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People Power of Davis group works to achieve greater transparency from UC Davis Police Department Group hopes to improve reporting process

BY AL LY RUSSEL L campus@theaggie.org

The ACLU People Power of Davis group is a local branch of a national grassroots movement that aims to uphold the constitution on a communal level. The movement was founded in light of the Trump administration and its perceived abuses of civil rights.

“By mobilizing in defense of our civil liberties, volunteers will build and strengthen local communities that affirm our American values of respect, equality, and solidarity,” the People Power website states.

In the People Power of Davis group, students and civilians are uniting to take a closer look at the process of reporting officer misconduct to the UC Davis Police Department (UCDPD).

Currently, if students have a complaint regarding the conduct of a UC Davis police officer, they have a few options for reporting. Students can fill out a form at the UC Davis police station, or they can report the incident to the UC Davis Police Accountability Board. The PAB is made up of faculty and students and is completely independent of the UCDPD. Complaints, once submitted, are filed through a complex chain of review. Complaints are first viewed by the Office of Compliance and Policy before they are reported to the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor. Finally, reports are

sent to the PAB, where they are investigated.

The proceedings end with the PAB’s official report and recommendations, are sent to the UC Davis Chief of Police.

“The current police accountability board does not have the authority to require any actions within the police department in response to a complaint or investigation,” said Caitlin French, a member of People Power of Davis and a Ph.D. candidate in nutritional biology. “The PAB can make recommendations, but the chief of police maintains the authority for disciplinary or any other action. I believe the process would be more effective in improving civilianpolice interactions if the PAB had some say in what happens after an investigation, not only in terms of discipline of officers but also department-wide actions, such as policy changes and trainings.”

Furthermore, the chief of police is under no obligation to inform students or the PAB of any measures that have been taken in response to a report. PAB is also unable to process any anonymous complaints of misconduct, which may discourage students from reporting.

Daphne Carlson, a member of People Power of Davis and a graduate student in the School of Veterinary Medicine, also discussed the shortcomings of the reporting process on the UCDPD website.

“We found that the reporting form is missing

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a bunch of things,” Carlson said. “For people to report troubles they’ve had with the UC Davis police, one thing that they’re missing is sexual harassment.”

When reporting, students currently have the option to select one of several possible options for their report including discrimination and improper detention. The form currently lacks an area to report incidents of sexual misconduct.

The People Power of Davis group is conducting a campus-wide survey to gauge students’ opinions regarding the accessibility of reporting incidents of misconduct, whether students have ever used the site and what students feel they deserve to know about occurrences and reports filed against the UCDPD. People Power of Davis hopes to take its findings to the UCDPD and assist in implementing system-wide reforms to make the reporting process, and follow-up regarding investigation reports, more available to students.

Ray Holguin, a police officer and the outreach coordinator for the UC Davis Police Department, spoke about current partnerships the UCDPD has with student organizations and possible ways to strengthen transparency.

“We work closely with student groups to include Center for Student Involvement, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Student Recruitment and PEOPLE POWER on 11

Grants given by UC Davis Blum Center aim to alleviate poverty Blum Center for Developing Economics offers grants to undergraduate, graduate students

BY SABRI N A HA BCH I features@theaggie.org

The Blum Center for Developing Economics at UC Davis offers grants to both undergraduate and graduate students who are focused on alleviating poverty in developing countries and areas.

According to its website, the Blum Center’s goal is “finding solutions that have a lasting and tangible impact on people living in poverty.”

Kausi Raman, a second-year design and economics double major and the outreach coordinator for The Blum Center, discussed the different grants the center offers, including the Poverty Alleviation Through Action (PATA) grant and the Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Solutions (PASS) grant.

“We offer a couple of different grant programs: PATA is for undergraduate students, and PASS is for graduate students,” Raman said. “The travel grant for undergraduate students is up to $2,000 and allows students to visit other parts of the world for research or service projects. PASS is between $1,000 to $4,000, and it’s seed funding for students to find and execute viable solutions for reducing poverty in the developing world.”

Raman talked about her own experience with The Blum Center after she received a grant from the group.

“I received the PATA grant last summer to travel to India,” Raman said. “The grant allowed me to go over there and work directly with government schools to test out the different things [my nonprofit organization] had been developing. We were also able to work directly with

teachers and directors of schools to see exactly what it was that they needed.”

Although students who are awarded grants from The Blum Center tend to travel to a different country facing poverty constraints, some students have chosen to direct their efforts toward domestic issues.

“This program actually doesn’t have to be abroad — it just happens to be that way because people mostly go to developing areas,” Raman said. “It can be a developing area locally as well. A couple of the grants that we funded last year actually stayed in the Sacramento area. For example, one person worked in a clinic locally. It does have to work to alleviate poverty in some way.”

Fourth-year global disease biology major Maria Bala received the PATA grant last year and traveled to Nicaragua in hopes of implementing her project.

“My project is a community resource database,” Bala said. “The whole idea of it was to connect patients to resources outside of the healthcare settings. Oftentimes doctors make recommendations, give prescriptions and advise patients to do certain things, but when patients leave the hospital or clinic, they don’t have the means or the knowledge of where to get those resources from in their communities.”

Bala’s hope is that, with her database, Nicaraguans in rural areas will be able to utilize the different services available to them.

“There are a lot of non-government organizations in Nicaragua that provide a lot of different resources like water improvement and special education services, and people aren’t aware of those CHECK OUT OUR

services,” Bala said. “The goal of my project was to connect people to those external resources, to improve health overall, and to get people to follow doctors’ recommendations.”

Bala elaborated on a number of unforseen problems that may occur while trying to implement projects to alleviate conditions in developing countries.

“I designed this project as an original idea without seeing the community I was going to serve,” Bala said. “I spent the first couple of weeks speaking to different members of the community to get their input on whether this project is something they would actually want and use.

After getting their input, I finalized my idea upon tweaking it to serve the community. It took several weeks to hurdle through liability issues and feasibility issues and collecting the needs-based assessment.”

According to Bala, The Blum Center is mainly involved in approving the projects of students and awarding them grants — it is up to the student to accomplish the project.

“I was only able to finish taking the needsbased assessment. I wasn’t able to finish making the database,” Bala said. “Technically, our Blum Center projects are done after the summer because they only gave us enough funding to last for a few weeks. In essence, the Blum Center is done with our projects but it’s on us, the students, who had involved ourselves into the projects and into the communities to find a way to continue what we had started. I want to go back to Nicaragua sometime after I graduate from UC Davis and finish doing the project.”

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Blair Fox’s life, legacy Second-year student remembered as charismatic, joyful, dedicated

BY SABR I NA HABCHI campus@theaggie.org

Blair Fox, a second-year UC Davis student, recently passed away in a skiing accident in Lake Tahoe. An economics major, Fox was a brother in the Sigma Nu fraternity and a member of Model United Nations. Involved in numerous ways both at UC Davis and within the Davis community, Fox touched the lives of many people.

“Blair was the type of person who would make anything really fun and who was just friends with everyone,” said fourth-year psychology major Jade Mawhinney, who was a good friend of Fox’s.

Mawhinney fondly described some of the memories she shared with Fox in the time that she knew him.

“One night, we ended up at Burgers and Brew at 2 a.m. and Blair got these disgusting fries and he was obsessed with trying to get me to try them,” Mawhinney said. “I always tagged him in memes on Facebook, and it turned into a tagging spree. He would respond and tag half of his chapter. It sounds so 21st-century millennial, but we were trying to just out-meme each other and it was just really funny.”

Andrew Isaac, a second-year community and regional development major and member of Sigma Nu, spoke about a few of the ways Fox’s presence in his life affected him.

“I met Blair when we were rushing Sigma Nu together [in the fall of 2016] and we were also living in Cuarto,” Isaac said. “I will never forget the image of Blair smiling because that is all he did. I have never seen him not happy or at least he didn’t show it. He was also really into political science and we would have our debates and that’s how I got to know him and really understood what a great person he was.

He changed all of our lives.”

Colton McHugh, a close friend of Fox’s, a fourthyear communication major as well as a member of Sigma Nu, mentioned a few of the ways Fox was unique.

“He was extremely social,” McHugh said. “Anytime we had some kind of social event on campus, he was always trying to get everyone to go and participate. People say this about people all the time when stuff like this happens, but Blair was genuinely the most excited, positive, happy guy I have ever met. He was always hyping everyone up about everything. It was ridiculous how excited he was just to do the most ordinary stuff as long as he was with his friends. He was so positive and he made everyone else just happy all the time.”

Jake Webb, a second-year managerial economics major and Sigma Nu member who was also close to Fox, talked about the way Fox impacted his life and the lives of the rest of the fraternity members.

“One of [Sigma Nu’s] big events is going down to Grace Gardens to garden every Saturday morning,” Webb said. “Blair would do that with a smile on his face every single time. A lot of us woke up Saturday mornings pretty tired, but he just cheered everybody up and he did some great stuff over there. He put his all into everything.”

Many Sigma Nu members who were close to Fox also mentioned his passion for community service and involvement, in addition to his work with the Grace Gardens.

“Blair was probably the most involved person I have ever met at Davis,” Isaac said. “He always talked about Model United Nations — he had such a big role in that and he made a lot of friendships and bonds in that club.”

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PROGRAMS TO PROVIDE AID FOR LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS MORGAN TIEU / AGGIE

BY STE L L A T R A N city@theaggie.org

The City of Davis is now able to provide around $800,000 to local groups that help with affordable housing and social services as part of a share with the federal Community Development Block Grant and Housing Investment Partnerships programs.

Kelly Stachowicz, the assistant city manager of Davis, explained that this has been an ongoing program.

“The Federal Housing and Urban Development Department has the Community Development Block Grants and the HOME Investment Partnership grants,” Stachowicz said. “Davis has received both of these allocations for years, based [on] household income and population.”

The CDBG dollars will allow for better infrastructure within communities as well as assistance with low-income households.

“Up to 15 percent can be spent on public service — money to local nonprof-

Grants to help with affordable housing, social services in Davis its to help low-income people,” Stachowicz said. “10 percent is used on administration and the remainder goes to things like physical repairs or improvements at affordable housing communities, making ADA improvements to public facilities, etc.”

Additionally, the HOME grants will assist with affordable housing projects.

“The most recent project assisted by HOME dollars is Bartlett Commons, the affordable rental housing development in The Cannery,” Stachowicz said.

Lisa Baker, the chief executive officer for Yolo County Housing, said that they are still determining upcoming fund distributions.

“There is an application process for all those who are interested in applying,” Baker said. “The applicant must be a qualified legal entity, such as a nonprofit organization. The services they wish to provide need to align with the city’s adopted priority needs.”

After requests are received, the staff will determine eligibility.

“Proposals will then go to the Social Services Commission for their consideration — ultimately, the recommendations

will go before the city council in a public hearing,” Baker said.

The process continues with a period for gaining approval.

“Once funding is adopted, the Annual Plan draft will also be available for a public comment period prior to final adoption,” Baker said. “The adopted plan and proposed funding will then be submitted to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for approval.”

Baker notes that this grant can affect those who have low incomes positively, as there are different people who can benefit from the agencies receiving grants.

“We are looking forward to receiving grant proposals from agencies who will be serving our high-priority, low-income residents,” Baker said. “This can include the elderly, homeless, low-income families and others. It is important to remember that, for CDBG, only 15 percent of the total anticipated grant can be expended for services.”

However, the CDBG and HOME programs have had declines in funds.

“Both programs were slated for elimination in the president’s initial budget,

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but both are included in both the House and Senate versions,” Baker said. “At this time, the United States has not yet adopted its final budget for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1, 2017, so programs have continued under a federal Continuing Resolution. The City will not know its final budget amounts for either program until after Congress passes a budget or a year-long Continuing Resolution and the final is signed by the president.”

As funds are limited, Stachowitz notes that the application process will be competitive.

“The city has a competitive and public process to decide who receives funding,” Stachowitz said.

According to The Davis Enterprise, Mayor Robb Davis explained how the grants can serve those in need.

“These funds help local nonprofit agencies leverage resources to serve our lowest-income residents and address critical needs, such as hunger, housing and health care,” Davis said.

The application period is currently open. For more information, resources can be found on the City of Davis’ website.

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Adam Hatefi received two violation points

BY ELI Z A BET H M E R C ADO campus@theaggie.org

On Friday, Jan. 12, the ASUCD Judicial Council held a hearing at 1 p.m. in the Mee Room of the Memorial Union that was called to order at 1:10 p.m. by Judicial Council Chair Ryan Gardiner.

The hearing regarded a complaint submitted by the Elections Committee early in Fall Quarter. Adam Hatefi, a third-year political science major and a prospective ASUCD presidential candidate began raising funds for the upcoming Winter Quarter elections in violation of the ASUCD Bylaws.

The hearing was open to members of the public and began with a petitioner’s statement made by Naeema Kaleem, the

chair of the Elections Committee and a fourth-year sociology major. Also present were Judicial Council members Sydney Hack, a third-year international relations major, Aria Aghalarpour, a third-year political science major and Elections Committee Vice Chair Rodney Tompkins, a second-year psychology major.

The fundraising in question included a GoFundMe account linked to Hatefi’s Facebook page as well as events held at Blaze Pizza and Panda Express. The dates of these fundraisers fell outside of the election cycle, when Hatefi was not qualified as a candidate.

Hatefi’s statement justified his actions by drawing attention to SB #18, a bill introduced to the Senate table in Nov. 2016. The bill proposed for a change in

text to the ASUCD Bylaws which would specify the permitted types of campaign donations. Hatefi claimed to have heard rumors of a Senate bill about to pass that would have allowed for fewer restrictions on campaign donations, so he moved forward with campaigning. Changes made to the Bylaws after SB #18 changed the text, but not the regulation itself.

The regulation violated is Bylaw 412 (c) (1) which reads: “Donations to a Campaign Executive’s Election fund shall only be accepted from ASUCD members. No group donations may be made to a Campaign Executive’s Election fund by any registered student organization.

Three (3) campaign violation points shall be assessed for violating this subsection.”

Hatefi was ruled to be in violation of

the Bylaws for accepting donations from non-ASUCD members through his GoFundMe account. The defendant argued he did not solicit money from anyone and that the donations made by his family members were of their own volitions — offering signed statements from family members.

The prospective ASUCD candidate also argued that the Elections Committee failed to notify him of any complaint made against him, thereby invalidating the claim.

“Due to this being an atypical case in

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Jan. 9 “Heard only, muffled smashing of windows heard and followed by a car alarm in the area.”

“Unknown suspect damaged victim’s vehicle while parked at location.”

“Unknown male on reporting party’s property talking with reporting party’s mother and refusing to leave.”

Jan. 10 “Red truck with door open and nobody around.”

“Male transient loitering outside store with excessive belongings refusing [to] leave.”

“Occurred approximately one month ago — latch on sliding door has been broken and reporting party noticed things are being moved around in house.”

Jan. 11 “Reporting party’s ex-boyfriend has been taking her vehicle without permission and damaging the inside of the vehicle.”

“Unknown male sleeping on a couch on reporting party’s backyard patio.”

Jan. 12 “Occurred between 20 to 2100 hours. Reporting party and roommates came back from dinner and found the back door open and a sock in the hallway. Nothing appears to be taken.”

“Reporting party’s vehicle was hit and damaged by another car in the plot. Reporting party thinks he knows who the suspects are based off the sound of their car starting up.”

“Reporting party calling to complain that unknown subjects are purposefully driving their vehicles and causing noise, so she is unable to sleep at night.”

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that it was not an official election cycle, the Elections Committee did not have jurisdiction over the case,” Kaleem said.

“In other words, we were unable to go through the official complaint process outlined in Chapter 4 of the ASUCD Bylaws, as we don’t have authority over prospective candidates.”

The complaint was brought directly to the Judicial Council, revalidating the claim.

Hatefi provided documents of

BY DYLAN SVOBODA city@theaggie.org

On Jan. 9, the Davis City Council discussed an ordinance that would ban aggressive panhandling and behavior.

The draft ordinance would prohibit solicitation within 15 feet of an ATM or bank; prohibit individuals from blocking traffic, sidewalks and doorways; allow police officers to confiscate unattended private property left in public spaces and ban activities on the median of roadways.

Davis Assistant City Manager Kelly Stachowicz stressed that this ordinance was not meant to target the homeless.

Rather, she described it as being brought forth to combat troublesome behavior.

“This conversation gets wrapped up with conversations about homelessness,” Stachowicz said. “This is really about behaviors, no matter who commits them or who engages in them.”

Davis Mayor Pro Tempore Brett Lee also touched on the importance of behavior when discussing the ordinance.

“It’s [the ordinance] targeting behavior,” Lee said. “It doesn’t have to be the homeless. It could be a drunk college student who decides to sleep it off in front of your shop.”

Effect of potential ordinance on city of Davis

A few guests who attended the City Council meeting saw the ordinance as an attack on the homeless.

“I urge you [City Council] to just completely reject this ordinance,” said an unnamed guest speaker at the City Council meeting. “It seems the only thing it would do is relieve police officers from the burden of making judgement calls in these situations and give them carte blanche to further criminalize homelessness.”

Gloria Partida, a Davis resident and founder of the Davis Phoenix Coalition, is concerned about what this ordinance would mean for the homeless and mentally ill population in Davis.

“I don’t want this to become criminalization of behaviors,” Partida said. “I think we need to think about this a little more.”

At the City Council meeting, Mayor Robb Davis offered his take on what the city should do in regards to the ordinance and the homeless.

“Let’s get the bathroom built,” Davis said. “Let’s find a place for possessions.

Let’s let Ryan [Collins] train some community volunteers who will go out and talk about what acceptable and not acceptable behavior is. We have the resources to all of this without further

criminalizing.”

Recently, in an attempt to combat homelessness, the City of Davis hired social worker Ryan Collins to be the city’s first homeless outreach coordinator, approved the Creekside Apartments affordable housing project and entered contracts with Davis Community Meals and Yolo Housing Authority to address homelessness in the community.

Davis’ homeless population has risen from 114 homeless individuals in 2009 to 146 in 2017, according to the Yolo County Homeless and Poverty Action Coalition.

In 2016, the State of California’s homeless rate was 30.1 people for every 10,000, according to the most recent study on homelessness conducted by the United States Interagency Council.

In Yolo County’s most recent homeless count in 2017, Davis’ homeless rate was 21.4 people for every 10,000.

In November, the City of Sacramento passed an ordinance banning panhandling within 30 feet of an ATM, on medians, at transit stops and gas stations and near outdoor dining restaurants.

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SENATE BILL PASSES, WILL BRING ABORTION PILL TO EVERY PUBLIC CALIFORNIA COLLEGE CAMPUS JustCARE campaign intersects students, legislators, doctors to increase access to non-surgical abortion

BY AARON L I SS campus@theaggie.org

California students, doctors, legislators and private funders worked together to bring the abortion pill to every public California university with the justCARE: Campus Action for Reproductive Equity campaign and Senate Bill 320.

The “abortion pill” is a commonly-used term for the two medications involved in non-surgical medicated abortion. Mifepristone blocks pregnancy-maintaining hormones, while misoprostol flushes the uterus.

Senate Bill 320, written by Senator Connie M. Leyva, sought to “offer abortion by medication techniques” at “each public university student health center” before or by Jan. 1 of 2022. The Senate

Education Committee passed SB 320 on Jan. 10. The bill will only apply to public universities with on-campus student health centers.

UC Davis is already one of the few campuses in the United States to offer a Plan B vending machine, where students can access morning-after pills. Plan B differs from medicated abortion in that it inhibits sperm implantation to the egg.

Other morning-after medication prevents ovulation through progestin, but does not interfere with sperm and egg implantation.

The California Aggie participated in a conference call conducted by justCARE with doctors, educators, researchers and a student on Jan. 9 to provide outreach on behalf of SB 320.

Adiba Khan, a fourth-year student at

UC Berkeley majoring in public health and sociology, is the director of Students for Reproductive Justice on her campus and has partnered with justCARE. According to Khan, abortion stigma is not just a problem in conservative states, but nationwide as well.

“I’m thrilled to be part of the justCARE campaign,” Khan said. “We envision a future where reproductive health services are available to all students who need them. Coming from Oklahoma to Berkeley, I didn’t think abortion access would be a problem in this progressive state. In my home state, I know many people struggle to get abortion care, but I thought that only happened in rural or conservative places. My sophomore year in college, I learned that in fact there are actually many barriers and bureaucratic

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hurdles, particularly for students living on campus students [to get] abortion care. I also came to realize that abortion stigma existed everywhere, and that all of us have a role to play in dismantling the stigma and silence surrounding abortion.”

Khan found herself wondering why

safe access to abortion and reproductive health care was not already an inalienable human right, especially for on campus students without cars. According to Khan, underrepresented and impoverished students bear the largest burden of SB320 on 11

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Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” wins two Golden Globes, brings national attention to Sacramento

BY H A DYA A M I N city@theaggie.org

At this year’s 75th annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony, Sacramento native Greta Gerwig’s latest film captured the attention of critics and moviegoers across the nation. The film “Lady Bird” won Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture as well as Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Motion Picture.

“Lady Bird” follows the story of a teenage girl navigating her senior year of high school in what she refers to as “the Midwest of California,” otherwise known as Sacramento.

The film marks Gerwig’s first experience as a director, and she found it crucial to set the film in her hometown, bringing the nation’s attention to Sacramento. She gave a shout out to the city in her acceptance speech.

“I want to thank my mom and dad and the people of Sacramento, who gave me roots and wings and helped me get where I am today,” Gerwig said at the ceremony. “Thank you, thank you!”

The film has been extremely well-received by critics, receiving a 99 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, an almost unheard of feat. Critics said the film poignantly portrays familiarity, while still managing to feel fresh and innovative.

“What Ms. Gerwig has done — and it’s by no means a small accomplishment — is to infuse one of the most convention-bound, rose-colored genres in American cinema with freshness and surprise,” said movie critic A.O. Scott in an article in The New York Times. “The characters can look like familiar figures: the sad dad and the disapproving mom; the sullen brother and his gothic girlfriend;

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NEW BOBA TEA SHOP TO OPEN AT MU

BY G E ORG E L I AO campus@theaggie.org

On Thursday, January 11 at 6:12 p.m., the ASUCD Senate meeting was called to order by Vice President Adilla Jamaludin. Business and Finance Commission Chair Shubhangi Gulati was absent.

First, ASUCD President Josh Dalavai gave an executive presentation. Notable topics included his transition out of office. During the transition, Controller Jin Zhang will remain for one to two weeks

the mean girls and the cool teachers; the too-perfect boyfriend and the dirt bag boyfriend. None of them are caricatures, though, and while everyone is mocked, nobody is treated with cruelty or contempt, at least by Ms. Gerwig.”

In an interview with The Sacramento Bee, Gerwig explained the importance of creating a film in Sacramento that would accurately portray its beauty.

“I wanted to make a love letter to Sacramento as seen through the eyes of someone who can’t appreciate how beautiful it is until she’s going away to someplace else,” Gerwig said. “I knew this was a special place, but its physical beauty — the tree canopy, the wide streets, the neighborhoods, the river — I didn’t realize how wonderful they were until I moved to a vertical city like New York. Sacramento is just so lovely.”

The film also excited many students, who felt as though it hit especially close to home with references to UC Davis.

“I thought the film felt really genuine and honest,” said Marina Broz, a fourth-year genetics and genomics major. “It was very true to what Sacramento is and makes you want to appreciate it more.”

“Lady Bird” is the first major motion picture to shine such a huge light on Sacramento and has already stirred conversation.

“I tell people it’s [Sacramento], the best place you’ve never been,” Gerwig said. “It’s a wonderful wonderful place to grow up and raise a family, but I don’t want the secret to get out too much.”

At the time the article was written, “Lady Bird” was still in theatres, playing downtown at Varsity Theatre. after Jamaludin and Dalavai depart. The new executive team will conduct interviews for the next controller. The pursuant weeks after Winter Quarter Elections will be dedicated to the transition of the new executive team.

Next, there was discussion on use of retail spaces in the MU East Wing. Space 2 will be filled by a boba tea shop, TeaOne. Space 3 will house the Student Disability Center and Space 4 will be occupied by the Global Food Initiative. The projected annual revenue from the rent collected from these spaces is upwards of $100,000, which will be invested into the services and units of the association.

There was a housing update that discussed Chancellor Gary May’s recently-released statement on Jan. 10 emphasizing the campus’ commitment to increasing student housing on campus. Details include 6,200 beds currently under development.

Continually, there will be an increase to 8,500 beds from the Long Range Development Plan. The number includes 500 additional beds in Orchard Park and an additional 2,000 beds in West Village.

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West Davis Active Adult Community in development Open field near Covell, Lake set for housing project

BY AHASH F RA N CIS city@theaggie.org

On Wednesday, Jan. 10, the city planning commission met again to resume a discussion concerning the proposed West Davis Active Adult Community. The WDAAC has been planned and discussed since Nov. 2016 as developers and city planners work together to decide how to build the new community on the open lot on the north side of Covell Boulevard, across from Sutter Davis Hospital. In particular, the commission discussed the new Environmental Impact Report for the project, which has been made available to the public for comment.

“Going to city advisory commissions to get initial comments and going back through the commissions provides responses and shows how their initial comments have been reflected into the revised projects,” said Katherine Hess, the community development administrator for the City of Davis. “As far as the site plan and concept have been concerned, we’ve been working with the applicant to increase recreational uses on the property and increase connectivity within the site.”

The developers and planners have continued their joint efforts to ensure that, if built, the new community will be easily integrated into Davis as a whole. Though the WDAAC will mostly be open to people 55 and older, planners have allocated housing spaces for caretakers and younger, conventional families to take.

“Smaller ideas and concepts [...] which are very important — that’s what we’re working on improving,” said Dave Taormino, the developer and orig-

inal applicant for the entire project. “It’s the best location in Davis for this type of place — this type of housing.”

Developers see the spot as an ideal area for an active adult community such as this one due to its close proximity to stores and markets and the convenient nearby transportation. Taormino also commented on the potential voting of the proposed project, mentioning the “Measure R” law. “[Measure R states that the city and its people are to work together] to supply an adequate amount of housing to meet internal needs,” Taormino said.

The measure essentially states that open or former agriculture spaces require citizen participation — or a public vote — if it is to be repurposed for urban or housing usage. Due to the fact that the open lot in question is an open space outside of city limits, the proposal must be voted on by Davis’ general population before developers can move forward.

If the city council agrees with the plans made by city commissions and developers, the proposals could be passed as early as spring of this year and the WDAAC could be placed on the November ballot to be voted on by Davis residents.

“My thinking is that it will pass,” said David Thompson, a developer for the WDAAC. “We don’t want to take anything for granted [...] but the need for senior housing in the community is growing exponentially relative to other age groups.

And people have a need for affordable housing and market-rate housing — we’re already seeing people having to leave to afford housing [...] The population [is] going to be very fair and thoughtful about the vote. This type of housing is valuable.”

UC releases 150 year photo timeline UC celebrates 150th anniversary with digital archive

BY PRIYAN KA SHR EEDAR campus@theaggie.org

On Jan. 8, the UC’s 150th Anniversary was celebrated with the release of a photography timeline that displays the university system’s rich history. Produced by the UC Office of the President (UCOP), the site will be updated throughout the year, providing a unique live recording of history as it happens on campuses across California.

Founded in 1869, the system has only grown since.

An article released by the UCOP overviewed the UC system, stating that “today, the UC system includes more than 238,000 students and more than 190,000 faculty and staff, with more than 1.7 million alumni living and working around the world.”

The timeline covers everything from the original construction of the campuses to famous commencement speakers including President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama.

UC Davis is highlighted multiple times throughout the timeline, beginning with iconic events like the first Picnic Day, the first Pajamarino and continuing on to more recent landmark moments such

as the opening of the Bodega Marine Laboratory and the launch of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.

In the UCOP article, UC President Janet Napolitano commented on the communal pride Californians should take in the UC System.

“Californians should feel tremendously proud of their public research university and all that it has accomplished over the last 150 years,” Napolitano said. “Since the very beginning, UC has done more than just help California prepare for the future — we’ve helped create it. And we have no intention of slowing down now.”

UC Board of Regents Chair George Kieffer was quoted in the same article stating that this timeline is a testament to the university system’s mission statement.

“This pivotal milestone is much more than an occasion to celebrate the founding of our great university,” Kieffer said. “It is a testament to the enduring and far-reaching value of the University of California to our state, nation and world. UC’s mission of education, research and public service is more vital than ever to meeting society’s challenges today and over the course of the next 150 years.”

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UC Davis Vegan Frat Challenge PEACE Club raises awareness on health, environmental benefits of veganism

BY MA RLYS JEA N E features@theaggie.org

This week, two UC Davis fraternities battled it out in a competition centered around maintaining a diet completely free of animal products. Theta Xi and Theta Chi teamed up with Davis’s People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty through Education club (PEACE) to compete in the campus’ first ever Vegan Frat Challenge.

“The Vegan Frat Challenge is basically where, for a week, we get two frats to go vegan,” said Emmanuelle Chicandard, a second-year animal biology major. “That means their entire house is going to be stocked with vegan food and [PEACE is] going to help them cook. I think we have a couple people every day going in for breakfast, lunch and dinner to help [guide] them cook vegan food.”

On Sunday, stewards from each fraternity accompanied PEACE members on a Costco run to pick up all the supplies necessary for the 18 or so fraternity members who live in each house. Groceries were funded by the national organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Taco Bell and Chipotle, while other foodstuffs were supplied by a few local and global plant-based companies.

PEACE designed a point system for the Vegan Frat Challenge as a way to

encourage and reward the members involved. One fraternity took the championship crown and prize, but prizes were awarded to a first, second and third place individual in each fraternity as well.

“Eating a plant-based meal is 10 points, and [points are also given for] taking a photo of yourself or of your plant-based meal with the hashtag ‘vegan frat challenge’ [or] ‘VFC Theta Chi’ or ‘VFC Theta Xi,’” said McKenna Maxwell, a fourth-year environmental science and management major. “We can search through the hashtags and give points to each frat with those hashtags specifically. You can also get points for bringing friends to events and attending events yourself, and there will be a grand prize for the [winning] house [...] of visiting the Animal Place animal sanctuary for free.”

Not only is the Vegan Frat Challenge a way of educating the members of the fraternities about healthy vegan eating and plant-based diets, but members also had the chance to gain points by attending events PEACE hosted throughout the week.

“One of the events we’re looking forward to is the vegan athlete speakers,” Maxwell said. “We’ll have three vegan athletes come who are YouTube famous [...and] invite the frat community to see that. It’s to debunk the idea that [if ] you’re vegan [you] can’t be strong. There’s

a [lack of ] education on this topic. That’s a big myth, especially for college-age students and the male population having this idea of veganism as not [providing] the protein that they need.”

Other events the club hosted throughout the week were film screenings of “Cowspiracy” and “What the Health,” as well as visual demonstrations on the Quad like the 360-degree virtual simulation of the life of a factory farm chicken through iAnimal and the Brave the Cage event.

“Brave the Cage is about factory farm hens, because a lot of them are stuck in tiny cages,” Chicandard said. “Even though we have this cage-free law going on, it takes awhile for farms to transition.

So this [demonstration] shows basically a human-sized cage, and we try to stuff as many people in the cage as they would stuff hens, just to get that feeling of being in a cage.”

Like Maxwell said, there are some commonly held assumptions around veganism and fitness, like that being muscular is impossible with a vegan diet.

PEACE intentionally focused the event on the male Greek community in order to dispel the stigma around veganism and masculinity as well as raise awareness for everyone across campus.

“Meat and masculinity are so tied together,” said Iliana Zisman, a third-year animal science major and president of

PEACE. “The reason we are giving attention to the Greek community and the male Greek community in particular [... is] because they deserve to have this education as well about this kind of lifestyle.

It’s also showing vulnerability to care about something, which isn’t something to be ashamed of.”

The expectation of this event is not that members of Theta Chi and Theta Xi will emerge as vegans, but that PEACE will educate part of the Davis community about the health and ethical benefits of switching to a vegan or plant-based diet.

PEACE hopes that the challenge will have inspired individuals to adopt more animal-friendly diet habits like “Meatless Mondays for example.”

“I think people, when they think of veganism, they think it’s really difficult, but there are a lot of products that are good substitutes for things,” Chicandard said. “There are a lot of recipes that are really simple that you can do. It doesn’t have to be a complicated dish or anything like that. Like I don’t know how to cook and I don’t cook very often, but I’m still vegan.”

Animal consumption is tied to multiple environmental impacts such as deforestation, land use, waste and especially greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock and their byproducts account for roughly 51 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions not limited to carbon dioxide; these

emissions also include methane and nitrous oxide, both greenhouse gasses with global warming potentials of 56 and 280 respectively and are far more destructive than carbon dioxide alone.

“We believe the biggest way to make change is to educate and speak with each other and hear from each other and learn from each other,” Zisman said. “I think that for us this is more of a value system than it is a diet. It’s more about the basic concept of freedom for everyone to have a right to their own life and to not be dictated by another being, whether that’s a human or a non-human animal.”

Zisman herself faced no difficulties in adopting a plant-based diet, as she was able to make the change overnight. The decision to go vegan made logical sense; she should stop contributing to animal suffering since she loved animals and was going to dedicate her life to helping them. Now she’s the president of PEACE and feels her time educating students about the environmental, health and social justice issues tied to animals is time well spent.

“Of course, I’m not saying being vegan is flawless,” Zisman said. “There’s no way to be a human and be flawless. We’re still causing environmental harm. We’re still causing a lot of issues just by existing. But I think the tenant of veganism is do the best you can, and that can mean something different for everyone.”

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Promoting careers in forensics A look at the UC Davis Forensic Science Graduate Program

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Of the many graduate programs that attract students to UC Davis, the forensic science program does not have as high of a profile as some, but it is no less successful.

In a recent article highlighting several UC Davis programs that “boost careers,” it was noted that 90 percent of graduates of the forensic science program now work directly in the field, “either for local, state, federal or private crime labs, at a DNA testing facility or within law enforcement.”

“UC Davis’ forensic science graduate program has prepared me extremely well for the rigors and workload that a forensic scientist of

today must tackle,” said An Truong, a current forensic science masters student finishing his thesis. “I now work in at crime lab in Sacramento while continuing to finish to my degree, and I can honestly say without the support and guidance of the graduate program I would not be where I am today.”

Ruth Dickover, the director of the program, explained how it began in 2002.

“UC Davis was approached by the Department of Justice about the feasibility of setting up the program [...] because many crime labs were having trouble filling senior positions,” Dickover said. “And FBI quality assurance standards require that people [in specific positions] have master’s degrees.”

To go back another decade, additional de-

mand for forensic scientists was created by a Supreme Court case that increased standards for what evidence is qualified to be presented to a jury.

“In 1993, in a decision entitled Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the United States Supreme Court reformed the test for determining the admissibility of scientific testimony,” said Edward J. Imwinkelried, the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Professor of Law Emeritus at the UC Davis School of Law. “The Court ruled that the proponent of expert testimony based on a technique or theory must demonstrate that it had been empirically validated.”

Imwinkelried is the author of a prolifically cited book called “Scientific Evidence”, which focuses on DNA typing, forensic psychiatry and laser techniques for fingerprint detection. This book was even cited by the Supreme Court in the Daubert v.

Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals case.

“Three quarters of the states, including California, have now adopted some variation of the Daubert test,” Imwinkelried said. “After Daubert, it became clear that the experts who took the stand to testify had to know more than which buttons to push; they had to be prepared to explain the underlying science. That’s why pro-

Women’s resources: Is UC Davis doing enough?

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Women comprise 59 percent of UC Davis’ student body. With a demographic as substantial as this one, it is essential for the school to provide an ample amount of resources that are readily available and easily accessible to women. While the school does offer a wide range of women’s resources and services, including but not limited to those offered at the Women’s Resources and Research Center (WRRC), many students feel that there is room for improvement.

Biana Giang, a second-year civil engineering major, believes the school has a bit of catching up to do when it comes to the amount of women’s resources available.

“The only [resource] that I’m aware of on campus is the WRRC in North Hall,” Giang said. “Other than that, I feel like there isn’t really anything else.

There is always more that can be added.”

According to Giang, the school’s lack of attention in the advertising and promotion sector puts its existing resources at a slight disadvantage. Giang feels that, though the school offers certain resources for women, not enough students are aware of those resources.

“Other than what you get during orientation, or if you decide to take a class that will tell you about all the resources that are on campus, a lot of people aren’t aware of what [the school] does offer,” Giang said. “Having more advertisements or at least some more coverage on [existing resources] would definitely help.”

Mariana Huben, a fourth-year English and lin-

grams like ours are so vital.”

Dickover said that many of the first graduates to complete the program were experienced forensics lab employees going back to school for master’s degrees.

Nowadays, there’s more of a mixture of experienced students and undergraduates from around the world going into the program with backgrounds in science, especially chemistry and biology.

“It is important to have a strong background in chemistry, especially for the forensic DNA track,” Dickover said. “Criminalistics, the other track, also deals with controlled substances, firearms and trace evidence testing.”

Dickover also commented on how the program has grown over the years and how the subject’s interdisciplinary nature allows for a wide variety of instructors and professors to become involved.

“This was originally a small program that had to use [a] shared space, but now it has its own building in the campus research center [across I-80],” Dickover said. “We do have professors spread across campus, people in many fields who are interested in forensics.”

While some of the program’s instructors are professors at the university in areas like biology and chemistry,

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Students evaluate the sufficiency of women’s resources on campus guistics double major and editor-in-chief and campus correspondent for Her Campus at UC Davis, shared similar sentiments regarding the lack of campus efforts in publicizing women’s resources.

“As far as the resources go, [the school] is doing an amazing job,” Huben said. “It’s really just the promotion of those resources. And I think a big part of that is that [UC Davis] is just such a big school. You can only reach so many students through email. Only so many students actually check their emails regularly.”

Huben believes it’s the school’s duty to educate students on the resources that are available to them; failure to do so ultimately puts more responsibility on students to actively seek out the services and programs they need.

“I think you do have to seek out additional information a lot of the time,” Huben said. “There is a Society for Women Engineers if you’re in STEM and you want that cohort of just women, and if you’re into business there is Davis Women in Business and you can join that club. But you do have to step a bit outside of your comfort zone to get that information.”

Mirka Dirzo, second-year psychology and Chicanx studies double major, agrees that more can be done in order to ensure that women’s campus resources are up to par. Dirzo especially emphasizes the need for better accessibility for women seeking out these resources, especially considering the fact that most UC Davis students come from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.

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Dickover added that many are professionals in the field.

“Some instructors that are teaching the heavy scientific material come from the UC Davis campus, but about half are actually professional forensic scientists, helping students to learn the equipment and learn the techniques,” Dickover said. “This can only be taught by those with handson experience.”

Despite the program’s success and small size, it does not plan on seeing additional growth and expansion in the coming years; according to Dickover, they have more or less “optimized” the number of students that the program’s faculty and other resources can best serve. The testimonials of current and former students demonstrate that the program has been successful in engaging students and exposing them to a variety of resources.

“The stellar staff at the UC Davis Forensic Science Graduate Program instructed and guided me to achieve my dreams in becoming a researcher in the forensic genetics field,” said Nikhil Bose from the program’s class of 2014. “The combined classroom, laboratory and research-based curriculum ensured that I have high-level education suitable for a career in a crime lab as well as academia.”

On the status of undeclared studenthood Advisors weigh in

BY‘ ST ELLA SAP P I NGTON features@theaggie.org

There are many social pressures that contribute to an undeclared student’s pondering as their deadline to declare approaches. What is the opinion of your family? Your friends? Your professors?

Brenna Dockter, a first-year transition coordinator in the College of Letters and Science, has something to say about these familial and social tensions.

“For some students, that’s really important,” Dockter said. “Their family has ideas and that will influence their decision.”

The social pressures of choosing a major seem to be widespread, indicating something not only about one’s position in their family or social groups, but also in the professional world. Wendy Haws, an academic advisor in the College of Letters and Science, notes this immense stress on undeclared students.

“It feels like it’s going to define your whole life,” Haws said. “And that’s one thing that we really work on, saying that your major doesn’t necessarily equate to a specific career.”

For second-year students who are currently undeclared, the deadline to declare is fast-approaching: 135 units completed. However, Dockter and Haws both encourage declaring during the 5th quarter (presumably this quarter) of enrollment.

Their recommendation is not a random one, but rather one informed by research. Research done at UC Davis has indicated that declaring by the 5th quarter invites more positive educational out-

comes, including on-time graduation.

On-time graduation is not the only advantage of declaring by the second year of enrollment. Immersion in major courses, relationships with professors and research opportunities number among the boons of being firmly rooted in a major.

“We want students to also get engaged with their major,” Haws said. “With the material, with the faculty, with research opportunities. If you’re waiting too late to do that then you’re just limiting the amount of time that you can invest in that.”

Declaring a major is a benefit for technical reasons, too, according to peer advisor in the college of engineering and fifth-year mechanical engineering major Ryan De La Cruz Peterson.

“I knew who to go talk to,” De La Cruz Peterson said. “Whether it was my major advisor or what deans I needed to go to, so I kind of already knew the resources that were available [...] I think that made it easier.”

But enough about the advantages to being declared. Haws, Dockter and De La Cruz Peterson, with research on their side, can attest to the logic behind being undeclared and the strengths it can cultivate within a student. Dockter addresses and protests the common misconception around the simultaneity of being undeclared and being academically behind.

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the California Aggie EDITORIAL BOARD BRYAN SYKES Editor-in-Chief EMILY STACK Managing Editor HANNAH HOLZER Campus News Editor

No more recycled platforms More candidates for ASUCD should bring fresh ideas

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With the exception of Winter Quarter to Fall Quarter of 2015, winter quarters in recent memory have typically held higher voter turnouts and a greater number of candidates running for Senate, with approximately double what they were in the fall. The higher voter turnout, however, isn’t necessarily due to the higher number of candidates. Therefore, it’s crucial that each candidate possess strong platforms and clear ideas about how to reasonably achieve them.

The upcoming winter elections offer six Senate positions and an executive ticket. The Fall Quarter 2017 election had only six candidates, with a 1,289-person voter turnout. This was the second lowest voter turnout in the past five years, only higher than the Winter 2015 election, in which there were a mere 792 voters.

The projected increase in candidates, however, does not mean better platforms. Each candidate needs to have to have a comprehensive platform to set them apart. A qualified candidate should be knowledgeable in all aspects of ASUCD, such as what ASUCD can do in conjunction with the university and what lies within their scope of power.

Several past candidates struggled to ascertain the basics, including understanding what an ASUCD unit was, knowing the ASUCD budget or having reasonably achievable goals. The Editorial Board urges candidates to show that they’ve done their research and know exactly how they will execute their platforms rather than simply go out on a limb by saying things they think students want to hear.

One example of a past successful senator is Simran Gre-

wal, a fourth-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major who won 61 percent of the votes during the Fall 2016 election, in which 10 candidates were campaigning for six available positions. During her tenure, Grewal was able to accomplish all of the original goals on her platform, including implementing 24-hour library periods during finals week. Grewal also noticed the separation between senators, acknowledging that this gap needs to be bridged by having senators collaborate on platforms. This would help senators accomplish their goals in a timely manner during — and not after — their respective terms.

Grewal, formerly The California Aggie’s adopted senator, serves as an example of what current and future senators should work toward. Past platforms presented to the student body have contained some good ideas, though they have not always been properly executed. We have heard countless times that things need to be done about campus lighting and voter turnout, but exact solutions have not yet been clearly thought out.

There are many characteristics of a good senator, and with the role comes a tremendous amount of time, effort and responsibility. Running for Senate assumes that the candidate is prepared to take on extra hours by attending clubs and social events, maintaining good connections with the other senators, being available to students, making sure students’ needs are addressed and working to better the university. The Editorial Board reminds all prospective candidates to consider this as they campaign during the winter elections.

Why are we still salting our roads?

IT’S TIME TO BAN ROAD SALT AND MAKE BETTER ANTI-ICING ALTERNATIVES

BY JESS DRIVER jmdriver@ucdavis.edu Deer like salt. I found this out during my last trip to Yosemite after a deer ran across the road and forced the person driving to tap the brakes.

We slowed at every bend in the road after that, and we were surprised to see at least 10 more deer. They bounded across the highway or lingered with their heads bent to the asphalt. A huge stag with a rack of antlers stared at us unflinchingly. A doe watched our car, obviously insulted, as her fawn struggled out of the road. Something was drawing them into the road, endangering their lives and ours.

I wondered what the deer were up to, until I remembered stories that my uncle told about gigantic moose who wandered out of the woods to lick the salted roads in Maine.

Of course. They were eating salt.

“When ice is so thick and frozen that it cannot be cut with machinery, salting provides the ability to begin the breakdown of the ice,” said The Tuolumne County Community Resources Agency.

“This process is very politically controversial and is used very sparingly throughout the county.”

Communities use salt to break up ice and give cars traction to drive, but the salt crystals sometimes attract deer and moose to roads, which increases their chances of being hit by cars.

“Road salt is kind of like potato chips for animals,” said Emilie Snell-Rood, an associate professor of ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Minnesota.

Can you imagine the kind of sick trap we’re setting up for these deer?

When animals venture into roadways for salt, they’re also exposed to dangerous chemicals, such as car exhaust, spilled gas and metal shaving from brake pads.

“Approximately 15 million tons of deicing salt are used each year in the United States,” said Rena Silverman, a journalist for National Geographic. “Salt on snowy roads can reduce accidents by up to 88 percent, compared with untreated roads. But sodium chloride [...] can harm aquatic life and vegetation when the ice-salt mix seeps into groundwater and streams, where it can remain for decades.”

Salt also threatens birds who ingest salt crystals, animals whose food sources and shelters become compromised and people on lowsodium diets whose drinking water has been contaminated.

"Many people assume that when you apply salt to the landscape it just gets washed away and disappears,” said Sujay Kaushal, a professor of geology at University of Minnesota Duluth. “But salt accumulates in soils and groundwater and takes decades to get flushed out."

“The ‘freshwater salinization syndrome’ [...] could be an issue for people with high blood pressure that require a low-sodium diet and patients who need kidney dialysis,” said Roni Dengler, a 2017 AAAS mass media science and engineering fellow.

Why are we still salting the roads if it’s bad for wildlife, the environment and people? Salting the roads may help prevent accidents today, but what will that cost us tomorrow? We need to ban the use of road salt and find a safe alternative — one that’s good for the environment, practical and affordable.

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Mexican-American stereotypes in film HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS REPEATEDLY CIRCULATED THE SAME STEREOTYPES AND CLICHÉS

BY ALEJANDR O L ARA amlara@ucdavis.edu

Movies are brilliant inventions, but because they tend to be depictions of reality, we as spectators also believe that they’re reflections of everyday life and people. For example, in the 1940s and ‘50s, when Hollywood directors first made films about Mexican people, they used stereotypes from different cultures in Mexico, grouped them together and said, ”Okay, this is Mexican culture.”

These stereotypes are reductive and simplify life in ways that are simply not true. For instance, the most classic stereotype of Mexican women in the media today is the role of the maid — that almost every Mexican woman is a maid on television or in real life. Examples can be found all over TV and movies, even in shows like “Family Guy,” in which the character Consuela is a maid with a heavy accent and all she does is clean.

The most prominent stereotypes of Latino/as in the media are the Latin lover, the hot-tempered Mexican female, the gangster, the gardener, the wild savage, the revolutionary, the rural worker and the drug lord.

Nevertheless, the craziest part is not why we have these stereotypes, but why they keep getting circulated with such popularity. Stereotypes generalize people, and the worst part is that they’re believable. Stereotypes repeat the same nonsense over and over again in harmful ways —

and stereotypes about Mexicans ignore the rich and vast diversity that Mexico and its culture have to offer. In the United States, that diversity is not recognized. We are seen as a homogeneous people with the same “crazy” tendencies.

One popular example of someone who perpetuates these stereotypes is Donald Trump. Trump has gone on to say that Mexicans are, among other offensive terms, “drug dealers, criminals [and] rapists.”

These are stereotypes that are all too present in the media.

And even when television does broadcast Mexican actors, it has been a tradition to cast fair-skinned Latino/as in lead roles. More often than not, they’re light-skinned, conventionally beautiful and have traces of European descent. Yet that is not always the case.

This can be seen in the movie “Viva Zapata” (1952), in which Marlon Brando did “brown-face” and played the revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata. A white person played the lead role of a key figure in Mexican history — major uproar would occur if this movie aired in the present day. Albeit the film was made a while ago and things have “changed,” but we still see identical stereotypes from the 1950s in place today.

Danny Trejo, aka “Machete,” is an almost-perfect example. In the vast majority of movies he has been in, he plays the role of a crazy, bloodthirsty killer or a bad guy who seduces women and gets what he wants through violence. He’s a badass breaking the law in practically every role.

Above all, Hollywood has created stereotypes of Mexican-American communities as a whole. Urban movies depict poor Mexican neighborhoods riddled with crime where the youth are in gangs, struggle in school and always get in trouble with the law.

Other movies make statements about Mexican culture, such as depicting Latino/as as having huge, vehemently Catholic families. Moreover, many films depict Mexicans as “illegals” who only speak Spanish.

Why are there so many negative stereotypes in the media about Mexican-Americans? There are hardly any positive stereotypes of Mexicans in the media. The only ones that come to mind are that Mexican food is really good and that we love to dance, party and drink tequila.

Times are changing, but change has been slow. This past year, Eugenio Derbez and Salma Hayek starred in the film “How to be a Latin Lover.” The Latin lover stereotype has been distributed for years and years, while the circulation of positive stereotypes has been stagnant or nonexistent throughout history.

My biggest concern is that negative stereotypes about Mexican people are constantly spread, while progressive and affirmative stereotypes continue to be left in the dark. But my hope is that people are critical of the things they notice in shows and films because film distorts reality in ways that seem real but often fails to show the truth. More importantly, I want people to be aware of the negative effects that Mexican stereotypes have: they ignore diversity and show a lack of respect toward our culture.

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Reasons why a diva like me would never survive on the Yolobus YOLOBUS AIN’T *BLEEP* BUT HOES AND TRICKS

BY L ARA LOPTMAN lrloptman@ucdavis.edu A great philosopher once said, “A diva is a female version of a hustler.” But I happen to disagree. Contrary to popular belief, I think that a diva is actually a person who refuses to ride the Yolobus because of her own personal aversion to most public transportation in a city that has a very small tunnel for frogs. I also believe this definition encompasses more than just male or female hustlers. It may not be obvious, but I’m actually talking about myself.

There are many reasons I believe a person like myself would not be able to survive a treacherous escapade on the Yolobus™, and I’m

happy to share just a few of the most glaringly obvious ones that will have you saying, “That makes sense.”

The Bus Moves Not a great attribute of a bus. Everybody knows that divas don’t like motion, so this is a big problemo. If the bus moves, not only will my Chakras be misaligned right out of their respective places, but I’ll get motion sickness from the lightning-fast speed of the vehicle and be dizzy for days — maybe even weeks — after.

The Bus Lacks Personal Space A diva needs her (OR HIS) personal space. If you deprive a diva of their personal space, they’ll die. Therefore, it’s very important you shut your mouth and give me and the diva community our space. If

you’re wondering why we need so much space, it’s to make room for the tiny dogs we always have shoved away in our purses. Also, just because my dog is actually stuffed and the stuffing is Marc Jacobs receipts doesn’t mean he doesn’t need space like the rest of us.

The Bus is Off-Brand The Yolobus ultimately lacks a brand presence, and for a diva that’s simply unacceptable for transportation. Everybody knows that Unitrans is an on-brand competitor with the Yolobus, and while I would rather roll up to school in my luxurious, to-die-for Honda Civic, it would really be devastating to my career to come to school LOPTMAN on 11

Jared Kushner saves legendary weed joke in Twitter drafts, waits for 4/20 HELL YA BRO

BY AARON LEVINS adlevins@ucdavis.edu “Bro, check out these socks,” Jared Kushner said to a New York Times reporter as he pointed to his socks. “They’re HUF socks.

You see that? It’s weed. Well if my name ain’t KUSHner!” Jared said this as he winked heavily, indicating to the journalist that he was making an elaborate weed pun based on his last name. The White House staff in the room gave a collective sigh, as though they had heard this joke a million times.

“He seriously does not shut up about the weed thing. I kid you

not, he makes a weed pun at least twice a day, more if Trump is around,” one anonymous White House staffer said. “Recently we were in a meeting talking about the whole Kim Jong-un situation, and out of nowhere, Jared interjected, ‘Why don’t we just smoke him out?’ referring to the NKPR leader. I said ‘What do you me-’ and he interrupted saying ‘I COULD JUST SMOKE HIM OUT IF MY NAME AIN’T JARED K U S H NER.’ Trump just started uncontrollably giggling at this joke. Then Trump and Kushner just started trading weed puns the entire time. They ended up making the meeting about weed puns instead of international policy.”

Kushner bragged to The Aggie that he had the absolute most

amazing tweet lined up for April 20, an informal holiday for the infamous Mary Jane.

“My father-in-law, Trump, whom I also affectionately call ‘Daddy,’ will be very impressed with how funny and viral I am,” Kushner said. “I can’t wait to show him how amazing and funny I am and also prove to him that he should legally adopt me as his son.

That would be nice.” Kushner’s voice trailed off as he started to stare out into space and tear up. He also oddly got an erection at the same time. The Aggie promptly ended its interview.

Kushner stood up, shouting “KUSH BABY,” as he exited the room.

Jesus Christ cancels resurrection due to protesters FATHER AND SON TALK IT OUT

BY DREW HANSON andhanson@ucdavis.edu A strange object descending from the sky was initially thought to be Jesus Christ, but after further investigation was determined to be an ICBM from North Korea headed straight toward the White House. While many people wish it would’ve hit successfully, others were concerned that the extreme radiation and nuclear winter would

turn the majority of the politicians into super mutants, allowing true tyranny to form.

Of course all of this chaos was quickly swept up and hidden from public eye, especially after the revelation that Jesus Christ was supposed to be resurrected on Dec. 17. The resurrection date was announced by God on Facebook, which was met with criticism from many religious folk who felt that God was inept for choosing a dead social media platform that’s mostly infested with old people who re-

ply by leaving a comment, rather than leaving a “reply” comment.

Others were merely upset that God used over 280 characters, the Twitter standard, since many common folk cannot process that many characters at a given time.

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Status, health benefits of olive oil UC Davis hosts International Olive Oil Conference to discuss efficacy of olive oil in reducing risk of major diseases

BY JASON KEL LY science@theaggie.org

For the first time since 2001, the International Olive Oil Institute met to present research on the health benefits of olive oil at the UC Davis Olive Center. Located at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the conference, hosted by the International Olive Oil Council, consisted of scientists from across the United States as well as representatives from research institutions in Spain and Italy. Studies on the health benefits of olive oil consumption in relation to obesity, vascular health and diabetes were presented in conjunction with the effect of olive oil consumption and its relation to major diseases.

Representatives from the consumer side of the industry were also present to hear more about what kind of research is going on in the field and to speak with experts and researchers about their findings and opinions. One representative was Takatoshi Yamashita, a senior manager of a product development laboratory for J-Oil Mills, Inc., one of the largest manufacturers of olive oil in Japan. His expertise is in chemistry and the analysis of a compound in olive oil called oleocanthals that he, among other researchers, has found to have profound effects on appetite. When olive oil is consumed, oleocanthals bind with receptors in the digestive tract, which effectively reduce appetite. Olive oil consumption has also been linked to reduction in the development of cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Ed Blanz, a UC Davis alumni who works in the field of forensic nutrition, also attended the conference. Blanz, in association with the company that he works for in the Bay Area, investigates the questionable claims that companies and researchers make about food products.

“I usually work with health products and dietary supplements where people are making questionable claims about what their product will do for people’s health,” Blanz said. “Their science comes to me, I analyze the research, write a paper, and help to regulate the industry.”

Blanz also has a faculty position at UCSF and has travelled the world speaking about olive oil.

The meeting of researchers at the International Olive Oil Conference this year showed the many ways that olive oil influences society, from the market to our health.

The conference showcased presentations such as one given by Manuel Franco, a researcher from the University of Álcala and the

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who explores the presence of healthy diets in relation to economic status in different places around the world.

There is more to olive oil than just its health benefits. Franco presented research on the affordability of foods within the Mediterranean diet and its influence on a healthy diet. He is trained in the analysis of food availability in cities and its correlation to diet and health.

“If you move from city to city, you eat differently,” Franco said.

“Why is that? And how is that related to your health?”

The Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest non-restrictive diets around. A non-restrictive diet is one that does not enforce a strict regimen of what to eat on the dieter. There is no set type of food that the Mediterranean diet calls for, but it does call for olive oil to be used in replacement of salad dressings and other types of oil.

It operates on the idea that people who rely mainly on olive oil for their caloric intake are healthier than people who do not. The consumption of olive oil also has a close relation to high consumption of vegetables.

Jean-Xavier Guinard, a UC Davis professor of Food Science and Technology, is a sensory scientist and food researcher who, among other research, studies the perception of olive oil in the eyes of consumers. Guinard is also the interim director for the study of wine and food science at UC Davis and co-hosted the International Olive Oil Conference with the Mondavi wine and food center. He focuses on the sensory aspects of olive oil, particularly its taste.

“The nature of the fat we consume is highly relevant to our health,” Guinard said. “But the context of olive oil compared to other fats and oils shows us that olive oil offers a lot of benefits. It’s time for us to talk about nutrition and health in terms of the qualities of food. But this must be done in combination with flavor and what tastes great to us. Olive oil fulfills all of these requirements, and it is also a sustainable source of energy.”

California and UC Davis play an important role in the regulation of the olive oil industry since both the state’s agricultural infrastructure and the university’s research have influenced the perception and understanding of both its benefits and functions.

The UC Davis agricultural program grows olive trees and has a yearly harvest that is well known in California and abroad for the high quality of olive oil that is produced. Students can get involved every year in the Fall to witness the process and take home some olive oil for themselves.

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Laundry detergent for when there’s a bear of a project Bear bones are cleaned in UC Davis’ Zooarchaeology Lab.

BY RAC HE L PAUL science@theaggie.org

Aside from cleaning your clothes, it turns out laundry detergent is useful in cleaning bear bones.

This idea seems strange, but it is just another ordinary day in the zooarchaeology lab.

The lab’s current project is cleaning a bear skeleton that was donated by Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, the local Girl Scout chapter.

“It looks gross but it’s a lot of fun,” said Ryan Gallagher, a fourth-year physical anthropology major and an intern in the zooarchaeology lab.

The department hosts a collection of more than 1800 different specimens, which includes fish, reptiles, birds and mammals. They process about five

sets of remains per year for teaching and research purposes.

Dr. Christyann Darwent is a zooarchaeologist at UC Davis and studies the animal remains recovered from archaeological sites.

“These specimens are used to help identify animal bones from archaeological sites,” Darwent said.

Animal remains, such as skulls and bones, are donated to the department from various sources.

Friends of the department have given roadkill or skeletons they have found while hiking. I worked as a counselor at the Girl Scouts’ summer camp and facilitated the transfer of the bear bones to the lab.

Maintenance staff came across the remains

Chronic fluoxetine doses affect social interactions, attention abilities

BY GEOR GE UGARTEMENDI A science@theaggie.org

An experiment at the National California Primate Research Center revealed genetics can play a role in how young primates respond to chronic doses of Prozac (fluoxetine). Eight papers have so far been published about the many results found in this project, which was funded by a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health.

One-year-old rhesus macaque monkeys were given fluoxetine for two years, followed by a year of no doses. Cognitive and behavioral tests were performed periodically to measure metrics such as attention, impulsivity, social interactions and sleep.

“We discovered that monkeys treated with fluoxetine had increased social behavior with their buddy, increased impulsivity in a reward delay task, impaired sustained attention in CANTAB computer cognition tasks, and had more disturbed sleep than those not treated with fluoxetine,” said Alicia Bulleri, a staff research associate at the California National Primate Research Center.

Serotonin affects mood, cognitive function and social behavior. Fluoxetine functions as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), keeping serotonin active longer between cells. Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) is one of the proteins that helps break down serotonin, keeping mood and social behavior in a stable chemical cycle. The most exciting experimental result involved differences in MAOA genes, which code for monoamine oxidase A enzymes.

“I think the most surprising discovery was the gene interactions,” said Dr. Mari Golub, a professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental Toxicology at UC Davis. “We had two different genes we were looking at — the serotonin transporter and the MAOA gene.

The serotonin transporter is where fluoxetine acts, so we anticipated all sorts of interactions with the serotonin transporter polymorphism.

But we found basically nothing. Instead, we found interactions with the MAOA gene, which is involved in serotonin metabolism, but not directly affected by the drug.”

Fluoxetine is currently prescribed for a host of mood and psychological disorders, including anxiety, depression, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. If different versions of the MAOA gene can influence how drugs like fluoxetine affect developing brains, better treatment plans can be developed by

while inspecting a Girl Scout property near Placerville last February. The bear skeleton was then brought to the main camp in Calaveras County, so that staff members could use it as a teaching tool.

“Being able to touch and examine the bones gives girls who learn kinesthetically a chance to become engaged in the natural sciences,” said Kaitlyn Heb, a STEM specialist at the camp. “It gives the girls a chance to see something up close and personal that they would not be able to see in the city and get a point of view they might not get from a museum.”

All of the skin and muscle had decomposed from the bear, but the skeleton was covered in dirt, grease and fat. Despite camp counselors and campers being armed with unused toilet scrubbers and dish soap, the bones remained gross and little bit smelly.

To get dirt off the bones, I tried soaking them in warm soapy water a few times. The waste water was full of tissue and things I could not identify.

One time, I was showing a group of campers what I was doing, and spilled the entire can of waste water on me. My socks, shoes- everything from the knees down was covered in bear juice. That was a mistake I never repeated.

I still used the bones as a teaching tool, and I showed the campers how the bones worked and fit together. The bear also had a really bad cavity, and we were able to get the children excited about seeing what tooth decay looked like up close.

“I hope we can talk through what information the bones can give us about the life it lived, how people that study animal bones can piece together information and learn more,” said Leah Traina, the associate camp director.

When the summer camp ended, the skeleton sat in boxes in my backyard until early January when it was taken to the lab. The Girl Scouts will be getting the bones back once Darwent and her interns have cleaned the skeleton.

“We actually use laundry detergent- powdered laundry detergent,” Darwent said.

The skeleton is about halfway through its soak-

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ing period of two weeks. In this time, the bones are placed in a pot with water and laundry detergent.

Once the pot is covered, it is left to sit on a hot pad. When the water is changed out during the two weeks, bits of fat and tissue are seen floating around from the bones. Gallagher has worked on similar projects in the past.

“I’ve done a horse and helped with some pigs,” Gallagher said.

The horse, in particular, had not been cleaned at all before heading to the lab, which meant that it arrived with all of its flesh and muscle.

After its soak, the bones will be ‘polished up’ by removing leftover bits of dirt with a toothbrush. The teeth that have fallen out would also be glued back in. Since the Girl Scouts would be used as a teaching tool, the skeleton would then probably be bleached to ensure its cleanliness.

Most of the bones were found, aside from its sternum (chest area) and most of its paw bones.

“Bears are usually found pretty whole, scavengers won’t take the bones far,” Gallagher said.

There are two other bear skulls in the specimen collection that have an obvious cause of death; the massive bullet holes on the sides of their skulls are hard to miss. However, this bear does not have any bullet holes, and Darwent and Gallagher have not yet determined how it died.

Already Darwent has been able to identify key facts that campers were asking about the bear.

“Given it was found in California and based on the size of the skull I am certain it is a black bear,” Darwent said. “Sadly brown bears are extinct in California despite them being on the state flag. My guess [is it] would be female as no baculum [os penis] bone was recovered.”

Darwent estimates they will be done cleaning the bones before winter quarter is over. This will give the Girl Scouts more than enough time to establish the bear at its future home, the overnight camp in Calaveras County.

“It’s important to teach kids about nature so they feel comfortable interacting in the natural world,” Traina said.

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Sudoku Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. Every row, column and 3x3 square must contain one of each digit. Each Sudoku has a unique solution that can be reached logically without guessing.

Chess This week’s puzzle is a checkmate in two moves.

White to move, checkmate in two.

Hint: look for your opponent’s avenue of escape, their king’s movements are limited.

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

CHESS ANSWERS Start with the double check. The double check forces the king to move because both pieces checking the king cannot be taken nor blocked at the same time

1. Ne8+ Kf7

2. Qg7+ Kxe8

3. Bh5#

reduce. reuse. recycle.

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ARTS & Culture alt-J and BØRNS to perform at UC Davis in April Entertainment Council announces another campus concert

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“Saturation III,” Brockhampton

BY ALLY OVER BAY arts@theaggie.org

After ASUCD’s Entertainment Council announced Khalid was to perform at UC Davis in May, it seemed like the “big artist” for the year had been finalized. But EC has once again partnered with Another Planet Entertainment to bring not one, but two well known musicians to the Davis campus.

EC announced on Monday that both alt-J and BØRNS are to perform at the UC Davis ARC Pavilion on Monday, April 23.

Students can use the access code INCOLDBLOOD to access early-release tickets for $49.50 during the pre-sale that begins Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 10 a.m., and lasts until 10 p.m.

And while alt-J is an established altrock group compared to the newer works of BØRNS, both bands share a discography of catchy hit tracks, distinct vocals and a memorable fusion of playful, electro-rock. alt-J released its third album, “RELAXER,” at the end of 2017, and BØRNS has been touring his 2018 release, “Blue Madonna”.

Students have been making the trek to the Bay Area to see these musicians — so maybe the short bike ride to the ARC is well-worth your time and money.

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The set-up is as easy as could be. Go to xfinityoncampus.com, find your school, sign in using your school credentials and then start watching.

Now you can’t make the excuse that you have no way of watching. Xfinity even has a list of shows to start from the beginning. In case you need recommendations for shows to start that are available through Xfinity On Campus, here are a few:

Streaming like never before

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“Westworld” For those of you wanting a psychological thriller, this is the perfect fit. With each episode, the overall plot makes more sense. This is not a show in which you can just watch a random episode: they must be watched in order to have the creators’ intended effect.

Xfinity On Campus is a streaming service made specifically for students. Because UC Davis has a contract with Xfinity, the service is free for all its students. Accessible from your laptop, desktop or mobile device, TV shows can go with you anywhere as long as you sign in with your student ID. This streaming service allows you to watch live TV, record shows, watch on demand and even access all premium networks. No need to mooch off your neighbor’s cousin’s HBO Go — because now you have it for free.

“Mr. Robot” This show is just as intense as the previous, but with more twists and turns. The first season is a work of pure genius and should be watched by everyone who owns a computer. The acting is phenomenal, and the cinematography isn’t any different.

“Mr. Robot” currently has three seasons out and available online.

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“Psych” On a lighter note, this show takes a typical crime show and gives it a humorous twist. The show centers around a guy who claims to be a psychic, using his skills to help the police department solve crimes. What’s best about this show, however, is that its creators understand how stupid the concept is and they run with it.

“The Good Place” (Season 2) When the world’s worst person ends up in heaven, the possibilities are endless. This show makes you root for all the characters while still being able to laugh at them as well as with them. The acting is incredible, and every line is hilarious. It’s a great show to make anyone feel better about life.

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” This is a different type of police comedy. More about the characters’ relationships and the quirky situations they are thrown into, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” is less about being a dramedy. Andy Samberg is a lovable lead character that brings out the best in each of his co-stars. All seasons are available on Netflix and the current season is on Xfinity On Campus.

End of “Saturation” trilogy brings new hits, even greater expectations for 2018

BY R OWAN O’CONNELL-GATES arts@theaggie.org

2017 was a year of highs and lows. But for Brockhampton, it’s been nothing but highs. A self proclaimed “boy band” based in Los Angeles, the musical group rode a wave of success throughout the year. Just over a month ago, the band released its third and final album of 2017, “Saturation III.” The album has completed Brockhampton’s transition from cult phenomenon to critically acclaimed musicians.

Beginning with its first album of 2017, “Saturation,” Brockhampton has always prided itself on punching you in the mouth with the first tracks of its albums. On “Saturation,” it was courtesy of “HEAT,” a hard-hitting song characterized by aggressive rapping over a thunderous bass line. On “Saturation II,” “GUMMY” continued the trend with an equally large and complex beat. “Saturation III” bunnyhops the previous two openers with “BOOGIE,” bringing police siren production and a perfect blend of singing and rapping.

After recovering from the onslaught of “BOOGIE,” Brockhampton presents the musicians’ multifaceted personalities over jazzy production in “JOHNNY.” The song features many of the group’s unique characters, with topics ranging from One Direction’s Harry Styles to severe depression. In any other situation this might raise questions, but with this boy band it’s not only what the fans want, but what they’ve come to expect.

Toward the middle of the album, “BLEACH” is a true standout. Anchored by one of the band’s signature catchy hooks, the song is composed of two deep verses by members Matt Champion and Ameer Vann. Fellow musical artist Ryan Beatty provides the chorus.

The album is rounded out by “RENTAL”, which, much like “BLEACH,” is held down by yet another intoxicating chorus. Brockhampton founder Kevin Abstract raps, “Ridin’ on the roof with a dollar sign attached to my head, head, head, head, head, head, head, head.” This is prefaced by Champion’s equally catchy pre-chorus, and before you know it, you’re singing along.

“Saturation III” is far from polished. However, given that this group of 14 20-year-olds self-produced, selfrecorded and self-wrote not one, not two, but three good albums, we all have to give credit where credit is due. If this is Brockhampton’s ceiling then this year has still been a great moment for music. But in all likelihood, these guys are really just scratching the surface of their potential. They have three good albums under their belt, along with a dozen incredibly imaginative music videos and a national tour. If 2017 is any indication, Brockhampton is going to come out on top in 2018.

Brockhampton’s Love Your Parents Tour is coming to Sacramento in early March.

more stylish without breaking the bank.

Sweatpants If you’re going to wear sweatpants to class, dress it up by accessorizing with hats and watches (practically the only two accessories available to men). A small selection, but they do wonders for any look.

Throwing on a tasteful beanie or watch can turn any look into a million bucks without spending a lot of money for designer quality. A quick stop at the Forever 21 in the U-Mall is all you need. Lastly, please be aware of the difference between sweatpants and plain old pajamas.

Men’s Winter Fashion Making college men presentable

BY JOSH M A D RI D arts@theaggie.org

On a budget, with little time to think about the clothes we put on every morning, looking fashionable is often the last thing us college men are thinking about. However, there is practical hope. These are some trends and tips to make your Winter Quarter

‘70s is the Decade This winter is the perfect time to ask your dad for any of his old clothes collecting dust in the attic. They won’t cost you anything, and it’ll be like going on a scavenger hunt. Loose-fitting dad sweaters are in right now. Alternatively, there are a few assorted consignment stores in Davis that may be harboring some plaid sweaters if your home isn’t accessible. Other iconic pieces of the ‘70s include fringed jackets and denim everything, both of which go well with a pair of boots.

Keep it Simple This winter season isn’t exactly the time to take bold risks. Simple hues and structured constructions are the way to go. Mid-century American fashion has resurfaced and is the main influencer of this trend. This simplicity is great for those that

aren’t prepared to showcase their statement pieces that may strike up controversy. ShopCuffs is my recommendation for simple and well-made pieces — and it’s conveniently located across from 3rd and U. Padded Jackets Looking like you’re on your way to Tahoe is in this season. Thick downs and fur coats can add an interesting touch and keep you bundled against the cold Davis winter. However, they are on the more expensive end of the spectrum. Gap, located in the Davis Commons, has a few pieces that are reasonably priced and that will be a fine addition to any outerwear collection.

At the end of the runway, it all depends on what works for you. Wearing things that make you feel confident in your strut on the way to class is worth more than priceless couture. Good luck, gentlemen.

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Retention, Veterans Affairs, Student Community Center and Student Housing,” Holguin said. “We are always looking at our communications at it relates to our campus community. We look at what is working [and] where we can improve and reevaluate our communications.”

Carlson spoke about students’ stake in the issue of police transparency.

Apart from the real risk of maltreatment, this [lack of transparency] can fuel a culture of distrust and fear of police, which undermines the purpose of the police department of keeping people safe,”

Carlson said.

Carlson and other members of the People Power of Davis group are quick to remind students that experiences with law enforcement officials are not universal.

“It is important to remember that one’s personal experience with police is not necessarily an accurate representation of how everyone is treated,” Carlson said. “It is critical to interrogate how one’s privilege and position in society may influence your experiences and relationship with police and how it’s likely very different for people of different backgrounds.”

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accessing reproductive health care.

“Once we realized how difficult it was to get an abortion — that students have to travel off campus, sometimes spending hours on public transit and money they don’t have — we found ourselves asking why this safe, effective care wasn’t available on our campuses,” Khan said. “Today we’re part of a statewide effort looking to change this. These barriers disproportionately harm students of color, low income students, and first-generation college students. Once a student decides to end a pregnancy, there is no reason they shouldn’t be able to get the abortion pill on campus.“ Khan sees the potential in direct reproductive health care access on campus, as well as furthering abortion acceptance.

“As a woman of color and child of immigrants who grew up low-income, reproductive health is personal for me,” Khan said. “Offering the abortion pill on campus would mean that students would be able to get abortion care without needless costs, delays, emotional stress or added travel time. And It would do something else too. It would send a powerful message countering the prevailing and incredibly harmful abortion stigma in our society. Abortion is a safe and essential part of reproductive care and making it available on campus reinforces that truth.”

Daniel Grossman, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and the director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, conducted a study gauging if California campuses had the current capacity to provide medicated abortion. He concluded that there was no reason to exclude administering the abortion pill from services provided at every California student health center, if ultrasound machines and training were acquired.

“We obtained responses from all 11 UC campuses and 20 of the 23 CSU campuses,” Grossman said. ”We found that all the student health centers had the current setup to provide medication abortion. Most of the health centers would need an ultrasound [and] all of the sites would require training for staff on medication abortion care. With a reasonable amount of investment, these issues can be addressed. All the UCs have a 24-hour nurse or physician consultation hotline, but only nine of the CSU’s have this, so this will be necessary. Based on our assessments, I believe it would be very feasible for the UC and CSU campuses to be able to provide medication abortion onsite.”

According to Dr. Ruth Shaber, the founder and president of the Tara Health Foundation, the funding consortium is made up of private donors: The Wom-

en’s Foundation of California, Tara Health Foundation and an anonymous donor. Shaber said the new equipment and training that Grossman mentioned is feasibly fundable.

“We are committed to providing the necessary funding to begin to provide if this California right to access act becomes law,” Shaber said. “If SB 320 becomes law, we will provide funds to support training for health care providers, equipment, a security audit and any other upgrades. There will be no cost to clinics to become ready to provide this medical service.

Not only is it the right thing to do to lift barriers to abortion care, but it’s also possible, starting right here in California. Let’s [make] reproductive health care, including abortion, available to all who need it.”

Ushma Upadhyay, an associate professor in residence, obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at UC San Francisco, conducted a study to observe the temporal and geographic barriers on campus college students face when trying to access reproductive health care. Upadhyay is the deputy director of the University of California Global Health Institute Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment. Her study aimed to quantify the demand of students who want abortion access, as well as how far they would have to travel.

“There would be between 322 to 522 medication abortions occurring across all UC’s and CSU’s each month,” Upadhyay said. “15 campuses, which represent about 44 percent, are further than 5 miles from the nearest provider. Median public transit time is 34 minutes one way. Only five of the 34 abortion facilities closest to UC and CSU campus are open on weekends. The average wait time was seven days. This is important because medication abortion can only be done in the first ten weeks of pregnancy. Evidence shows that women with unplanned pregnancies and younger women are significantly less likely to recognize a pregnancy in the first six weeks.”

Shaber emphasized the need to advocate for student’s reproductive health on college campuses.

“No student should have to navigate off-site care when the campus health care center is able to provide that service,” Shaber said. “As an OB/GYN physician, I know students will have improved medical outcomes if they are able to access care from accessible providers they trust. Today, I’m very pleased to announce that a group of private funders have come to cover the cost of implementation for providing the abortion pill on California campuses. Like many across the state, we recognize the importance of keeping abortion legal, affordable and available.”

personal bank statements to the table saying all the money raised had not been transferred from the organizations that raised them into any personal accounts of his own. The money remains with the organizations who raised it and in the GoFundMe account. After repeated attempts to refund the money from the account, it proved impossible, and he speculated donating the money to charity.

A ten minute break began at 1:40 p.m.

After the hearing was reinstated, questioning continued. Hatefi described how he accepted donations under the names of “Logikos Advocacy,” a non-UC Davis affiliated group for which Hatefi is the executive director of, and “Aggies Online Network,” a student-run organization which he is a member of, to raise money at the restaurants he held events at.

The hearing ended for deliberation at 2:30 p.m.

The council unanimously decided Hatefi was in violation of the ASUCD Bylaws for accepting donations from non-ASUCD members through his

GoFundMe account.

The money raised at Hatefi’s restaurant fundraisers were not moved to an election fund and once the context of ASUCD Bylaws remained unchanged, Hatefi notified the donors their money would not go to his fund, thereby avoiding another violation. Hatefi’s actions merited two violation points of bylaws. A third violation point will result in further assessment and possible ineligibility to run for an ASUCD office position.

“Running for office is one way to [make one’s voice heard], and it is the right of any member of the association to run,” Gardiner, the Judicial Council chair, said. “However, it is important that all candidates be given a fair and equal opportunity to exercise that right. Candidates should establish dialogue with the committee instead of just brushing them off. This particular situation probably could have been avoided if that dialogue was established.”

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associated with panhandling — and panhandling itself in certain areas — panhandling is protected speech under the First Amendment.

The proposed ordinance grew out of a City Council meeting last January, in which council members discussed the panhandling issue in Davis.

The City of Davis has yet to announce when a decision will be made on the ordinance.

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currently underway, including discussion about allocating funding to establish a new ASUCD career-track position that would focus on marketing.

Zhang is currently advocating for the creation of this position in talks with Vice Chancellor Adela de la Torre and Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Life, Campus Community and Retention Services Sheri Atkinson.

Next, Judicial Council Chair Ryan Gardner gave a presentation and updates regarding the Judicial Council. The Judicial Branch is now fully functional as of recent. Gardner said the Judicial Council is “trying to build off [their] experiences” and they are “looking at the bylaws to learn more about them and understand.”

During public announcements, Jamaludin criticized the number of bills being authored.

“In my time in the association, I’ve never seen so few bills being authored by senators,” Jamaludin said. “This is a privilege you have, being able to make

changes. You’re all ambitious and intelligent and represent a large portion of the student body. If you don’t have ideas, go out and ask people.”

Also during public announcements, Senator Michael Gofman said he is CoHo’s only adopted senator and is seeking people to help out with improvement ideas. Senator Marcos Rodriguez mentioned Housing Day that will occur on Feb. 1 and asked those present to share the event on their Facebook pages.

There was a moment of silence held for Blair Fox, a second-year economics major who passed away over Winter Break.

Next, Senate Bill #22 was introduced. This bill establishes a designee of the ASUCD President to be the chairperson of the Committee on Committees.

Ex-officio reports and elected officer reports were then conducted.

The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:15 p.m.

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the team would be ready for whatever its opponent would throw at it.

“I think close meets always get everyone’s energy up really high,” Schumann said. “There’s something about coming together as a team for really close meets, but I think we’ll do really well tomorrow.”

Schumann’s hopes became reality the follow-

ing day when she took home victories in the 100 and 200 meter breast strokes en-route to the team’s 196-102 victory over San Jose State, bringing their overall record to 5-5 and their conference record to 1-1. The team will travel down to University of the Pacific on Saturday, Dec. 3 for its final match before the MPSF Championships in Los Angeles starting Friday, Feb. 23.

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“Blair was probably the most involved person I have ever met at Davis,” Isaac said. “He always talked about Model United Nations — he had such a big role in that and he made a lot of friendships and bonds in that club.”

Spencer Crist, a second-year electrical engineering major and Sigma Nu member, talked about Fox’s other roles on campus.

“Blair did internships with the international department,” Crist said.

“He helped transition international students and would help the students come in. He made a lot of great friendships there and introduced me to several students who are also engineering majors. He was also interviewing to be in another business and economics club.”

Crist also mentioned some of his favorite moments from time spent with Fox. “All my memories [of Blair] stem from the Grace Gardens because he was the guy who recruited all of us to go out there and do that every morning,” Crist said. “That became a usual thing, spending two hours Saturday morning just gardening for the community. He would always make it fun and such a great time. We would always look forward to that event and not think [of it as] another weekend where we have to do community service hours.”

The anecdotes that his Sigma Nu brothers shared about him highlighted their admiration and respect for Fox. “We had our elections in our fraternity and Blair wanted to be treasurer and so he went up to do his speech on it,” McHugh said. “At the end, he [pulled] out his Economist

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magazine and [said], ‘Also I have this, so I’m a clear choice.’ It was the funniest thing, because everyone was being super serious and Blair just [pulled] out this magazine.”

Sigma Nu member and second-year political science major John Salvestrin talked about how meeting Fox impacted his experience as a Sigma Nu member.

“I rushed in Winter Quarter, and Blair was one of my most memorable rush conversations,” Salvestrin said.

“He just really stuck out — he was so charismatic and just a great guy. Ever since then, I grew closer and closer to him. This year, [...] living across the hall from him, he was also definitely one of my closest friends.”

Margo Fox, Blair Fox’s mother, spoke about Fox’s personal attributes.

“Blair was very humble,” Margo Fox said. “He was one of those people who had a presence and a strength, but didn’t want to use it. He would rather be there to support other people. He wanted to use his other skills to bring people together and wanted those around him to feel good, supported and smart. He worked hard in his own quiet way and was very motivated to do well and get ahead, but he wasn’t going to do that at anyone else’s expense and he wasn’t going to brag about it.”

Fox’s father, Warren Fox, shared memories of his son.

“I think we remember him like most people as not only warm and loving, but a really true friend to all and very curious about the world and people,” Warren Fox said. “He was a really friendly guy. The moment I always remember is when Blair was born. Blair came into the world as

a bubbly little baby who seemed to be such a happy kid even in his early days. He was happy and joyful and Blair was genuinely a happy, fun and joyful kid.”

According to his parents, Fox was eager to learn as much as he could.

Warren Fox said his son was “very curious about the world and people.” “[Blair] really loved to just talk about issues, [...] he just wanted to learn about all sides,” Margo Fox said. “He really liked being with people and talking.”

Friends of Fox said they were willing to do anything for him.

“He was one of those guys where, if he wanted to go do something and he texted you, you would make time because it was better to be with him than with anyone else,” Webb said. “If he wanted to get food or do anything, I would probably stop what I was doing just to be around him because he was this vibrant guy who had this sense of humor that is unmatched and I just loved being around him.”

Webb said that Fox “was going to change the world” and Isaac said, from his perspective, he already did.

“He changed all of our lives,” Isaac said.

The Fox family has set up the Blair Fox Scholarship Fund to support undergraduate students at UC Davis. There will also be a Celebration of Life for Blair Fox on Feb. 10, 2018 at 10 a.m. at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center. Margo Fox said that “everyone is welcome to his celebration of life.”

“We wanted to do it on campus because Davis was so important to him,” she said. “And that is his community.”

already turned to salt alternatives.

Two counties in California use salt brine, which is reportedly more effective and better for the environment. A place in Wisconsin uses cheese brine — that’s right, Wisconsinites are using cheese — and Alaska and Colorado have switched from salt to magnesium chloride.

Weird anti-icing solutions abound.

“Unconventional sources of salt brines, such as pickle juice, beet juice, potato and cheese byproducts, are decreasing costs, lowering environmental impacts and are effective at temperatures well below zero,” said AccuWeather.

Even so, some researchers claim that salt al-

ternatives will not solve the problem.

“The answer isn’t really in alternative salts but in less salt,” said Roy Rea, a biology and forestry instructor at the University of Northern British Columbia.

When communities salt in smaller amounts before a storm, most of the salt gets washed away, and less salt on the road means less salt in the waterways.

It’s a relief to know that we’re working toward a resolution and finding creative ways to approach the environmental issues surrounding the road salt problem. Whatever we do, I hope that we do it fast — and that the deer find it less tasty.

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stance on abortion. I love babies, so I’m pro-abortion. Heaven is mostly full of adults, and I’m just not into them. I already aborted Jesus twice, which people thought was their own free will, so I’m not against doing it a third time.”

The significance of the Dec. 17 resurrection date wasn’t explained, but from what we can infer it’s a tribute to the theatrical release of “The Dark Crystal,” one of the greatest films of all time that came out on that day in 1982.

Protesters gathered at the supposed resurrection spot, located near the Dakota Access Pipeline, with pickets reading, “Jesus please wait for Trump’s wall!” Those who feared that his resurrection meant the oncoming of the rapture held pickets reading things such as, “Jesus, can you please wait until Christmas so I can take the iPhone X my parents are getting me to Heaven? P.S. They are getting me one, right?”

Roman reenactors gathered at the scene, ready to crucify Jesus for a second time, or as some have called it, “double-cross him.”

“Dad, I don’t know if I want to go down there,” Jesus said. “Just like Bill Hicks said,

they are still wearing crosses. Would you wear a scoped rifle necklace to a JFK memorial?”

“Jesus, Jesus,” God said. “I think I’m going to have to send a tsunami wave toward another reactor. This shit is unreal.”

“I just wanted to go down there to announce the third edition of the Bible, which will be exclusively digital and include in-app purchases.

But here I am wanting to burn crosses,” Jesus said.

The other Bible update was to clarify that the blood of Jesus is a reference to him being a vampire, and consequently all of his followers must suck.

After extensive debating, the United States military decided to label everyone near the Dakota Access Pipeline a terrorist and kill them all to protect our freedom, although I think they really just wanted to kill all opposition to the pipeline.

Jesus canceled the resurrection, either due to humanity having learned nothing or in anticipation of the Dark Souls remaster coming to PS4 in May 2018.

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low-income households who can’t afford it,” Dirzo said. “Even if [certain resources] are available, it’s still a hassle to get them. It would be a lot more helpful to make [these resources] more accessible.”

Accessibility seems to be a crucial problem for many UC Davis students seeking campus resources.

Angela Kim, fourth-year gender, sexuality and women’s studies and American studies double major and community organizer for the WRRC, also believes that the ease at which students can access their desired resources can definitely be improved upon.

“There are a lot of resources on campus, but I think it’s more of a matter of awareness and access [...] and making these abundant re-

sources that we have on campus more accessible,” Kim said. “If you think about it, when a student is in distress or [in a] crisis, they might not always have the resources right at hand.”

The WRRC, one of the more widely known resource centers on campus, provides an open space and open resources for individuals from all different communities to utilize.

Many students are, however, reluctant to take the additional steps to obtain the resources they need because they don’t feel comfortable doing so.

“We at the WRRC are a service that offers so much gender and sex education,” Kim said, “[...] but people don’t take the initiative to reach out to us. It gets difficult when the UC Davis community is not doing

[its] part to become more aware and more conscious.”

Kim stressed the importance of engaging in conversations that bring awareness to stigmatized topics, topics like HIV testing or the utilization of gender-neutral bathrooms, in order to destroy preconceived notions surrounding them. According to Kim, the negative connotations surrounding these topics prevent many resources offered on campus from being fully utilized.

“I think we can do a lot more to have conversations [...] about things people might normally be uncomfortable with,” Kim said. “I think it’s a matter of being engaged with the community and coming to these different [resource] centers and educating yourself more about them.”

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declared,” Dockter said. “They don’t graduate later, they have a slightly higher GPA, so this is sort of earth shattering for some students to hear because [...] there is this maybe myth out there that it’s really bad to be undeclared and the research kind of shows the opposite.”

What’s more is the emotional and practical logic of remaining undeclared at the beginning of college. Many students declare majors for which they’ve never taken a topic-specific course, or majors of which they are unfamiliar with the applicable professions. Haws understands what a formative time college can be.

“It makes sense at this point in people’s lives and developmentally to be exploring and figuring out who you are,” Haws said. “It makes sense that you would also be exploring what your major is going to be as part of that process.”

Dockter speaks to the expanding professional and academic awareness of early college students.

“In high school you’re lucky if you know up to ten categories for professional careers,” Dockter said.

“When you get to college and there are over 100 majors at UC Davis to choose from, that just doesn’t quite match. And so an exploration process has to happen. All students are doing it, it just looks different

across the majors.”

Dockter’s last sentiment may be on the minds of UC Davis students in STEM fields especially. It’s not rare to hear the tension between declaring a STEM major and remaining interdisciplinary, or exploring other fields, on such a balanced campus.

Pressures to accomplish prerequisites as a STEM major in which series courses are part and parcel of the experience can be a hindrance on maintaining a balanced schedule. While there are pressures to accomplish prerequisites, especially those in series’ courses, in order to graduate on time as an engineering or chemistry major, Dockter, Haws and De La Cruz Peterson beckon to the GE requirements as a built-in liberal arts and exploratory path for all students.

“Students are fortunate to be at UC Davis because of our large and diverse GE requirement that they have to take no matter what their major,” Dockter said. “So I feel like we’ve really set up the anatomy of the undergraduate degree to provide that interdisciplinary access to classes.”

In spite of and in addition to these GE requirements, Haws encourages active and conscious academic exploration to all students.

This doesn’t mean avoiding the subject of majors, but rather making a

plan and making choices to learn more about personal and professional aspirations. To do so, Haws and De La Cruz Peterson mentioned the Major Exploration Tool, which enables students to take a quiz based on their academic preferences. Haws has also developed a Fall Quarter freshman seminar to aid students in their major-discovery, which she hopes to evolve into a full class. To access more online major exploration, pursue Majors Card Sort Tool, What can I do with my major or degree? and Career Exploration by Interest Area.

For interpersonal support, students can join the SHCS’ Career Exploration Group and take a Career Assessment. The Student Health Center also offers one-onone career counseling while the Internship and Career Center offers advising. Finally, taking AMS 195: Careers & Identity in American Culture can lead major-unsure students in the right direction.

Haws, Dockter and De La Cruz Peterson each had heartfelt messages for exploring students. Ultimately, advisors are in the business of guidance, refusing to leave students alone in an undeclared state, whether they like it or not.

“We really value our students and were prepared to help them strategically explore, even if they already have a major,” Dockter said.

researchers and medical professionals.

“An important finding of this study was that some effects of fluoxetine administration interacted with genetics,” said Casey Hogrefe, a staff research associate at the California National Primate Research Center. “Variations in certain genes influenced the effect of fluoxetine on several outcome measures such as long bone growth, peer social interaction, sleep, and cognitive performance. Individual differences need to be taken into account when assessing the efficacy of fluoxetine administration in people, specifically in children.”

Based on the improved sociability of the monkeys in the experiment, fluoxetine may be able to significantly benefit anxious or depressed children. But if the decreased attention spans translates to human children, perhaps fluoxetine is not the best prescription to

treat ADHD. “If a healthy child is misdiagnosed, and they are treated with fluoxetine for an extended period of time, it could have detrimental effects on their attention,” said Edward Hackett, who served as a graduate student in pharmacology and toxicology during this experiment. “This can be extremely impactful in such a pivotal point in a child’s adolescence.”

The new discovery of genetic interactions with fluoxetine will help researchers better understand the serotonin systems in the brain and how MAOA gene expressions can affect responses to medications like fluoxetine.

“Sometimes, when people respond to drugs and it helps them or doesn’t help them, we may be able to predict that based on their genotype,” Golub said. “That’s a big advantage.”

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compensatory pick. ESPN Magazine recently reported that Belichick wasn’t on board with the trade and was “furious and demoralized” when the trade went through, but Pats owner Robert Kraft, who allegedly pushed for the deal, sang another song to MMQB.com website, saying that Belichick was all for the trade.

Belichick and Kraft, who have been to seven Super Bowls together, will surely be kicking themselves if backup quarterback Brian Hoyer, whose only postseason appearance was a disaster, or an injured Brady has to take the field. Even though Brady is a favorite to win MVP even at 40 years old, the Jacksonville Jaguars are on a roll, especially defensively, and Brady’s hand injury could even the playing field between himself and Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles. If the Patriots

blow their chance at a consecutive ring, fans will be itching to point their fingers at who is to blame: Kraft, Belichick, or even a possibly jealous Brady himself.

But none of that matters right now to the Niner Nation, who already have their eyes set on Super Bowl LIII. Garoppolo will be a free agent at the end of this season, but if 49er’s Head Coach Kyle Shanahan and owner Jed York value the quarterback who changed everything for the 49ers and effectively saved the franchise, then he’ll agree to a franchise quarterback-level salary.

With new general manager John Lynch making serious changes to the roster and creating a supporting cast for Garoppolo that is still just in its infant stages, the 2018 season is sure to be a victorious one.

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while the six assists he dished out tied his career high mark in that category.

“The takeaway was that they were going to pack in the zone and try to take Chima [Moneke] away,” Les said about the game as a whole. “We have to get back to defense. I think we had too many breakdowns which allowed them [Long Beach] to hang around in the game and we have to get better on the defensive end. Our offense won it for us tonight

but that isn’t a recipe we want to have moving forward.”

Continuing their conference play away against Hawai’i on Jan. 20, the Aggies took the 77-72 loss, pushing their overall and conference records to 12-7 and 3-2, respectively.

Playing at home tonight against CSUN at 7 p.m., UC Davis will surely look to keep on rolling through the season on the winning side of the ball.

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The UC Davis women’s swim and dive team went into its final two home duals hoping to go into its final road game with momentum. With conference rival UC Santa Barbara coming in to its first game on Friday, Jan. 20 fresh off its first place finish at the UNLV Invitational, the Aggies had to come prepared for their first game on their home-stand.

For head coach Barbara Jahn, the dual came at the perfect time, as her team had not gone head-to-head with another school since November and the conference tournament is right around the corner.

“You can’t prepare for the pressure in practice,” Jahn said. “You can ask them to swim fast, but you can’t create the same pressure that you feel. That you can’t duplicate, and having that experience is something you can build upon.”

It was not an easy dual for the Aggies, as the Gauchos stayed ahead for the majority of the com-

petition. After tying the scoreboard up at 102, the Aggies didn’t break away from the Gauchos, eventually going into the final event, the 400 meter relay, trailing by only one point. That final race remained close throughout, but the Aggies fell 150-144 after a late, decisive push by the Gauchos that the Aggies were not able to overcome.

Junior swimmer Kristin Schumann, who finished first in the 200-meter breaststroke, noted the that team would not let a close loss such as this one inhibit the team from reaching its final goal of postseason success.

“We put in a lot of work, and a lot of girls did really well,” Schumann said. “It will give us a lot of confidence because they’re also in our conference, so when we see them again in February I think we’ll do really well.”

Despite the loss, the team got some very strong performances from its swimmers. Aside from Schumann, fellow swimmers junior Solie Laughlin, junior Eva Chung and senior Courtney Schultz as well

GAROPPOLO BRINGS STRENGTH TO BELOVED BAY AREA TEAM San Francisco 49ers see winning future with hasty trade, young quarterback

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Turn on any sports radio talk show in Northern California and the conversation will be focused on Jimmy Garoppolo — for good reason.

The San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback (as of Oct. 30 of the 2017 season) has made headlines most notably for his skill and trade from the Patriots, who may have lost their shot at a consecutive Super Bowl win by trading him.

Considered one of the better quarterback prospects in the 2014 NFL Draft, the 26-year-old Eastern Illinois alumnus was originally drafted by the New England Patriots in the second round as the 62nd pick overall. During his time with the Patriots as backup to Tom Brady, Garoppolo saw the field twice during Brady’s 2015 Deflategate suspension, earning a single game win under his belt before sustaining a shoulder injury and tearing his ACL.

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as first-year diver Katie Truong all amassed at least one first place finish throughout the competition.

Jahn was impressed by her team’s overall effort on the day, noting the team did not rely on one or two strong performances.

“I don’t think any one person stands out,” Jahn said. “It was a team effort. Someone didn’t win all three of their individual events. They may have won one and then got second, and then someone else stepped up.”

Both Jahn and Schumann insisted that the the loss, however close it was, was not a backbreaker for team. According to Jahn, the team looks forward to

Garoppolo, or Jimmy G to fans, made his 49ers debut in Week 12 after starter C.J. Beathard suffered an injury. Garoppolo had fans on their feet the second he walked onto the field and his exceptional talent did not leave fans disappointed. In the final minute of the game against the Seattle Seahawks, Garoppolo rushed for six yards in his first play.

In the final play of the game, he threw a one-yard touchdown to Louis Murphy, also a new addition to the franchise. This touchdown caused quite a stir within the Niner Nation, with Garoppolo immediately being hailed as a savior to the team, as it was facing a losing season.

Garoppolo was named the starting quarterback for the week 13 game against the Chicago Bears, where he finished with 26-of-37 passing for 293 yards and an interception, helping lead the 49ers to victory.

Garoppolo also earned consecutive wins in weeks 14, 15, 16 and 17 against the Houston Texans, Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars and Los Angeles Rams, respectively. Garoppolo became the first quarterback to go 6-0 in his first six starts since Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in 2004. Garoppolo’s success is a refreshing, exciting change of pace, bringing frustrated 49er fans their first winning streak since 2014.

Even without a top wide-receiver — Garoppolo’s currently plays to Marquise Goodwin, who was No. 3 for the Buffalo Bills last year — he’s managed to score. Critics are praising Garoppolo for his time management and his ability to throw accurately and quickly. His quick release being compared to veteran players in just his sixth start.

With such a great start as the 49ers’ franchise quarterback, it’s hard

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The UC Davis Aggies did not let the foggy weather outside affect their play on Jan. 17, defeating the Long Beach State 49ers in a non-conference game at home 84-75. The Aggies came into the game fourth in the Big West Conference with an 11-6 overall record and a 2-1 conference record for the 2017-18 season. In earning its 17th consecutive win at home, the team advances its home record to 6-0 on the season, and has won 39 out of the last 46 games played at home.

“I think that guys are taking pride in the home streak and I think they like that and take pride in that, it means something to them,” said head coach Jim Les. “The other part of that is that to be in the conference race in late February/early March, you have to win your home games. This league is too tough to win on the road so you can give other teams the opportunity to take those home wins. I like their [the team’s] focus and them embracing the streak, they aren’t running from it, they are running toward it.”

The first half was back-and-forth between the two teams where both were at the free

using its final events to correct whatever needs correcting and improve that which needs improving before the championship.

“This is a great preparation for the end of the season meet,” Jahn said. “So I look at this as a really good quiz. Final exam’s going to be when we’re down in Los Angeles.”

The team didn’t waste much time to hit the pool again. Just one day after its dual against Santa Barbara, the Aggies took the pool again in a battle against San Jose State, and according to Schumann SWIMDIVE on 11

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to imagine why the Patriots traded him in the first place. With MVP-favorite Brady now missing practice with an injured right hand just three days before the AFC Championship, that same thought is probably running through their heads right now. The under-the-table trade of Garoppolo had, and still has, a lot of people scratching their heads.

The New England Patriots under the direction of head coach Bill Belichick effectively sold their best insurance for just 50 cents on the dollar — for a second-round draft pick instead of a 2019 third-round

throw line for majority of the half. UC Davis racked up eight team fouls in the half just shy of Long Beach’s 10. For the Aggies, junior guard Siler Schneider led the way in scoring and rebounds in the half, putting up 14 points, three rebounds, four assists and hitting three of four three-pointers taken. Junior guard TJ Shorts II helped lead the assists category as well with four in the half. As a team, UC Davis shot 53 percent from the field compared to the 49ers’ 48 percent.

Exactly half of the Aggies first half points came from three pointers, the team draining 7-11 from the perimeter. Going into the second half, UC Davis was looking to keep its lead and ride out the win.

“We knew we had to just keep being aggressive,” Schneider said. “We just had to keep doing what we do in practice, being aggressive in the offensive end and getting a good shot while just letting our defense lead to the offense.”

The Aggies started strong the second half, pushing their lead to as high as 11 in the first five minutes of play. However, a drought from UC Davis — only scoring one point in about a four minute span — allowed for the 49ers to cut down the difference and keep the game close. As

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the game progressed, it was all Aggie offense and Long Beach could not do anything to catch the deficit, bringing the final score to 84-75 in favor of UC Davis.

The game was one of tying and breaking career records for many Aggie players. Senior forward Chima Moneke tied his career high in blocks, and Shorts II contributed 15 points on 6-12 field goals while earning seven assists, tying his career-high in the assists category. Junior forward AJ John surpassed his career-high in threes, points and tied his career field goals made.

“My teammates found me in open spots and I haven’t hit a shot in a few games so it felt good to finally break that barrier,” John said. “We were able to knock down shots and play well offensively. I think we have a higher level to get to defensively and we know that but we are grateful to come out with the win tonight.”

Despite a large part of the roster contributing big plays, the big break was by Schneider. His 29 points and 11 out of 19 field goals made in the game were both career-highs. He contributed four three’s to the 10 total scored by UC Davis, BASKETBALL on 12

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