will indicate whether a course conflicts with other classes in the student’s schedule, whether a class is full and whether the student has already selected that course. Additionally, the extension takes data from the website Rate My Professors and integrates it directly into Schedule Builder.

When asked how they got the idea to create the extension, Acevedo said that

he was in his dorm room one day last spring when Chestakov came in saying, “Wouldn’t it be cool if there was this Chrome extension that would automatically tell you if [a] class is conflicting?”

According to Chestakov, he found the process of building a schedule tedious, specifically because he had to first save the course into his schedule and then see if it conflicted with other classes.

From there, Acevedo took the idea and spent a weekend attempting to make the extension by himself. The first version of the extension only indicated conflicts in the schedule. Over this past summer, Acevedo worked with Chestakov and they produced the second version of the extension, which includes the ratings from Rate My Professors.

According to Chestakov, the hardest part of the process was learning new skills and technology as they went along.

“I think the extension is really helpful

for making a schedule without having to go back and forth between the search and the current classes as well as going between Schedule Builder and Rate My Professors,” said second-year statistics major Jacob Fraysher.

According to Acevedo, the pair actually completed the project before Fall Quarter started, but they didn’t release the extension until just a few weeks ago because they wanted to release it near pass time. The whole project took them between two and three weeks.

Currently, Schedule Helper has reached almost 1,000 downloads. Students can download the extension for free at https://getschedulehelper.com “I just wanted to create a tool that will save students time and make the process of picking classes a lot easier,” Chestakov said. “If it saves all the students that downloaded it one hour, I’ll be happy.”

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Black to move for material advantage.

This week’s puzzle is about tactics leading up to the end game. For advantage, remember if you were in the opponents position we would want to make the best move possible, and from there analyze our position for the response. Hint: look at ALL of our pieces’ positions and set up for the response.

Sudoku Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. Every row, column and 3x3 square must contain one of each digit.

Each Sudoku has a unique solution that can be reached logically without guessing.

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New ASUCD unit offers grant opportunity for sustainability projects

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Sustainability, making an impact, leadership experience, funding: these are the keys that The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) offers to the UC Davis community to unlock sustainability projects of its own creation.

“Are you worried that funding is holding you back from seeing a really cool project through?” said fourth-year environmental policy analysis and planning major Chase McFadden. “Then ASUCD’s TGIF is here to bridge that gap between [an] idea and actually turning your project into reality and making it happen.”

TGIF, born of an ASUCD fee initiative, is a “green bank” that offers grants to all UC Davis community members interested in improving campus sustainability from many different vantage points.

According to McFadden, funded projects will promote environmental awareness, improve educational opportunities, engage in sustainable research, advocate for environmental justice and address other waste-reduction and restoration efforts.

Sarah Risher, a fourth-year environmental policy analysis and planning major and chair of the TGIF Committee, insisted upon the importance of community participation in sustainability efforts on campus.

“To me, it’s all about student empowerment and student voices and students making decisions about what affects them,” Risher said. “I feel like in the institutions that we are raised in, there’s a lot of communities that don’t have voices and are underrepresented and a lot of discrimination against young people [...] To me, the mission of TGIF is to give students voices and to give students the tools to turn their ideas into reality.”

This multilateral mission provides funding — $2,000 during the fall application season and

$20,000 in winter — for students, faculty and staff to address issues of sustainability that may or may not fall under the two major UC-wide goals: become zero-waste by 2020 and become carbon-neutral by 2025. The last day to apply for the fall mini-grant is Nov. 13.

In-committee alliances attach TGIF to the resources of the Office of Sustainability, Campus Planning and Environmental Stewardship and, of course, ASUCD. “It’s kind of a unique ASUCD program in that it’s not directly tied to ASUCD operations,” McFadden said.

TGIF operations fall under the ASUCD budget and it is of interest to ASUCD because it uses student fees and is intended to serve undergraduate students first and foremost. Thus, grant proposals to TGIF should improve campus sustainability and especially affect the sustainability of undergraduate experiences.

Representing Campus Planning and Environmental Stewardship is Robert Segar, a staff member on the TGIF committee.

“We are responsible for long-range planning for the UC Davis campus environment,” Segar said.

“Creating a sustainable future is at the core of what we do. It will be a great help to us to have students advancing the cause, and we think we can cue up some great opportunities for students to participate.

I think the biggest opportunity going forward is to more fully integrate student engagement and student learning into our sustainability efforts.”

Annaliese Franz, a TGIF faculty committee member, researcher and associate professor of chemistry, studies catalysts and the ways in which they make chemical reactions more efficient, among other innovations focused on efficiency. Franz’s position as the director of the Undergraduate Research Center is notable, as she provides a liaison between the campus center and potential grant applicants for

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DR. GAREN WINTEMUTE LOOKS FOR WAYS TO PREVENT FIREARM VIOLENCE Emergency room doctor continues research at UC Firearm Violence Prevention Research Center

Dr. Garen Wintemute has joined together with a staff of UC Davis, UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC Irvine faculty members to lead the most extensive gun violence research ever conducted. Over the next five years, with a budget of $5 million, researchers at the University of California Firearm Violence Prevention Research Center (UCFC) hope to learn more about how to prevent firearm violence and to study those who are at risk.

“We’re doing fundamental research on the nature, distribution and consequences of firearm violence, and on firearm ownership and commerce,” Wintemute said. “We’re collecting data that will support prevention activities and assess the effectiveness of current policies and programs.”

For the last three decades, Wintemute has researched firearm violence. For the past 20 years, federal funding that was supposed to be funneled to gun violence research has been blocked in Congress.

For this reason, Wintemute donated $1.1 million of his own money to continue his research.

“Congressman Jay Dickey, whose work in the

ZIPPIN’ THROUGH WEST DAVIS City of Davis expands Zipcar program to Portage Bay West

The City of Davis recently added two new vehicles to its fleet of Zipcar vehicles. The new cars, a Subaru Crosstrek and a Mazda 3, will be at a new Zipcar location at Portage Bay West.

Currently, Davis hosts seven Zipcar locations and 15 vehicles, representing the expansion of the Davis Zipcar program since its establishment in 2010. To accommodate students’ need for affordable transportation, the partnership also maintains 17 vehicles on the UC Davis campus.

“Car sharing is another successful effort to provide mobility options for Davis residents,” said Davis Mayor Robb Davis in a recent statement.

“Between our bicycling infrastructure, Unitrans bus system, and Zipcar, the option to live in Davis without the financial burden of car ownership is becoming more convenient every year.”

ify anyone from earning the grant, though, as it is the knowledge that comes from working in different capacities across campus that qualify an applicant to speak on gaps in sustainability.

“Faculty or professors have more access to grants, obviously they do research all the time, and so we do want to reach out to janitorial staff, or the career staff [who are] not professors because they are on the ground everyday, they know this campus inside and out, it’s their community as well, and they have great ideas too,” Risher said. “I know different [...] students, groups or just individual students see different needs and I think that’s the great thing about TGIF is that it allows people to bring those [ideas] forward where admin can’t see them, or ASUCD can’t see them.”

1990s led to the nearly total disappearance of federal support for firearm violence research, wrote a strong letter of support for the creation of UCFC,” Wintemute said. “He realized he’d made a mistake. As for cancer, heart disease and other health problems, we need to understand firearm violence in order to prevent it.”

The UCFC provides a platform for Wintemute to expand his research efforts. As a former emergency room doctor, Wintemute has extensive experience seeing and treating victims of gunshot wounds both in the U.S. and overseas.

“Because most people who die from gunshot wounds do so where they are shot, we clinicians need to help prevent the shootings in order to prevent the deaths,” Wintemute said.

Organizations on campus such as the Davis College Democrats have taken note of Wintemute’s work. Perrin Swanlund, a second-year political science and English double major, is the president of Davis College Democrats. After the most recent mass shooting in Las Vegas, Swanlund said he was looking more closely at the research people like Wintemute are doing to try and stop these events from occurring.

Since the Las Vegas shooting, Wintemute has had an overwhelming number of donations and interview requests. In an interview with the L.A. Times, Wintemute said that there are few commonalities linking mass shootings, except for similarities in weapon choice.

Wintemute also pointed out that mass shooters don’t follow a set profile, although research has yet to be tested on whether mass shooters tend to buy more weapons than regular firearm buyers. Another factor which links mass shootings, he said, is the purchasing of high-capacity magazines. In California, selling high-capacity magazines has been banned and in the last year even the possession of them has been banned.

“Substantially more research needs to be done to determine the best options to put a stop to these tragedies in the United States and the work that UC Davis researchers are doing on firearm violence prevention is incredibly important,” Swanlund said.

The Davis College Republicans said they did not have a statement on the current state of gun violence in America at this time.

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research projects.

“We generally try to empower and help inspire students from all over campus, and so basically anytime there’s an opportunity to have a partnership to help students get involved in research, we’re excited to do that,” Franz said. “Everyone has these unique opportunities where they contribute to the community and each person is going to have a different idea and that’s why instead of having one committee coming up with ideas, by having the opportunity to basically give the financial resources to small amounts to different groups, different people will come up with more ideas.”

While faculty members often apply for grants and funding, the rest of the UC Davis community may be foreign to the endeavor. This doesn’t disqual-

In comparison to car owners, Zipcar drivers can save hundreds of dollars. Rental rates include gas and insurance and can be booked hourly, monthly or yearly, both on demand and in advance. At an even greater convenience to Davis residents, it is estimated that “each Zipcar removes approximately up to 13 personally owned vehicles from the road,” translating to more available parking space in congested areas like downtown Davis.

Zipcar members are predicted to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 billion pounds and save approximately 15 million gallons of gas per year.

With the Zipcar mobile app and Zipcard access, becoming a Zipcar member is relatively simple. An online application grants drivers usership, and a reservation gets drivers the car and availability they desire. Cars can be driven wherever as long as they are returned to the reserved parking spot on time.

However, booked time slots can be extended via a quick text.

YOLO CRISIS NURSERY LOOKS TO EXPAND SERVICES Local crisis nursery provides care to families, children

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The Yolo Crisis Nursery has been operating in Davis for 17 years, working day and night to provide temporary care it can to children and families who need it while also helping parents manage emergencies.

“The core of our work is dedicated to positively change the lives of at-risk children and their families every day,” said Heather Sleuter, the executive director of the nursery. “Our mission is to provide early intervention services to nurture healthy and resilient children, and we strengthen parents to preserve families. Sometimes families aren’t in a position to do so, so our mission is to make sure every child in Yolo County grows up in a safe and loving home.”

According to its 2016-17 yearly impact report, the Yolo Crisis Nursery has given direct care to 139 children — 45 percent more than the previous year — and 285 different families have used its services

to create stable, healthy lives for their children. Of the families who requested help from the Yolo Crisis Nursery, 98 percent were able to remain together, avoiding separating children from their parents and sending them to Child Protective Services.

“We used to be under Families First, and they held all of our licensing,” said Jane Eadie, the president of the board of directors. “They had a crisis and lost their ability to be in Davis. They told us they were going to close our doors [...] So we did some massive fundraising in 2014, and the community responded. We’ve been up and running ever since [...] We hope that in the long term what we’ve done in Yolo County can be used as a blueprint in how to run a crisis nursery throughout the state.”

The Yolo Crisis Nursery has been running as an independent nonprofit and growing since 2014, helping more families and children each NURSERY on 9

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2017 ASuCD Fall Election — Meet the Candidates Six candidates running for six open senate positions. Voting starts at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14, ends at 8 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 17.

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Second-year economics and computer science double major Andreas Godderis is one of the four independent candidates.

Godderis has had no previous involvement with ASUCD, which he says is a factor in his run for Senate.

“I think every student should have an easy road to go down if they want to get involved with campus and the way it’s run,” Godderis said. “I want my function [...] in

ASUCD [to be] more of a voice for students rather than someone who interprets the bylaws.”

One of the main components of Godderis’ platform is increasing voter turnout by fostering more connections between students and senators.

Godderis is interested in adopting the Bike Barn and has plans to increase floor space by utilizing the building’s upper level

for storage.

He is also interested in finding ways to improve retention rates at the CoHo and South CoHo. “When you work for ASUCD — for the CoHo, for the South CoHo — your contract states that you have a minimum work requirement of 15 hours per week,” Godderis said. “I think for a lot of students, myself included, that’s too much. [That require-

ment] creates this culture where you have a lot of employees who start and quit halfway through the quarter. [I want to] decrease work hours to whatever the sweet spot is — I initially had in mind seven to 10 hours.”

Godderis hopes to complete more than one term on Senate, as he has a few “fairly ambitious” goals.

Gaven Kaur, a second-year psychology and communication double major is running as an independent candidate and is the only woman running in this election.

“I decided to run for Senate because I really want to be an active voice on campus and make sure that I can make positive changes through my platforms, which I’m super, super passionate about,” Kaur said.

Kaur has previous involvement with

ASUCD — she formerly served as a staff member for Senator Simran Grewal. In regards to her platform, Kaur is most interested in promoting mental health resources on campus.

“I [...] want to collaborate with the Student Health and Wellness Center,” Kaur said. “My freshman year, I got to know a lot of students who suffer from mental health issues. A lot of the kids would tell me all the

time [...], ‘If someone had reached out to me, maybe it would be different.’ I feel like through this platform [...] I could help promote it. I’d definitely want to table [and] hold discussions. It goes hand-in-hand with my second platform [issue].”

The other component of her platform is increasing resources for freshmen to encourage their involvement in activities around campus.

She also hopes to be a role model for women.

“I am super involved with women[‘s] organizations on campus: I do HerCampus [and] Davis Women in Business, so I’m definitely all for women empowerment,” Kaur said. “I definitely want to be that role model for women.”

Bryan Perez is a second-year political science and managerial economics double major running as an independent candidate.

He decided to run for senate after becoming a tour guide in his first year and realizing how many underutilized resources are on campus.

Perez wants to give a voice to underrepresented communities, after being overwhelmed by his own transition from a small

city to the large university.

Perez is interested in adding more lighting around campus in order to increase safety as well as making the first floor of Shields Library open 24 hours a day to make studying more accessible.

Overall, he is very passionate about getting the word out about resources available to students.

“People find out late in the end [about]

resources they could have utilized but they were not notified early and didn’t know where to look in the first place,” Perez said.

“I am a tour guide and I know all this information, but there are still more resources that I don’t know about. This is not a major change, but it’s something that can actually impact our students because it’s a way for students to be notified, and hopefully I can make that happen.”

Perez is excited for the senate campaign and the opportunity to make a difference.

“I’m a first-generation [college student] for my family, I’m setting an example for my family and other people as well from back home because no one from that area has considered going to NorCal,” Perez said.

Jake Sedgley is a third-year economics and environmental policy analysis and planning double major. Sedgley, a Davis local, is running as an independent candidate to improve the transfer student experience on campus.

“Coming to a big campus like this is a really big deal for a lot of transfer students,” Sedgley said. “I personally worked my butt off to get here and I came here and it just

didn’t feel like it was supposed to, quite honestly. Being a sophomore transfer gives me a unique opportunity to actually represent transfer students.”

Sedgley is also interested in improving ASUCD outreach to students.

“Generally the candidates don’t represent the student body, like there’s only one woman running,” Sedgley said. “Voter participation is a big problem. When you

only have 10 percent — at most — of the students voting, there’s no way that’s going to represent the student interests. It’s almost impossible.”

Sedgley has been following ASUCD almost his entire life and has attended four or five senate meetings since he decided to run.

He is also interested in adopting Unitrans or the Aggie Reuse Store because of

his environmental policy interests.

His priority is fixing the lack of student participation in ASUCD on campus.

“Voter participation is just something that needs to be fixed as soon as possible,” Sedgley said. “[...] I’m trying to get them more interested in what ASUCD does and more awareness of how big they actually are on campus.”

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Second-year Danny Halawi is currently an applied mathematics major, although he plans to switch to computer science. He is running on the UC Davis Unite slate.

“I’m partnering with [the slate] because they have a lot of experience,” Halawi said.

“A lot of their platforms and their ideas and policies I agree with, so it happened to just be a good mix.”

Halawi said he wants to bring his per-

spective as a STEM major to the Senate.

“There’s a big lack of STEM representation,” Halawi said. “Because there’s not a lot of [senators] majoring in [those fields], they’re not able to make decisions related to those fields and topics because no one has the expertise. In order to help my community, and help the students on campus majoring in STEM, I need to run and represent them.”

As a member of UC Davis’ Greek life population, Halawi said he wants to “be the bridge between ASUCD and Greek Life.”

“Greek does a lot of great things for the campus with their philanthropy, their charity and bringing people together,” Halawi said. “I want to make sure they have representation on ASUCD as well. The two entities have very [similar] values — they both want to help their communities, essentially.

They have these same values; however, they work separately, which doesn’t make sense to me.”

Halawi has had no previous experience with ASUCD. He said he would like to encourage student involvement with ASUCD. “A lot of students don’t know about ASUCD and one of the reasons why I want to become senator is to make us more wellknown,” Halawi said.

Jesse Kullar is a second-year chemical engineering major who is running as a candidate on the UC Davis Unite slate.

“Last year I did attend a senate meeting and they were actually talking about lobbying the [engineering] department to normalize fifth- and sixth-year programs for STEM and engineering backgrounds and that didn’t really sit right with me,” Kullar said. “Everyone except for one person there

was a political science major at that time, and I felt that if they are going to be speaking on behalf of STEM and engineering, they should have someone at the table who is already in that background so they can voice the opinions and concerns of their classmates.”

This experience inspired Kullar to run for Senate and make better STEM representation in ASUCD one of his platforms.

From his experience playing pickup and intramural soccer on campus, Kullar also prioritized bettering athletic facilities on his platform.

“I want to focus more on student athletics because what I’ve noticed from talking to a lot of students who play at our facilities, like the soccer fields, tennis courts and basketball courts is that a lot of our facilities are not at the standard that they should be

for a college campus,” Kullar said.

Kullar is interested in adopting the Unitrans unit of ASUCD in order to increase stops in areas such as East Davis, where busses stop only every 30 minutes. Overall, Kullar feels strongly about bettering student involvement on campus, especially when it comes to voter turnout.

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the California Aggie EDITORIAL BOARD BRYAN SYKES Editor-in-Chief

Senate endorsements: consider the following

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The Editorial Board was most disappointed to learn that the upcoming Fall Election will be uncontested — with six candidates running for six open senatorial positions. An uncontested election discourages voter turnout, an issue with which ASUCD already struggles. This election also virtually guarantees all six candidates a spot in the Senate, representing a student body which had little to no say in their selection. Additionally, the majority of the student population at UC Davis is composed of women. It was therefore disheartening and frustrating to see only one woman in the group of six candidates.

After the Editorial Board sat down with all six candidates, we found them to be enthusiastic and professional about the job they will be elected to by default. Many of the platforms brought forth by the candidates however, were unoriginal — unsuccessful ideas we have heard copied and pasted into countless ASUCD campaigns. Several platforms contained admirable ideas, but were vague and had no clearly thought-out approaches to ensure successful achievement. Some candidates seemingly lacked a basic understanding of what an ASUCD unit is or failed to correctly name even one of the 23 units.

Nevertheless, the Editorial Board has decided to endorse three candidates running for Senate.

Andreas Godderis Second-year economics and computer science double major Andreas Godderis inspired us with his creative vision and diverse selection of concrete, feasible plans and is our top choice for Senate. One plausible and strong idea Godderis brought forth was reducing the minimum work hours for employees of the CoHo, the South CoHo and BioBrew from 15 hours a week to around eight to 10 hours. As an employee at the South CoHo, Godderis said he sees a culture of quick turnover and low retention rates because full-time students

cannot keep up with a 15-hour workweek. Another simple yet effective idea Godderis spoke about was creating a sign inviting students to talk to him when he holds office hours at the CoHo in order to increase accessibility to ASUCD. Godderis’ innovative ideas and strong work ethic were apparent and we were impressed by his thorough answers and the research he had clearly undertaken for his campaign.

We also wish to endorse Jake Sedgley and Jesse Kullar, who would be beneficial additions to the Senate table.

Jake Sedgley Sedgley is a third-year economics and environmental policy analysis and planning double major. As a transfer student, Sedgley said he did not feel immediately comfortable on campus and talked about ways to inform transfer students about welcome events. The Editorial Board admired Sedgley’s honesty, specifically when he spoke of his own unhappiness with the uncontested nature of the election. We also liked his ideas about increased funding for the Office of Advocacy and Student Representation as well as his plan to promote the university’s achievements during the Whole Earth Festival.

Jesse Kullar After noting a lack of STEM voices at a Senate meeting he attended, Kullar, a second-year chemical engineering major, brings a much-needed STEM perspective to a Senate that has historically lacked such representation. Kullar appears determined to fulfill the terms of his position as a representative of the student body. In office, Kullar plans to be a voice for his fellow engineering students, and we admire Kullar’s passionate spirit. Kullar is a member of the UCD Unite slate and we encourage him to take advantage of the collaborative opportunities available with more experienced members.

Fall Elections will take place Nov. 14-17 at elections.ucdavis.edu

Guiding children through their emotions TEACHING KIDS TO ADDRESS THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AT AN EARLY AGE

BY JOLENA PACHECO mspacheco@ucdavis.edu The idea that mental health issues are only experienced by people between the teen and adult age range is a misconception. We should be concerned about younger age groups as well. Elementary school kids should be given attention and taught to feel and understand their emotions. Nearly half of kids between 10 and 17 in the United States have experienced a traumatic event in their life, according to a report by Joseph Frankel in Newsweek. Additionally, one in three students have stated they were bullied in school. Kids don’t have enough control of their lives to keep themselves out of these situations. It’s important for the adults who spend a lot of their time around children to obtain the skills needed to recognize and approach a child who may be going through such experiences.

A study conducted by researchers at King’s College in London analyzed the impact of bullying on children. They first assessed their participants at age 11 and then again at age 16 and found that bullying did lead to symptoms of anxiety and depression. Bullying

can therefore severely affect the victim’s mental wellbeing and confidence. When children are exposed to bullying at a young age, it damages how they view themselves during the critical stages of their development. For some, these symptoms can decrease over time. But what about the others, whose symptoms only get worse?

No one wishes for a child to go through trauma or bullying, and there isn’t a way for us to fully prevent these from occurring. However, adults can help younger children acknowledge their feelings and lead them through handling their situation. It’s important to first realize that children are people and also feel negative emotions like anger, hatred and sadness.

I currently intern with a class of third graders at Patwin Elementary School in Davis. I’ve seen students behave aggressively and even bully other students. I’ve listened to students put themselves down, saying they aren’t good at something and feeling discouraged when they’re given an assignment in that subject. These kids are between 7 and 9 years old and are already going through situations that affect their mental development.

I also saw an incident during P.E. in which a few students were

being aggressive toward their peers and some were physically hurt.

Their teacher had the kids go back to the classroom and sit on the floor in a circle, and one by one they spoke about what they saw and how they felt. It’s moments like these that encourage kids to express their thoughts verbally, which teaches them that it’s okay to speak up.

Another intern participating in the program shared a technique used by the teacher for whom she works. They have the students place their hands over their hearts when they start to feel overwhelmed. After a minute, the teacher asks them to give a thumb up or down to signify if they’re okay or need something more.

Although teachers and school officials spend the most time with these students, many of us have younger family members who look up to us for guidance. We can all act to address mental health concerns with children. But since they may not understand what that term means, we can simply start by asking them how they are feeling. Allowing them to connect with and verbally share their emotions is important because the earlier they start, the better they will be able to understand their emotions when they are teenagers. Like with anything else, practice leads to improvement, and it’s never too early to start.

What can we do about the plastic problem?

DESPITE LITTER STATISTICS, OUR EVERYDAY CHOICES STILL MATTER

BY JESSICA DRIVER jmdriver@ucdavis.edu A flyer posted in the Davis bathrooms last year asked students to reconsider using red solo cups. It argued that plastic produces negative environmental impacts and suggested that students ban singleuse cups.

For the umpteenth time, I asked myself: “If we all know plastic is bad, why are we still making it, buying it and dumping it in the trash?” But do we really have a choice?

Plastic is in water bottles, disposable razors, toys, food packaging, movie cases, video game consoles, kitchen utensils, beauty supplies and more. As consumers, our nonplastic product choices seem few.

Without embracing an “alternative lifestyle,” how can the average person make a difference in a world inundated with plastic?

I first learned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, six years ago. At the time, I couldn’t believe that we had let plastic build up into floating trash vortexes that trapped and killed marine life. Charles Moore, the captain who discovered the patch in 1997, couldn’t believe it either.

"I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic,” Moore said. "It seemed unbelievable, but I never found a

clear spot. In the week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere: bottles, bottle caps, wrappers, fragments."

We’ve produced plastic at an unimaginable rate, and most of it has ended up in the ocean. Humans have produced 9 billion tons of plastic, and of the 7 billion tons that people have trashed, 79 percent went to landfills or littered the environment.

“We all knew there was a rapid and extreme increase in plastic production from 1950 until now, but actually quantifying the cumulative number for all plastic ever made was quite shocking,” said Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia.

Most people have heard the statistics: Scientists predict there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050. Half of all sea turtles and most marine birds have plastic in their stomachs. But the statistics only attempt to quantify the plastic problem that overwhelms the planet.

After decades of disintegration, plastics have turned into “microplastics” in our oceans. Scientists have even discovered plastic-fused rocks washed up on Hawaiian beaches. The plastic problem appears to be irreversibly embedded in our world.

But as Susan Freinkel, a scientific journalist, pointed out in 2011, plastic has its benefits, too. People just need to be smarter about using it, she argued.

“We have the technology to make better, safer plastics — forged from renewable sources rather than finite fossil fuels, using chemicals that inflict minimal or no harm on the planet and our health,” Freinkel said. “We have the public policy tools to build better recycling systems and to hold businesses accountable for the products they put into the market. And we can also take a cue from the plastic purgers about how to cut wasteful plastic out of our daily lives.”

While there’s truth to Freinkel’s argument, she glossed over the role of personal accountability. Individual choices are still at the root of the plastic problem. Do we have a choice? We do: recycle or don’t recycle.

Of all the plastic we use, 91 percent isn’t recycled. If we choose to put our plastics in the garbage and sort them in the right bins, we might make a difference. If we increase plastic recycling, maybe we can start thinking of ways to reduce the plastic in our oceans.

Because regular people require things like alarm clocks and toothbrushes, the plastic problem can seem distant and the resolution unrealistic. But it’s much easier to manage one piece of trash at a time.

Thankfully, UC Davis makes it easy for students to recycle on campus. It’s what we do at home that really matters.

Start saying “no” to plastic waste — and watch out for flyers in the bathroom.

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Come as you are UC DAVIS CHANCELLOR RESPONDS TO PROVOCATIVE FLIERS POSTED AROUND CAMPUS

BY GARY S. MAY A seemingly benign flier that appeared around UC Davis over the weekend serves as a reminder that our campus, for all its charm, is hardly insulated from the issues facing our society at large.

The anonymous single-sentence message read: “It’s okay to be white.”

Multiple postings, made under cover of darkness Saturday night, were duplicated at many other college campuses across the country. They were spotted in Harvard Yard, Tulane University in New Orleans, Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., the University of Alberta in Canada and a high school in Silver Spring, Md. The flyers attempted to subtly convey a message that white people are under attack in the United States.

Well, of course it’s okay to be white, or brown, or black, or gay, or straight, or rich, or poor, or Muslim, or Jewish, or Catholic, or

Protestant or disabled. All are welcome at UC Davis.

But why UC Davis? If you were looking to persuade people to accept the concept of “white victimhood,” would you hit a jackpot here, at one of the nation’s Top Ten public research universities that prides itself on diversity, inclusion and civil discourse?

Of course not. The midnight vandals who posted these flyers are only seeking to goad us. Several of the signs were taped to a banner advertising the annual Empowerment Conference hosted by the UC Davis Women’s Resources & Research Center. Others appeared on sandwich boards outside the Student Community Center, home of our Cross Cultural Center, which seeks to empower students from underrepresented ethnic groups.

The posters were part of a national campaign of provocations intended to divide our country. Their aim was to provoke a reaction and portray it as evidence of growing anti-white discrimination on college campuses.

We removed the signs on Sunday wherever we found them.

All were in violation of our campus posting policy, which generally prohibits postings on buildings, walls, windows and trees — whether it’s for a political cause or a blood drive.

UC Davis has been and should continue to be a forum for wide-open dialogue on an unlimited range of ideas, including those that many find disturbing. Anonymous fliers, however, are not dialogue. Support for social diversity and equity is not a putdown. This is not a zero sum game. All can be valued. All can be supported. All can be successful.

Yes, it’s okay to be white — or anything else at UC Davis. But it’s not okay to vandalize or intimidate. Like the signs at the ARC say: “Come as you are.” Just come to learn and contribute constructively to the UC Davis community.

Gary S. May is the chancellor of the University of California at Davis.

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Outrage over removal of Pepper Spray Policeman statue “IT WAS A PART OF OUR HISTORY.”

BY AARON LEVINS adlevins@ucdavis.edu Given the events of the past year, UC Davis students have been clamoring for the removal of the Pepper Spray Policeman statue, a beautiful and elegant statue with a classical design. It commemorates the historic event of “The Pepper Spray,” an event that proclaims the power and sovereignty of our Great Leader. The statue is 20 feet tall, made of bronze and silver and features a power-tripping cop whose legal and moral obligations are blissfully nonexistent. All praise to the Great Leader.

Now these students, like the snowflakes they are, claim that this statue is “offensive” and “representative of the larger systemic abuses of power made by police officers in America.”

And what do we have to say to these students? You aren’t allowed to just make up words like

“systemic.” That is very clearly a made-up word. Stop making up those words.

Now to address their other claims: I’m not really sure what they are talking about, honestly. They claim that I’m a “fascist” (another made-up word), but just because I like a strong one-party state with a charismatic leader and a strong police presence does not mean I’m a fascist. Or whatever that word means, because these students keep making up words.

Most importantly, though, the statue is a part of our history. If something happened in the past, you have to commemorate it always, otherwise those people with latent multigenerational trauma won’t be able to remember the ways in which they have been and continue to be hurt.

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Trump finds out his head is up his ass, still lacks hindsight IT’S LIKE A VIDEOGAME: EACH CIVILIAN COUNTS AS ONE OF HIS LIVES

BY DREW HANSON andhanson@ucdavis.edu President Trump has taken the week off to spend time in the White House arcade after finding out that his head was up his ass.

He tried brown-nosing the media only to learn that he still has no hindsight. Embarrassed and red in the face, Trump flew back to the White House on a pink-eye flight to clean himself up in the golden

showers, telling everyone in his way to leave, shouting, “Scat! Scat!”

“Sometimes I think he’s full of crap, but mostly he means well,” said Vice President Mike Pence apologetically. “Trump thought that if he watched the solar eclipse he too would have the power to block out the sun. I told him to put the tinted glasses on, but he just kept saying ‘No filter!’ over and over again.”

“I stared into the eclipse and the eclipse stared into me,” Trump said. “Niche said that, if you fight with monsters, you should be care-

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ful not to become a monster yourself. You know what I think? That’s what this big red button is for. They won’t even get close enough to turn me into a monster,” Trump continued before returning to a vintage version of “Space Invaders” with the title scratched out and revised to “Interplanetary Border Control.”

“This is where we do most of our thinking,” Pence said, standing

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PvP Biologics Creates First Therapeutic Enzyme for Celiac Disease With new treatment, those with celiac disease may no longer have to go gluten-free

BY KR I T I VA RG HES E science@theaggie.org

Around 1 percent of the American population is affected by celiac disease. For the approximately three million people affected in this country, the constant vigilance surrounding their diet can be difficult and frustrating. Whether they’re at home, at a friend’s place or travelling abroad, all it takes is one small molecule of gluten to wreak havoc to their digestive system.

“When someone has celiac disease, they need to break down every single molecule of gluten,” said Sydney Gordon, a scientist at Ab Initio Biotherapeutics. “Otherwise, they could have a reaction.”

So far, there haven’t been any therapeutics on the market to treat celiac disease. While there are other over-the-counter treatments on the market, none are very effective. Most are slow or don’t target all of the gluten molecules.

“There are no other enzymes on the market for celiac disease,” said Justin Siegel, the co-founder of PvP Biologics and an assistant professor of chem-

istry, biochemistry and molecular medicine at UC Davis. “There is nothing that is approved by the FDA for celiac disease. Nothing has made it through clinical trials. There are pills on the market that cause degradation of gluten, but there is no clinical evidence that they are effective.”

PvP Biologics targets the specific triggering molecule, the immunogenic epitope, before it reaches the intestines where it would trigger the reaction.

“We wanted to design an enzyme […] a protein that would act as a therapeutic for celiac disease. We came up with a design using a protein modelling tool called FoldIt,” said Ingrid Pultz, a co-founder of PvP Biologics.

PvP Biologics uses kumamolisin, a naturally occurring enzyme that, unlike some other enzymes, can survive the acidity of the stomach. By modifying the amino acid sequence in the original kumamolisin enzyme, researchers were able to specifically target the epitope causing the reaction.

“The obvious [benefit is that] you don’t have to worry about following a gluten-free diet. Just for your own convenience, for your own taste, that’s way better,” Gordon said.

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Monogamy in Titi monkeys UC Davis Professor Karen Bales, team study pair bonds in Titi monkeys

BY DAVID SOLTER O science@theaggie.org

Titi monkeys are some of the few monogamous mammals that form lifelong bonds with their partners. Similar to humans, these monkeys get distressed when they are separated and buffer stress when they are together.

Karen Bales, a professor of psychology at UC Davis, has been studying these monkeys at the California National Primate Center for 13 years.

“The goal was to develop a new model for the neurobiology of social bonds and to look at the different aspects of the pair bonds,” Bales said. “The jealousy study was taken from the viewpoint of looking at another challenge to the pair bond.”

Bales and her team conducted the study with two conditions. The first condition was putting the monkeys with a stranger monkey. The alternative condition involved separating a pair-bonded female and putting her with a stranger male while the pair-bonded male had to watch.

“What we saw in the jealousy condition is very strong activation in the singular cortex and in the lateral septum,” Bales said. “So we saw this in previous studies where it was activated during formation, separation and now in jealousy.”

These male Titi monkeys have shown elevated levels of the hormones testosterone and cortisol

when put in the jealousy condition. The longer the male watched the interaction between the female and the stranger male, the higher the levels of the hormones, which triggered an interesting social behavior in the males.

“What was cute was one of the behaviors was lip smacking which looks like a kiss trying to attract their mates attention,” Bales said.

So what is the next step for the Titi monkeys?

“There are a number of different avenues for exploration,” said Sally Mendoza, a UC Davis professor of psychology and the co-author of the research.

“First is that we will now focus on females. They also experience jealousy but not to the same extent.”

Mapping the hormone levels of the Titi monkeys’ social behavior offers insight into how social behavior can affect biology.

“Moving forward it is really helpful to know what brain regions are involved and how monkeys are similar to humans for basic biology about how attachment relationships work,” said Nicole Maninger, a postdoctoral researcher on the team.

The findings from this research can help uncover clues to connecting social behavior to human health problems.

“It’s possible for this research to be extended to helping with autism and domestic violence. This is just the beginning but hopefully one day it can help save lives,” Maninger said.

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Article 26 Backpack uses cloud drive to help reboot lives Article 26 Backpack initiative will give displaced students secure access to textbooks, transcripts, college registrars

BY DYL A N HE N D R I C KS O N science@theaggie.org

Cloud storage has integrated itself within the technological mainstream the same way that smartphones, contactless payment and on-demand media streaming have. Arguably, it has been the technological innovation that has made these services and products possible. The work of the Article 26 Backpack initiative now aims to use cloud storage technology to store essential documents for students who lack reliable access to their own educational files.

Named after Article 26 of the United Nations’ “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” which guarantees the right to an education for all people, the Article 26 Backpack is centered around students in war-torn countries with underfunded education systems. This initiative helps these students regain access to their educational documents.

With physical records potentially lost due to natural disasters, wars or mismanagement, the ability to have these documents safe on a third-party server is one less thing to worry about.

“We [students] have the benefit of already having all of our SAT and ACT scores in the system,” said Liz McAllister, a fourth-year design major at UC Davis and documentarian for the project.

“They’ve already been evaluated and are readily

transferable [to universities]. These people don’t have access to that.

The project is the brainchild of Dr. Keith Watenpaugh, the director of the Human Rights Studies program at UC Davis. After being in the works for several years, the project received $500,000 from the Ford Foundation in October to fund the development of the program.

While the idea for the Backpack was novel within itself, the actual software was adapted from an existing framework created by IQ4, a New Jersey-based software developer.

“It was like an internal LinkedIn for companies like JP Morgan Chase, where you as an employee could list your skills and any specialized training you took while working there,” said Mona Finucane, the deputy director of the Article 26 Backpack.

The trial run for the Backpack will take place next spring in Beirut, Lebanon, a city with a high concentration of refugees and displaced students from the Middle East. 600 students will have their documents scanned and be given access to the Backpack.

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UC Davis responds to big data Growing landscape of data science leads UC Davis to implement Data Science Initiative

BY NATA LI E COWAN science@theaggie.org

The rapid onset of the digital era has revolutionized the world, but without the proper tools for analyzing data, future technological advancements are fruitless. The Data Science Initiative (DSI) at UC Davis was founded in response to big data with a mission to bolster current research with a rigorous application of data science.

“We are dealing with vast amounts of data that don’t scale to single computers,” said Duncan Temple Lang, a UC Davis statistics professor and the director of the DSI. Most online retailers see what their consumers purchase and how they navigate through the site. It is only with data analytics, however, that these retailers can develop algorithms to predict additional items that their customers might like.

Without the necessary data applications, consumer-based data is likened to that of puzzle pieces without a final image to show how they are meant to come together.

“We are able to take qualitative questions and make them quantitative,” said Carl Stahmer, the

DSI’s associate director for humanities.

Stahmer recounted a study that analyzed copious amounts of feedback to decide whether the FDA should regulate the word “natural.” After downloading all responses, Stahmer modeled the comments into categories based on their stance and diction.

Many UC Davis researchers realize the potential of applying data science to their work, but lack the know-how. The DSI remedies this by offering seminars for undergraduates, graduates and faculty members for skill levels ranging from beginner to advanced. Internship opportunities are also offered for undergraduates to gain problem-solving experience.

“The world is so much more heterogeneous, and it makes life complicated. We are in the Wild West, at the moment, of big data where there are so many solutions, but none dominate,” Temple Lang said.

Data science is a field which spans across all disciplines. For this reason, the DSI fosters pioneering and groundbreaking research by pulling departments and communities together.

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caused the noise complaint. [Afterward], they were essentially getting kicked off of campus, they were on bad registration, and they appealed it. They [were able] to have a trial and go and talk to the university, explain their side of things, and the university said, ‘That’s OK, we get it, but now you’re on conditional registration for two years.’”

Montes confirmed that no current member of the fraternity living in the chapter house had “a right to enter the property during the summer.” However, three current members were living in the house.

“The owner of the property hired [three] members of the chapter to do maintenance work at the property during the summer and those individuals lived on the property pursuant to an extension of their lease agreements,” Montes said. “However, none of those employees were present or involved in the incident.”

Besides the prohibition of Theta Xi-related misconduct for two years, the fraternity has also been barred from sorority events. Bull explained the logistics of having good standing in the eyes of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) and the university.

“One of our rules is that we can only do events with sororities or fraternities in good standing,” Bull said. “They’re not in good standing because they’re

conditional — anything that isn’t good standing, technically, is in bad standing.”

In the spring of 2017, a Theta Xi member faced sexual assault allegations. Bull confirmed that the probationary ruling had nothing to do with last spring’s assault allegations. Speaking for herself, however, Bull speculated that “there could be some correlation” between the past sexual assault allegation and the severity of the response to the noise complaint.

When asked how the fraternity is being punished, Bull said that the only tangible change other than higher scrutiny is that they must follow the enforced sorority ban.

“There are no holds on them,” Bull said.

“They’re allowed to have alcohol, they’re allowed to have events, they just are restricted from associating with sororities, because of our national policies.”

Additionally, Bull said Theta Xi “came into Panhellenic meetings and we gave them a list of things they need to fix if they ever want a chance to do things with sororities again.”

Specifically, the Panhellenic Society laid out a contingency plan composed of sexual assault training, bystander intervention and TIPS certification.

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the authenticity of audits. Similar observations were recorded in audits at UC Merced, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego and UC Berkeley.

“If UC prides itself in being an agent for social mobility for students, they might also think to serve that same function for low wage workers,” de los Angeles said.

Claire Doan, a UC spokesperson, responded to current issues with the Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan via email.

“As with any relatively new and expansive policy, implementation and compliance can take some time,” Doan said.

Doan also said that the UC is continuing to develop the plan by training occupational leadership to enforce policy, tracking contracts to make sure guidelines were followed and updating reference documents and online content for clarification.

These developments are projected to be completed

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Bryce Sheehan-Gaston, a Las Vegas native, said the shooting at the Route 91 festival hit him hard.

“The solution to these issues may not be cut and dry,” Sheehan-Gaston said. “But it’s important to attempt to find them, and for the entire community to work together.”

year. According to Eadie, the nursery operates on a budget of $650,000 each year, 89 percent of which has gone directly into child and family services and facility operations.

“There’s also support group called the Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery,” said Becky Heard, the former president of Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery. “Our job was to help educate the community about what the nursery does and raise funds for the nursery. I’ve seen it change lives, and I’ve seen countless families go through our programs and be able to stay intact and healthy. People can raise their families––I believe it’s a program that truly helps.”

Those looking to volunteer at the nursery will need to undergo an extensive background check.

The Friends group has no such requirements, and potential volunteers are free to join and help out.

“The crisis nursery is 100 percent funded off of

grants, corporations’ and foundations’ funding,” Sleuter said. “So we’re always needing to fundraise for the crisis nursery to keep our doors open to help children and families [...] The [Friends of the Yolo County Nursery] is a group of dedicated volunteers [...] Every year they help fundraise for the nursery.”

In order to better serve the community, the nursery has launched a long-range strategic planning process in order to gain more resources to better serve local families. The plan involves opening up five new board member positions in the next few months and expanding Friends of the Yolo County Nursery, its volunteer program. The nursery will be holding its annual charity crab feed dinner on Mar. 17. Although the location isn’t publicly disclosed, the nursery services can be reached at (530) 7586680. Those looking to volunteer can learn more about how to get involved on the nursery’s website.

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Thanksgiving commute home: a playlist for your travels Fall is underway; keep up with all the feels through this playlist

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International Film Series continues longstanding tradition Films feature cultures from around the world

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The International House in Davis seeks to foster cultures from across the world through their International Film Series. This longstanding tradition of showing a film on the first and third Fridays now through May not only spreads

awareness about diverse cultures but also unites a diverse university community. While this 20-year-old event now has a reliable following, it started from small beginnings.

Husband and wife Ray and Verena Borton, the founders of the event, explained the inspiration for its origination.

“We often went to movies at The

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I Am Your Neighbor: A Tale of Two Cities Homeless Film Festival Film festival aims to humanize, destigmatize homelessness

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Yolo County Library, YoloArts, California Humanities and the City of Davis presented documentaries to shed light onto the problem of homelessness. The events, which screened four documentary films (two at the first event in Sacramento on Oct. 12 and the other two at the Davis Veterans Memorial Theatre on Nov. 4) focused on humanizing homelessness. Lisa Baker, the CEO of Yolo County Housing, was inspired to create the film festival for exactly that purpose.

Meredith Beales, the event’s organizer, and Baker are

Tower in Sacramento,” Ray Borton said. “We ran into someone from Davis there, and so we got to talking with some of them. The idea of trying to get something going in Davis with [International Films] in it.”

That inspiration carried along into the event’s creation.

“We were all associated with [the] I-house,” Ray Borton said.

leaders at the Yolo County Library and Yolo County Housing. They wanted to create a film series with panel discussions pertaining to homelessness. After being awarded a grant through the California Humanities’ “Humanities for All” program, staff members began planning the event.

Two films were presented at the event: “Inocente” and “When I Came Home.”

“Inocente” is a film about a young student whose family is homeless, and “While I Came Home” is about a veteran who returns from combat to no home. Both films provide real, honest illustrations of homeless experiences and strives to end the stigma attached to homelessness.

“Often, in talking about homelessness, we tend to focus on short-term community impacts but not on the lives of those experiencing homelessness or on the circumstances that led them there,” Baker said. “The film series is meant to allow us to engage with the topic from a different perspective.

It’s also about understanding the complexity of the issue and to experience the humanity of those who are suffering. I hope we get to experience, even if only for a moment, what it would be like to be homeless.

As someone who was once homeless myself for a short while, I’m hoping we learn how to resolve these issues locally and nationally.

To do that, we must have an understanding of the issue, and we must have empathy.”

Interim library administrator Chris Crist, surprised by the statistics of homeless-

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is in computer science and engineering, has rejected the common engineering postgrad jobs of his peers to pursue his true passion: music.

“I didn’t fit into that cookie-cutter stereoBY R OWA N O’CO NNE L L- GAT E S type of a computer science student,” Mirblouk arts@theaggie.org said. “For the most part, even throughout college, people who knew me never guessed that I Kasra Mirblouk, better known as “Kaz,” is a 2016 was a computer science major.”

UC Davis graduate. Mirblouk, whose bachelor’s degree Born and raised in West Los Angeles, Mir-

“We talked to the director here, at that point in time, and he was kind of a film aficionado […] It all came together when he got use of a great, big, old TV set […] He put it downstairs, and we started gathering films.”

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ness, anticipated change in audience viewpoints regarding the problem. “[We hoped to see people’s perceptions] change as they see the documentaries of people from various walks of life experiencing homelessness and the paths that led them there,” Crist said. “For example, one statistic that really stuck in my mind was that 70 percent of the people who are homeless have jobs; they just can’t make enough on minimum wage to find a place to rent — housing costs are too high. [We want] to help the community understand how it just takes one slip in circumstances (health, loss of job, accident) to shift from having housing to not being able to afford housing.”

This film series was designed to show others that being homeless does not define an individual. Being homeless means someone requires efforts beyond the short-term community impacts described by Baker.

The films aimed to highlight the lives of people affected by this issue and how lives can be altered drastically with small yet impactful measures.

“At one of our planning meetings, we were discussing myths and truths about homelessness, and someone said, ‘The reason a person is homeless is because they don’t have a home,’ meaning it’s not ‘because of ’ any other (often stereotypical) reason that people might say,” Beales said. “It’s as simple as that. When it’s boiled down that clearly, it’s hard to turn away from the problem.”

November signals the true beginning of fall here in Davis. As the weather has finally cooled, heavy coats and scarves have started to find their way back into our closets.

Leaves that once held spring and summer in their veins now scatter the pavement in shades of brown and yellow, adding a crunch to our steps. Petrichor and crammed buses remind us that rainy days are fully back in action.

Instagrams of muddy boots, trendy lattes and pumpkins flood our feeds. We can practically smell Thanksgiving meals as we yearn for home, but even more, we anticipate the much-needed break from school.

Whether you’re invigorated with a new sense of life or entirely depleted by the dreariness of fall, here is a cozy playlist to entertain all moods — including your trek back home. Snuggling up underneath a soft blanket (or three); trudging through rain puddles; mourning the absence of sweaty armpits and fun in the sun — this musical lineup will help you dive right into whatever atmosphere fall unleashes.

“Nights” — Frank Ocean Frank Ocean is truly golden year-round, but during fall and winter his tracks seem to break hearts with more force than usual. It seems only right to pay homage to his greatness by starting this playlist off with one of his songs.

The line “no sleep in my body” resonates with us all.

“Wildflower” — Beach House If you find yourself upset over the departure of summer or happen to enjoy immersing yourself in moody songs (I hope it’s not just me), then this one goes out to you.

“Normal Girl” — SZA If you wish you were a “normal girl” who could navigate bike paths on a rainy day or slippery hallways without accidentally falling, rest assured that you’re not alone.

“White” — Odd Future, Frank Ocean You might find yourself singing, “Could this be Earth?

Could this be light? Does this mean everything is going to be alright?” as you exit your final class of the week on the Wednesday before break.

“Wax” — Kilo Kish In this track, Kish ruminates on feeling trapped like wax in her relationship, threatening to “light a match” on it. When you feel inclined to do the same on all your school work and just “let it go,” remember that the taste of freedom is close.

“IFHY” — Tyler, The Creator Don’t let this title inspire animosity; Tyler, the Creator actually takes his own spin on a love ballad. There’s probably no need to hate anyone aside from the driver going 60 mph in the far left lane when you’re just trying to make it home.

blouk has always excelled at math, ultimately pushing him toward an engineering degree. But Mirblouk’s love for music also began at an early age when he got his first guitar.

“I must have been around 9 or 10. I remember it was this cheap little Fender acoustic,” Mirblouk said.

“The 10th grade is when I started considering going to school for music — up until my senior year [of high school] I had applied and gotten into a bunch of music schools on the East Coast, but I ended up choosing to go to Davis.”

This decision did little to detract from Mirblouk’s musical endeavors, however. The moment he stepped onto campus, Mirblouk began searching the Davis community for musicians to collaborate with. “[Freshman year] my roommate and I were both musicians, so we were very okay with [each] other playing,” Mirblouk said. “My sophomore year, [I met] some people in the jazz department at UC Davis. My friend Greta was a drummer, and I was like, ‘Hey I have a bunch of these songs I wrote last year, we should try playing together now that we are not in the dorms.’”

This relationship, along with many others, led Mirblouk to discover the UC Davis music scene.

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enough, Mirblouk became a fixture of the scene, going from an excited audience member to a captivating performer.

“January 2014 was when I first started playing shows, and it was really cool because the first show I ever played in Davis was actually the same house that my freshman year I had just wandered and happened to find a house show going on,” Mirblouk said. “Just a year later, to be playing in a band in these houses with people watching — it was a cool moment.”

Mirblouk has gone on to play with myriad musicians, rarely sticking with the same group for longer than a year. While this may scream instability, for Mirblouk it seems to suggest a sense of independence. He is his own musician and easily adapts to a new supporting cast whenever he plays.

However, even the most independent individuals need others’ help with recognition — especially in the music industry. Given Mirblouk’s L.A. background, one could assume his “in” might have come from his hometown. Surprisingly, Mirblouk has launched his career from the UC Davis radio community.

“KDVS had thrown this festival every year, [and] it was my sophomore year that I got invited to play,” Mirblouk said. “One of the bands that was playing KAZ on 12

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had the same profile picture for two years of their favorite fast car or automatic rifle. Personally, my profile photo is a picture of me in front of Mount Rushmore using a clever camera angle to make it look like I’m kissing Abraham Lincoln. We few, we happy few, we band of keyboard warriors; we have a right to our

voices. we will make sure to post all over everyone’s walls and let them know through a mixture of ad hominem and baseless assertions that they are wrong and we are right. It’s what God would want.

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in the neon glow of the enormous White House arcade. “It’s the War Room and the Situation Room.

Trump removed the Treaty Room because ‘We don’t make treaties. We dig holes deeper than we can escape and climb out on the corpses of our enemies, or the middle class.’ I would have said ‘the uneducated, ignorant and hateful,’ but that would clearly be biased toward our fan base and supporters.”

“I must say that Trump has done way more than Obama,” said Richard Hicks, a second-year gender, sexuality and women’s studies major. “He taught me that the best way to success is through failure, even if your entire life is one big failure. So I’m on the right track.”

“When I gamble, I like to go all in every time. I won’t back down to North Korea, and I’m going all in with 323.1 million chips,” Trump said as he played

an arcade version of Super Mario Bros. “You know why I love Super Mario Bros.? One, it shows that you can be an immigrant and still become successful through your own efforts. Two, and more importantly, the best way to get money is to stomp people to death.”

Trump kicked our reporters out of the White House arcade so that he could start preparing a new social welfare program for patriotic kids called “Summer Kampf.” Rumors of impeachment have caused concern for the Trump administration, with some people suggesting that Trump might rather kill himself than face the death of his ego.

“If he did, it would be autoerotic,” Former Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka said as he lit a cross on fire on the White House lawn. “Or do I mean despotic?”

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(AACRAO) and similar organizations from other countries] will evaluate them and say, ‘you’re eligible to go to this university and do this,’” McAllister said.

The accreditors would then issue a report for the student to take to their university of choice. The students will also be able to upload a personal statement to their backpacks, like those in college applications.

The Backpack is based on software developed

by IQ4 called Passport, a software that acts, in the words of IQ4 CEO Frank Cecio, “as a digital resume.” But it is not only a place where employees can post their educational and work history — it is also a place where employers can create virtual classrooms to teach specific skills that employees may not have learned previously. Transferring this technology to the educational and humanitarian field was a pivot from skill verification to educational credit verification.

The aforementioned AACRAO creates a system in the US that determines how credits and units transfer between colleges so that a registrar for a university can easily figure out if incoming students have the education that they claim to have. Along with these standards, registrars have access to the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit database containing millions of individual student files and transcripts, which allows admissions officers verifiable proof of a student’s academic record. However, there aren’t systems like this in place in many countries.

“We could validate [student data] from the Clearinghouse [if the students were from the U.S.], so we don’t deal with all that,” Cecio said. “In this case, we can’t. We don’t have this kind of function in Syria.”

The software, therefore, is more than just a place to store textbooks and transcripts remotely; rather, it is a peer-to-peer network directly linking students to universities’ registrars and vice versa.

The cloud storage, hosted via Amazon S3 service, will additionally be secured via block chains. Block chains are an integral part of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, where each transaction is recorded on a virtual ledger, along with who the sender and recipient was. Once completed, the record of the transaction is permanently linked with the one before it, giving rise to the “chain” aspect of its name. This verifies the identities of both parties involved.

The team plans on training some college students in Beirut on how to use the Backpack and on how to enroll other students.

Finucane hopes to gradually create a self-sustaining structure wherein knowledge is passed from the top grades to the bottom. As knowledge passes from peer to peer, it instills self-sufficiency and trust in the Backpack.

Those involved with the project expressed that the Article 26 backpack would not only be a new dawn for those receiving the Backpack, but would conceptualize humanitarian projects in a more interdisciplinary way.

“It can’t just be the lawyers who are advocating; it can’t be the tech people, who have a product but no one to match the needs of the users to the actual capabilities of the software. McAllister said. “This day and age, where all this technology is available to us, the answer really has to come from many different teams working together.”

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“We are able to build the interdisciplinary team that is needed to answer a particular scholarly question,” Stahmer said.

Simultaneously, the initiative recognizes the ethical ramifications caused by a surge in accessibility to data.

“We are defining data science very broadly as being kind of the whole picture from social to legal to technical and analytical,” said MacKenzie Smith, a university librarian.

She added that the interdisciplinary nature of the DSI is again exhibited when lawyers collaborate with mathematicians to decide how to approach legal issues.

“Another aspect of data science is the data governance, to make sure data is kept confidential and

used appropriately so that you, as the subject of the data, understand what people are doing with it,” Smith said.

The DSI acknowledges these ethical standards and tackles them exhaustively.

“We are trying to exploit and leverage new opportunities to do things better, faster, and new things, but this breadth goes beyond data technologies and analytics to what are the social implications and privacy implications,” Temple Lang said.

This initiative will work to grow into a permanent department. For now, the DSI remains in the library, open to all Aggies.

“It allows us to ask scholarly questions that we never would have been able to answer before,” Stahmer said.

MOMIX

Kudiyattam

Kudiyattam is the last living representative of the classical, 2000-year-old form of Sanskrit drama. This is a rare chance to behold one of India’s oldest living theatrical traditions.

Free Pre-performance Talk by Professor David Shulman • 7PM

FRI-SAT, NOV 3-4 • 8PM

UC Davis Student tix only $10

MOMIX

Opus Cactus

The dancer-illusionists of MOMIX bring the landscape of the American Southwest to life through a new rendition of the troupe’s classic Opus Cactus.

WED, NOV 8 • 7PM

UC Davis Student tix start at $12.50

Pete Souza

Former chief official White House photographer takes us on a visual tour of key moments in Obama’s presidency and shares his recollections.

FRI, DEC 1 • 8PM

UC Davis Student tix start at $15

Reduce.

Reuse.

Recycle.

The Aggie.

UC Davis students:

• Your first ticket is FREE! • 50% off all tickets, everyday Restrictions apply. See mondaviarts.org/uc-davis-students for details.

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never expected to last as long as it has.

“We never thought about how long we wanted to do it,” Verena Borton said. “But every time we mentioned stopping, people told us to keep going and how much they liked the movies.”

Simply put, people find joy in this event, and it is the driving reason Ray and Verena are stalwart on the series.

“It’s nice to see people come together and enjoy a film,” Verena Borton said.

While most people come for the entertainment, Verena mentioned the value of spreading cultures — another aspect that can be found in the series.

“It’s important to show what other cultures are like,” Verena said. “Not everyone grows up the same way.”

Verena also highlighted the importance of the event’s name: “International Film Series.”

“We chose the name quite deliberately,” Ray said.

“It’s the International Film Series, not the Foreign

Film Series. We show movies from all countries, the United States included.”

The countries featured on film aren’t taken from a list; the Bortons strategically select films that showcase a variety of cultures.

“We aim to spread across the world,” Verena said.

“We try not to choose countries near each other back to back [...] We are approaching our 420th movie.”

Koen Van Rompay, a frequent attendee of the event, commented on the event’s importance to Davis residents.

“It’s a social gathering,” Rompay said. “Yet, past the snacks and friends I have made, there are good movies showing cultures that many of us don’t experience on an everyday basis.”

On Nov. 17, The Bortons will feature “The Salesman,” a French and Iranian film, at The International House. Those looking for a quality film, some company or even some homemade snacks are welcome to attend. Entry is free, but donations are encouraged.

“The Road to You” — Stefano Guzzetti Whether the “you” in your road trip home is a family member, significant other, pet or a Thanksgiving plate of food, just know that you’re close. This beautiful piano melody is the universal track for reminding you of the “you” that you miss.

“Summer Clouds” — Iron & Wine Characteristic of Iron and Wine, his soothing voice and soft melodies will remind you of the sentimentality of your second home, making you eager to “wander back” to Davis — just in time for finals. But that’s another playlist in the making.

“Flume” — Bon Iver Bon Iver is the one-stop shop for all your melancholic needs, and his songs have even more effect in somber environments like fall. Get your tissues ready.

“Such Great Heights” — Iron & Wine “I hope this song will guide you home” safely as you travel.

“White Ferrari” — Frank Ocean You most likely aren’t pulling up to your family home in a white Ferrari, but it’s okay because this song needs a good listen — one that shouldn’t be sped through at the rate of a sports car.

“Everything Now” — Arcade Fire In a society with an overconsumption problem that demands “everything now,” this last song by Arcade Fire ends on a positive note to remind you to be thankful for what you already have. But this is timely not just for the holiday weekend; it’s applicable year-round.

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causing the home team to play out the remainder of the game with only ten players. On the play, Kibunguchy outstretched his leg in an effort to block a kick from a CSU Northridge midfielder, inadvertently flipping the player into the air as the ball left the ground.

A mere 60 seconds later, the Matadors netted the equalizer when senior defender Darion Mealing dribbled down the left side of the box and, from a very awkward angle, fired a missile into the top right corner of the net for the goal.

Immediately following the score, UC Davis senior defender Chase Rhode brought all nine of his teammates into a huddle, in an effort to reunite the squad and help everyone regain their composure.

“Excellent move by Chase Rhode after they scored their second to just bring us in and be like, ‘Hey guys, we’re all seniors here and this is a big moment, so we’re going to give everything we have on this field’ and that’s exactly what we did,” Wilson said. “Just to kind of re-zone in after that second goal, and not just put our heads down but

[at the festival] were all members of this label in LA: “Lollipop Records.” They had seen me play, and they liked the style, and they told me whenever I had recordings [to] send it to them and they might put it out.”

Mirblouk’s newfound radio relationship led to the release of his debut album in September 2016.

“Imitate, Intimidate,” a nine-song record under the “Lollipop Records” label, is described by “Impose,” an independent music magazine as “drenched in a sunny Golden State vibe while retaining a great deal of urban grit and grime.”

Following up on his post-graduation success, Mir-

blouk recently released a two-song album titled “Sidestep 7”.” Mirblouk’s latest record slightly departs from his previous work, with a greater emphasis on a clean rock sound in comparison to his past dazed, psychedelic vibes.

Today, Mirblouk is back home in L.A. continuing to work on music. He is mum on the status of his next project, but make no mistake, Mirblouk has his sights set on much greater musical heights.

Keep an eye out for Mirblouk’s next release. But in the meantime you can stay up to date with his work via Facebook. You can also listen to Mirblouk’s latest projects on Bandcamp and his YouTube channel.

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help us come March, because being in a one-bid league, you have to win those three games to go back dancing, regardless of what you do during the season, so it’s a marathon, and we’ve just got to get better every day. No steps back” Basketball is a yearlong commitment for these players, and if they want to compete at a higher level than last year’s team, the Aggies will need to learn to play with a target on their backs which they may not yet be used to. According to Les, how this team reacts to that new pressure will prove its worth come season’s end.

“People aren’t looking past us,” Les said. “They’re going to give us their best effort and their best game.

And that’s new for us. To be the hunted rather than the hunter and that’s a whole level of response that we need to work on and make sure we have as we start the season.”

With the ultimate goal being another appearance in the NCAA tournament, Moneke and Les think that the team acquired some valuable talent to build off of. Les and Moneke praised the possibilities of the newfound Aggie depth.

“I think we’re deeper than last year,” Moneke said.

“I think we can go 9-10 deep when we’re playing during the season and when conference comes. It’s a younger team overall, but I think we have just as much talent, if not more.”

All in all, as the offseason comes to an end and the new season is set to start, everyone wants to get out there on the court and begin their next chapter. Les sees the season’s start as a culmination of all the hard work

that his staff and his players have put in over the last few months, and he’s beginning to see his the benefits of all the off season’s work.

“Probably on paper this team we have this year is more talented,” Les said. “But, last year’s team — they were just very connected and they were very bought in, especially on the defensive end of the floor. So if we can take this talented group and get them to really get connected with each other and buy into their impact that they can have on the defensive end of the floor and have that mindset, that they have a chance to be in the hunt for another Big West title.”

The players are ready to take the court. The scrimmages have been valuable, but Moneke and Shorts both stated that nothing beats the lights of competition. For Moneke, it is that moment, face-to-face with another team, when all of their hard work pays off and they know that the season’s upon them.

“I’m ready to go,” Moneke said. “We’ve been playing against each other for a while, so it’s at this point you get anxious to play against someone else.

I’m ready to see how we’re going to look against other teams. So I can’t wait.”

Shorts has it marked on his calendar, ready to begin his first official competition with his Aggie teammates.

“I can’t wait. Nov. 7 is coming around quick, and from there I believe Nov. 13, so I’m just ready to go.

Ready to start playing. It should be fun.”

The Nov. 7 game against Bethesda will be at 7 p.m. at the ARC pavilion before the team travels to Northern Colorado for its first away game.

fight through it, was really helpful.”

This small display of unity ultimately reinvigorated the Aggies and inspired them to fight as hard as they could for the last eight minutes.

“It shows the fact that we have eight seniors on the team and we’re an experienced group,” said UC Davis head coach Dwayne Shaffer. “I thought they held their composure and played really well. At no point did I ever feel like that game wasn’t ours.”

Considering the fact that this was a conference semifinal game, the Aggies knew they had no time to stand around and feel sorry for themselves.

“Maybe on any other day you’d just try to take your time, pack it in, and get out with the result, but not in the Big West tournament — you’ve gotta go for the win at all times,” Higgins said.

UC Davis will host the finals on Saturday Nov. 11 at 12 p.m. against Cal State Fullerton.

“It’s a great atmosphere,” Wilson said. “It’s always encouraging to put on a show for them and when they get going it definitely gets us fired up.”

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option, there is one hardship that players who are redshirting have to deal with.

“I think the hardest part is just the mental side of understanding that even though you really want to be on the field and you really love the sport, you just have to wait your turn and be patient,” said Isiah Thomas, a redshirting freshman and men’s football defensive back.

Sometimes, there are rare cases where someone straight out of high school is thrown onto a collegiate team, and expected to keep up with a new system, team, coaching staff and style of play, without redshirting their freshman year.

“I came in and was pretty much going to be starting to get playing time so I really had to get mentally focused and really work hard in practice to get stronger,” said Jonah Addington, a freshman goalkeeper for the men’s water polo team.

Addington came to UC Davis as a goalkeeper for men’s water polo, but, after a shortage of starting players in the goalkeeper position, was put into the scenario where he would have to

quickly adjust to an enhanced level of play.

“I have been playing water polo all my life so I have been working for it, but [the challenge is] reacting to the quickness of the game,” Addington said. “Everything is so much faster, so I really had to focus on getting stronger and getting quicker movements to be more explosive.”

While some may think that redshirting and getting a year off from playing in collegiate games seems like a vacation for players, Galli assures that it is not the case.

“You have to be fully committed, and you can’t be off in your own world, because you are a valuable part of the team,” Galli said. “You have to want to get better and want to learn everything.”

Skeptaris emphasized the takeaways of the redshirting experience.

“Don’t look at is a negative thing,” Skeptaris said. “Only positives come from it. It is what you make it, and if you get excited and make the most of it it’ll help you when you are [out there] playing.”

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BY LIZ JACOBSO N sports@theaggie.org

Coming off of two conference wins against Cal State Long Beach and CSU Northridge, the UC Davis Aggies defeated the Cal State Fullerton Titans 3-0 in record time on Nov. 2 at the Pavilion. The one hour and 12 minutes it took the Aggies to sweep the Titans was the fastest game head coach Dan Conners has seen since joining the team in 2014.

The Aggies kept the lead for the duration of the game. With high energy, the Aggies won each set by double digits, with final scores of 25-10, 25-13, and 25-12.

“We played well,” Conners said. “Offensively, we were sharp and then defensively, we didn’t let them do much. We definitely had a lot to improve [on] from last weekend and I thought we sharpened up some things and that we looked good tonight.”

With a lack of communication on the defensive coupled with a weak offense, the Titans only managed 11 kills for the whole match.

In the first set, 9 of the 10 points earned by the Titans were side-outs.

Junior outside hitter Brianna Karsseboom was on top of her game and had a match-high 15 kills with an accuracy of .481. With only two errors for her total 27 attempts, Karsseboom lead her team to victory.

“I think our team played really well and really aggressively,” Karsseboom said. “We went after it all three sets. We definitely don’t want to let up in those moments [when we’re ahead] and something that really helped us tonight was the bench. They were really energetic and cheering really loud, so that was a big help.”

Being aggressive was definitely on the forefront of each player’s mind, with freshman outside hitter Mahalia White right behind Karsseboom with 13 kills of her own.

“I thought as far as the team in general, and myself, we all just went out there and played really aggressive and it shows in the fast win [we had] today,” White said. “We were really focusing on just keeping our momentum.”

Freshman setter Paloma Bowman had the unique opportunity to play against her older sister, sophomore setter Nastassja Bowman of the Titans. Bowman proved that age doesn’t always have the advantage, managing 33 assists throughout the game compared

to her sister’s four.

In the second game of the two-game homestand, the Aggies faced UC Riverside in the Gary Colberg Tribute Match on Nov. 4.

“Riverside is a tough defensive team,” Conners said.

“They hit the ball hard, too, so we’re going to have to be ready for that.”

The Aggies were ready for Riverside’s defense. They defeated the Highlanders in five sets with scores of 17-

25, 25-19, 25-27, 25-18, and 15-4. The Aggies are now 7-6 in conference play and are ranked 4th in the Big West.

The tribute match is played in memory of Gary Colberg, who passed away in 2016. Colberg was the director of sports clubs and intramural sports for UC Davis. Having officiated at the Olympic level, Colberg is considered an officiating legend in the volleyball community.

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BY B RE N DA N O G B U R N sports@theaggie.org

UC Davis men’s soccer advanced to the finals of the 2017 Big West tournament with a riveting 4-2 win over visiting CSU Northridge in the most drama-filled match of the season. Senior forward Noah Wilson tapped in the game-winning goal for the Aggies with 22 seconds remaining in regulation to save the season and give UC Davis a shot at capturing its first Big West conference title in program history.

In the final minute, UC Davis senior defender Kyle Higgins handled a long deflection from the UC Davis box that ended up at midfield and dribbled all the way down to the CSU Northridge box, getting through two Matador defenders with a series of impressive ball moves. Dribbling in front of the right goalpost, Higgins chipped the ball past the diving Matador goalkeeper to a wide-open Wilson, who was waiting in the middle of the box to tap the ball in for the game-winning score.

“I was kind of cherry-picking at the end there,” Higgins said.

“We were down a guy, so I knew I’d be the only one up top and have to make play if the time came. I found myself with the ball at

half and they were kind of lazy getting back on defense and I had a one-on-one with the defender. Coach always says be aggressive so I took him on and ended up getting to the endline, picked my head up and Noah made probably a 120-yard sprint, good position and I found him.”

Wilson deflected all the credit to Higgins, whom he trusted to give him a good pass and an opportunity to fire off a quality shot.

“I’ve watched Kyle [Higgins] for the past four years just shred guys going at them and I knew if I could just get to a spot in the box he’s going to beat him,” Wilson said. “And he played the perfect pass. I just stayed focused and slotted it in. He did all the hard work. The weight of the pass was absolutely perfect, all I had to do was swing my foot through it.”

Higgins scored a breakaway goal with two seconds left to cap things off, as the Matadors desperately tried to tie the game and left only one player on their own side of the field.

Emotions were at a fever pitch in the second half, as the physicality between the two sides started to heat up and the referees were forced to try and restore order to the game. It was one thing after another for the Aggies, with seemingly every call going against them. When it was all said and done, a grand total of eight yel-

low cards and two red cards were issued by the referees — six yellow cards and both red cards belonged to UC Davis.

After building an early 2-0 lead on first half goals by junior midfielder Justin Wright and redshirt freshman Nabi Kibunguchy, the Aggies were on their heels for the majority of the second half, as CSU Northridge

Year off field doesn’t mean year off work

BY RYAN BUGSCH sports@theaggie.org

Team has high hopes going into season

BY BRA D L EY G EI S E R sports@theaggie.org

For members of the basketball team, November is a special month. For some, like first-year guard TJ Shorts and his fellow newcomers, it is the beginning of a new journey as competitive basketball players. For returning players like senior forward Chima Moneke, it is a chance for the team to build off of the most successful season of basketball in UC Davis history. For head coach Jim Les, it’s a culmination of an offseason that is filled with hard work, practice and building together the foundation of a new team.

“When you love basketball you love the fall because basketball season’s right around the corner,” Les said.

“We’re excited to compete, and I think as a staff our challenge each year is to, you know, get this group of guys cohesive, get them playing hard and playing well together so they can have some fun.”

The offseason is not a vacation for the players and the coaches; it is simply preparation for the following season. Les and his staff immediately take this time to recruit and keep returning players — like Moneke, who spent part of the offseason rehabbing from a minor injury — ready for the upcoming year. Even new

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battled back to tie the game with goals in the 58th and 81st minutes.

With the Aggies clinging to a 2-1 lead late in the match, Kibunguchy received a red card in the 80th minute, sending the home crowd into a frenzy and ultimately

players such as Shorts have to start working toward the season months before they reach the court in Davis.

“As a new player that probably starts right as you commit and start getting your mind ready to start coming out to a Division I program,” Shorts said. “Once you get here [you’re] getting your body right and getting your mind right for all the adversity you’re going to face, and then from there just being able to persevere through it.”

With eight new players, the changes can be jarring, but Les, turning to returning leaders like Moneke, junior forward Garrison Goode and junior guard Siler Schneider, is working to maintain the team’s success. With new players, there come new opportunities to improve and build off of the foundation which was set not only by those who are returning, but also by their former teammates who have since moved on. With every new year there are people leaving and people coming, and it is up to the coaches and the veterans to help make this transition go as smoothly as it can.

As a senior, Moneke is taking his leadership role very seriously, taking the younger players under his wing and making sure that they understand that the path to success can be a process.

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If you’ve gone to a collegiate sporting event and looked at the team rosters, you may have seen some players designated as RS, meaning they are or have been a redshirt player. But what exactly is a redshirt player?

“The classic redshirt is the player who is on the roster but does not play in any games, but participates in all of the other team activities that exist: training, weights, meetings. You just don’t play in any games,” said Dan Leyson, the Child And Meisel Families director of men’s water polo and men’s water polo head coach. “For young players coming out of high school, joining a team that has a fair amount of experience, the experience [for the redshirting athlete] is invaluable, because you get to experience what it is like to be on the team without the pressure in playing in games.

By the time you start playing in your second year, you have a year of experience under your belt.”

While a player may choose to redshirt because they have a serious injury that requires extended time off for healing purposes, known as a “medical redshirt,” the majority of redshirting players do so as freshmen,

hoping to gain the mentality and experience to play at the collegiate level. Redshirts are not able to play in any collegiate games, and if they do happen to play a game during this time, they “burn” their year for eligibility.

Many players who choose to redshirt consider it an amazing experience that helps them achieve their collegiate goals. Senior attacker for men’s water polo Spencer Galli said that redshirting was worthwhile.

“Just taking the first year to sit out, learn all the plays, watch and learn what my teammate tendencies are before I go out there [and play] is huge, and allowed me to be stronger and better overall,” Galli said.

Current UC Davis redshirting athletes also see the benefits of being redshirts in their freshman year and are excited to see what the future holds.

“I think there are a lot of advantages to redshirting,” said Christian Skeptaris, a current redshirt freshman and men’s football tight end. “Your body gets to mature, you get a whole year to go up against starters and learn the speed of the game and how big everyone actually is.”

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