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Silo Review:

Missing Starbucks or Loving Peets?

Student reviews of Silo changes and renovations, fast food chains vs. local chains, study spaces

BY SAHI T I V E M UL A features@theaggie.org

Campus has been undergoing various constructions and renovations recently, from the opening of the Memorial Union last spring to the current Activities and Recreation Center renovations to the recently renovated Silo and South Silo.

Major changes to the Silo include swapping out Starbucks for Peet’s Coffee and replacing all fast food chains owned by Sodexo, including Taco Bell, Carl’s Jr. and Pizza Hut, with food options run

by UC Davis Dining Services, such as Spokes, a burger joint, and Crepe Bistro. In addition, the market area that sold salads, bagels, yogurt and other to-go products is now being housed separately in the South Silo.

Kristina Ivanova, a second-year biochemistry and molecular biology double major, enjoys the new space created by the renovations.

“I really love all the new space,” Ivanova said. “It used to be jampacked in here, so I love that there’s more space to breathe and walk around.”

Tessa Hansen-Smith, a second-year psychology major, appreciates the trade-out of fast food chains and their calorie-filled meals.

“I like that it’s not chain, fast-food restaurants anymore because [those] just forced you to gain fifteen pounds,” Smith said. “I do

kind of miss Starbucks though. Peet’s is okay, but I definitely like Starbucks a lot more.”

On the contrary, Anna Rita Moukarzel, a second-year mechanical engineering major, put in a good word for Peet’s.

“I come to the Silo a lot because most of my classes are nearby,” Moukarzel said. “I really miss Taco Bell because it was my before-class food. [But] I kind of like Peet’s more so I’m not really complaining.”

Adding more points to team Starbucks, Taruna Neelakantan, a second-year pharmaceutical chemistry major, regrets its loss and the gold card rewards program that she used to benefit from.

“I have mixed feelings about the renovations in terms of Starbucks and Peet’s,” Neelakantan said. “I like Starbucks because I can use my gold card and get rewards to use for free drinks later, so I’m not a huge fan of [the switch] — but maybe with time.”

Anaiah Ramirez, a first-year English major, shared her fresh perspective on the Silo, without having seen the older version of it.

“I really like how there’s different varieties of food,” Ramirez said.

“You have halal food and you have American fast food, and then you get to have desserts [at the] Crepe Bistro, [or even] something a little bit more healthier like a smoothie.”

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LGBTQIA Resource Center hosts National Coming Out Day event

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UC Davis graduate delivers keynote address followed by student open mic

BY AA RO N L I SS campus@theaggie.org

National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11 was celebrated by the UC Davis LGBTQIA Resource Center with an open mic night for students to express their coming out experiences. Before the student open mic commenced, UC Davis alum Bee Curiel delivered insight into their own experiences and shared their poetry. As the center stated in its Facebook post, the event was intended to “respect and honor individuals with varying degrees of ‘out-ness.’”

Curiel, who identifies as a “first generation, non-binary, fat, queer UC Davis alum,” talked about being a community coordinator for the Center while at UC Davis.

“I was lucky that my job at UC Davis fostered queerness,” Curiel said. “School was kind of my escape.”

In a smaller room within the Student Community Center, Curiel told the audience of about 50 that they were outed to their parents at age 18 by other parents. Coming from a Catholic and Mexican family, Curiel explained how their parents did not provide the healthiest forms of support.

Curiel also spoke about how varying situational outness is a reality for many people.

According to Curiel, coming out can often cause problems based on an individual’s personal situation — identifying as LGBTQIA can still be unsafe and can change how they are viewed by others in their everyday environments. In reference to their own personal experience in their workplace, Curiel said they “want to work somewhere where [they’re] valued.”

Angelo Quiroz, a third-year double major in gender, sexuality and women’s studies and psychology as well as a community coordinator for the center, introduced Curiel and coordinated the open mic presenters. The event went from 7:30 to about 9:30 p.m.

When asked, Quiroz talked about the importance of National Coming Out Day. ”I think it’s really powerful for our community to come together, especially when coming out is a privilege,” Angelo said. “[Coming out] can lead to abuse, it can lead to murder — it isn’t always safe for everyone. Days like this are really important because it allows us to declare our identities and existence, because they’re often erased by institutions and people in power.”

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Here for the Laughs: Comedy as Art Davis comedians straddle border between funny, offensive

BY CAR OLI NE R UTTEN arts@theaggie.org

Fourth-year history major Roman Spinale had his first standup comedy show when he was in fourth grade. Well, at least a version of such.

“I remember there was a substitute teacher, and I was talking in class trying to make my friends laugh, so she told me if I was quiet for the rest of class she would let me come up for a couple minutes to make jokes,” Spinale said. “[I] went up for two minutes, killed it. Now I guess I’m doing the same thing at Davis.”

Aspiring student comedians with humble beginnings may find themselves in a variety of places, including UC Davis. Comedy is indeed not exclusive to the eager audience of elementary peers and a frustrated substitute teacher.

“We really had to create that community on campus from the ground up; there are not a lot of places for comedians to perform in Davis,” said Rebeca Nava-McClellan, a third-year communication major. “I helped start the stand-up club my freshman year to make such a community.”

The fact that Davis is not a major comedy-hub can limit the options for those who want to pursue comedy.

“It is hard for people to commit to comedy in general,” NavaMcClellan said. “It is a lot of collaboration, it is a lot of working with people with a lot of different styles and you won’t often have the same perspective. It is hard to follow through with comedy as a career — you have to be really strong-headed to do so.

So if you’re just having fun and not intending on pursuing it further, teams and clubs will eventually dissolve on their own.”

Comedic minds nonetheless find themselves congregating on campus, so the art of comedy finds itself relevant. Yet something as involuntary as a laugh can be difficult to explain; good comedy is ambiguous and often misunderstood as an art form.

“I have known people who think that comics don’t think out what they are going to say,” said continuing lecturer Karma Waltonen, who teaches a first-year seminar on stand-up comedy.

“Unless that person is doing crowd-work, which is a very specific subset of comedy, of course they have thought about it. Some people can get really upset when they find something like this out about comedy — but you don’t get mad about a pianist reading notes while they play. I think that comedy, especially conversational-style stand-up artists, make it seem like they are just talking to you. There is a special art to comedy as well.”

Comedy can be a very personal experience for the audience and often equally as much for the performing comedian. For Waltonen, the success of a comedian — either that night at a club or as a whole — is largely based on the audience.

The comedian stands on a tightrope, as there is an instant reaction from the audience with little time to analyze the success of their own material. The audience holds a lot of power in their reaction.

“When I show stand-up to my students, they tend to judge if they liked a comedian more based on how they related to the comedian and what their material is about,” Waltonen said. “But they are judging relatability on art, and that doesn’t necessarily make it good or bad. People often forget that it is art.”

In the same vein, however, comedians can make a perfectly successful career by not catering their work to the audience’s desires.

“There are some comedians known as comedian’s comedians, who are getting more respect from the people in their field than they are getting recognized by audiences,” Waltonen said. “The comedians can see that they are doing something really new and different and brave, and the audience is like, ‘They are weird.’”

Subjectivity thus comes into the mix; there is no formula for the perfect comedian. The comedian must then decide whether to follow their intuition or the judgement of the audience.

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MANASA GOGINENI SWORN IN AS ASUCD INTERIM SENATOR First-year student plans to create resources on safe drinking, consent

BY ALLY RU SS E LL campus@theaggie.org

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First-year international relations major Manasa Gogineni was sworn in as an ASUCD interim senator at the Oct. 12 ASUCD Senate meeting. She is replacing one of the two senators elected in the 2016 Fall Election who resigned at the end of the 2016-17 school year.

After finding a vacancy on ASUCD’s website, Gogineni applied for the position and was approved by the Senate.

Gogineni will hold the position of interim senator for just under two months. During that time, Gogineni said she hopes to focus on “creating resources for first-year students relating to safe drinking and sexual consent, consolidating announcements from clubs” as well as “figuring out how to increase lighting on and around campus.”

Following her time on Senate, Gogineni said she plans to join an ASUCD commission. Additionally, for the rest of her first quarter at UC Davis, Gogineni said she looks forward to becoming a member of the Delta Gamma sorority and joining clubs on campus.

MICHAEL SWALBERG SWORN IN AS ASUCD INTERIM SENATOR

Swalberg plans to improve elections processes

BY ALLY RUSSE L L campus@theaggie.org

Michael Swalberg, a fifth-year political science major, was sworn in as one of two new interim ASUCD senators on Oct. 12. Swalberg filled one of the two open positions from the 2016 Fall Election.

Swalberg transferred to UC Davis last year and served on the Elections Committee for ASUCD. During the 2017 Winter Elections, Swalberg also filled in as interim chair of the committee.

“Through that process, I had first-hand experience with the election bylaws and realized they needed cleaning up,” Swal-

berg said.

During his short time as an interim senator, Swalberg said he hopes to “streamline the bylaws, rethink the elections process [and] help expand and improve the elections committee.”

Instead of running for reelection for ASUCD Senate after his interim term ends in November, Swalberg will be interning in Washington D.C. and graduating in the spring. Although his time in the Senate will be brief, Swalberg said he is looking for ways he can help improve Senate election processes that will benefit all units of ASUCD. Students looking to get in contact with Swalberg can reach him during his office hours Tuesdays and Thursdays in the CoHo from 4 to 6 p.m.

SHAUN KING SPEAKS AT WRIGHT HALL

Police Logs:

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Oct. 13 “*Front counter* wants to talk to officer for advice.

Did not want to provide further information.”

“Loud music/stomping/party.”

Oct. 14 “Male student on the roof of small South gym.”

Oct. 15 “Five minutes ago, heard footsteps in the backyard, main garage door is open and was closed earlier.”

“Traffic lights out in all directions.”

“Occurred earlier today, rear license plate taken from vehicle.”

“Brother vs. brother. No weapons.”

Oct. 16 “Leaf blowers.”

“Open line, shuffling noises heard only.”

Oct. 17 “Vehicle with open door.”

“ID check.”

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On Wednesday, Oct. 18, writer and activist Shaun King spoke to over 400 students at Wright Hall. The 40-year-old is known for using social media to talk about social justice issues such as police brutality and racial discrimination. He is also the senior justice writer for the New York Daily News and a commentator for the YouTube program “The Young Turks.”

“I decided to come because I want to see what’s changed, what’s evolving and how we can continue our growth,” said Hisani Stenson, a second-year political science major who attended the event. “[As well as] see the right way to protest [...] and how we can combat stereotypes.”

King started off his speech by telling his audience about the incident that sparked his initial passion for activism. In 2014, he was sent a video of a police officer choking a person of color to death.

“I made up my mind that I [was] going to do something about it,” King said.

In the following months, more instances of police brutality against people of color occurred, including the death of Tamir Rice, an Afri-

King discusses police brutality, current political moment

can-American boy who was 12 years old when he was shot by a police officer in November of 2014. Like many others who were disturbed by the violence, King protested.

“They didn’t even care about our protests,” King said in response.

At around the same time, King was enrolled in a history class where he learned that while technology consistently improved over time, humanity as a whole did not. According to King’s diagrams, humanity continuously goes through cycles of peaks and troughs.

King then asked his audience where they thought they are in history. King stated that under the Trump administration, we are definitely not at a peak, but the question is how far down along the trough we are.

“It is hard to know where you are in history when you’re in it,” King said.

King then discussed the sharp increase in incarceration rates in recent years and said that the increase was not a mistake but a conscious effort by those in power to “criminalize blackness.” According to his speech, while a higher percentage of white people sold drugs, black people were prosecuted 800 percent more.

King also said that the downward trend we

may be currently experiencing will not end when Donald Trump’s presidency expires, and the fact that he was elected president is a manifestation of deeper issues.

In the next part of King’s presentation, he answered questions from the audience that were passed up to him on index cards during his speech. When asked whether he thought that current law enforcement can be fixed, King expressed that he felt the current system needed major changes, but these changes are more likely to happen bit by bit, by getting to the point where men fight sexism as if it were their own problem and white people combat racism as if it were their own problem.

“We are just beginning to scratch the surface of what could happen,” King said.

He concluded by listing four groups necessary for change: people, plans, energy and money.

“I feel that I’m at a loss of words,” said Mahtab Danai, a second-year medical student at the UC Davis School of Medicine. “He really made a point that when we see people fight against injustice, it’s mostly people who are affected by it. We need to learn that you don’t have to be a victim to speak out against injustice.

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THE TUSKEGEE LEGACY REMEMBERED Descendants of Tuskegee Airmen host informational event in Davis

BY EL I A N A SI SN ER OS city@theaggie.org

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On the evening of Oct. 10, a small panel gathered at the Davis Public Library to share the legacy of their fathers.

“It’s one of the most untold stories there is,” said Betty Lawson Davis, an event panelist and the daughter of Tuskegee Airman Herman ‘Ace’ Wallace.

This often-overlooked segment of history centers around a group of determined African-American college graduates who shaped the events of World War II. These young men and their support network of doctors, nurses, cooks and mechanics became collectively known as the “Tuskegee Airmen.” Also known as the 99th Fighter Squadron, the Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-Americans to serve as military aviators in the U.S. Armed Forces. The squadron is remembered for its deployment overseas, flying from North Africa to Italy during the war.

The airmen faced institutional racism and exhibited great courage and are thus deeply respected by those who know their story.

The Tuskegee legacy was represented at the Davis panel by four descendants of the Tuskegee Airmen, all of whom are members of the Tuskegee Airmen Heritage Chapter of Greater Sacramento. Each descendant shared memories of their father while inviting questions from the audience.

Lanelle Roberts Brent, the daughter of Colonel George S. “Spanky” Roberts, lead the discussion by providing a background of what is called the “Tuskegee Experience.”

“Our goal is to continue the legacy and tell the truth,” Roberts Brent said.

The Tuskegee Airmen Heritage chapters aim to preserve accurate history and engage their communities with the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen. According to Leigh Roberts, the public relations officer for the Greater Sacramento Chapter, the local organization was certified in February of this year and has already involved heritage members from all over California and Nevada. The chapter hosts large informational events, occasionally attended by members of the 99th Fighter Squadron. Additionally, the local chapter fundraises for a scholarship program aimed at college-bound high school seniors and single parents.

At the Davis informational event, attendees learned a detailed array of historical facts. Panelists emphasized the unmatched success of the Tuskegee Airmen, the original Top Gun crew which maintained the lowest loss of life during WWII and earned over 150 awards for its endeavors as the “red-tailed angels.” However, the speakers did not hesitate to remind the audience that the success of the Tuskegee Airmen defied rigorous segregation and extreme racism, a topic that transitioned

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THREE LADIES CAFE OPENS IN DOWNTOWN DAVIS Davis families, students rejoice in healthy downtown cafe option

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

On Friday, Oct. 13, the Three Ladies Cafe opened on G Street in downtown Davis. The new restaurant promotes healthy eating and local ingredients.

Members of the Davis community came together at the grand opening to enjoy the brand-new space.

Three Ladies contains a family room where children are welcome to play and move around, making it especially accessible to local families. They also provide wifi and tables where students can study.

into a more general discussion about the history of racism in America.

“They were one of the most successful squadrons during WWII, but they were supposed to be a failure,” Roberts Brent said during the discussion.

What was intended to be a failure later became an inspiration for the Civil Rights Movement and similar discussions of black rights movements today.

“Everyone seems to really enjoy the healthy options here and the fact that there are vegan and vegetarian options,” said Rachel Greenlee, an employee at TLC. “We pretty much make everything in-house — fresh — and we are very kid-friendly.”

Greenlee also voiced her concerns about the lack of healthy options that Davis eateries provide, making this restaurant unique. Davis Whole Foods, which previously offered several healthy, organic options downtown, closed on Feb. 12 of this year.

“I don’t know many restaurants that I would go to and consider it being a very healthy option,” Greenlee said. “I think pretty much the healthiest option would be to stay home. But here we try to make everything as healthy as we can.”

Lia Perroud, the operations manager at TLC, also emphasized the excitement she has witnessed in the Davis community as people discover a restaurant downtown that offers vegan options and a smoothie menu.

“We’re seeing a lot of health-conscious community members really happy about seeing a menu that is based off a lot of whole foods, a lot of health-conscious cooking recipes,” Perroud said. “We also have a full smoothie menu which is unique to the downtown area. Smoothies are very central to our menu, and we haven’t seen a smoothie shop in the downtown area since Jamba Juice left, so that is exciting for people.”

Perroud also described local families’ enthusiasm when they learn about TLC, since they often feel unwelcome in places in downtown that primarily cater to students.

“A lot of families come into TLC really happy and grateful to have this place where they can come and have brunch or lunch with their kids,” Perroud said. “They can really kick back and not worry so much about making a little noise and feeling welcome as families.”

Since the cafe is in its early stages, the managers of TLC are still working on perfecting their menu and figuring out ways to incorporate the public’s desires. Perroud noted that TLC staff members hope to use the cafe’s extra space as a venue for special events, as they have already hosted a special event dinner for the Vegan Club in Davis and are open to other events as well, such as birthday parties and baby showers.

Neha Jain, a fourth-year economics major, explained that she has been eagerly waiting for a healthy, vegetarian option in downtown Davis. She feels that there are a lot of vegetarians and vegans who have also been seeking a local, healthy option.

“It’s pretty hard to find a place that has good options for people with vegetable-based diets in Davis,” Jain said. “This is really great for vegans and vegetarians, and hopefully having healthier restaurants will encourage people to eat healthier as well.”

DAVIS ODD FELLOWS LODGE HOLDING CHILDREN'S SUNDAY MOVIE MATINEE Local charity organization provides family fun

BY AHASH F RA N C I S city@theaggie.org

On Oct. 29 at 12:47 p.m., the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge is holding a Children’s Sunday Movie Matinee at Odd Fellows Hall, located on the corner of 2nd and D streets. The Lodge will be playing the movie “Monsters, Inc.” for anyone to come and enjoy.

“They’re kind of like a frat organization within the community,” said Kelli Ann O’Day, a UC Davis alumna. “Their goal is to organize a lot of charity events to raise money for different foundations and donate to different things […] This is going to be our second [movie night]. We had our first one in September, and our second one is going to be close to Halloween [...] It’s free! It’s just for the children.”

The Davis Odd Fellows Lodge has organized many charity and community events since its formation in 1870. With nearly 300 members ranging from ages 20 to 90, the Lodge is the oldest organization in Davis, predating the university and even the city itself. Among other charitable events, it’s provided support to foster children and young adults who have aged out of the system, held free local concerts and organized highway cleanups.

“One of the things we started about five years ago is a classic movie festival,” said Dave Rosenberg, the former grand master over all of the Odd Fellows in California. “Twice a year, we put on classic movies on three successive Sundays. It’s very popular. People love it, […] and it’s free. And so we thought, why don’t we bring back the old time Children’s Sunday Movie Matinees? There’s quite a few adults that come to this as well; [“Monsters, Inc.”] is funny and heartwarming for both kids and adults.”

Rosenberg stressed that the movie matinees are for people of all ages and that parents and other adults are welcome to join their children in watching the movie. The lodge will provide free popcorn and snacks for

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everyone to enjoy and will provide kids with coloring pages that depict the characters from the movie. There will also be a short cartoon segment before the movie with some classic animations. The cartoons and the movie will be displayed in the upper lounge of the Odd Fellows Lodge on its sophisticated display.

“My husband and I have lived here since ‘94. […] We’d walk by there and we didn’t know what was going on,” said Beth Dovi, a Davis resident and member of the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge. “We went down

there and stumbled upon this wonderful group of people. Everybody was very nice. If you’ve never had an opportunity to visit the lodge or attend any of our events, I would highly encourage anybody to come on down.”

The Odd Fellows’ Lodge is located at 415 2nd Street in downtown Davis. The movie will be shown Oct. 29, but the Lodge holds many other events and is always welcoming new members. More information about the fraternal organization can be found on its website.

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Seeing Eye-to-Eye New student organization empowers students with learning disabilities

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Sitting in her chemistry class this past summer, Isabella Johnson was casually browsing through her emails when she saw one from the Student Disabilities Center. After scanning the message she practically jumped out of her seat in excitement — it was a notification for a new student organization called Eye-to-Eye that addressed something close to her.

“Eye-to-Eye is a national movement for students with learning differences who focus on empowering each other with the one in five who learn differently,” said Shellan Saling, a fourthyear international relations major and a UC Davis Eye-to-Eye chapter coordinator. “It’s a nation-

al organization; we have over 60 chapters across the whole entire United States.”

Eye-to-Eye is an art-based mentorship program run by students for local elementary and middle school children who have learning disabilities. Johnson, a second-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major, is one of fifteen or so mentors the chapter has already recruited since the beginning of Fall Quarter. However, this wasn’t Johnson’s first time getting involved with Eye-to-Eye. “My high school already had an established chapter,” Johnson said. “So when the time came around as sophomores [my high school] started recruiting people, and so I was recruited then as a mentor. Then from there, I was chosen to be a coordinator [...] and I was chapter leader for my

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ALS: more than ice bucket challenge ALS walk in Sacramento raises awareness about disease

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When people think about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, they might associate it with the ALS ice bucket challenge. However, drenching oneself in ice water is no comparison to the daily challenges faced by those fighting the disease. This disease affects the nerve cells in the brain, which affect everything in a person’s day-to-day life. In efforts to raise more awareness and bring in resources, the ALS Association has been organizing walks for the past 30 years. This past Saturday, Oct. 14, the ALS association in West Sacramento raised awareness and fundraised to combat ALS. Cathy Speck, an ALS advocate who is also battling the disease and has had loved ones affected,

spoke about her journey. Speck also represented Davis with her team “The Specktaculars” on the walk.

“It was completely life-changing; what I knew about my day-to-day had totally changed,” Speck said. “For me, it’s a process [...] My mantra is to ‘adapt, adapt, adapt,’ and what that means is that I can’t control what’s happening to my body physically, but I just adapt on how to do things differently every time something changes. The first thing I did was walking on my own; I used a walker, and it’s totally decorated with stuffed animals and happy noise-makers, and the reason I did that is so that people wouldn’t be nervous or afraid to talk to me. My walker is so welcoming, and it helps when people can come talk to me.”

In addition to battling ALS, Speck is also bat-

junior and senior years.”

Students who become mentors for Eye-to-Eye have learning differences themselves. These can be neurological-based learning disabilities, including dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, auditory processing disorders, nonverbal learning disabilities and ADHD. In fact, one out of every five people in the world has a learning disability. According to Saling, of the students who start college with a learning disability, only about 50 percent graduate. This was one of the influencing factors for Ben Gurewitz, who founded the UC Davis chapter of Eye-to-Eye. “I felt very isolated by my education experience,” said Gurewitz, a second-year political science major and a chapter coordinator. “I felt that my education system wasn’t built for me, that it was working against me. It was very challenging. I realized that no one should have to endure these challenges, because in reality we all learn differently. We all have different traits, hair color, eye color, skin complexion, whatever, but our education system is designed to assume we all learn the same and that’s actually a very false assumption.”

It wasn’t long after Gurewitz came to UC Davis that he connected with Saling via a mutual friend who faced similar challenges growing up and wanted to get involved with the project. Together, they want to help erase the stigma against students with learning disabilities and also empower these students.

“I still think there’s a lot of stigma on campus, and having people in Eye-to-Eye will release that stigma,” Gurewitz said. “It will help students understand in their own selves, and [help] the community [...] understand that students with learning disabilities are some of the smartest, strongest people in the world.”

Johnson recounted one of her most memorable personal experiences concerning her learning disabilities. Coming from the Bay Area, she was required to take entrance exams in order to enroll in certain high schools. While she was touring one of the more prestigious schools in her area, she was deeply turned off by a counselor who made her opinion clear that Johnson would not belong there due to her learning disability.

“I went on to actually smoke the entrance exams and get accepted there, but I didn’t want to be at a place that didn’t value me for who I was [...] and [would have] to shove my learning disability under the desk,” Johnson said. “That’s something I want to change on campus.

I don’t want learning disabilities to be something that is just a disadvantage. I want people to recognize that with learning disabilities, it has made me into who I am today. I am incredibly determined, strong and rather stubborn and part of that is because I had to push so hard to learn how to read.”

Every chapter of Eye-to-Eye uses the same curriculum, which is focused on using art projects to help the students it serves. One such project is a “utility belt,” in which students can put on their figurative tools that help them learn and feel empowered in the classroom.

Another project is the “superpower costume,” where the students can dress up in a costume showcasing whichever superpower or strength they possess.

“With Eye-to-Eye, it’s focusing on empowerment,” Saling said. “I notice there’s this constant theme with disabilities. There’s almost this pity party here, in a way, of victimization, and that’s the opposite of what Eye-to-Eye is. It’s something to celebrate your learning difference, something to celebrate how you think differently.”

Saling, Gurewitz and Johnson are excited for the bright future of the program and encourage other students to get involved. As a student group that reaches all facets of campus, it’s a great leadership opportunity for those who want to empower others and themselves and get connected with fellow students.

“There’s been statistics from Eye-to-Eye that show that the mentor is also equally as empowered as the mentee,” Saling said. “Just to have this wonderful, close-knit community [is] really special and we can share our own struggles [and] accomplishments. Having this community and reminding you that you’re not alone with your own struggles can lift you up when you need to be lifted up and help you push through when you’re having a hard time. I think that’s really meaningful.”

tling cancer. However, she views her diseases as an obstacle to overcome, as she strives to look on the brighter side of life.

“I choose to always find something good in whatever situation,” Speck said. “Since I can no longer work, I have time to be really introspective about what’s important to me and what I want to spend my energy on, whether it’s my physical energy, emotional or spiritual energy.”

Even though Speck’s energy is drained by her diseases, she still tries to make the most of her time by advocating for cures, including going to the ALS walk in Sacramento.

“Awareness and fundraising is important to me so that everybody who is affected with ALS will have hope for a cure, as there is not a cure now,” Speck said. “I’m motivated for everybody since I know how much it can devastate a family.”

Speck urged others who battle ALS to find peace.

“Find peace […in] every moment, as much as you can; try to remember that everything changes and to stay open to the changes, and breathe whatever positive moment you may have,” Speck said.

Amy Sugimoto, the executive director of the ALS Association, explained how the walk started.

“When you see the patients and you know firsthand the dire needs they have, it’s very motivating as there is a lot of needs, and this is our largest fundraising we do every year,” Sugimoto said. “It’s what allows us to offer our programs and services to the ALS community; without this walk, we will not have the patient services that we do, so that’s very motivating.”

The walk has been going on for a number of years and will continue until a cure is found.

“This is a national event, so every single community that has a chapter in them will have a walk to defeat ALS, and it’s been around for about 30 years,” Sugimoto said.

After watching her friend fight the disease, Nadine El Khoury was inspired to make a documentary in order to help promote recognition of the disease.

“It started with a close friend of mine,” Khoury said.

“It’s a big shift, so I decided then that I wanted to know more about the disease. Eventually, it turned into me wanting to do a documentary about it after a couple years.”

In hopes of spreading awareness, Khoury explained that ALS is a complex disease; however, it does not take a lot for people to learn the basic background and understand in order to help support the cause to find a cure.

“It was a very long process; it took seven years to do the documentary,” Khoury said. “It became a lot ALS on 9

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

Tuition hikes should not support exorbitant pensions $26 million of new tuition increase to fund pensions

TARYN DEOILERS Opinion Editor GILLIAN ALLEN Features Editor ALLY OVERBAY Arts & Culture Editor VERONICA VARGO Sports Editor HARNOOR GILL Science & Tech Editor

CHIARA ALVES New Media Manager BRIAN LANDRY Photo Director CHRISTIE NEO Design Director AMY YE Layout Director MAXINE MULVEY Copy Chief OLIVIA ROCKEMAN Copy Chief JAYASHRI PADMANABHAN Website Manager ALEX GUZMÁN Social Media Mangager CARAJOY KLEINROCK Newsletter Manager

The University of California system has seen a 2.5 percent tuition hike this fall after the UC Board of Regents voted in January to raise tuition for the first time since 2011.

While gradual tuition increases are necessary over time, these new funds are grossly going towards UC faculty’s growing pensions and comfortable retirement. Evidently, students’ wallets are the worker bees generating these funds to support UC retirees’ glamourous pensions.

In a Regents meeting this past September, officials discussed next year’s budget and the idea of yet another tuition increase to support even higher pensions and retiree healthcare. UC retirees who have dedicated decades of their careers to bettering the system and enhancing their respective academic fields rightfully deserve their pensions. These new, excessive sums of money, however, are starting to go toward those who have spent less than 10 years in the system.

Former UC President Mark G. Yudof receives a $357,000 annual pension after working for the system a mere seven years. According to the LA Times, a standard UC employee working for his old salary for the equivalent amount of time should receive an annual pension of approximately $45,000.

Yudof receives nearly eight times this amount.

In Yudof ’s words, “That’s the way it works in the real world.”

In 2017, we can’t expect to pay the same $200 in tuition

our grandparents paid. The Editorial Board understands tuition increases over time and that pensions are well-deserved for those who dedicate their careers to higher education.

However, a hefty $26 million from this tuition hike will go toward bloated pensions for officials who already receive substantial salaries via the public education system.

This dollar amount ought to decrease and feed into professors’ salaries and support tenure-track faculty. Currently, the 2017 tuition hike is allocating $56 million towards professors’ salaries and basic needs such as electricity on campus.

Given that an amount nearly half this size will only serve to increase pensions, the Editorial Board urges the university to focus its spending directly toward students and faculty.

Professors should feel more appreciated for the work they are doing as they mold the minds of our generation. These are the people who interact with students and directly influence students’ education. Without them, we lose the backbone of the university.

California students understand the trade-off of attending a UC school. Overpopulated universities with high studentto-faculty ratios can be tolerated to an extent when we receive such a prestigious and renowned education at an affordable price. When tuition becomes less than affordable in the interest of exorbitant pensions, public school students should no longer be as tolerant.

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Failing to reach the World Cup reveals questions about America’s winning ways IN A COUNTRY SO USED TO WINNING, WHAT DOES LOSING TO MINOR NATIONS SAY ABOUT OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER?

BY NICK IRVIN ntirvin@ucdavis.edu If you missed the final whistle amid all the natural disaster coverage and political scandals, the U.S. men’s national soccer team lost in devastating fashion to a set of 11 players from a country many Americans would have trouble locating on a map. The American team was whipped into submission by none other than Trinidad and Tobago — the same tiny nation that the United States defeated in 1989 to earn its first World Cup berth in 40 years. It’s a shameful moment for our sporting history.

But let’s not kid ourselves — this event is maddening from a sports perspective, of course, but it also reveals a type of American mentality that transcends the world of sports and latches onto facets of our global reputation. In other words, such a defeat has the potential to jolt American sports fans into thinking of more existential questions.

We are a country used to winning in sports and otherwise, although soccer tends to be an exception. This defeat runs in stark contrast to our general narrative of “winning” and provides an interesting case study on America’s unique vision of its place in the world order.

America’s narrative of winning is not a false one, per se. Our gold medal count at the Olympics blows every other country out of the proverbial water, and our overall medal count is higher than the next two countries combined. We pride ourselves on demonstrating the most advanced military capabilities known to exist. We are still the only nation to have shuttled men to the moon, and our global influence remains the gold standard for envious rivals.

Since winning is paramount to the American psyche, defeat at the hands of an underdog team from a tiny island nation can be seen as a profound embarrassment. It provides a reason to lambast the deficiencies of the American men’s soccer program and its lack of meaningful progress compared to a multitude of countries we have historically bullied time and time again.

Soccer is the world’s game, and the unique way in which it can bring people and nations together for 90 minutes on a grassy field is a testament to its validity and longevity. Missing the World Cup — hosted by the contentious Russia, no less — reinforces, however tacitly, America’s growing isolationism under this new era of global suspicion.

Even if soccer is sometimes ridiculed as un-American, how can we not regret that the “beautiful game” has left us reeling in its global

wake? Perhaps soccer lags behind the more popular sports in the United States because we lack the means of attaining victory when held against nations with more robust soccer traditions.

When the likes of Panama and Iceland qualify for the World Cup and we don’t, heads roll and changes are made to curtail the bleeding of America’s ruptured ego. (Even Syria advanced further in the qualifying process, securing a playoff match with Australia before finally losing on aggregate.)

Any reminder of how tiny these qualified nations are and how (generally) insignificant they are to world affairs surely twists the knife indefinitely until the next occasion to prove our sporting mettle arises. We revel in maintaining an image of strength in the games of geopolitics and sports, a force to be reckoned with when the reputational stakes are high.

Today the American public has relatively high expectations for the World Cup, demonstrating a substantial shift from the indifference paid to soccer for much of the last century. Only time will tell if America’s soccer tradition grows to a level on par with our historical reputation as a sporting and international superpower. For now, at least, try to refrain from reliving the horrific experience of qualifying.

It’s just not worth the embarrassment, geopolitically or otherwise.

Can we fix political polarization?

APPEALING TO DIVERSE MORAL VALUES IS VITAL TO UNITING PEOPLE

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BY JUSTIN CHAU jtchau@ucdavis.edu Polarization in politics affects not just discussions in Washington and Sacramento, but also those at the dinner tables of ordinary families. It seems common for people of differing opinions to speak right past one another when they talk. When opinions voiced are based in values different than our own, we’re unlikely to attempt to understand their underlying principles.

Researchers Robb Willer and Matthew Feinberg have tried to study the basis of polarization, focusing on the messages used by politicians to spread their viewpoints. Willer and Feinberg’s research is

concentrated on understanding the principles upon which our opinions are based, which is is key to solving the problem of polarization.

They advocate for a “moral reframing” of politicians’ arguments as a way to create a type of politics in which people of differing values can come to agree on the same issues.

Willer and Feinberg found that politicians were much more able to sway people who held different opinions on a certain topic if they appealed to that target audience’s moral values. For their tests, they had liberals and conservatives craft a message to convince people on the other end of the spectrum. Liberals usually tried to appeal to their own moral values of equality and fairness, even when trying to sway conservatives who were against gay marriage. This proves that, since people assume that others hold principles similar to their own, the target audience may not be swayed. They may not be thrilled by the underlying values in the argument and may not change their minds as a result.

In other tests, they found that conservatives were much more willing to support greater environmental protections if moral values of purity and care were utilized. This would mean using language such as “beautiful,” “disgusting,” “harmful” and “destructive” when talking about the environment. It is, therefore, entirely possible to convince Democrats and Republicans to support positions held by the other party, as long as the right language is chosen to make the argument.

The research is not just talking about politicians and their rhetoric, but regular conversations as well. If an argument’s underlying values

appeal to your target audience, they’re much more likely to agree on any subject. Willer is clear that it’s hard enough without polarization to get people to abandon their own moral values and agree. In this current political environment, people feel the need to stand firm in their beliefs and not concede whatsoever.

We must understand that polarization makes political debate unnecessarily alienating and unproductive. There are no quick solutions, given the bickering between Democrats and Republicans, not to mention the ever-divergent perspectives in different parts of the country.

Slowly but surely, though, a culture of compromise can be built.

This compromise would be based upon agreeable issues that hold widespread support. To bring people together, politicians must utilize moral values that appeal to people in both the left and right wings of politics. This will not make politicians unprincipled, especially considering that politicians make U-turns on policy all the time.

What is being encouraged here is not flip-flopping, but rather adopting a strong stance on an issue while selectively picking language that appeals to a diverse range of viewpoints. Politicians utilizing this inclusive rhetoric remain firm in their positions but are simply adopting more diverse arguments that are supported by a large range of principles.

There is one issue that Republicans and Democrats can get behind: CHAU on 9

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Wildfires ravage California as climate apocalypse looms LAWMAKERS CONTINUE TO TURN BLIND EYE DESPITE GLARING CLIMATE CHANGES

BY FRANCISCO FERREYRA The smell of sulfur and burnt metal hung in the air last week as ash rained down on search crews and cadaver dogs. So far 13 people have been identified out of the 42 confirmed dead — resulting in the deadliest week for California wildfires in history.

One Sonoma County couple tried hopelessly against the apocalyptic backdrop of a reddish-purple sun and orange skyline, to hose down the raging fire that would soon engulf 5,700 buildings across California, including their lifelong home.

“We lost our house,” said Jessica Rodriguez, a third-year sociology major and Napa Valley College transfer student, as she fought back tears. “It completely burned down. We lost everything you can imagine.”

Rodriguez’s family, who was forced to evacuate to her aunt’s house, is now among the thousands of Californian climate refugees — in a state already struggling with a rampant housing crisis.

“This is one of the greatest tragedies California has ever faced,” Governor Jerry Brown said after touring destroyed neighborhoods in Santa Rosa this weekend. “The horror is something none of us will ever forget, but it’s not over yet.”

Just one week after the fires first ignited in Northern California, the scope of the damage has reached 220,000 torched acres, over 100,000 evacuees and a few hundred missing people across 10 counties.

Battling these fires are a small army of aircraft, state officials and 11,000 firefighters (of which 35 percent are nonviolent prison inmates, including a couple hundred women, earning $1 per hour).

Although the fire could still behave erratically in the coming days, several evacuation orders have been lifted, and firefighters are hoping that incoming cool weather and potential rains in Sonoma and Napa counties will help extinguish the flames for good.

Representatives from Cal Fire, the state agency employing the inmates, profess that these wine country fires are nastier than and largely

unrecognizable from those of just a couple decades ago. And based on what we know about the link between warming and wildfires, the same will be true 30 years from now if global temperatures continue to rise.

“This is the new normal,” said Michael Brauer, a public health professor at the University of British Columbia, in reference to the increasing levels of wildfire induced by the fatal air quality. “It’s not a happy story, but we just need to learn how to respond to it.”

The ferocity of this year’s wildfire season is due in part to highspeed winds, combined with grasslands fed by heavy rains in the winter and spring made very dry by California’s hottest summer on record.

While the western United States is literally burning, President Trump’s EPA, led by a notorious climate change denier, continues to repeal Obama-era regulations aimed at curbing national greenhouse gas emissions.

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UC Davis to improve dorm life by pushing Cuarto somewhere else JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT CAMPUS COULDN’T GET ANY BETTER

BY L ARA LOPTMAN lrloptman@ucdavis.edu After a much-heated debate, UC Davis has decided that it will complete the construction of Cuarto Area by doing the exact opposite — not completing it and pushing it somewhere else.

“Yeah, we thought about not doing anything with the property, considering there’s technically nothing wrong with it,” said Rosie Cuartoz, someone who was probably involved in the decision. “But then we were like, ‘Nah, that place has got to go.’”

While it might seem sad that Cuarto had to be pushed away so soon, we think it might be a good thing.

Rumor has it that everyone who lived there was a social reject with a low-key La Croix addiction anyway.

Not to worry, though: UC Davis is planning to make use of the extra space.

“We were thinking about making a UC Davis Men’s Resource Center a while back, and now with all

Extremely unpatriotic person kneels to tie their shoes GET UP OFF THAT KNEE AND RESPECT THE TROOPS, A-HOLE

BY AARON LEVINS adlevins@ucdavis.edu Dear reader, Now I don’t know if you’ve heard of Colin KaperDICK, or maybe one of these other darn fangled “footballers,” but wait till I tell you about them.

They were disrespecting the Founding Fathers themselves. During a football game that some of these guys were gonna play in, the national anthem came on. And what did these lousy, yellow-bellied, no-willy-havin’ sons-of-bitches do? They didn’t stand. They KNEELED. They’re all thugs, and they have no respect for our Lord and Leader, Mr. Cheeto Man. Speaking of Mr. Cheeto Man, allow us now to take the time to sing to our Lord and Savior: “Tweet us this day our daily tweets, And grab us by our pussies, Lead us not into racism racism, But do lead us into subtle racism, In the name of The Wall, Amen.”

Now I think you know exactly how to respond to news like this. We have to make the NFL mandate that they have to stand for the national anthem.

It’s only fair; how else could possibly protect freedom if we don’t make them stop protesting? According to the national anthem, “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/ From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”

And in my estimation, these footballing sons-of-bitches are slaves and hirelings to the NFL. Gotta love capitalism and the commodification of human beings, baby!

And to take it a step further, I don’t think any proper real American should ever be kneeling. At all. Like the national anthem said, “O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand.” I think it should thus be that the “freemen” of this country (you know who you are) should always be standing. All the time. Any kind of kneeling, even to tie your shoes, is unpatriotic and wrong.

Getting down on one knee and proposing to the love of your life? It’s out.

Kneeling to weed your home garden? Hell no.

You need to get yourself into the mindset of the flag. When you see the flag, is it ever not standing up high on that flagpole? To help my son Lil Johnny understand what the flag goes through, I put him in a nice, comfortable leather climbing harness and hang him 20 feet high in my front yard for a week and fed him through an IV I’d strung up to him. Now if suspending your son in your front yard like a flag isn’t American, I don’t know what is. I myself did some time proudly flying high in my father’s front yard myself. We have to find ways to anthropomorphize the flag, and what better way to do that than role-play as one! God bless that piece of cloth, and God bless anyone who looks like me.

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this open space and no one to stop us, it would be a shame if we didn’t use it,” said Aaron Mevins, a man with a bad opinion and too much power.

Well, there you have it. You know how the saying goes: If you give a mouse a cookie, it’s going to want to perpetuate misogyny.

Now, you might be wondering how UC Davis plans to physically push away an entire building, which is a good question.

We think people are really overthinking this, though. Pushing away a building is a lot easier than it seems. All you have to do is put your hands on the building and push. If you think this doesn’t work, you’ve probably never tried it before.

There are few things we can all learn from UC Davis’ attempt to physically move Cuarto from its current location to somewhere else. The first is how to push a building from its current location to somewhere else. The second is, more importantly, that there is never a problem too big to just push away.

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Safer passages to relieve genetic pressure needed for California mountain lions

Butterfly gardening relieves stress, provides homes for declining species

Researchers provide genetic evidence for conservation policy

UC Davis students, professors provide butterfly gardening tips, tricks

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A 2017 paper describes the genetic diversity of mountain lions in Southern California and suggests methods to conserve their space for protection. A team of University of Wyoming and UC Davis scientists analyzed biological samples of mountain lions collected near Los Angeles and San Diego since 2001 to create a genetic structure and pedigree of the populations.

Mountain lions, also called pumas or cougars, are large cats living in the forests and mountain ranges of the Americas. Pumas serve as apex predators in their habitats, hunting most other moving animals, especially deer and small mammals. Cougars, particularly the males, roam in large areas and live in solitude until seeking partners for mating.

About 5,000 pumas live in California.

Pumas living in Southern California have been dealing with human developments intruding into their habitats in recent years. A particular problem has been Interstate Highway 15, which sliced a mountain lion habitat in half, leaving the Santa Ana mountain lion population vulnerable to inbreeding. The fragmented habitat reduces the ability of the felines to freely move, mate and create new offspring.

Dr. Kyle Gustafson is a postdoctoral conservation geneticist in Dr. Holly Ernest's Wildlife Genomics and Disease Ecology Laboratory at the University of Wyoming. Gustafson was in charge of the data analyses and writing the research paper.

Mountain lions are named in this project by their sex (M for male, F for female) along with an identifying number.

“Although 7 males have crossed I-15 over the last 15 years, only a single male (named M86) was successful at mating," Gustafson said. “He sired 11 offspring, reduced inbreeding and increased the genetic diversity of the Santa Ana population.”

The pumas on the Santa Ana side have become significantly inbred due to difficulty mating with the more diverse mountain lions in the Eastern Peninsular Range across the highway. The bright lights and noises from vehicles and human activity near the freeway disturb animals who wish to cross.

“Overall, mountain lions are doing well in California," said Dr. Patrick Huber, a conservation scientist at UC Davis who researches land use plans for animals such as mountain lions but was not involved in this project. “It’s these specific populations we are worried about”.

UC Davis researchers have been trapping pumas to affix them with tracking collars for years. Monitoring where mountain lions travel helps scientists understand their range and how cougars move between populations in their lifetimes. Scientists detected M86 crossing I-15 in 2010 from the Eastern Peninsular Range to the inbred Santa Ana mountain lion population because of a tracking collar.

Dr. Winston Vickers is a wildlife veterinarian at the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center at UC Davis and has been involved with mountain lion research at least 15 years. Vickers has extensive experience trapping and collaring pumas in the field and is one of the authors of the paper.

“The males are the critical element to spreading genes through the landscape," Vickers said.

Tissue samples of 146 animals were used to create a genetic structure of the mountain lion population. Gustafson’s analyses concluded that mountain lion M86 significantly improved the genetic metrics of the Santa Ana population over a few years with an infusion of diverse genes through its offspring. Allelic richness increased in the samples Gustafson investigated.

“Pumas in the Santa Ana Mountains and Eastern Peninsular Range, which are biologically capable of traveling for miles, are being inhibited from mating by I-15, which is only 8-10 lanes,” Gustafson said. “Essentially, we are finding distinct populations on either side of I-15, which is only the length of a football field. This is highly surpris-

ing based on the fact that pumas have been documented to cross major areas, including the entire Central Valley of California.”

M86 was killed due to a vehicle strike after contributing some new genetic material to the Santa Ana mountain lion population. Another puma who successfully crossed the highway to the Santa Ana side was legally shot and killed before mating due to preying on domestic animals.

“Over time, we discovered, through following them around, these animals had shorter lives and worse mortality rates than we had imagined,” Vickers said.

Most mountain lions die due to car strikes from crossing interstate highways. Male mountain lions roam far between populations to mate, which helps to keep genetic diversity among groups at reasonable levels. Creating healthy offspring strengthens the local populations, but males journeying across highways such as I-15 or I-10 don’t always make it across alive. Vehicle strikes not only kill large and important animals, but also contribute to human fatalities and millions of dollars in property damages every year.

Pumas are also threatened by humans with firearms. Californians can apply for permits to kill mountain lions if livestock or pets are attacked.

Last year, over 100 mountain lions were killed by depredation permits issued by the state. Changes in animal husbandry tactics could prevent mountain lions from preying on domestic animals.

“Concerned citizens could be cautious of pumas while driving and keep their domestic animals protected from any potentially hungry pumas,” Gustafson said.

Creating safe ways for animals to cross over or under freeways and away from human developments is one way to reduce the impact of habitat alteration on genetic diversity. Erecting a green passage over a highway for mountain lions could improve travel for other species, such as bear and deer, who also fall victim to vehicle strikes.

“People are getting creative about certain types of crossing structures,” Huber said.

An area just south of Temecula is a prime location for a wildlife corridor to connect the Santa Ana and Eastern Peninsular Range mountain lions over I-15, but funding for the project is uncertain.

Another project to the west near Liberty Canyon would cross US 101, allowing the Santa Ana pumas to travel north more safely, but would probably not improve genetic diversity as much as the Eastern Peninsular corridor. Funding for the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing is more optimistic due to local philanthropists and nonprofit organizations such as the National Wildlife Federation.

The estimated costs of the Liberty Canyon project, including construction and land purchases, would be $57 million.

“The National Wildlife Federation has committed to raising a large amount of money to create a crossing, so it’ll be privately funded,” Huber said.

The genetic pedigree created using 15 years of blood and tissue samples from multiple generations of California cougars gives a status update on how the felines are faring in their fractured habitat. The research collected over several years gathered data from many animals who were trapped, tracked and sampled with follow-up visits.

“An underappreciated difficulty is the establishment of long-term ecological studies,” Gustafson said. “This study spanned nearly 20 years. Without this long-term data, our ability to understand these populations and individuals would be extremely limited.”

Data from long-term studies is more convincing than cross-sectional studies at one point in time. Policy updates can help conserve and connect mountain lion territory while cutting down on the economic burdens of vehicle strikes and domestic predation.

“Citizens can be active politically in supporting fiscal policy which takes into account wildlife needs,” Vickers said.

Butterfly gardening can be a relaxing and rewarding experience for people of all ages and backgrounds. For students, it may seem like a hassle and unwanted expense to find the right materials and proper equipment for gardening. However, with enough information and many resources to consult on campus, students can still tend to small ones.

Butterflies are majestic and intricate creatures, especially when provided the chance to look at them up close without worrying about one flying off immediately. They are also pollinators, which are vital to keeping ecosystems running.

One of the most important aspects to keep in mind when butterfly gardening is knowing the environment, as well as the types of plants that will thrive and attract butterflies. Many guides exist on the internet, but do not necessarily pertain to the Davis and Sacramento areas and weather patterns.

If space is a problem in a dorm or apartment, getting a window box on a balcony with enough sunlight and the correct plant can still provide a great habitat for butterflies.

“If you plant the right resources, they’ll stop to feed and then you can watch, photograph and

enjoy them,” said Dr. Art Shapiro, a professor of evolution and ecology. “It’s probably a lot easier to provide nectar sources than to provide host plants.

The nectar resources are quite pretty, while the host plants mostly are not — they’re weeds. I find weeds to be quite attractive, but not everyone does.”

Host plants are for breeding, while nectar plants provide food and nutrients. Shapiro recommends lantanas, buddleias and asters, as they are easily obtainable, extremely common in Davis and attractive to both humans and butterflies. Some of the most well-known and common butterfly species in the Sacramento Valley include monarchs, pipevine swallowtails, cabbage whites, gulf fritillaries and California dogfaces, which are California’s national insect.

While it’s exciting to set up a butterfly garden, newcomers tend to make many common mistakes.

“Number one: don’t expect to get rare or endangered species,” Shapiro said. “You will get what’s available in your neighborhood. Number two: keep seasonality in mind. That is to say, here in the Valley, most butterflies are active in the summer and the fall. In the [Sierra] Foothills, nearly everything is active in the spring. If you have mainly spring GARDEN on 11 PATRICK HUGGINS / UC DAVIS MIND INSTITUTE

Cognivive shows how video games are more than just entertainment UC Davis startup uses digital neurotherapeutics to help with cognitive deficits

BY K RIT I VAR GHESE science@theaggie.org

UC Davis excels at research and takes pride in its sense of community. Startups in Davis combine research, innovation and community pride by commercializing research to provide social benefits.

They’re also a great example of innovation and creativity in Davis. UC Davis’ startup, Cognivive, a digital therapeutics company, is a perfect example.

Creating video games that are designed for individualized cognitive benefits is potentially making therapy more accessible and effective.

“Particularly, we are making video games that exploit different aspects of the video game medium to provide cognitive benefits for people,” said Ted Aronson, Cognivive’s chief creative officer.

Cognivive wants to create games that essentially act as medicine for people with different cognitive impairments.

“I can see ‘new-age’ therapies, like video gaming and VR, as a more accessible and engaging way to start the rehab process early with patients of varying ability levels,” said Sara Howard, Cognivive’s business development manager.

Venture Catalyst, a division within Technology Management Corporate Relations that supports robust startups and new ventures focused on commercializing university-based research, provided

support and resources for the company when it was just starting out.

“Cognivive is a very good example of the support that we’ve provided through Venture Catalyst very early on. I remember meeting way back with Tony Simon, the founder at the MIND institute probably four years ago. He was doing some interesting research that he thought would have commercial potential but he wasn’t sure,” said Dushyant Pathak, the associate vice chancellor of Technology Management Corporate Relations and the executive director of Venture Catalyst.

When Venture Catalyst was launched, Simon applied in the first round of the STAIR grant program and was selected as a finalist.

“As a finalist, Simon was assigned a mentor and then he reapplied [after making] all of that progress and his proposal was ranked number one. So it’s a perfect example of our program and the mentoring and the facilitation we provided, helping [with his success],” Pathak said.

Cognivive isn’t done yet. As with any startup, they still have a lot they hope to achieve, specifically making this particular form of therapy more commonplace.

“I would be happy if in the next five years, we had a series of products that are FDA-certified prescription treatments [...] and that we can actually get a lot of people using this,” Aronson said.

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her food options and if she would be limited as to where she could access meals.

“I was actually pretty impressed because I thought the only food source I was going to get was from the dining commons or off-campus,” Ramirez said, “but [the Silo] helps me acclimate to the campus much better, [and it] is my favorite area of [campus].”

The South Silo’s marketplace, housed in the building to the left of Gunrock Pub, hasn’t been noticed by many students yet.

“I really like the two separate buildings,” Ivanova said. “I love how if you just need to get something to-go, it’ll be over there.”

While Ivanova admires the separation of the

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two food places for reducing crowdedness, Claudia Carillo, a third-year animal science major, offered a critique of the separation, and the replacement of Sodexo’s previous chains.

“I feel like there’s really no options [now], because it’s only Spokes, the Crepe Bistro and Peet’s now,” Carillo said. “I feel like there were more options before and it was really convenient just to have the little market over here.”

Carillo did, however, appreciate what she found to be pretty cheap and reasonable prices at the Spokes burger joint.

It is yet to be seen how many more renovations will be made by UC Davis and what student’s reactions to future changes will be.

Meanwhile, even our own liberal state legislature recently failed to pass a measure that would require 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2045 amid what climate activists are calling “Decade Zero.”

California is heralded as a global leader of the environment. But at best, we’re merely reacting to this fiery man-made crisis instead of being proactive. At worst, our government is complicit in fanning the flames of a blaze that has scorched a landmass the size of over 40 UC Davis campuses in one week.

A report by Consumer Watchdog titled “Brown’s Dirty Hands” revealed that Democratic Governor

Brown has received nearly $10 million in donations since 2010 from fossil fuel interests, including PG&E — the company whose fallen power lines are allegedly responsible for the wildfires.

In addition to being a symptom of climate change, these wildfires have also created pollution equal to a year’s worth of traffic in just two days, including the worst air quality ever recorded in the Bay Area.

For any Californian still skeptical about the need for urgent climate action — and for state lawmakers who engage in back-door dealings with the worst polluters — this is our wake-up call.

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comedic catch-22, if you will — is not unheard of among all kinds of comedians.

“There is no audience in that everyone is going to love everything you do to the highest degree,” Spinale said. “But it would be boring if it was that easy.

There are some jokes that you will tell and only a few people will laugh, and you can’t help but think these are the smart ones. And there is a weird source of pride that comes with that. Of course I would love to have mass appeal, but you never want to compromise your material and what you think is funny for the sake of what the audience may be into that night.”

It cannot go unnoted that art, comedy included, has the ability to hurt. Indeed, comedy can include pushing social boundaries for the sake of making a point or a joke, but the line between offensive and progressive is up for debate.

“I’m an advocate for accessible comedy versus offensive comedy,” Nava-McClellan said. “‘Accessible’ comedy is when everyone can laugh at it and no one has to feel bad. ‘Offensive’ is that one marginalized group is going to be offended in some way by the joke or bring traumatic experiences back to the audience.”

The comedian is then, once again, placed in a important position in distinguishing the emotional charge of their material.

“It is the easiest thing to make jokes about racism, as the stereotypes they are based on are is still strongly supported, sadly, in the community,” Nava-McClellan said. “You as a comedian are in a position of power, and it’s not going to negatively affect you to make those jokes, and those stereotypes are widely known in the community. So stereotypes are an easy way to make people feel like they can relate to what you are saying since they have prior knowledge. But you can go in the marginalized position. You can be a white person but be poor and talk about classism.

Everything is part of a suppressive system, and it is

all intersectional. And you can talk about other people’s oppression, too and how you affect it, and that’s the intersectionality. That’s where you can make fun of your own shame.”

Addressing these sensitive issues is inevitably complicated. Using stronger language and more intense jokes could offer a shock factor or offer a powerful message. Yet the same can be accomplished without offending others. The way in which these issues are provoked is ultimately at the discretion, power and ability of the comedian.

“Comedy can push the lines, and people don’t quite understand that a joke about racism is not the same as a racist joke,” Waltonen said.

The audience is therefore the deciding factor of where such sensitive boundaries lie.

Comedians are further restricted by the regulations associated with on-campus performances.

Therefore, UC Davis offers a specific niche audience that comedians must consider.

“There are certain spaces on campus because of our [intention] to be a safe space, [so] it can be hard to perform,” Waltonen said. “People can take jokes out of context and get you in trouble. [...] Being in a college town can sometimes be stifling. But on the same token, you have a much more liberal and politically aware audience in a college town.”

Comedy has a complicated status as art. It must push but be careful as to how much; it must stay true to the comedian but be aware of its audience. No matter the complexity that surrounds this art form, comedy remains an important art form. “[When] you make a joke and the entire audience laughs, it does two things,” Spinale said. “It tells you that the audience likes your joke, but it also tells the audience that [...] they all agreed on something.

Through this uncontrolled response, [they] confirmed that they are all on the same page [...] Everything else they don’t agree on doesn’t matter for at least that moment.”

From “Game of Thrones” to “Star Wars,” the Enchanted Cellar has nearly any iconic character costume a customer could think of.

“We’ve accumulated a lot of costumes over the years, but we’ve also bought a couple of things, and then make them better after the fact,” said Femling.

“For example, when the new ‘Star Wars’ film came

out, we put together some kits for Rey and Finn, all from pieces we already had in our stock. We even got a Kylo Ren kit together!”

The Enchanted Cellar is located on campus in Wright 17. Students and faculty receive a discount on all rentals. For more information and the Cellar’s hours, visit its website.

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bigger, because I understood that it was important to include the science of the disease. I don’t have a biological background, and I realized that most people don’t, so if I can understand it then I know others can too.”

Khoury’s experience watching her friend inspired her to keep advocating for the disease as well as show others the reality of ALS through her documentary.

“It changed my life and what I knew about living,” Khoury said. “I would go home and cry

thinking about how it is possible that now he is stuck in bed, and I go and think that it’s so unfair.

In the end, I can do whatever I want, like I can travel, rest [or] shower while he’s stuck in bed. He can’t do anything even though he wants to so badly because he is so full of life. It’s so frustrating [...]

He continues to write, and he wrote three books.

He’s still trying to do everything, and I’m thinking ‘Wow… It’s so inspirational.’ It changed my perspective, and you can’t not be inspired.”

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closing tax loopholes. Democrats want to close tax loopholes because they mainly benefit wealthy people and large companies, while Republicans want them closed to pay for tax cuts. Democrats can appeal to liberal principles of fairness and equality, as closing loopholes will make sure that more people pay their fair share in taxes. Republicans can appeal to conservative principles of smaller, more limited government, as cutting taxes allows people to exercise economic liberty with their untaxed money.

If the two parties can find topics that they agree on, then there’s no concession on principles. This is

a compromise in which people can maintain their own values while also accepting and promoting other values that support the same position.

This heightened sense of bipartisanship will eventually trickle down to everyday discussion, in which regular people will see the benefit of getting more people to agree if they appeal to a diverse set of supporting principles. This, however, can only be done if politicians utilize these methods to unify public opinion. In doing so, the culture of politics will change for the better, making it less divisive and less partisan than it is now.

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While both the men’s and women’s teams have not shot up the rankings since their initial first- and second-place finishes respectively in their first match at home, the Big West Conference Championships will be the 40th day in Barbosa’s process, and he is not letting his runners settle for less than what he believes should be their ultimate goal.

To MacGregor, this means putting everything together, knowing that everything that happened in the previous meets, both good and bad, has gotten her to where she needs to be.

“I think that trusting in our fitness and knowing that I’ve had good workouts and good races, I can apply all of that to the championship race,” MacGregor said. “Also, just working together with the team and trusting in what we’ve done.”

To Abundez-Dominguez, his motivation is what drives him, a motivation that pays off when he gets ready for his competition.

“When I line up for a track race or a cross country

race, I want to put myself in a position where no one’s worked as hard as I have and no one’s been through what I’ve been through,” Abundez-Dominguez said.

“I want to do the little extra — I want to put my body through to the point where I deserve to be on the line with everyone else. So, it’s like, if I deserve to be on the line with everyone else, why not try to win this race?”

Barbosa is happy with where his team is headed.

Whether or not they go far, he is proud of what he has done in his first year, and hopes that the culture which he establishes not only helps his current runners, but future runners as well.

“I want to make my distance an example to be followed,” Barbosa said. “An example of tenacity, dedication, personality, determination, perseverance. But, then also as well, I think that’s what I’m expecting.

That’s the type of legacy that I want to leave here.”

The Big West Conference Championships will be held on Saturday, Oct. 28 in Riverside, Calif.

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Pumpkin Patches near Davis

The Enchanted Cellar Costume Rental returns Costumes reflect this year’s theme: “Heroines with Heart”

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Located in the basement of Wright Hall, the Enchanted Cellar Costume Shop provides an assortment of elaborate costume rentals of all styles — and just in time for Halloween. Open all year long, the Enchanted Cellar has been providing the Davis community with a vast selection of costumes since 2004. This year’s theme, “Heroines with Heart,” celebrates

female figures in folklore and literature, according to the Cellar’s website.

Coordinated by costume shop director Roxanne Femling of the UC Davis Theatre and Dance Department, the Enchanted Cellar is devoted to bringing everyone’s favorite characters to life.

“It’s great to help people out with their costumes,” said Enchanted Cellar costume consultant and fourth-year international relations major Natalie Guzman. “It’s really

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Architectural History of College Park Famed street holds important place in Davis history

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Sitting just off the UC Davis Campus, nestled among picturesque trees and a sprawling grass field, is the city of Davis’ premier neighborhood. Established in 1923, College Park’s distinctive, egg-shaped street has been home to

fun to see people try them on.”

Each year around Halloween, the Enchanted Cellar gathers widespread attention from the community. In its first year of business, the store managed to raise a total of $10,000, all of which went back into the costume department to support upcoming shows, new costumes and more.

“This time of year can get busy sometimes,” said first-year design major and Enchanted Cellar costume consultant Keilah Lim.

countless UC Davis professors and local personalities. However, the true star of the show is the area’s exceptional architecture.

Dennis Dingemans, a former UC Davis professor, and his wife Robin Datel, herself a UC Davis alumna and a professor at Sacramento State University, are well-versed on the neighborhood. In 1992, Davis announced its search for distinguished volunteers with knowledge of historical architecture for the city’s upcoming inventory, which aimed to catalogue Davis’ historic buildings.

Although many vied for the possibility of studying College Park, the opportunity was ultimately awarded to Dingemans and Datel.

“We found ourselves writing maybe 150 words for each house in College Park,” Dingemans said. “Most towns, even small towns, have neighborhoods with relatively large lots with very attractive homes that have staying power.”

Davis is no exception. The College Park neighborhood boasts over 40 properties, each of which appeal to passersby in different ways.

“There’s an international-style house

“Sometimes we can have up to 10 people down here at a time.”

The Enchanted Cellar is open throughout the year by appointment, but the store also allows for walk-ins during the Halloween season. They offer a variety of “kits” for different costumes. According to Femling, the Enchanted Cellar is attempting to work with more personal requests this year, depending on the preferences of the customer.

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in the northwest corner,” Dingemans said.

“A saltbox house in the New England style is there as well.”

65 College Park is one of the more eye-catching properties: designed by famed architect William Wurster, the former dean of both UC Berkeley and MIT’s schools of architecture, this house is characterized by its “steeply pitched roof,” “oversized red brick” and “exposed rafters,” according to the City of Davis’ 1996 Cultural Resources Inventory and Context Statement. The house was built in 1932 for none other than the first UC Davis Chancellor, Stanley B. Freeborn.

“Wurster was a very, very influential Bay Area architect,” Datel said. “This is quite a wonderful building. It’s sort of medieval revival a la Bay Area shingle style. It’s just quite charming.”

In addition to Freeborn’s home, the street contains houses that were built for the likes of Max Kleiber, the famed biologist and namesake of UC Davis’ Kleiber Hall, and George A. Hart, of UC Davis’ Hart Hall. Kleiber’s house

Halloween cover show at The Morgue Green Day. Rest assured, The Morgue is simply a house, its name inspired by its close proximity to the Davis Cemetery. Its residents have been throwing house shows since 2013, but this

BY B ECKY L E E will be their first year hosting a cover show to arts@theaggie.org celebrate Halloween.

Hosts Marisol Ramirez and Melissa Schiller If there’s one thing that pulled me through my midfirst decided to cover Blink-182. Other dle school angst, it was late ‘90s punk music blasting performers followed suit, planning to perform loudly in my bedroom — and I imagine most college songs by their own favorite punk bands. students can relate. The Morgue is hosting a cover “Halloween cover shows have been a show for just that reason. It will be featuring songs by Davis tradition over the years, but I’ve never some of the most beloved punk bands: Against Me!, hosted one,” Schiller said. “I’m really excited My Chemical Romance, Blink-182, Black Sabbath and

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It’s fall, so that means your Instagram feed is composed entirely of pumpkin patches. As kids, pumpkin patches were meant for actually picking out pumpkins. But times have changed, and now these places have many other activities to take part in. Especially in Yolo County, corn mazes are a go-to fall event.

To keep on-trend, here are a few local pumpkin patches to enjoy.

Bobby Dazzler’s Pumpkin Patch and Milo Maze Open weekends from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and weekdays 12 to 7 p.m, Bobby Dazzler’s carries over 150 varieties of pumpkins, squash and gourds. It has a petting zoo, a cow train, face painting and even pony rides. This is a great place to relive all your favorite childhood fall memories.

The maze generally takes around 20 to 40 minutes to complete. The farm closes after Oct. 31, so try to go soon. It is located at 23300 County Road 99D in Davis.

Impossible Acres Farm For a closer location, Impossible Acres is open every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The barn animal area is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends (with 9 to 11 a.m. as reservation-only).

It is located at 37945 County Road 31 in Davis and also closes after Oct. 31.

Cool Patch Pumpkins Home of the world-record corn maze, Cool Patch Pumpkins is sure to be worth a visit. For $5 per person, ticket holders can participate in the “fun zone,” which includes the mini maze, corn bath, trikes and a hay castle. They also have a hayride around the patch for $3. Entrance to the record-winning corn maze is $15 and has two different paths that you can take; one is an intermediate level and the other is advanced. On weekends they serve food, including tri-tip sandwiches, hot dogs, fries, soft serve and more. They also have a coffee cart that offers hot and cold drinks, pumpkin pie, kettle corn and cookies. This must-see stop is located at 6150 Dixon Ave West and closes after Oct. 31.

Uncle Ray’s Pumpkin Patch Located in Sacramento, Uncle Ray’s is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day until Oct. 31. You only have to pay for the pumpkins, which means both admission and parking are free. Though a farther drive, the corn maze is also free. The pumpkin patch can be found at at 5610 Garden Highway near the Sacramento airport.

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The Morgue brings back teenage memories with upcoming house show

Places to celebrate the fall season

to host and play in it. [...] Most of the bands that are playing are a group of friends who just assembled themselves to play these songs [...] I think Halloween is a popular time for cover shows because they’re like costumes, but playing songs from different bands. It’ll be a fun night of nostalgia and pop-punk emoness.”

Ramirez and Schiller wanted to host a cover show featuring songs by these groups so that attendees could relive high school memories, but most importantly because they’re relatable.

“We wanted to cover Blink-182 because we thought we knew the songs well enough [to]

play them and started working from there,” Ramirez said. “We chose those ‘90s emo bands because everyone knows the lyrics, and the guy from our last show said he was in a Black Sabbath cover band. ‘First Date’ by Blink-182 has been really difficult to play but fun once I get in the groove of it.”

Corey Gough, from the band Rex Means King, is coming to Davis from Vacaville to perform songs by My Chemical Romance. Similarly, Paul Collier of the band VVomen is covering songs by Against Me!.

“We’re from the Fairfield area and played at The Morgue a handful of times as well as G-Street Wunderbar, Sudwerk, Third Space,” Gough said. “I’ll be playing in a My Chemical Romance cover band.

The bass player, Jason, wanted to play My Chemical Romance and kind of recruited me. I normally play drums, but he needed a guitar player so I said, ‘Sure, why not,’ [...] I think it’s going to be hecka fun, and it’s just nostalgic. It’s going to be a blast.”

The appeal of these cover shows is largely their sense of familiarity. Reviving these “emo” bands may remind college students of some cringy adolescent memories, but it also opens a space where everyone can laugh about it together.

“We only have three instruments and the singer, so we’ll be trying to play as closely to the originals as possible,” Collier said. “Our music style is in the same vein, so it’s not really going to be deconstructed.

Hopefully everyone will have a good time and we’ll be playing songs that they can sing along to.”

The Halloween cover show will take place on Saturday, Oct. 28 at The Morgue, located at 1919 Wahl Way in Davis. More information can be found on the Facebook event page.

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flowering plants here in Davis, you won’t get much.

You want to plant for what’s actually flying.”

Consulting an expert or refining searches, as well as hearing personal stories from others, helps immensely when first starting out.

“People, when they start doing butterfly gardening and they plant a host plant like milkweed or cassia or fennel, may see the plant getting destroyed,” said Peter Varas, a fourth-year sustainable agriculture and food systems major. “They freak out, but [the plant being ‘destroyed’ is] a good thing because it means the caterpillars are eating it. A lot of the time, once [the plant has] stripped down, you can cut it back, and it’ll regrow.”

For beginners, Varas recommends milkweed and Mexican sunflower as host plants, which both attract monarchs. He also stated the importance of going to a pre-established butterfly garden on campus and learning from what others have already done.

“Something I’d encourage people to do who are interested in butterfly gardening is to go to the ecological garden here at UC Davis right next to the Student Farm,” Varas said. “It’s a learning space about gardening, and there’s people there all the time who are friendly and willing to talk to you about butterflies and plants.”

The Student Farm, which includes the ecological farm and market farm, is a 20-acre area that provides a space for students to learn about and practice sustainable agriculture. Nearly every inch of the Student Farm is covered by a wide variety of plants and species.

“I feel like [the Student Farm] is a really special spot on campus,” said Katharina Ullmann, the director of the Student Farm. “If you’re just having a coffee at the MU or eating your lunch on the Quad, you might not even know that just a 5 to 10 minute walk away, you can access a space like this that may not seem as ‘wild’ as the Arboretum, but still has all sorts of wildlife and plants.”

Another resource on campus for people interested in butterfly gardening, or more generally in horticulture or sustainable agriculture, is the Arboretum.

“When I first started working at the Arboretum, there was only four of us,” said Ellen Zagory, the director of public horticulture for the Arboretum and public garden. “But now the Arboretum has grown, and so has the campus.”

While the Arboretum is home to many different species of plants, trees, small animals and insects, there are still concerns about the declining number of butterflies and other animals important to the ecosystem.

“When I moved to Davis during my first full year in 1972, I routinely got 20 to 30 species of butterflies in my own garden,” Shapiro said. “Now I’m lucky to get a dozen.”

For example, the monarch, one of the most iconic butterfly species and a symbol for immigrants all over the United States, has become the centerpiece of conservation efforts.

“The monarchs have been declining for the past decade, which is due to a number of factors,” Varas said. “It’s mostly loss of habitat and that’s because of people, who are mostly in the midwest, who are planting more corn and soy, and taking out these native milkweed plants that are part of the monarchs’ migration route. Even if it’s just one [plant], you’re doing something to provide habitat for monarchs.”

Though numbers are dwindling, endangered butterflies and other pollinators can still be protected.

“There are three things that people can do,” Ullmann said. “One, to provide food and nesting resources or host plants. Second, limit the use of pesticides, and the third is to talk to other people about them. If everything looks like a flying bug, then you don’t know the cool stories behind those insects and what the services they provide look like.”

Shapiro has a page on his website outlining plants perfect for attracting butterflies in the Sacramento Valley area.

The Arboretum’s fall plant sale on Nov. 4 provides the perfect opportunity to apply these ideas to create your very own butterfly garden. For the upcoming seasons, there will be spring plant sales at the Arboretum, where you can find a relaxing ambiance and plants perfect for attracting spring and summer butterflies and other pollinators.

“I think that getting outside, being in nature, and giving yourself a break is important,” Zagory said.

“It’s a lot of pressure being a student and trying to get good grades. It’s pretty relentless. It’s refreshing to get outside and go look at some flowers, take a walk and give yourself a chance to recover. It’s very healing.”

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at 34 College Park is characterized by CRICS as a “medieval revival” that has not one but two chimneys. The roof shares the distinct use of shingles found on many other College Park homes. Lastly, the house is equipped with two sets of doors. Hart’s home at 52 College Park is built in the Tudor style.

According to CRICS, the house has “three chimneys” as well as “wood shingles” and a fancy “twofoot-long wrought-iron [door] hinge,” seemingly in an attempt to outdo Kleiber’s home.

“There’s quite a few people that you could directly pair up their house in College Park with their building on campus,” Datel said. “It’s a really nice kind of memento of that early era of the development of the campus.”

Despite all the luster and excitement surrounding the history of College Park and its buildings, the neighborhood does have a checkered past. Kara Brunzell of Brunzell Historical was hired by the City of Davis to update a historical context statement in 2015.

Brunzell explained that a historical context

statement attempts to understand why a building may be eligible for historical status. While College Park was not the focus of Brunzell’s update, she did brush up on its past, revealing an unsettling set of guidelines that are sadly not surprising for the time period.

“It was a restrictive subdivision, meaning that the deed specifically stated that you had to be white to live there unless you were someone’s servant,” Brunzell said. “That was actually very common up until the ‘60s in California.”

Today College Park is representative of the communal acceptance and natural beauty that Davis is known for. The UC Davis International House — a symbol of diversity — lies at the front of College Park. This addition symbolizes the neighborhood’s physical and social changes since the area’s first plans in 1923.

After all these years, you’ll still be hard-pressed to find another neighborhood in Davis that combines the same stunning landscape and architecture as College Park.

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deadline, improving its bullpen by bringing in relief pitchers Tony Watson and Tony Cingrani. But the team’s most high-profile trade was in acquiring right-handed ace Yu Darvish from the Texas Rangers.

Darvish has indeed lived up to all the trade deadline hype; in his 11 and one-third innings pitched this postseason, Darvish has struck out 14 batters while giving up only two runs. A stronger relief staff and Darvish’s excellence combined with the skill of longtime Dodgers star Clayton Kershaw has proven to be a winning postseason formula.

Of course, the bats for L.A. have continued to remain active as well. Turner leads all players in the postseason with 12 RBIs and outfielder Yasiel Puig has the top postseason batting average (.414) among players with at least 20 at bats. The Dodgers have even found consistent hitting from lesser-known position players like Charlie Culberson and Chris Taylor.

The team from Houston: While the Dodgers have appeared in the World Series nearly 20 times, the Houston Astros are playing in the Fall Classic for only the second time in franchise history –– the first since the team moved to the American League in 2013. The team made its first World Series appearance back in 2005 as champions of the National League before being swept by the Chicago White Sox. After recent seasons of disappointment, Houston has constructed a formidable team around all-star second baseman Jose Altuve and Cy Young-winning pitcher Dallas Keuchel. Filling their roster with proven veterans like catcher Brian McCann and outfielder

Carlos Beltrán, the Astros were able to win 100 games for the second time in franchise history. Carrying their regular season momentum into the playoffs, the Astros were able to defeat two perennial American League powers by first fending off the Boston Red Sox in the division series and then slipping by the New York Yankees in seven games to win the American League pennant.

Much like Los Angeles, Houston also prioritized improving its pitching staff before the trade deadline, as the team brought in another Cy Young winner, right-handed pitcher Justin Verlander. The pitching combination of Keuchel and Verlander has combined for 49 strikeouts this postseason, while only allowing nine earned runs.

With these two leading the defensive charge, the Astros have also clicked offensively. Altuve and his fellow infielders, Yuli Gurriel and Carlos Correa, are the top three postseason leaders in hits, with 16, 15 and 13, respectively. Altuve has also hit five home runs this postseason, the most among all players.

Both the Astros and Dodgers are teams built on shut-down pitching and consistent offense. Will defense rule the day? Or will offense overpower these formidable defenses? The depth of the lineups on each side will make it intriguing see which team’s bats will find the most success against the high-level pitching.

Runs will most likely be hard to come by against the starting rotations, so late-game situations against the bullpen is what this series will really hinge on. Nonetheless, this should prove to be a fantastic finish to an exciting year of Major League Baseball.

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UC Davis women’s soccer team loses tough 1-0 match

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With an overcast sky and windy weather, the UC Davis women’s soccer team was looking to extend its unbeaten conference record for the 2017 season against the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos in conference play on Oct. 19. The Aggies came into the game with an overall 4-9-1 record, a 3-0-1 conference record and were tied for second place in the Big West Conference.

UC Davis was looking to be unaffected by the dreary weather, wanting to walk away with another conference win.

The first half started off with back-and-forth possession by both teams, neither team managing to get a shot in the first seven minutes of play. However, in the eighth minute, the Gauchos found the back of the net on a header from a cross into the box, giving them the 1-0 lead. With three minutes left in the first, UC Santa Barbara nearly added another goal to its lead, but a shot off of the crossbar kept its lead to one, as the second half ended with the Aggies trailing. In the first half, UC Davis took two total shots, with the Gauchos

taking four. The Aggies knew that they would have to put something together to try and get the comeback victory in the second half.

UC Davis outshot its opponents in the second half 6 to 5, and almost the entire half was Aggie offense on the Gauchos half. But the Aggies could not put one in the back of the net, and the game finished with UC Davis taking the 1-0 hard fought loss. Junior goalkeeper Alexis Smith had two saves on the day, with the team having produced eight shots and 10 corner kick opportunities.

“Our second half performance was really good,” said head coach Twila Kaufman. “We were getting numbers forward and closing that gap. I don’t know if the stats were even indicative of how much we were in their half in the second half, and I am really pleased. We have come back from that deficit before, so I was just telling the team throughout the end that it was gonna come and I thought that was gonna happen.”

Kaufman was proud of her team and how hard they worked with the absence of a few players due to injury and has full confidence the Aggies will produce another win in the future.

“I really think this just comes down to crossing T’s and dotting I’s,” Kaufman said. “I don’t think there was necessarily a moment that lost that game for us.

It comes down to a lot of tiny moments, and I think we dropped to many of those little moments in the first half. I can say I am confident that, if soccer was a three-quarter game, we would have won because we would have had them.”

The Aggies now have a 4-10-2 overall record and

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a 3-1-2 conference record. They currently hold third place in the Big West conference. Their final home game of the season was played this past Sunday adding a tie to their conference record after going into double overtime where a last-chance shot by sophomore midfielder Emma Hasco was blocked in the final minute of overtime play and secured the 0-0 tie. UC Davis only has two remaining conference matches, both away, to climb to the top of the Big West.

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UC Davis agricultural legacy kept alive in mascot, community

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Go Aggies! Go Mustangs? Go Gunrock? The UC Davis mascot is Gunrock the Mustang, but UC Davis students and alumni are better known as Aggies. The California Aggie sat down with Athletics Marketing to figure out what exactly an Aggie is.

UC Davis was originally founded in 1905 as the University Farm, an extension of UC Berkeley. In 1959, UC Davis was declared by the Regents of the University of California as the 7th UC campus. In honor of its agricultural heritage, UC Davis students referred to themselves as Aggies. Gunrock the Mustang is also an homage to UC Davis’ rich agricultural history.

“It’s really confusing,” said third year psychology and political science double major and Athletics Marketing intern Kasey Carlson. “Everyone is always like, Go Aggies! But then they try to say, oh there’s the Aggie, and I’m like no, it’s actually Gunrock. Sorry, guys.”

Gunrock is named after an Army thoroughbred studhorse who arrived at UC Davis in 1921. Gunrock was the offspring of English Triple Crown winner Rock Sand and race mare Gunfire,

making him royalty in the racing world. Gunrock made a lasting impact on California’s agriculture and veterinary advancements.

Gunrock died in 1932. To show respect and keep his legacy alive, the mascot for UC Davis was named and modeled after him.

Gunrock the mascot is a staple at all athletics and campus events.

Unlike at other universities, there is no one designated person to be inside the Gunrock suit at every event. Anyone that is interested in checking it off their bucket list can reach out to the Mascot Coordinator and give it a shot. The only requirements are being taller than 5’2” and shorter than 6’3”.

And of course, anyone inside the suit needs to bring their outgoing Aggie spirit and get the crowds excited, which can be hard because being inside the suit takes a lot out of the person wearing it.

“It is extremely hot and sweaty,” Carlson said. “[It is] difficult to see and difficult to move around in because it has a lot of fake muscles.”

A few years back, Gunrock was more navy blue and lean, while the new Gunrock is more royal blue and sporting new muscles and a more aggressive grin.

Some students think the new Gunrock is too scary, but most students like his makeover.

Even though the suit can be heavy and hard to maneuver in, those who have donned the Mustang costume have loved every feeling that comes with it.

“I was actually Gunrock for March Madness, so I got to go with the team to Ohio,” Carlson said. “That was just a really amazing experience. Being inside of the suit is really fun, especially when there’s kids around

UC DAVIS CROSS COUNTRY REFLECTS ON PAST, PREPARES FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

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Coach Barbosa, runners ready to finish season on high note

BY B RADLEY GEI SER sports@theaggie.org

WORLD SERIES 2017 PREVIEW Astros, Dodgers will compete in Fall Classic

BY D O M I N I C FA RI A sports@theaggie.org

The Fall Classic is upon us once again, showing us that there is nothing quite like postseason baseball.

The Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers will square off in the World Series –– an intriguing matchup between two franchises with very different title-game experience.

Each postseason, it is tremendously difficult to predict which clubs have the talent, the luck or the willpower necessary to pull off a magical playoff run. Each October, fans pay witness to new heroes, a new team that gets hot at just the right time or simply a dominating run by an overpowering ballclub. Fortunately for fans, this year’s postseason has combined all three of these storylines and more.

The team from LA: The Dodgers are returning to the World Series for the first time since 1988, when the franchise won its sixth title, thanks in part to Kirk Gibson’s magical, walk-off moon-shot that sailed into the Dodger Stadium bleachers and landed among the iconic moments in MLB history. 29 years later to the day, Dodgers infielder Justin Turner launched a ball over the center

because they’re either absolutely terrified of you and want nothing to do with you or they’re super into it and they want to hug you, high-five and play games with you. It’s just a fun experience because people don’t know it’s you, so you can kind of just do whatever and dance around. Gunrock has kind of a free pass; he can wander into any situation and people are excited.”

field wall in the same building for a walk-off homerun of his own, giving the Dodgers a 2-0 series lead over the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series. L.A. finished off the Cubs just three games later, defeating them at Wrigley Field behind Kiké Hernandez’s three-home run evening.

Los Angeles has lost only one postseason game so far this year, sweeping the Arizona Diamondbacks in the division series and conquering the Cubs in the NLCS in five games.

This dominant run through the playoffs is mysterious compared to the Dodgers’ track record in recent years. The club has competed in the postseason in each of the previous four years, and each year the Dodgers have come up heartbreakingly short, including two NLCS losses over that span. This season, L.A. has finally found a way to get over the hump that has haunted it for so long.

But will the Dodgers getting over their NLCS woes culminate in a World Series victory? It would seem that this team certainly has the motivation and the talent to do so. The club won a league-leading 104 games during this year’s regular season and at one point looked to have a legitimate chance at challenging the 2001 Seattle Mariners’ MLB-record win total of 116.

The Dodgers fell short of that mark, but more importantly geared up for a deep playoff run by bolstering an already impressive pitching staff.

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Entering his first year as head coach of the UC Davis cross country team, Jose Luiz Barbosa vowed to create a winning culture of hard work and discipline.

It started with strenuous training — training which, according to Barbosa, starts with a rigorous routine that is meant to prepare the team for its ultimate goal of not just competing on a conference level but a national one. According to Barbosa, it is a 40-day process of grueling workouts that not only require dedication and perseverance but a passion for what they do. No stranger to high-stakes competition, Barbosa, a four-time Olympian, believes that hard work and a positive mindset are key to going far.

“First of all,” Barbosa said. “I’m glad to be here, and I like challenge. What I’m learning is how, mentally, to prepare them better than they’re supposed to be and where they want to go, because a lot of the kids come to me in my office with high goals, but then mentally you need to prepare to achieve their goals.”

Barbosa and his staff have been a valuable presence for all of his team members, implementing a system that helps his runners stay in shape and, according to senior men’s runner Oscar Abundez-Dominguez, adds variance to a regimen which could often seem monotonous in the past.

“I think something we’ve all learned this season is putting faith in our coaching staff above everything,” Abundez-Dominguez said. “It’s like [...] they know what they’re doing and they’re the most qualified people to be here coaching us. And, we’re very happy with the changes that have happened.”

Junior women’s runner Megan MacGregor also praised her coaches for their dedication to the team and their willingness to work with each individual

runner to improve both their individual and team performances. This was where Megan saw the most improvement with her team.

“This season more than anything, we’ve been communicating a lot more with each other, and just like, trying to be on the same page for every workout, for every race,” MacGregor said.

Barbosa prides himself on his ability to work with all of his runners as a team, noting that one fast runner isn’t going to help if they do not work together. If the team is performing better as a whole, the runners all see the benefits of their hard work.

“When you are alone, you are strong,” Barbosa said. “When you’re united, you’re unbeatable. You need to learn that concept, and I think I brought that concept for them, and they understand that.”

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