February 9, 2016 Special Edition Issue

100TH ANNIVERSARY | SPECIAL EDITION ISSUE

the California Aggie

SERVING THE UC DAVIS CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY SINCE 1915

VOLUME 134, ISSUE 1 | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The untold story of “The Uncondemned”

PHOTO COURTESY OF CAROLINE STASULAT

UC Davis Professor of Law instigated first conviction of sexual assault as a war crime

BY EMILIE DeFAZIO features@theaggie.org

A century of celebration UC Davis alumna reflects on great-grandfather’s role as first student Picnic Day chair

BY A NJAL I BHAT features@theaggie.org

Come spring, thousands of visitors will flock to campus to experience what is believed to be the largest student-run event in the country. For some, though, Picnic Day is more than just a day of ice cream, giggles and dachshund races — it’s a celebration of life and a long-standing connection to the university. This is especially true for UC Davis alumna Caroline Stasulat, whose great-grandfather, Robert Lockhart, served as the first student Picnic Day chair in 1916.

“My grandmother was the keeper of all our family history,” Stasulat said. “Every year, my sister, parents and I had this tradition of going to our grandmother’s and she would cook us a big breakfast before we walked over as a family to campus to celebrate my earliest Picnic Days. That’s when she would tell me about her father’s role as chair.”

Lockhart spent his last year as undergraduate at “The University Farm,” a UC Berkeley extension that eventually became UC Davis.

Although Picnic Day debuted in 1914, students did not assume the chair position until 1916. This year’s Picnic Day chair, fourth-year plant biology major Grace Scott, believes she shares a connection with Lockhart due to his past position and history with the campus.

“I can draw parallels between my life and Robert’s life,” Scott said. “He was an agricul-

tural major, and I study plant biology. He was the first student chair, and 100 years later his legacy still stands. I hope it does for another 100 years. It wasn’t even UC Davis at that point, and it’s cool to see how the campus and Picnic Day have changed under the leadership of students.”

If Lockhart were alive today, he might be surprised to find that his role as Picnic Day chair was certainly not his only contribution to the campus. College students are notorious for finding creative solutions to their financial challenges — and apparently, things weren’t so different a century ago. Unable to afford horses of their own to ride out to the fields, Lockhart and his roommate built and rode the first bike ever used on the UC Davis campus.

Amusingly, bicycles are now ubiquitous on campus, and the city of Davis is often listed among America’s best biking cities.

Like Lockhart, several other members of his family have also left long-lasting marks on the UC Davis community throughout the last century. His daughter, Marilyn Lockhart Wilson, worked in the Botany Department on-campus, while Caroline Stasulat’s other great-grandfather, James French Wilson, was appointed assistant professor of Animal Husbandry in 1919. Caroline Stasulat’s parents, Edie and Joe Stasulat, both worked in various academic departments and the Internship and Career Center (ICC), with Ms. Edie Stasulat just recently retiring from the Activities and

Recreation Center (ARC) in July 2015.

“The really interesting thing is that since my great-grandfather was there, every following generation has discovered UC Davis and developed their relationship with the campus on their own,” Stasulat said. “It was never ‘your grandfather worked there so you have to go there.’ It wasn’t a mandated tradition. It all happened organically.”

As a teen, Stasulat never planned to attend UC Davis herself. Although she was brought up in close proximity to the university, she always dreamt of a future far away from home.

That dream fell apart when her father passed away in her senior year of high school. Stasulat chose to stay local, and support her family as everyone healed. Today, she sees that decision as a blessing.

“I got to have some exposure to the work he had done in the [ICC],” Stasulat said. “I worked all four years there as a peer adviser and I got to do meaningful work and learned about what he had done from his colleagues. I was in a place that, after a loss, still had a really strong sense of family collection.”

Stasulat’s connection to her family’s history with UC Davis ended up finding its way into every aspect of her life. As an undergraduate, Stasulat found a passion in Native American studies, and went on to pursue a degree in the subject.

In 2013, UC Davis School of Law professor Lisa Pruitt received a phone call that would change her life forever.

This call had to do with a memo she wrote 17 years prior, which — unknown to her at the time — would later assist in the first conviction of sexual assault as a war crime and serve as the basis for a major motion picture now set to debut in September 2016.

“Part of the reason why I’m out as a rape survivor in the film and in life is [because] if we can’t talk about these issues, we can’t begin to de-stigmatize the status of these survivors,” Pruitt said. “Anyone who’s paying attention to what goes on in the world [will] know that there’s a sexual assault epidemic in our country, and if we can’t come face-to-face with the fact that it ‘happens to people like me’ — whatever that means — then we’re not really even taking the first step.”

During writer and director Michele Mitchell and her late partner Nick Louvel’s search for possible documentary subjects, they came across the court case of JeanPaul Akayesu, former mayor of the Taba commune of Rwanda. Akayesu abstained from any attempt to stop the thousands of rapes and gender-specific war crimes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

“The story of the Akayesu case had never been told before,” Mitchell said. “When I wanted to tell the story of the first time rape was convicted as a crime of war, I thought we were going to Bosnia, because the case that I always heard about happened at the International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) of the former Yugoslavia.”

It was not until Mitchell began her research for the documentary, titled “The Uncondemned,” that Lisa Pruitt came into the picture. In 1996, Pruitt wrote a memo which included testimonies from key witnesses of the crime. At the time, the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda (ICTR) deemed these unusable, claiming that there wasn’t enough evidence in the case against Akayesu to support the prosecution.

In spring of 1997, investigators went back to talk to every witness in Pruitt’s report, which finally resulted in an amendment to the indictment which included sexual assault on the list of war crimes Akayesu had committed.

This led Mitchell to contact Pruitt, surprising her with the news that the memo she wrote almost two decades ago had assisted in a major historical court case. “[Pruitt] started laughing and that was one of the best days of my career,” Mitchell said. “When you can call somebody who did their job and got crushed […] It was just so great to be the bearer of good news for once. Lisa’s story really resonates [because] it’s such a great thing to find out that doing your job did something wonderful.”

As a gender consultant in the late 1990s, and with her past experience as both a rape crisis counselor and a victim of rape herself, Pruitt knew about the dynamics of the survivor and psychological trauma, which she was able to apply to the Akayesu case.

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Letter from the Editor

SCOTT DRESSER Editor in Chief

Hello! Remember us? It’s The Aggie. You haven’t seen us in print in a while — or ever, depending on your class level — but we’re still here, keeping a low profile in our timeless (and windowless) basement office in Lower Freeborn, uploading new content onto our website and updating our social media pages daily.

Thank you for picking up a copy of this special 100th Anniversary edition of The Aggie. Having the opportunity to publish a print newspaper as Editor in Chief of this esteemed campus institution is an incredible privilege.

My time at The Aggie over the past three years has been fairly tumultuous, filled with exhilarating highs and gut-wrenching lows. I took over as The Aggie’s campus news editor during Winter Quarter of my freshman year, and, within a week of being hired, I was spending my time sprinting across the Quad to go speak in front of 400-person lecture halls, campaigning for our 2014 “Save the Aggie” initiative.

That initiative, as many of you may remember, initially passed with an overwhelming 73 percent “Yes” vote in the election. However, the ASUCD Court deemed the initiative invalid, citing ambiguous and incorrect language on the measure itself. Soon thereafter, The Aggie decided to halt printing, cut staff pay and move to an online-only format. For the first time since 1915, there was no print newspaper at UC Davis.

The paper in your hands right now is the first print edition of The California Aggie since that decision was made.

UC Davis is currently the only undergraduate UC campus without a regularly-printed school newspaper. This is an incredible disservice to our university on two fronts; for one, The Aggie cannot engage with the UC Davis community to its fullest capacity — which translates to a less-informed student body. The other is that there are hundreds of aspiring journalists on campus who

don’t get the fundamental journalism experience and training they need to be successful in the field once they graduate. UC Davis does not have a journalism program, so The Aggie serves as the best (and only) hands-on experience for student reporters, columnists, photographers, layout artists, businesspeople and graphic designers.

To address these issues, we have created the “Print the Aggie” initiative, which will appear on the Winter Quarter 2016 ASUCD election ballot next week. Passing this ballot measure will enable The Aggie to once again be a print newspaper. If passed, quarterly student fees would increase by $3.73 — an infinitesimal 0.41 percent (!!!) raise from the $910.45 in student fees we already pay each quarter. Our fee expires after five years, unlike the others, which live on in perpetuity.

The Aggie staff is currently comprised of over 100 incredible volunteer undergraduate students, and income from this initiative would allow The Aggie to provide compensation to many of these staff positions. This is important because The Aggie often loses out on talented students who cannot afford to work unpaid jobs.

The fee initiative is all about sustainability.

If passed, it would fund a professional business manager to oversee our finances and to ensure that The Aggie has a sustainable long-term future.

Some people may argue that printing newspapers is wasteful. To address this concern, we have conducted environmental assessment stud-

R e d u ce . R e u se . R e cycl e Th e Aggie.

ies to determine how many copies of the paper to print on a week-by-week basis and where to strategically distribute print copies across campus.

I’ve been asked why, if we can print this special issue, we need alternative funding. The answer is simple: while we could likely cover the costs of printing through ad revenue, we are mandated to pay $12,000 or so to ASUCD each year for our website and financial services. We simply cannot make that money in annual profit in today’s advertising market, in which digital ads are inexpensive. The Aggie is also the only ASUCD unit that receives zero funding from the association.

You picking up this newspaper and reading through this letter is a testament to the fact that you are a curious and thoughtful University of California student. Newspapers have been a staple of American universities for as long these schools have been around, and they should still be ubiquitous on college campuses.

You deserve to have all the services and access to information that your peers at other UC campuses have, and we can bring this to you, but we need your help. From Feb. 16 to 19, please head to elections.ucdavis.edu and vote YES on the “Print the Aggie” measure. The Aggie has been around for 100 years, and let’s be the generation of students who lays the foundation for it to be around for 100 more.

Photo by Jay Gelvezon

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THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE

Resigned ASUCD vice president, senator speak out on mental health ASUCD to implement new mental health resources following resignations

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2016 | 3

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9 / TUESDAY Giving Back Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Aggie Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 4 to 7 p.m. | Putah Creek Winery, Davis 15 percent of every local wine bought goes to the Davis nonprofit â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We are Aggie Pride!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Salsa Tuesday 9:30 p.m. | The Graduate, Davis Dance lessons with Cori from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Barbaraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dancing Tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, hosted by DJ Miguel. Tickets are $6

10 / WEDNESDAY Science Cafe 5:30 p.m. | G Street Wunderbar, Davis Join Professor Richard Schultz in his talk of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Science of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART),â&#x20AC;? and network with local scientists and researchers Trivia Night 8 p.m. | KetMoRee Thai Restaurant, Davis Complete against other teams in answering the hardest trivia questions! Free and open to all ages

11 / THURSDAY Quinton Ducal Poetry Series 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. | Logos Books, Davis Join poets Allegra Silberstein and Danyen Powell for readings from their own collections, plus get to socialize with local poets and sip on delicious light refreshments!

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Former ASUCD vice president, Robyn Huey.

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Wineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Down Thursday 5 to 7 p.m. | Sundstrom Hill Winery, Davis Come along for a free night of romantic acoustics with the band, â&#x20AC;&#x153;She Calls Him Wilson.â&#x20AC;? The chocolate and wine serve as an added bonus!

12 / FRIDAY ArtAbout 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. | Downtown Davis View some of the best art in the Davis community at this free monthly gathering which includes refreshments and the opportunity to meet new and upcoming artists and musicians Sharon Bladholm: Botany & Art Talk 5:15 to 6:00 p.m. | Pence Gallery, Davis Join Sharon Bladholm in her talk about the intersection of art and science, and explore how her glass bronze sculptures, ceramic and works on paper portray this theme.

13 / SATURDAY Biodiversity Day 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. | UC Davis Campus, Davis Join the City of Davis for the opening of eleven biological museums for a limited time over the weekend. Free parking and admission.

Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Tours 9 a.m. to Noon | Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, Davis Finally stop wondering about that huge area of marsh land that you see while driving home on the I-80 every day, and take a free tour of 25 square miles of Wildlife Area that the Yolo Bypass covers.

14 / SUNDAY International Folk Dancing 7 to 10 p.m. | Davis Arts Center, Davis Enjoy a night of dancing from all around the world.

Your first time is free!

Square Tomatoes Crafts Fair 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Central Park, Davis Spend a day in the sun crafting with the best artisans in Davis!

15 / MONDAY Plug Planting 1:30 to 4 p.m. | City of Davis, Davis Help the Putah Creek Council and the Yolo Resource Conservation District and better the environment by planting grass plugs in North Davis for a day!

Pub Quiz 7 p.m. | de Vereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irish Pub, Davis Free quiz night hosted by Dr. Andy, with teams of up to six players. Arrive an hour early to secure a table.

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Opinion

100TH ANNIVERSARY | SPECIAL EDITION ISSUE

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EDITORIAL BOARD SCOTT DRESSER Editor in Chief RITIKA IYER Managing Editor JASON PHAM Campus News Editor KAYLA ZOLA City News Editor ELI FLESCH Opinion Editor ELLIE DIERKING Features Editor AMANDA ONG Arts Editor BRYAN SYKES Sports Editor

MANAGING STAFF MELISSA DITTRICH New Media Manager JAY GELVEZON Photo Director TIFFANY CHOI Art/Design Director ELENA TOM Copy Chief CHIARA ALVES Website Manager ANGELA WILLIS Social Media Mangager SHIREEN AFKARI Newsletter Manager

THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE

Print the Aggie Support student journalism

BY TH E E DITORIAL BOARD

Picture the UC Davis campus on a Tuesday morning during week six of Winter Quarter. The CoHo line is a mile long, bike circles are packed with students rushing to their midterms, professors are holding extended office hours and those that spent the night in the 24hour study room are slowly emerging into the daylight.

While all of this is happening above ground, no one has time to consider anything else, let alone think about what’s going on in the basement of Freeborn Hall.

Few may know it, but Lower Freeborn is a thriving, creative and exciting place. Home to The California Aggie, The Basement has become a space for writers, photographers, graphic designers and copy editors to celebrate and engage in high-quality student journalism.

This academic year marks The Aggie’s 100th birthday. For 98 of those years, our staff has provided a print newspaper to the UC Davis campus community. However, in 2014, financial difficulties forced The Aggie out of print. All operations were moved online, staff pay was cut entirely and readership dropped significantly.

In a short amount of time, The Aggie became a volunteer, web-based organization, and UC Davis became the only undergraduate UC campus without a print newspaper.

Flash forward two years later, and we’re still here — building up our online presence, boosting social media engagement, having daily Editorial Board meetings and holding foosball tournaments in 25 Lower Freeborn.

But something is different. We no longer have a hard-copy source of student news in Davis.

The Aggie recognizes that the print newspaper industry isn’t what it used to be, but this trend isn’t necessarily the reality of a niche college market. We cannot accept sacrificing services that all other UC students have for an industry shift that does not apply to our campus.

So, in honor of our unit’s centennial, we are campaigning for the Print The Aggie initiative. If passed during this quarter’s ASUCD elections, the measure would increase quarterly student fees by $3.73 — less than a CoHo sandwich. With this money, The Aggie will be able to resume weekly printing, create close to 100 compensated student positions and hire a professional business manager to oversee our finances.

By running a fee initiative that other UC newspapers have successfully implemented in

years past, we hope to create a sustainable business model that will last long into the future, while also fulfilling our mission of delivering news in an accessible way. Additionally, we believe that our 100 staffers, all of whom put in many hours of work every week to keep the newspaper running and provide a service for UC Davis students, deserve pay for what they do.

Print journalism is important, especially on a college campus. In addition to increasing transparency of local issues and keeping an official record of UC Davis history, an oncampus print newspaper gives student groups more visibility for their events and allows for a higher level of accountability for ASUCD and the administration.

We understand that an informed student body is an educated, conscious and wellrounded one. We also understand there’s nothing quite as pleasant as reading a print newspaper while drinking a cup of hot coffee.

If you enjoyed reading through this newspaper, consider voting ‘Yes’ on the Print The Aggie initiative next week, so this can become a normal occurrence. If not, still cast a vote. It’s a duty that comes with being a student.

Voting will take place at elections.ucdavis. edu from Tuesday, Feb. 16 to Friday, Feb. 19.

Editorial Board endorses TGIF Fee initiative would create fund for student-run green projects

BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD

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UC Davis students have a unique opportunity in next week’s elections to help contribute to the the future of this campus’ environmental sustainability by voting for The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF).

Proposed as a fee initiative, TGIF would create a yearly fund of approximately $150,000 to be distributed among students with projects that aim to improve the university’s environmental footprint. Students would then be able to apply for grants to fund sustainable green projects.

Because the small proposed fee increase of $3 per quarter promises to greatly incentivize student green projects, The Aggie Editorial Board recommends a yes vote on this measure. The UC system has pledged itself to zerowaste by 2020 and carbon-neutrality by 2025.

Accomplishing this goal will depend in part on wide support from UC Davis for TGIF. Similar versions of the initiative have already been passed at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz. Recent grants from UCLA’s Green Initiative Fund have been used for everything from creating a fraternity herb garden to installing solar-powered phone chargers in the university’s student store. A fund like TGIF would create countless opportunities for the student community to get involved.

Through ASUCD, students already pay into funding pools like the Club Finance

Council (CFC), which helps registered student organizations pay for events that are proven to be beneficial to the university through an application process.

TGIF would be subject to bylaws that ensure funds are distributed fairly and handled responsibly. There would be a committee in place to monitor and track the progress student groups are making on their projects.

And, like the CFC, a non-student staff member would be responsible for conducting follow-up meetings with fund recipients to ensure that grants were properly used for their initial purpose.

For students who may be interested in creating their own projects, and in the interest of accountability, a list of grants awarded by TGIF will be readily available online to the public. This would incentive the UC Davis student body to engage in creating new, innovative green projects, which is something the UC system, as a whole, strives to do.

Even without TGIF, UC Davis has been consistently ranked among the top schools in the nation for environmental sustainability.

But there are opportunities to improve. With environmental disasters like the Aliso Canyon methane leak threatening to hamstring California’s emission reduction goals, students must recognize the urgency of creating a healthy environment. A vote for TGIF would serve that need now and for years to come.

Voting will take place at elections.ucdavis. edu from Tuesday, Feb. 16 to Friday, Feb. 19.

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Closing the Education Divide

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In January, the Pew Research Center published a somewhat confounding survey showing that, despite widespread cynicism about the United States, Americans now hold more positive views about their institutions than they did five years ago. It’s not an intuitive conclusion, considering how popular the harbingers of the apocalypse seem to be doing in our presidential election.

But make no mistake: most of today’s problems — especially those in financial malpractice, racialized policing and education — are systemic and need to be solved in that manner.

The Divide, written by Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi and selected for this year’s UC Davis campus book project, is particularly concerned with the propagation of inequities within the criminal justice system. Taibbi focuses on street dealers and Wall Street bankers, making the case that an invisible set of rules has effectively made different justice systems for these groups and for the rich and poor in general. You can guess who gets the short straw.

It seems that, more than ever, people attribute the sources of their frustration to these invisible rules and rigged institutions. And in no field do they pose a greater threat than in education.

Achievement gaps refer broadly to any sort of discrepancy in academic performance that falls along lines of race, sex or socioeconomic status. These gaps aren’t the result of any one variable, but it’s clear that they start growing from the earliest stages of education — and are increasingly divided along class lines. Fifty years ago, the achievement gap between black and white students was up to two times as large as the income gap. Now, the opposite is true, and income has become the primary source of educational inequities.

Despite making progress in closing one gap, our country now faces another one that threatens our core values about economic fairness.

According to a 2009 report by McKinsey and Company, impoverished students (defined by the study as being eligible for federally subsidized free lunches) were, on average, two years behind in their learning than their wealthier peers. The consequences poor children face when they are unable to make up this difference are staggering, and they have serious impacts on not only their own future, but on the health of the country at large. The McKinsey report suggests that economic losses of not closing the international achievement gap are close to those sustained during the “Great Recession.”

There are two primary reasons that these disadvantaged students have a hard time moving up the academic ladder as they get older.

The first is the tendency of schools to divide students into classes that best fit their specific learning needs. Think GATE programs in elementary school and AP classes in high school. In effect, this practice — known as tracking — will often separate students along racial and economic lines. The proponents of tracking, who include many educators, say that with growing class sizes, having a great diversity of needs in a classroom hinders the teaching process. That’s a fair point.

But for as many students who start out on these higher tracks, there are even more stymied below. Students on lower tracks will not usually have the quality teachers or resources that would allow them to make the jump to an honors class. Critics have cited research on the divisiveness of tracking to liken it to a modern form of segregation.

A second, more latent form of early division comes in the form of childrens’ upbringings. Unlike tracking, which disproportionately affects its victims based on race and income, parenting styles seem to differ almost exclusively by class. Annette Lareau, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, describes the middle-class childhood as one defined by “concerted cultivation.” Kids who fit under this model typically enjoy a host of structured activities through school and other sources. Their parents facilitate communication with teachers and other authority figures.

Lower-income children are more likely to experience what Lareau describes as “the accomplishment of natural growth” — a far less organized way of growing up that doesn’t put as much of a focus on the child working in tandem with educators. The difference in parenting style is a result of the resources available to each family. For example, piano lessons are expensive, so not every child will grow up learning the patience such an endeavor could afford.

Policymakers need to consider these factors before they continue to make decisions on how to best serve students.

2016 is already shaping up to be a watershed year in education.

In an unusual show of bipartisanship, the US Congress replaced the failed No Child Left Behind Act with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The new law, written by senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA), drops the punitive punishments levied by the federal government on schools that failed to raise test scores year to year. More importantly, ESSA recognizes that states should control their education policies individually and that no single model can address the vastly different problems that can exist from one school district to the next.

With these revisions, civil rights groups will need to play a more involved role than ever in checking the states, which have a dismal record of dealing with their individual achievement gaps.

With college education becoming a necessary tool for social mobility (and with UC Davis leading the way), students of all economic backgrounds need to first be ensured a fair path to that education.

ELI FLESCH is a third-year economics and English double major.You can reach him on Twitter @eliflesch.

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ELECTIONS SUMMIT ALEX LEE (PRESIDENT) ABHAY SANDHU (VICE PRESIDENT)

Executive As one of two executive tickets, Lee, a thirdyear communication and political science double major, and Sandhu, a third-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major, seek to change the university through a five-point platform consisting of academics, advocacy, clubs, jobs and ASUCD reform. Among their goals, the duo plans on making GE credit available for AP and IB classes, expanding ASUCD jobs, ensuring UC Davis’ participation in UC-wide decisions and launching a club fair. The pair also plans to create a cabinet under the executive branch to address key issues within the association.

In terms of experience, Lee just completed his term as an ASUCD senator and is the founder of the Davis Filmmaking Society, and Sandhu has spent time interning under former Senator Gareth Smythe and is currently the chair for the Internal Affairs Commission.

CHRISTIE CHAN

Senate

As a member of Alpha Chi Omega and second-year managerial economics major, Chan hopes to unite ASUCD and Greek life through her platform — Greeks Giving Back. This is a joint fundraising campaign to increase senate’s financial budget to support underfunded groups such as Cal Aggie Camp and The Pantry.

Chan, who is a current member of the Internal Affairs Commission, also seeks to establish a business major, as well as open another student parking lot to decongest traffic.

SOFIA MOLODANOF

Senate

Molodanof, a second-year English and communication double major, has platforms that center around advocating for mental health, displaying nutritional information in the CoHo and improving campus amenities.

Molodanof serves as part of the ASUCD outreach assembly, and has experience with student council.

“We’re one of the biggest schools in California and [ASUCD [has] one of the biggest budgets in the country as it is,” Molodanof said. “I feel confident in my abilities to help students out.”

IRVEEN GREWAL

Senate

As the vice president of Ignite UC Davis, an organization serving to empower young women to become active leaders, second-year political science and psychology double major Grewal hopes to further sexual assault advocacy on campus.

“I’d like to work with the Campus Crisis Response team to bring advocacy efforts to girls who have been attacked or victimized,” Grewal said.

Grewal, who was a staffer for former Senator Alex Lee, also hopes to further student resources through increasing nap areas, providing more 24-hour study rooms and extending computer lab hours. She also hopes to increase safety on campus through further developing the Safe Ride app and improving campus lighting.

SILL (SAM) RO PARK

Senate

As a transfer and former temporarily-disabled student himself, Park, a fourth-year political science major, wants to completely restructure transfer and veteran students’ orientation to engage the full extent of resources provided to the two groups.

Park also wants to provide veterans with a separate orientation process completely, along with a career advising network for disabled students, increased notetakers and an information guide online.

Park served as the network development organizer for Sigma Nu Fraternity and has served the internal affairs commission in ASUCD.

RYAN DOWNER

Senate

As a transfer from Santa Monica College and the vice chair for the Transfer, Re-entry and Veteran Committee, Downer, a third-year English major, seeks to improve resources for students and make the Orientation Handbook more student-friendly.

Downer, who has two years of student government experience from his junior college, wants to enhance financial literacy for students by holding lessons on investment strategies. He also plans to increase funding toward units like The Pantry, Aggie Reuse Store and Campus Center for the Environment.

“I’m a former homeless runaway. I was homeless for a year when I was 18, so I went through a very harrowing experience,” Downer said. “I have a deep empathy and connection with people who are greatly in need. I’m basically on a mission to make sure that the units that provide student aid for the people on campus are well-funded, well-taken care of and well-managed.”

BASED SAMANTHA CHIANG

Senate

Chiang, a second-year English and psychology double major, has a platform that includes creating a letter of recommendation system via OASIS or Canvas, making end-of-thequarter professor evaluations public and bringing a vending machine to Shields Library.

Given her battle with anterograde amnesia, a mental illness that prevents the formation of new memories, Chiang hopes to mandate mental health training for all professors.

Chiang is the director of public engagement in ASUCD Executive Office.

“My platforms are all about bringing things back down to the basics means, giving students what they need as opposed to what they want,” Chiang said.

SHAITAJ DHALIWAL

Senate

As the current chief of staff for the ASUCD Executive Office and a former intern for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Dhaliwal is planning on bringing her experience to the senate table. Her plans include arranging a Davis Music Festival through accessing reserves funding, bringing healthier food options to the Silo and creating more lounge spaces in Shields Library.

“Coming in, I have a vast amount of experience with not only policy, but also advocacy,” Dhaliwal said. “Through my experience, I’ve been able to meet with students and hear what their main desires are.”

RICARDO MARTINEZ

Senate

After seeing the strides Senator Kamaal Thomas made for the African Diaspora community, third-year political science and philosophy double major Martinez developed a campaign targeting the Chicanx/Latinx community. Martinez, who was a commissioner on the Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission and previously interned at the Cross Cultural Center, plans on improving retention and recruitment for Chicanx/Latinx students.

“I was part of Senator Kamaal’s staff and while working with him I learned of two interesting ways in which to tackle retention and recruitment,” Martinez said. “I hope to apply what I have learned to the Chicanx/Latinx community.”

Martinez also wants to bring the Community Advising Network counselors to the AB540 Undocumented Student Center, Center for Advocacy, Resources and Education, the LGBTQIA Resource Center and the Women’s Resources and Research Center.

RYAN ABUSAA

Senate

Abusaa began his senatorial run with the goal of creating a series of student committees to help increase advocacy and representation for students, particularly international students and students of color.

Abusaa, who interned under former Senator Roman Rivilis and worked with the Experimental College, also hopes to expand the role of the Entertainment Council by pairing the unit with the Club Finance Council and bringing in local artists. He also plans to work with Transportation and Parking Services to create an alternate payment system, in which students can pay off tickets through donations to The Pantry or volunteer hours.

SEVAN NAHABEDIAN

Senate

For second-year genetic and genomics Nahabedian, running for re-election came down to ensuring the completion of his unfinished projects from his past year as senator. He hopes to continue his work as adopted senator of the Bike Barn, by expediting repairs, updating the showroom and restructuring the unit so that its focus is on selling and repairing parts.

Additionally, Nahabedian has worked closely with Senator Miguel Guerrero and the External Affairs Commission to meet with athletics department representatives in order to figure out a way of increasing students’ commitment to Aggie athletics.

AYMAN SHEHADEH

Senate

Shehadeh, a second-year biochemistry and molecular biology double major, would like to implement a more supportive academic probation (AP) system by providing peer advising and more efficient warnings to those students on AP. Shehadeh also aims to bring more career resources for nonSTEM majors.

“I feel as though ASUCD is represented heavily through social science majors and there’s not a lot of representation from people who are [in the] hard sciences,” Shehadeh said.

“They don’t have a full representation of what the student body is, and I feel that I can represent that.”

Shehadeh previously worked for the Academic Affairs Commission.

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L.E.A.D. (Leadership, Empowerment, Activism, Diversity) ELIJAH PIPERSBURG (PRESIDENT) LAUREN KONG (VICE PRESIDENT)

Executive Both stemming from backgrounds of student leadership at the same community college, Pipersburg, a third-year political science major, and Kong, a fourth-year political science major, hope to strengthen energy, education and representation through their executive ticket. They strive to not only represent UC Davis students but to also highlight and encourage student voice, while invigorating the Aggie spirit on campus through their “Project Fun,” consisting of acts like bringing headliners back to campus.

Currently, Pipersburg serves for the Office of Advocacy and Student Representation and as a member of the UC Regents Committee of Educational Policy. His running mate, Kong, served as a staffer for Senator Alex Lee and has past experience coaching badminton and leading the speech and debate team at both Kong and Pipersburg’s community college.

JASIR SOOMRO

Senate

If elected, Soomro, a fourth-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major, hopes to use his previous experience as senator and commission member at his past community college to serve the UC Davis campus community.

Soomro’s main platforms consist of serving coffee and tea in the library and developing mid quarter evaluations for professors and staff members, rather than the single end-ofquarter evals.

BRENDAN CHANG

Senate

For Chang, a former senator and a fourth-year English and statistics double major, running a second time means a chance for him to further his former projects, including his reinstatement of the Transfer, Re-entry and Veterans Committee earlier this year. He also wants to continue to work with the Academic Affairs Commission to create a freely accessible portal for students to access class syllabi.

Chang has held roles in student government for the past four years, including positions at his community college.

BENNETT POLLACK-REEBER

Senate

For Pollack-Reeber, a third-year political science and international relations double major, running for senate stems from his passion for social justice and his background in student leadership.

As a member of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Pollack-Reeber, founder of the non-profit “Helmets are Sexy!” and Bernie Sanders superfan, Pollack-Reeber hopes to start out his term by organizing free know-your-rights seminars for UC Davis students. Pollack-Reeber hopes to bring about the state-wide “Good Samaritan Law” to campus — where its presence is excluded — to avoid any students who might be suffering from overdose or drug-related issues from losing housing, financial aid and other academic privileges simply because they reached out for help.

CLAUDIA SERRANO

DRAKE SANTAMARIA

Senate

Santamaria, a third-year design and communication double major, hopes to focus on bringing a safe environment to trans students seeking housing accommodation, with eventual plans to branch out into representation for other marginalized groups on campus.

Santamaria is a part of the Student Fashion Association and serves as philanthropy chair for Sigma Nu Fraternity, having worked with the gender and sexualities commission, student housing and undergraduate admissions in the past.

Senate

Serrano, a third-year history and Spanish double major, wants to up the accessibility of resources to students. She hopes to increase the availability of gender neutral restrooms on campus, while also planning biweekly academic advising on the Quad from all the colleges.

With her background as member of the student board for the Danzantes Del Alma (DDA) and a previous public relations and marketing intenrship, Serrano ensures she has ample experience in directing large group of students.

INDEPENDENT RYAN BRADY

Senate

As a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi, Brady, a secondyear statistics major, wants to focus senate on UC Davisrelated issues and create more positive experiences for students.

Brady’s platforms include creating a computer program that sends emails to students the night before their pass time to prevent the amount of forgotten appointments. Brady works as an intern for Senator Mikaela Tenner and currently serves as his fraternity’s representative in the Interfraternity Council.

MATO TIRKAS

Senate

For Tirkas, a third-year economics major, running for senate is all about supporting the arts. As a past DJ at KDVS and treasurer for his co-founded campus guitar club, Tirkas believes that providing students with the tools they need to execute and explore their artistic ideas would be a vital part of his role as senator.

Tirkas hopes to give more opportunities to connect students to different cultural backgrounds throughout his term.

JACK FOLEY

Senate

For Foley, a second-year political science major, club funding is his number one goal. Foley, who ran for senate in Fall 2015, hopes to assist with funding through working with local businesses and providing tips for applying to grants.

Foley, who was an intern for former Senator Reem Fatayerji and who currently holds a position on ASUCD’s judicial branch, also plans to improve student safety by replacing campus lighting and extending Unitrans weekend night schedules, especially for lines that run through downtown or other bar-populated areas.

“Campus lighting comes from my girlfriend. I asked her, ‘If there was something that you’d like to change at UC Davis, what would that be?’ She says that the campus isn’t adequately lit,” Foley said. “I looked at her and I looked at myself. I’m 6’1’’ and a guy and she’s 5’6’’ and a woman. I’m like, ‘Maybe you have a point because that’s something I might not notice.’”

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The Green Initiative fund, commonly stylized T.G.I.F., seeks to add a $3 increase to student fees that would be used to create an approximate $150,000 granting pool that students, staff or faculty can apply for to receive funding for campus sustainability projects, ranging from environmental education to zero-waste events to improving energy infrastructure. Co-authored by Hannah Ulansey, a fourth-year environmental science and management major, and Shaina Forsman, a fourth-year international relations major, the initiative requires the proposed project to involve undergraduate students and approval from the T.G.I.F. committee, which will also determine the allocation of funds.

The Print the Aggie initiative seeks to bring UC Davis’ student-run newspaper, The California Aggie, back to regular in-print publishing, as it had been from 1915-2014. This initiative, authored by Scott Dresser, The Aggie’s editor in chief, would add $3.73 to quarterly student fees — $2.80 of which would go to The Aggie. Income from this initiative would, along with providing a weekly print newspaper to campus, provide compensation for staff, fund a professional business manager to oversee operations and enable The Aggie to purchase new and updated media equipment. Furthermore, the measure has a five-year sunset clause to ensure that the next generation of UC Davis students can decide for themselves if The Aggie is still something worth funding.

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Getting into fashion can be daunting, as there are so many possibilities and no clear place to start.

One option for those trying to enter the fashion world is to surround themselves with like-minded people who are also looking to develop their sense of style and aesthetics. This enables aspiring fashionistas to develop their skills in the industry.

Cindy Suzuki, a fourth-year communication major, is the president of the Student Fashion Association (SFA) at UC Davis. Here, she shares her fashion journey with The Aggie and gives advice to students trying to harness their own sense of style.

1. Can you talk more about what the SFA is and how students can get involved?

Suzuki: SFA is the premier fashion club on campus that celebrates and highlights all things related to fashion. We celebrate fashion in a very interdisciplinary way — meaning that we celebrate [not only] clothing but style and upcycling. Every month, we have a thrift store event to promote fashion, but also to promote greenness. We have an annual charity fashion show in the spring. A misconception about SFA in the past is that it was just for women, but this year we really tried to

change that and show that we’re open to everybody. I think we have about 60 current members, and this increase in membership shows that there is an interest in fashion on campus, whether you’re a fashionista or you just appreciate aesthetics.

2. When did you become involved in SFA? Suzuki: I became involved last year. I wish I had joined earlier. I was really apprehensive [about] joining before because I always thought that to be in this club you had to be a full-on fashionista, but something came over me in my junior year and I was like, this is what I want to do, so I became involved in SFA. 3. Are you planning on pursuing [a] fashionrelated [career] after graduation?

Suzuki: Yes. I’m not sure where, but if I could blend writing, social media and styling, that would be the most fulfilling career.

4. Personally, when do you think your interest in fashion started?

Suzuki: Honestly, [my interest started] as a kid because my mom would dress me up in clothes and take pictures of me while I dressed up. I would always pick out my outfits before school, so I guess it’s just always been there. But I didn’t really think about seriously pursuing something

with fashion until I got to college.

5. Can you describe your style?

Suzuki: I’d say my overall style is polished, trendy and geared more towards street style. I don’t like to be one static cell, but instead experiment every day with a different outfit.

6. Do you think where you’re from has influenced your style?

Suzuki: I’m from the Bay, specifically San Leandro. So, definitely. Coming to Davis for the first time was a big culture shock because people don’t typically dress up here — there’s more of a casual, laid-back style. Being close to San Francisco and all these other big cities definitely influenced me.

7. Have you had any style inspirations?

Suzuki: I honestly would say Jenn Im. She’s a Davis alumna and she goes by the Youtube name ClothesEncounters. If you look at her on Instagram and Youtube, she has millions of followers.

I had a class with her and being around her and then seeing what she’s doing now inspired me to say that it’s possible.

8. Are there any stores that you find extremely overrated?

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don’t think it’s worth it at all. The prices are so ridiculous. I feel like a lot of places have the same styles, it’s just about shopping smart and knowing when stores are having annual sales. The best way to search this is by going on retailmenot.com or just searching on Google.

9. Any advice for students trying to build their own style on a budget?

Suzuki: Invest in staple items that have a little flair to them so you can always mix and match in your wardrobe. Some things are striped shirts, a nice black jacket, a good pair of black jeans, a good pair of booties or boots, [and] play with prints.

This could help you rotate a lot with a little. Also, SFA has a thrift store every month where you can find nice, lightly worn items.

10. What look are you going for right now?

Suzuki: I wanted to play around with prints, so I’m pairing polka dots with stripes. I wanted to create a good mix of black and white, and added a silver necklace as a statement. I always wear a statement necklace with every outfit, because I feel like it gives a certain pop. Today I was looking for something clean and polished. I really believe in fuss-free fashion. My shoes may look ridiculous some days, but I like wearing platform shoes. I try to be as versatile as I can and dress for the day.

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The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is set to open on campus this fall. A more specific opening date will be announced in February, and information about opening exhibits will be released later this year.

The opening of the Manetti Shrem coincides with the opening of two other architecturally innovative museums in Northern California: the new building at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. With funding from various donors, including Jan Shrem, Maria Manetti Shrem and Robert and Margrit Mondavi, and a capital budget of $30 million, the season is set to be an exciting time for Northern California’s art scene.

“The museum has been in the university’s longterm planning since the mid-1990s,” said Amanda Price, the public relations representative for the museum. “It can be said that the museum is really 60 years in the making, rooted in UC Davis’ history and legacy dating back to the 1950s when the Department of Art was founded.”

Student Engagement Coordinator Carmel Dor added that the museum would celebrate the legacy of the UC Davis art department.

“In the 1960s to ‘70s, it was one of the top art schools in the nation, second only to Yale for a pe-

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riod of time,” Dor said. “We had a really great faculty here, who were not only world-renowned artists, but also amazing educators. They championed experimental education, and collective learning.

When they taught their classes, it wasn’t teachers and students, it was learning together and creating art pieces together.”

According to Price, these teachers pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to art that spread to their pupils and produced scores of influential figures.

This continues in the art department today, where various professors have integrated the development of the Manetti Shrem into their classes.

“My Department of Design colleagues Mark Kessler, Tim McNeil and Brett Snyder and I have involved our classes in different aspects of imagining and implementing possibilities for the Manetti Shrem,” said James Housefield, a UC Davis design professor and curator of special projects at the Manetti Shrem.

Housefield’s role will be to encourage new crosscampus projects and to inspire engagement with the museum from all areas of campus.

So far, various departments and professors hasve engaged differently with the evolution of the Manetti Shrem and with the creative opportunities it presents.

“My [class], Design 40C: Design Aesthetics and

Experience, will engage with the museum on various levels in spring quarter, from an anticipated construction site tour of the unfinished space to projects envisioning forms of audience engagement at the new Manetti Shrem or similar museums,” Housefield said. “I’m enthusiastically designing my fall course on modern art to emphasize exhibition spaces from the time of the Impressionists and our newlyopening museum.”

This engagement with the museum will not only occur in classes, but also in the work produced by UC Davis students and faculty. Dor explained that, since its inception, the art program has been collecting student and faculty work.

The work collected from past students will form the basis of many of the museum’s future exhibits.

The museum will also exhibit many renaissance paintings and ancient Chinese sculptures, which are a part of the Fine Arts Collection at UC Davis.

Dor also leads the Manetti Shrem Student Coalition, which was created to allow students to showcase their own artwork. The coalition provides students an opportunity to give their input on what they want the Manetti Shrem to look like, and their feedback will then be incorporated into the museum.

“Students are at the focus of all that happens at the museum,” Price said. “The museum’s architec-

tural design supports places for students to informally gather, and there are dedicated locations in the museum for active participation: the collections classroom and a community education room, which will be open to classes from across campus.”

Dor further explained that the coalition is a space to discuss what students want from the museum, and that anyone is welcome to attend their monthly meetings.

“We had such a spread of disciplines [at the last meeting]; we had someone from the agriculture program, we had a graduate student, a postdoctoral student of computer science and we had undergraduates from all over the place,” Dor said. “Those different voices come and share what they think would make a really good student space and where they can be part of a creative community without having to fit into a certain fold.”

Those who are interested in getting involved with the development of the museum can attend monthly student coalition meetings on Mondays from 6 to 8 p.m. in Wellman 234 on Feb. 17 and March 9, and in Wellman 230 on April 13 and May 18.

For more information on the museum, visit the Manetti Shrem website, http://shremmuseum.ucdavis.edu.

Further questions can be directed to Carmel Dor, who can be reached at cdor@ucdavis.edu.

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Friends, Aggies, Countrymen, lend me your ears. For many, the very thought of performing Shakespeare conjures up memories of stammering through a soliloquy in high school while a room of bored classmates look on.

But the UC Davis Modlab, “an experimental laboratory for media research and digital humanities”, has developed a video game designed to take the fear out of performing Shakespeare.

In the game, titled “Play the Knave”, players pick a scene to perform, choose from a variety of stage and actor avatars and act out scenes while a Kinect motion sensor camera picks up their movements and mirrors it on screen.

The result is “Shakespeare karaoke,” which allows players to engage with the plays of Shakespeare in an accessible way.

“The idea of using performance to teach Shakespeare is an old idea,” said Gina Bloom, a UC Davis English professor and the video game project director. “A lot of teachers will assign their students a scene out of a play, and the idea is that, by speaking the lines and thinking about how to position your body, you demonstrate an understanding of the play. So this [game] is just using the affordances of digital technology to make that assignment easier.”

Sawyer Kemp, a fifth-year graduate student in English and the installation coordinator of the project, has travelled with the game to various Shakespeare festivals and witnessed firsthand the educational aspect of “Play the Knave.”

“For every time you ask someone to play, five will say no, but every time someone boots it up, 30 people will come watch,” Kemp said. “It’s really validating to see these people who say they’re not an actor and they don’t play video games to tell their friend, ‘Oh, move your arm that way!’ By watching other people do it, they realize they actually do have some kind of knowledge.

It shows that they’re engaging and understanding [the] performance.”

Alison Tam, a third-year English major who interned on the project, was present at the game’s installation at the local Davis Arts Center, located on 1919 F street, over the summer and enjoyed watching how the game engages people of all ages.

“It was cool seeing how kids react to Shakespeare,” Tam said. “You usually think of Shakespeare as something elevated and academic. With a game, it’s so democratized that anyone can read or play it, so it gives

people a greater sense of ownership over Shakespeare.”

According to Nick Toothman, one of the lead programmers of the game and a sixth-year graduate student in computer science, the most rewarding part of the project was at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, when he saw the public have fun with something he helped create.

“It sunk in that I’ve done something that people can have fun with,” Toothman said. “That’s the most amazing feeling.”

However, the course of videogame production never did run (completely) smooth. The team has encountered some growing pains during the game’s development, mostly due to a gap between what they’d like to add to the game, and what is realistically achievable.

“A lot of the challenges were figuring out what we could offer people in the experience and what we would love to offer,” Toothman said. “We would love to give facial or detailed hand animation a try but the technology is just not accessible right now.”

Bloom said that she sees the game growing in three directions: continuing with the short-term installations that have been set up at various universities and festivals, bringing the game to teachers and then eventually releasing an at-home version.

“There’s some tension between what our budget is and what we would like,” Kemp said. “Eventually we want there to be more customization, like allowing people to change out the costumes or sets.”

But despite the restraints, the team has found that glitches can often be incorporated in performances and utilized to an actor’s benefit.

When asked what their favorite scene to perform was, Bloom, Kemp and Toothman all had the same answer: the ghost scene from Hamlet, because of funny glitches that allow players to exercise their creativity.

“At the Utah Shakespeare Festival, these two kids were playing the scene and realized that when you cross the avatars, one of them will disappear,” Kemp said.

“One kid took advantage of [the glitch] and he’d creep around and pop up randomly. When you watch the video playback, it would look like the ghost was disappearing and reappearing. I thought it was genius that he was using the system to make the game even better.”

And so, all the world really does become a stage, as “Play the Knave” allows people who do not consider themselves performers a chance to indulge their inner actor, and to engage with Shakespeare’s plays in an innovative and interactive way.

For more information, visit the Play the Knave’s website, http://playtheknave.org.

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Already in this academic year, UC Davis obtained the largest solar plant on a college campus nationwide, the new Center for African Diaspora Student Success opened its doors in October 2015, and a staggering 86,041 hopefuls applied for the chance to become an Aggie, breaking the previous UC Davis record for number of applicants.

However, with over 35,000 students already roaming campus as of Fall 2015, and plans underway to accommodate the enrollment of 10,000 more students next academic year, concerns about student retention have arisen.

“As we attract more diverse and first-generation students to UC Davis, we have developed strategic initiatives to improve retention and graduation rates,” Katehi said in an email interview.

These initiatives were founded from UC Davis’ 2013 Blue Ribbon Report for Enhancing the Undergraduate Student Experience, and they include the creation of updated orientation programs for new students and the hiring of additional staff.

According to a 2015 Retention and Graduation Survey conducted by the UC Davis Institutional Analysis, Student Research and Information sector, 85 percent of undergraduate students finished their degree within six years of entering UC Davis in 2009. Out-of-state students, Hispanic men and African American men and women are amongst the groups surveyed that have the most varied retention rates in recent years.

“The numbers of black students on academic probation (AP) and subject to dismissal (SD) are over 100 every year,” said Frederick Williams, the student academic success coordinator for the Student Recruitment and Retention Center (SRRC)

and a second-year political science and psychology double major. “I feel like being such a small [part] of the campus, that we can’t afford to lose anyone that’s here. Everyone that’s here is here for a reason — everyone that’s here is capable of doing it.”

UC Davis established the SRRC (pictured below) in 2000 to analyze the problem of student retention in a more handson environment.

“I believe that what [the SRRC does] is create that necessary safespace for those who feel alienated or isolated on a campus where they don’t see many people who look like them,” first-year undeclared student and SRRC intern Andrew Jones said. “It’s a really big campus, and if you don’t have somebody looking out for you and developing some strategy to keep you on campus, it’s very easy to be forgotten. I think that whole concept of retention also keeps the morale and motivation [up], which is necessary to succeed.”

Although some may be concerned that student retention efforts will no longer be a top priority at the university level due to next year’s addition of over a thousand new UC Davis undergraduates, Kate Moser, media specialist for the UC Office of the President, assures students that this increase in enrollment is “a testament to the value of a University of California education.”

“More and more students want to study here, and we are busy [with] plans for major instate undergraduate enrollment growth across the system,” Moser said in an email interview.

“Simultaneously, we are carrying out initiatives to support the strength of academics across the system and provide the necessary infrastructure on our campuses to accommodate the enrollment growth.”

DJ Aniciete, a fourth-year history major and the SRRC reten-

tion chair, said the the center was created in response to Proposition 209, which put an end to affirmative action in California by ending preferential procedures toward any individual based on race, sex or ethnicity.

“Not one specific part of retention is improving,” Aniciete said.

“There are two areas I feel we’re excelling in, and those would be academic excellence and community development. We try to provide as many resources as we can to support the academic excellence of the students that come in, such as free testing materials, drop in advising [and] demystifying AP [and] SD.” In terms of community development, the SRRC holds various events regularly to foster a sense of connection between the students who come to the SRRC. “Basically what Black Leadership Retreat did was create that community,” Jones said. “Now being a black student on campus, you have this immediate community, especially as a first-year [...] Within the first few weeks, [I] have this whole other network of people.”

This community retreat, paired with services such as counseling support and peer mentorship, continue to foster an atmosphere of guidance and support.

In regard to boosting retention with an ever-growing student population, Katehi said that helping students acclimate to university life and giving them tools to succeed are UC Davis’ top goals for the future. “[Student retention] is really important because we do need to recognize how the institution is supporting the students,” Aniciete said. “We want to keep students on campus, we want them to succeed and thrive in the college experience. In a holistic sense, catering to the needs of the individual [is important], because every experience is different for everyone.”

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Over the past 30 years, Yolo County has made several changes to its electoral process.

With new laws in place, registering to vote has become significantly easier, and more people are voting with mail-in ballots, according to the Yolo County Election Office.

Susan Patenaude-Vigil, assistant clerk recorder for the Yolo County Election Office, states that 55 percent of voters in Yolo County are registered to vote by mail-in ballots. She said these are more convenient, since voters get their ballot ahead of time and can do research prior to voting.

Despite the convenience of mail-in ballots, the City of Davis has seen a drop in voter registration over the past year. As of October 2015, 33,357 voters had registered in Davis, which is 2,677 less than were registered in August 2014.

The decrease in voter registration is partially the result of purges the electoral office issued this past year to remove voters from registration lists and to update the state’s registration roles. As of 2014, over 100,000 voters were registered in Yolo County, but after the purges, that number dropped by approximately 6,000 voters.

“We have gone through and bumped voteby-mail ballots that may have been returned [to the sender] from the 2014 general elections and inactivated voters from that list that moved out of state or out of the county,” Patenaude-Vigil said. “We also downloaded a duplication report from the Secretary of State to get rid of people on that list who are registered in another county.”

According to UC Davis political science professor Oswald Stone, students greatly contribute to the decrease in voter registration, since they tend to shy away from voting in college due to a lack of connection with their new community.

“The longer people have lived in a community, the more likely they will have taken the

time to register and vote, which is one reason students don’t vote,” Stone said. “Young people generally don’t vote [...] because [...] sometimes they haven’t registered to vote or don’t know how to vote and get a ballot.”

In the 2014 Report of Registration, 19,334 Davis residents were registered as Democrats whereas 5,184 were registered as Republicans.

“The major explanation for why people register for a party is because of their political values. Liberals tend to identify and register as Democrats and conservatives tend to identify and represent as Republicans,” Stone said. “A second explanation is due to a socialization effect. If you grew up in a democratic family, you are more likely to be a Democrat.”

Rebecca Salgado, a fourth-year political science major, is the president of Davis College Democrats (DCD), an organization with the mission to educate voters and get people involved in the political process.

“We invite candidates to campus and all of our meetings are open,” Salgado said. “This gives students a chance to get to know the candidates that are running for the seat that will represent them in a manner that’s open, inclusive and easier for student accessibility since it is on campus.”

The Aggie Voter Project, a non-partisan extension of DCD, helps students register to vote across campus, a privilege not many organizations have. “[Students] are super busy and elections are never friendly to students,” Salgado said. “I remember the last election, I had two midterms that day. Voting by mail still allows you to participate in the political process without having to set aside the time [to] vote at the polls.”

The Yolo County Election Office plans to reach out to local high schools and UC Davis in the spring.

“We just hope people get out and vote,” Patenaude-Vigil said. “I know there is a lot of voter apathy out there right now. I don’t blame people for being upset with their politicians, but we can’t make change unless we get out there and vote.”

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“Whenever I go back to campus, it feels nostalgic to the max,” Stasulat said. “Not only do I have memories of my own time and studies here, but whenever I go to Hart Hall, I imagine my great-grandfather working in the basement. It’s so meaningful to be in a place that has meant so much to your family and to others for such a long time. It’s an honor to have this relationship and this history with UC Davis.”

Though this year marks the 102nd Picnic Day, it’s

a centennial celebration for Stasulat. Talks of a party and family reunion are in the air, and those involved in alumni engagement are enthusiastic about it.

Jen Thayer, director of programs at the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, works with alumni worldwide, encouraging them to share their knowledge and their expertise with the campus. According to Thayer, alumni should return to campus in order to “relive their own experience,” and share with students

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“Picnic Day is my sense of community here at Davis,” Scott said. “I’ve been doing this for four years, and getting involved makes me feel like I’m part of something and that’s something I really need for my own happiness. When I graduate and become an alum, I want to be invited to Picnic Day and made welcome and feel what’s going on — just like we do for Stasulat’s family.”

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“Alumni are there to be the voice of the university after students are no longer here,” Thayer said.

“Alumni are the ones speaking fondly about the school, speaking to prospective students and the community of their experience here.”

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an investigation. During the investigation, which included a hearing, IRB asked Fulton asked to testify against COPE, promising to grant Fulton whistleblower protection in return.

IRB discovered Fulton’s claims to be true, that COPE had been conducting research on human subjects without proper approval, going against university policy.

In response to these findings, IRB made several suspensions to COPE’s principal investigators and required further training for the rest of the research staff. IRB also urged UCSF to drop their support of COPE. Following IRB’s findings, COPE was terminated.

After COPE’s disbandment, Fulton began to notice instances of whistleblower retaliation. On a personal level, Fulton’s former husband Ken Keyzer was fired from his position as an IT analyst under COPE. After filing an internal grievance, UC Davis offered Fulton the position “Analyst VII” under the Battelle Memorial Institute. According to Fulton, this project-based position was a demotion from her former jobs, and was planned to end within 30 to 80 days.

In an attempt to compensate for the demotion, Fulton was later informed that the position would be granted to her with no need to apply. Fulton had turned down the position and was terminated from UC Davis in December 2007.

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“You’re working 40 hours a week sometimes, and you don’t stop because you’re not thinking about yourself,” Watson said. “It’s dangerous, and it’s definitely why a lot of us go through things. We have this mindset where if we take a break then we’re being selfish, but you cannot function if you’re not taking care of yourself.”

For this reason, Watson is planning to bring academic advisors and a CAPS counselor specialized in ASUCD to the Memorial Union, where a majority of ASUCD units are housed.

This is in addition to ASUCD unofficially loosening its reins around missed senate meetings following Huey’s resignation.

According to the current bylaws, senators are only permitted one unexcused senate meeting per quarter.

Following their resignations, Syed and Huey are taking different routes to recovery.

Syed is currently taking the quarter off and spending time at home with her family following a bad turn in her depression. She plans to return in the spring.

In December, Huey graduated with a degree in landscape architecture and currently works fulltime as a designer for Shields Library and strategic communications.

Although Huey doesn’t keep up with ASUCD anymore, she affirmed that she doesn’t regret her time in the association.

“It was definitely eye-opening. It helped me grow,” Huey said. “My relationship was so complicated, but if I never went through all of that, I never would’ve been diagnosed. I learned so much.

But with that, everything in moderation and eventually you have to move on.”

With regard to whom Huey is today compared to whom she was a year ago, she said that she has a better grasp on how she can make herself happy and healthy.

“The difference now with who I was a year ago is that I know myself a lot better. I know how to identify what’s good for me and what isn’t,” Huey said. “I know if something is actually aligned with what would actually make me happier or what is healthy for me.”

The university’s failure to offer a similar position to Fulton led her to file a lawsuit against the UC Board of Regents. Represented by attorney Mary-Alice Coleman, Fulton claimed that the university had retaliated against her on the basis of her whistleblowing.

Between 2009 to 2014, Fulton had to oppose six counts and file four motions. According to Coleman, she was unable to represent Fulton because the UC claimed that Coleman was a witness. Second, the Regents failed to supply 1600 pages of court-ordered legal documents until days before the trial. Known as a “document dump,” this tactic would make it difficult for Coleman and Fulton to build a stronger case against the Regents by holding critical evidence.

During the trial, the Regents claimed that there was no form of retaliation present. Additionally, the Regents invited two key witnesses to testify, Dr. Klea Bertakis and Dr. Patrick Romano, both who claimed that COPE was not a human research project and did not need approval from the IRB. According to Chapter 240 of UC Davis’ Policy and Procedure Manual, “human subjects research” is defined as “any research project that obtains data about the subjects of the research through intervention or interaction with them; identifiable private information about the subjects

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of the research; or the informed consent of human subjects for the research.”

For Fulton, the act of collecting medical records was a form of collecting prisoners’ private information. Thus, Fulton believed that COPE was technically conducting an experiment using human research and did need approval.

Fulton and her legal team discovered several documents, including an e-mail published by the Davis Vanguard, that supported Fulton’s claims of whistleblower retaliation.

“I think it will be best to put [Janet] back to work, then lay her off in the usual manner, rather than under the current peculiar [and perhaps questionable] circumstances,” Romero said in the e-mail.

With a 9-3 vote, the jury determined the UC Regents’ argument to be lacking sufficient evidence, validating Fulton’s claims that she was a victim of whistleblower retaliation.

“The University of California investigates all claims of violations of laws and policies thoroughly, and that was true in this case as well,” said Andy Fell, associate director of news and media at UC Davis. “The university took time to review carefully its options in this matter as well as its internal complaint procedures.”

Fulton’s failure to be protected under UC’s Whistleblower Protection Program, prompted the

attention of former California Senator Leland Yee. Yee’s Senate Bill 219, which passed in February 2009, would revise California’s existing Whistleblower Protection Law so that it offered the same level of protections for UC employees as it did to other federal employees. In a quote published by the Davis Vanguard, Chief Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar emphasized the bill’s importance.

“The court’s reading of the act, making the university the judge of its own civil liability and leaving its employees vulnerable to retaliation for reporting abuses, thwarts the demonstrated legislative intent to protect those employees and thereby encourage candid reporting,” Werdegar said.

“If the same government organization that has tried to silence the reporting employee also sits in final judgment of the employee’s retaliation claim, the law’s protection against retaliation is illusory.”

For Coleman, Fulton’s story should not be representative of the university’s nature, because every system is imperfect and legal representation needs to be in place for those who want to help correct issues within the system.

“Most people do [follow the rules]. Most people try [to follow the rules] and the system tries to steer right,” Coleman said. “But It is important for people to feel enough integrity and internal fortitude to be able to push it back when it starts getting out of line.”

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“I [looked] at the evidence that had already been collected from people who had witnessed the events in the Taba commune,” Pruitt said. “I argued in my memo there was sufficient evidence to amend the indictment to include charges of sexual assault and that we should be sending, as a matter of priority, investigators back into the field to contact these women again.”

At the time, the common opinion was that adding “weak evidence” of sexual assault to a case backed with strong proof of war crimes would lessen the strength of the prosecution.

“There was a strong current [...] that this was about investigating a genocide, and rape was not central to the genocide — it was just incidental,” Pruitt said. “To the victor goes the spoils, and women were some of the spoils of war.”

The memo eventually got into the

hands of two members of the prosecution, as a matter of inside intelligence.

According to Patricia Sellers, trial attorney and Legal Gender Advisor for the ICTR above Pruitt, the document it was put back into the system as an internal document for the Office of the Investigation after initially being put aside.

“Just imagine what kind of character that takes,” Sellers said. “To go there and do that type of professional work, and to come out and hear that the work will not be used, and from [Pruitt’s] impression, thinking that it would never be used.”

Sellers believes that the work Pruitt completed in that case is a task that lasts forever in the law profession.

“Lisa was really acting on behalf of myself as the legal advisor for gender to undertake some preliminary investigative work,” Sellers said. “She

did the work, did it professionally enough that you can see the result down the line [and] allowed us to really consolidate some of our investigative leads and witness leads.”

Pruitt said that without her education, the drive to vindicate the witnesses of the Akayesu case would not have led to any further developments in the case.

“I did what lawyers do; I applied the law to the facts. Maybe I went a little bit beyond that in my advocacy in taking the women seriously,” Pruitt said. “I’m proudest that I took the women seriously when no one else was.”

The witnesses, depicted as HH, JJ and OO in “The Uncondemned,” made major contributions to the story. Guided by their social worker and an NGO activist, the women testified against Akayesu and took the spotlight alongside Pruitt in the documentary.

“It’s never easy for victims of crime to get up and tell their stories, [and] by the time we were in Rwanda and meeting the women, I held them in much higher regard than I might have even thought to do so before seeing the film,” Pruitt said. “They are just absolutely the ultimate heroes of this [story].”

Mitchell agrees that recognizing the witnesses’ bravery is of the utmost importance, but she also considers how vital the role Pruitt played was in the success of this never-beforetold story.

“One of the things [about] Lisa’s storyline [is] that it [is] about redemption, and about that moment when you become yourself again,” Mitchell said. “[The witnesses] are not [just] ‘women who were sexually terrorized during this genocide — they’re people who changed history.

There is no single hero, but [the] Lisa Pruitt [story] is the soul of the film.”

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UC Davis professor Dr. Bennet Omalu discusses medical discovery, recent release of “Concussion” movie about his research

BY B RYAN SYKES & L I SA WO N G sports@theaggie.org

The National Football League (NFL) built its multi-billion dollar empire by providing widespread access to an exhilarating sport: football. It was an untouchable institution.

The NFL’s invincibility lasted until a young Nigerian forensic pathologist discovered a disease, which he named chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), rooted within the minds of some of the game’s greatest players.

That forensic pathologist was Dr. Bennet Omalu, the chief medical examiner and sheriff-coroner of San Joaquin County and an associate clinical professor of pathology at UC Davis. Omalu received his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of Nigeria in 1991 and came to the United States in 1994.

He currently holds eight degrees.

“When I came here [and] saw this disease, first I was surprised — I was shocked that no one else had seen it or described it,” Omalu said. “I thought, honestly, that that was un-American.”

In 2002, Omalu found the body of famed former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mike Webster on his autopsy table. Webster had been suffering from depression, dementia and bone and muscle pain before passing away from a heart attack.

“There was something I was expecting to see: a brain that was damaged by repeated blows like you would see in boxers,” Omalu said. “But when I opened up his skull, his brain looked as normal as every other normal brain you would see. So, in fact, I was embarrassed by that.”

After sifting through medical literature, Omalu sent several pieces of the brain tissue for analysis. The

results showed an abnormal buildup of protein within Webster’s brain that was caused by repetitive subconcussive blows to the head. This protein choked his brain of normal functioning and fundamentally changed him both as an athlete and as a person.

“Retired players were going crazy after retirement, and nobody figured it out,” Omalu said. “That intrigued me, that something could be wrong here and people chose to look the other way ... I chose not to keep quiet.”

With the help of various other medical professionals, Omalu published a paper detailing his findings in the NFL-endorsed Neurosurgery journal. The NFL responded with a letter accusing him of fraud and demanding the paper’s retraction. However, the NFL could no longer ignore the issue after the suicide of two more ex-NFL football players within a year.

“A concussion will give you a false sense of danger,” Omalu said. “You may suffer one or two concussions in your lifetime, but you may suffer five thousand blows to your head. The issue is about exposure to repeated blunt force trauma of the head. And if the NFL admits that, they are pretty much admitting that playing football is inherently dangerous, which is what it is.”

Despite the NFL’s disgruntlement about Omalu’s research, public knowledge of CTE was relatively restricted until 2013. Despite the NFL’s best attempts to keep the matter under wraps, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced that it was producing “Concussion,” a major motion picture film based on Omalu’s discovery. With Will Smith playing the role of Omalu, the film immediately put CTE and the NFL into the spotlight and under the nation’s most critical eye.

“Already, this movie has made an impact,” Omalu said. “Congress is already calling a mini state house

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STUDENT ATHLETES What it really means to wear blue and gold

BY AARON SELL E R S sports@theaggie.org

There is a joke among college students that goes, “Sleep, grades, social life. Pick two.” This hits close to home for many — college students are just too busy. Student athletes have it even harder, as they have a fourth option to balance.

Currently, more than 460,000 student athletes in the United States compete in NCAA sports every year. UC Davis is home to approximately 600 of those students. The Aggie sat down with a few of of these athletes to get a glimpse into their busy lives and schedules and to see how they balance it all.

“There is a time for practice and there’s a time for after-school student stuff,” said Brynton Lemar, a junior guard for the men’s basketball team. “We are blessed to be doing what we love in college while [getting] a great education.”

Ironically, when The Aggie contacted athletes for this story, some were too busy to do interviews and instead were contacted via email. Alyson Doherty, a senior forward for the women’s

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basketball team, was one of these individuals.

Doherty (pictured) and her teammates practice six days a week. She rises at 7:15 a.m. for weights at 8 a.m., then school and basketball keep her out and about until 7 p.m., when she finally returns home.

“There is also film, team building, scout and rehab,” Doherty said. “So although we may only be on the court for a few hours, there are still other things that keep us busy during the day.”

For Hilvy Cheung, a junior swimmer who specializes in butterfly, swimming is a 19-houra-week commitment, which has an impact on her social life.

“I am with my teammates 24/7. We always try to sign up for the same classes so that we won’t have to go through a lecture alone,” Cheung said via email. “However, practice time is the number one time for socialization, though my coach may disagree. During practices, whenever we are resting on walls, kicking with a kickboard or waiting for the next set, [that’s] always the time when the pool completely fills up with chatter.”

Cheung said being a student athlete and having a tight-knit group does have drawbacks.

“The lack of time makes it hard for me to make friends [outside of swim] and actually find time to maintain those relationships,” Cheung said in an email. “In trestingly, in college, it is much easier for me to make friends with another athlete ... there is a silent but mutual respect for each other as we both understand the work and the time we put into our sports while maintaining the grades.”

However, all of the students have benefitted from their work as athletes.

“I think just now I’m a better planner [and] I plan out my days better,” said Alec Adamson, a junior on the men’s tennis team. “[It’s all about] figuring out little blocks where I can do a little studying, and just planning [ahead] when we have to leave for trips and stuff.”

At the end of the day, the athletes are constantly pushing themselves to be successful both on and off the court or field.

Doherty said she wouldn’t trade her hard work, regardless of the sacrifices she makes as a student athlete, for any other experience.

“We have such a unique opportunity to play the sport we love at an amazing university,” Doherty said. “[You have to] make sure you always remember that and enjoy every second of it.”

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of assembly and I don’t think the risk of football has ever been discussed as much as it has since this movie came out, so it is instigating a change in thinking.”

UC Davis has adopted new protocols in response to the potential dangers that athletes face during play. Specialists are on-field during games to diagnose and evaluate head, neck and spine injuries that might occur over the course of a game.

Tina Tubbs, the director of sports medicine at UC Davis, stressed that there are various ways of getting a concussion that don’t involve contact with the head, such as whiplash from falling and getting hit near the head.

“It’s very difficult to prevent a concussion,” Tubbs said. “For a sport like football, it’s not just a contact sport, it’s a collision sport.”

In an opinion editorial for the New York Times, Omalu wrote that children should not play highimpact contact sports, like football, until age 18. He said that protecting children is a moral obligation of society and that no adult should be allowed to make a potentially life-altering decision for a child.

Although prohibiting minors from participating in high contact sports would be effective in managing the proliferation of concussions, this may be

unlikely to happen anytime soon.

“For kids in the inner cities, [football is] their way out, and that’s all they’ve been taught from a young age,” said Shamawn Wright, a fourth-year sociology major and UC Davis football player. “There’s no way you can really stop concussions from happening because it is so physical.”

Growing up, Wright lived in a broken home that provided him little help through school; football was his chance at having a college education.

“I had to sacrifice my body, and I’m okay with that because it’s what I had to do to get my way out and provide for my future family,” Wright said.

“But if my kids don’t want to play ... I’m not going to force them to because I don’t want them to grow up with brain trauma.”

Football is a significant part of mainstream American culture, and many people have difficulty envisioning the sport’s eradication. But if the issue with concussions isn’t addressed soon, more athletes will be at risk for severe brain disease.

“America is suffering from a sort of intoxication with football,” Omalu said. “What we are letting human beings do to each other is barbaric. That does not belong in the 21st century. Let us do things in smarter ways for our children.”

REMEMBERING

A LEGEND

BY VERONICA VARGO sports@theaggie.org

“Aggie Pride,” the schoolwide phrase that every UC Davis student uses or sees around campus, was coined by Jim Sochor, the man who coached the UC Davis football team to 18 consecutive conference championships and to the 1982 Palm Bowl.

Of all the losses the Aggies have suffered (and, during Mr. Sochor’s reign, there were few), none was as saddening as the loss of Sochor himself after a battle with cancer on Nov. 23, 2015 at age 77.

As a player, Mr. Sochor led San Francisco State University (SFSU) to three consecutive league championships from 1957-59. He then became an assistant coach for the SFSU team, gained his master’s degree in physical education and came to UC Davis after earning his doctorate degree in education.

As head coach from 1970 to 1988, Mr. Sochor helped the Aggie football team reach new heights of success, boasting an overall 156-41-5 record over nearly two decades of work.

“I didn’t know a lot about UC DAVIS ATHLETICS | COURTESY UC Davis [when arriving], but I knew a lot about Coach Sochor, “As much as anything, [I carried on] his organia lot about his philosophy, a lot about how he did things,” said Ron Gould, the team’s current head zational skills and his easygoingness,” said Bob Biggs coach. “Talking to a lot of players who’ve coached who played for Mr. Sochor and served as the Aggies’ head coach from 1993-2012. “He molded players under him, they just raved about him.”

Chris Petersen, a former player and coach for Mr. not just as players, but as people.”

After his tenure as a head coach ended in 1988, Sochor and current head coach for the University of Mr. Sochor served as UC Davis’ athletic director Washington, said that, while he had to adjust to Mr. Sochor’s coaching methods, he has adopted many of until 1991, and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999. He was awarded the them into his own coaching techniques.

“He never raised his voice to anybody, but you Ronald L. Jensen Award for Lifetime Achievement knew exactly when you disappointed him or hadn’t by the Positive Coaching Alliance in 2008.

Mr. Sochor’s lessons and legacy live on today in done right,” Petersen said.

In a 2007 interview with the UC Davis Athletics Aggie Stadium, where the field is named in his honor.

“I had him come out and speak to the team a Department, Mr. Sochor said the core values of his couple times, and they loved him,” Gould said. “I teams were unity, trust and togetherness. His most famous rule was that the helmet, unless on a player’s had a hundred players just glued into him, sitting on the edge of their seats listening to him. The players head, was never allowed to touch the ground.

Mr. Sochor coached 10 Aggies who went on to just absolutely adored him [and] had a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for who he is.” play professionally in the National Football League.