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Protestors march against UC fee hikes
Second meeting reveals anti-
Dempsey Report sentiments
Participants enter library, walk to downtown Davis
Faculty and parents voice their dissent over
serving the uc davis campus and communit y since 1915www.theaggie.orgvolume 130, number 106 monday, october 31, 2011
By HANNAH STRUMWASSERCampus News Editor
On Thursday, Oct. 27, a group of over 75 protestors showed their op-position to fee hikes with a two and a half mile march through campus.
The protestors, made up of mostly UC Davis undergraduate and graduate students, expressed their feelings about the rising cost of tuition, and explained how these issues fit in to the current Occupy Wall Street movement.
“We’re here to bring awareness to the Occupy movement. And we’re connecting that to the fact that the UC Regents have increased tu-ition. We’re here to let the rest of the UC Davis community know,” said Fatima Sbeih, senior internation-al relations and psychology double major.
The protesters chanted and held signs, yelling things like “Chop from
the top!” and “Whose university? Our university!” Individuals also made speeches about their person-al experiences and issues with the current system, and their concerns about the upcoming November re-gents meeting.
“The short answer is that the re-gents are discussing an 81 percent fee hike, which will further priva-tize the UC system … That’s just completely wrong, it’s atrocious and it’s a travesty,” said Eran Zelnik, a UC Davis graduate student. “Things could be so much better if people just decide that they want to change it.”
The protesters walked from the Memorial Union (MU) patio to Olson Hall, which they occupied. The group then walked through Shields Library, yelling and carry-ing signs throughout the library.
“The library has nothing to do with this. The library has to deal
with budget cuts, just like all of the other intuitions on campus. They’re just disrupting people who are try-ing to get the most out of their ed-ucation for their dollar worth. I think it’s kind of ridiculous,” said Blair Copple, junior economics and French double major, and employ-ee of the library.
Participants marched through the library while students attempt-ed to study for midterms. Many of the studiers looked annoyed.
“I don’t think it’s going to change anything. This is the tenth protest, it’s not gonna change anything, so I don’t think there’s a point,” said Trang Ngyuen, junior economics and communication double major and library employee.
The protestors then walked to the corner of Russell Boulevard and La Rue Road and walked down
Management looks to rehabilitate Pacifico
Past issues at South Davis co-op push some residents outBy ANGELA SWARTZ
Aggie City Editor
Foreclosure, theft, rundown build-ings and resident discontent have plagued South Davis’ Pacifico Student Housing Cooperative in recent years. Property managers are working to turn this trend around with new regulations and remodels.
The City of Davis bought Pacifico in 2010 for $1.6 million to prevent a fore-closure. Yolo County Housing (YCH) signed a contract with the city to man-age the co-op and officially took over in mid-July. The new manager, Jose Alvarez, has been undergoing training for the position for the past few weeks
By TREVOR CRAMERAggie Sports Editor
The Dempsey Report came under criticism on Wednesday at the second town hall meeting to discuss the hiring of a new Athletic Director (AD). A group made up largely of UC Davis facul-ty and parents of student-ath-letes expressed their concerns about the future of UC Davis athletics.
The evening began with Cedric Dempsey, the head of the firm that created the Dempsey Report, giving a brief explanation of his back-ground and talking about his thoughts regarding the future of UC Davis.
Dempsey stressed the fact that his report was not meant to make recommendations — rather he asserted it was intended to provide options
to the university. While the Dempsey Report presents a path for UC Davis to move away from its current “educa-tional model” toward a “busi-ness model”. Dempsey’s per-sonal view may have been surprising to some.
“I am a strong advocate of a losing cause at the Division I level; that is, I am a strong advocate of the educational model,” he said.
Dempsey also commended UC Davis for its transparency with regard to the AD search.
“Of the 45 schools I have provided reports for,” Dempsey said, “this is the first campus that has allowed for open forums to discuss the results. This is the most trans-parent process I have worked with.”
Almost as soon a Dempsey Brian Nguyen / Aggie
Protesters against UC fee hikes marched over two and a half miles around campus and ended up in Central Park.
Families with costumed kids in tow gathered at Central Park on Saturday for the Davis Farmers Market Fall Festival.
The Halloween-themed festival welcomed the fall season with live music by the Peter Franklin Band, as well as hands-on crafts and science activities.
Visitors also enjoyed an array of animal exhibitions, such as baby piglets from Woodland farmer Jim Nelson, raptors from the California Raptor Center, and chickens and pony rides from California Education through Animals. Dilly Dally the clown offered balloon animals and Object Manipulation Engineer Aaron Crane demonstrated juggling feats.
Fall Festival Faire featured food from Caffé Italia, Davis Creamery, Montoya’s Tamales, Kathmandu Kitchen and Gold Rush Kettle Pop. The Davis Food Co-op conducted a cooking demonstration using local fall ingredients.
“Fall Festival is the Market's most exciting event of the year,” said Market Manager Randii MacNear in a press release. “Fall Festival celebrates local food, local farms and the harvest season. It’s also our way of thanking customers for their patronage throughout the year.”
— Written by Einat Gilboa— Photo by Evan Davis
DaviS celebrateS FarmerS market Fall FeStival
Fire iN DaviS
Davis Fire Department Capt. Bruce Fry overlooks a fire being put out near the Mondavi Center on Sunday
afternoon.— Written by Jasna Hodzic
— Photo by Evan Davis
Shazib Haq / Aggie
Pacifico recently changed management and will soon be undergoing renovations.
See PROTEST, page 5
See PACIFICO, page 5
See DEMPSEY, page 2
“And who are you supposed to be?” Because I don’t dress
up for Halloween anymore, the woman’s question was surprising. “I’m sorry?” I said.
“Your outfit, who are you supposed to be?” she asked. I didn’t want to sound like an asshole and say, “I’m sup-posed to be me, this is how I dress. What’s the matter with you?” But at the same time I was wearing a sports coat, a white long-sleeved shirt and slacks. Maybe it’s just me, but how-ever much I might’ve looked like a Mormon Missionary, I hadn’t made the conscious decision to, so her question caught me off guard.
I thought for a moment before answering. “Warm,” I said finally, putting my hands into the pockets of my jacket, “I’m supposed to be warm.”
She made a comment about not meaning anything by it, about how she thought maybe I was “one of those fancy vampires from one of those movies.” Willing myself not to cringe, I tried to laugh it off to make minor amends. But I knew the damage was done.
I was in one of those chain Halloween stores, so may-be her comment hadn’t been so off the mark. It wasn’t as if she accosted me in a super-market and asked forcibly, “I know a normal person would never dress like this, tell me, who are you supposed to be?” But once she walked away, I wondered why she’d thought I was anything but who I am.
“What are you supposed to be?” I remember ask-ing a girl in middle school. She’d arrived the Friday be-fore Halloween wearing an enormous cardboard bowl around her waist. She’d paint-ed it white and filled it with translucent balloons, and she wore a skin-colored leo-tard. It looked as though she was floating from the waist up in a bowl of massive tap-ioca balls. I guessed she was someone melting inside a pot of acid.
“I’m someone in a bubble bath!” she said happily, ad-justing one of her balloons.
“Oh.” I said, trying to mask my disappointment. “Well done.”
I also remember stand-ing at my front door hand-ing candy out to neighbor-hood children and asking the same question. Though none of them ever wore bathtubs or walked around in dishes of acid, as the years passed I found I had to ask for clarification more and more often.
I’d see the little girl dressed in a black and white pris-on suit and say, knowing-ly, “Zebra, right?” At which she would smile, blush, and let me know I was still young enough to catch youthful ref-erences. But then the answers started to shift and began to relate to things I know noth-ing about, like video games.
“Oh, of course,” I said, completely lost, to the boy who’d informed me he was someone called Zelda. “So
you weren’t trying to satirize the consum-erist cul-ture that drives our
holiday season by dressing up as one of Santa’s Elves for Halloween?”
The blank stare he gave me joined a long line of others from different chil-dren, each in response to the questions I asked, which did nothing but date me. As the stares got progressive-ly longer, I began to feel old. But not wise or particular-ly learned, it was more like a feeling of exhaustion.
It became a refreshing de-light to open the door and see an axe murder, or a behead-ed corpse. I welcomed these things as being refreshing-ly old-fashioned. “A return to the holiday values I grew up with,” I often said encourag-ingly, to more, longer, blank stares.
As I mulled around a dis-play of severed rubber limbs the other day, I tried to come up with an answer to the woman’s question. I’m not a Mormon, not even close, so the obvious answer was a bust. I’d been wearing cloth-ing from Gap, Kohl’s and Ross, which, when I looked at them in a mirror and tried to make something of it, left me facing a blank stare. Only this time, it was my own.
No matter how many times I replayed the woman’s question in my mind, “And who are you supposed to be?” the only thing I heard in reply was my own voice, surround-ed by the comfort of holi-day gore, saying indignantly, “What, exactly, do you mean ‘supposed to be’?”
EVAN WHITE can be reached at [email protected], though he’d also be willing to get in your van if you’ve got the right types of candy.
The other day when I was in one of the MU bathrooms, I set my
phone down and walked out. It only took me five min-utes to realize that I’d lost my phone. But when I went to the bathroom and awkward-ly looked on the counters and in the stall, I knew it was too late. My poor, sweet, loyal Smartphone was gone.
The next three hours were torture. Not only did this dash my plans of talking to my mom for the first time af-ter a long week of studying and stress, but I just couldn’t stop going over what I’d lost in my head. The priceless pictures of my friends and the heirloom lasagna reci-pe I’d saved on my phone, all suddenly came rushing back to me.
I went to all the lost and found areas I knew of, and I was about ready to com-mit hari-kari by the time I was done. Biking home af-terward, I cried hot, salty tears of self-pity. I started thinking that since whoev-er took my phone from the bathroom hadn’t turned it in, they were probably ei-ther trying to hawk it on the secondhand phone black market, enjoying a devi-ous game of “Fruit Slice” or, worst of all, selling my beloved lasagna recipe to “Martha Stewart Living”.
What made me feel even worse was that I assumed whoever found my phone would turn it in. Years before, I found an iPhone in one of the MU bathrooms. I could have sold it and made a pret-ty penny or, even better, I could have kept it for my-self so I could play “Tap Tap Revenge 28” until my thumbs got carpel tunnel. Those de-vious thoughts never even crossed my mind. I knew the phone was like some-one’s small, electronic child, so I felt an urgent sense of re-sponsibility to get it back to its owner.
It annoyed and frustrat-ed me that karma had de-cided to be a complete bitch that day. I’d rescued someone else’s phone, so didn’t that
mean, by cosmic law, that I got a free pass?
This injustice reminded me of four years ago, when a wildfire burned my house, and all my worldly posses-sions, to the ground. The fire destroyed almost ev-erything, except for a mag-ical pumpkin on our front porch. I pulled that bad boy out of piles of ashes, debris and broken roofing tiles, but there was barely a scratch on it.
To me, that damn pump-kin became a symbol of my family’s struggle and ultimate triumph over losing all evi-dence of our years together. It replaced the decimated set of Pokémon cards I was plan-ning on giving my kids some-day and the handmade dress my friend had given me for my birthday.
So that November, when my family moved into a rental house, we proudly displayed
our magical pumpkin in front of our house.
And do you know what one
of my neighbors did? They stole it from my front yard and smashed it in the street for a laugh. I’d already literally lost everything, but losing the metaphorical value of that pumpkin had me daydream-ing of murdering faceless pumpkin killers by smashing them in the street.
Now, while this is probably the strangest story I could tell you, what I want to get across is that what may be worth $20 to you can quite possibly be priceless to its owner, even if it doesn’t seem like it. To me the value of our things aren’t the things themselves, but the memories and emotions we assign to them.
Before I leave you with the impression that the world is full of thieves, I should say that there are still Good Samaritans out there. Even though I was too stupid to find out where they returned it, some valiant ladies room hero did turn in my phone.
So, thank you random Good Samaritan who rescued my phone and returned it to my loving arms. I owe you a huge debt of gratitude and probably some homemade cookies too. You’re a quality human being.
The next time you have the choice between steal-ing something and sending it to its rightful home, pick the latter option. Or not, you choose. But be warned, if you choose theft I’ll come af-ter you with some righteous pumpkin rage.
KATE ZARRELLA would love to hear from you at [email protected], unless you like smashing pumpkins –– the activity, not the band.
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What made me feel even worse was that I assumed whoever
found my phone would turn it in
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Halloween walk with the davis shakespeare ensemble8 p.m.Shields Oak Grove, across from the Arboretum GazeboIntrepid adventurers are invited to join the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble for an interactive theatrical journey through the scary side of Shakespeare, with ghosts, villains and black magic. The audience will need to choose their path wisely, or they might end up as ghosts themselves! To reserve tickets, e-mail [email protected], or call (530) 802-0998.
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ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Oct. 27 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings.
Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m.Adam Thongsavat, ASUCD president, presentBree Rombi, ASUCD vice president, presentYena Bae, ASUCD senator, presentMiguel Espinoza, ASUCD senator, presentEmmanuel Diaz-Ordaz, ASUCD senator, presentAndre Lee, ASUCD senator, presentAmy Martin, ASUCD senator, presentMayra Martín, ASUCD senator, presentTatiana Moana Bush, ASUCD senator, presentDarwin Moosavi, ASUCD senator, presentMatthew Provencher, ASUCD senator, presentBrendan Repicky, ASUCD senator, presentRebecca Sterling, ASUCD senator, presentRyan Meyerhoff, ASUCD senator, present
presentationsAmaan Shaikh did a presentation about the Davis Honors Challenge. He said that it is doing a survey of students to find out how they feel about existing study space and what improvements need to be made to the study spaces on campus. They will be researching other universities to find successful models, and hopefully will be revamping study areas for students on campus.
Student Regent Alfredo Mireles and Jonathon Stein, Student Regent Designate, did a presentation for the table. There are over 230,000 students in UC. The UC Regents said that what is diving our costs are enrollment, compensation, post-employment benefits, other employee benefits, capital renewal and other non-salary cost increases. This year is the first year that students pay over 50 percent of their educational expenses, with the state paying only 48 percent. There is currently a $2.5 billion budget shortfall within the UC system. The system has filled about $1 billion, however we still have a $1.5 billion budget gap. The table asked questions and talked with the student regents.
appointments and confirmationsRyan Lockwood, Artem Trotsyule, Taylor Holland, Eddie Truong and Katherine Chen were appointed to the Business and
Finance Commission.
consideration of old legislationSenate Bill 13, authored by Lee, co-authored by Amelia Badish, Shell Sumerel and Robert St. Cyr, to allocate $8,555.88 from Capital Reserves to fund capital costs for a new Bike Barn retail location in the Memorial Union called the ASUCD Bike Hub; and to make amendments to the Bike Barn annual operating budget to reflect new income and expenses. Lee said he likes it a lot because it will provide new positions for students and make more money for ASUCD. Lee said the Bike Hub would be in the T-Mobile space. The bill passed unanimously.
Senate Bill 19, authored by Maemura, co-authored by Barnett, Sharon Coulson, Salman and Schluep, to implement the Long-Range Plan for the ASUCD Coffee House, passed unanimously.
Senate Bill 20, authored by Kapur, co-authored by Chen, introduced by Lee, to add the position of Historian to the Bylaws. The senate table decided that it did not agree with the bill, and would like to rewrite it. Kapur withdrew the bill and said he would rewrite it for next week.
unit director reportsJeanna Gindi, director of City County Affairs, said that it has posted hiring for renters’-rights committee. Furthermore, she said that all staff and interns have been hired. They are planning a dinner between city council members and senate and the goal for the year is a student leader and city leader casual banquet in the spring. They are working on Davis Model lease.
public discussionLee said the table needs to take unit director reports more seriously. He said that it is the table’s job to keep track of how the units are doing.
The table discussed whether or not it should be able to ask people it is confirming different questions.
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Meeting adjourned at 10:36 p.m.
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stepped away from the po-dium, the criticism of his re-port began.
Of the 10 speakers at the open forum, nine spoke out against the reforms proposed by the Dempsey Report. The anti-Dempsey speakers were largely par-ents of student-athletes and UC Davis faculty.
The speakers echoed the sentiments expressed in the first town hall meeting, voic-ing frustration about poten-tial revision of the eight core principles and citing data from NCAA reports suggest-ing that changes in spend-ing do not necessarily cor-relate to wins and losses.
“[The eight core prin-ciples] were not thrown together to be simply trashed,” said professor of nutrition Louis Grivetti, a member of the committee that drafted the Eight Core Principles back in 2003. “We created the principles be-cause we wanted to ensure that UC Davis did not start down a slippery slope of in-fractions that some might call ‘no big deal.’”
Other speakers spoke of student involvement, and expressed frustration over the perceived lack of stu-dent participation.
“UC Davis students are the single biggest donor this university will ever know,” said Paul Medved, alumnus, donor and parent of a for-mer student-athlete. “The administration is hoping like hell that [the students] stay really busy. Too busy to inform themselves of the facts and truths that would lead them to conclude that they are not receiving the services they have contract-ed with this university.”
Other speakers went so far as to call the current sit-uation “grand theft athlet-
ics” and to suggest that UC Davis cut football before considering dropping oth-er sports.
The lone pro-Dempsey speaker of the evening was UC Davis alumnus Kai Ruess.
“UC Davis has not reached its potential,” Ruess said. “Alumni don’t come back to Davis for games, and the reason is two-fold: First due to the product put on the field, and second due to the lack of marketing.
“Whether it’s good or bad, athletics is the repre-sentation of UC Davis to the outside world … We should take a course that is forward-looking, rath-er than stagnant, and we should try to invest in wise ways so that our Athletics Department can become more competitive.” Ruess is also an organiz-ing member of “Aggies for Excellence,” a group pro-moting UC Davis’ move to a higher level of athlet-ic competition, as is sug-gested in the Dempsey Report. According to the group’s website, aggies-forexcellence.com, one of their goals is to “organize an immediate campaign to convince the Chancellor to hire an Athletics Director that is willing and able to embrace the spirit of the [Dempsey Report] without sacrificing UC Davis’ aca-demic integrity.”
According to an organiz-ing member, “the group has been spearheaded by multi-ple alumni, including sever-al former ASUCD Presidents and Vice Presidents, and multiple former Aggie Pack MCs.”
As of Sunday, 179 peo-ple have registered through the group’s website and the group’s Facebook page has received 269 “likes.”
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Fred Wood and the panel charged with
advising Chancellor Linda Katehi on hiring a new AD will continue discussing the opinions heard at the meet-ing over the next several weeks.
According to Wood, the 14-member panel which in-cludes faculty, donors and students meets approx-imately once every two weeks, and while UC Davis has begun receiving appli-cations for potential suit-ors, Wood insists the panel is not focusing on particular applicants yet.
“Cedric [Dempsey] is re-ceiving applications, but I have specifically instruct-ed him not to forward them to me,” Wood said. “I don’t think we can begin to look at applications un-til we have direction as to where our future in athlet-
ics is going.”Katehi has also extend-
ed the period for collect-ing comments to Nov. 30, in order to accommodate two additional town hall meetings.
With the additional time, Wood has revised his time-table for the hiring of a new AD, estimating that Katehi will make her decision in late spring or early fall, rath-er than by the end of 2011 as he had stated at the pre-vious town hall meeting.
An ASUCD sponsored town hall meeting is sched-uled for Wednesday at 7 p.m. in ARC Ballroom A. That will be followed by the final scheduled town hall meeting on Nov. 15.
TREVOR CRAMER can be reached at [email protected].
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finally tallied the match-point on their fifth attempt — beat-ing UCSB 31-29 in the set, 3-1 in the match.
“I was happy to see that we stayed so calm in that final set,” said junior Valerie Brain. “We were really poised. It was awe-some to get a win like this.”
Brain led the Aggies with 15 kills, while junior Allison Whitson notched 14.
Junior Caroline Mercado paced UC Davis with 18 digs and sophomore Jenny Woolway posted 59 assists.
Sunday — UC Davis 3, Cal Poly 2
Saturday’s game was a war of attrition.
The Aggies fell behind ear-ly for the second straight day, dropping the first set 25-19, but responded in a dramatic sec-ond set to win 30-28.
The third set was all Aggies as UC Davis controlled the net from the start and took a 25-18 win to give them the advantage, two sets to one.
The fourth frame was a battle.
For the second straight night the Aggies found themselves trailing 20-14. It looked like the Aggies might have a chance to come back as they cut Cal Poly’s lead to 23-22, but it was not enough as the Mustangs took the frame 25-23 to force a fifth set.
The final frame was UC Davis’ time to shine.
UC Davis never trailed, and sealed the victory with a 15-8 fifth-set win.
Sophomore Devon Damelio was a key part to the Aggies’ success, setting a career high with 21 kills.
“[Damelio] was just clutch,” Holmes said. “We just need-ed to get her the ball, and she was going to swing with all her might. It’s a real momentum-getter to have someone swing-ing like that.”
Sedlak also matched her ca-reer high with 19 kills.
Mercado again led the Aggies with 23 digs, while Whitson and Woolway added 19 apiece.
The Aggies will return to the road this week as they face Cal State Northridge and UC Riverside.
TREVOR CRAMER can be reached at [email protected].
VOLLEYCont. from page 6
NorPac conference, securing the number three seed in the NorPac tournament that begins on Wednesday.
The victory and high-er seed could be a crit-ical advantage in UC Davis’ first game of the tournament.
“You always want to go in higher because it creates momentum,” Campos explained.
Saturday’s win coupled with the improvement that the team exhibited in recent games against California and Stanford provides optimism for the Aggies as they begin tournament play.
“We’re happy that we’re playing well,” said Campos. “We’re going in with a lot of momentum.”
The Aggies will face Davidson on Thursday
in their first game of the NorPac tournament.
KAITLYN ZUFALL can be reached at [email protected]
hOckEYCont. from page 6
In the second quar-ter, senior Jacob Maxson blocked another Southern Utah field goal attempt.
“I thought we got back on our heels a little bit the first two drives, [but] we settled in with what we were trying to do,” Biggs said. “We bent but we didn’t break. The defense played their hearts out in my opinion.”
More often than not, however, after getting a
stop, the defense would up right back on the field following quick UC Davis offensive possessions.
The Aggies had 12 of-fensive possessions in the game, with only three of them lasting more than four plays. Only one of the drives lasted more than three minutes and 30 sec-onds.
UC Davis ran 45 offen-sive plays, compared to the 75 of Southern Utah. The Aggies were 3 for 10 on third down conver-sions.
The lone bright spot for
the UC Davis offense was the career-high 54 yard field goal hit by senior kicker Sean Kelley.
Kelley is now 5-9 on field goals this season and remains perfect on PATs — 20 for 20. With three games remaining in his career, Kelley needs eight more field goals to eclipse Eddie Loretto as UC Davis’ all-time leader in field goals made.
As a team, the Aggies must find a way to put Saturday’s disappointing loss behind them, as they face another tough con-
ference opponent in Cal Poly this weekend.
The rivalry game will give the team a chance to rally around each other and put on a strong per-formance in front of their home crowd.
“They’re a good football team,” Biggs said of the Mustangs. “It’s a great ri-valry and it seems to bring out the best in both teams.
“I guarantee we will be ready to play on Saturday.”
You can follow Caelum Shove on twitter @CaAggieFootball or you can e-mail him at [email protected]
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a shot from 61 yards out into the wide-open goal for a 2-0 Gaucho lead.
The Aggies struck right back not three minutes later when freshman Matt Wiesenfarth got the ball to junior Dan Reese, who scored to bring the game to a 2-1 score.
“Even if we do give up the first goal or two, we have the confidence that we can score 2 goals and come back,” Head Coach Dwayne Shaffer said. “We’ve proven we can play from behind this season.”
Despite the optimism, UC Davis could not pull the same
late game magic they had so many times before. The Gauchos even extended their lead in the 77th minute to beat the Aggies 3-1.
“They’re ranked 23 in the na-tion. We went down there and played hard,” Shaffer said. “I thought we played well be-cause it’s an outstanding place to play.”
UCSB is now responsible for two of UC Davis’s three confer-ence losses. “It just wasn’t our day, but we’re moving forward and we can still achieve our goal of the Big West Conference Tournament,” Shaffer said.
MATTHEW YUEN can be reached at [email protected].
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Senior Betsy Sedlak tied a career high for kills against Cal Poly.
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Junior Casey Wollbrink scored the Aggies first goal at Pacific on Thursday.
Dear Gabby,
I am so stressed out! I’m about to graduate, applying for grad school and working two part-time jobs. Sometimes I feel like I don’t have time to do it all, and I’m considering quitting one of my jobs even though I’d feel ter-rible about it. How can I stop freaking out about all my re-sponsibilities and how do I know when I’m trying to do too much?
— Stressed out senior
Dear Stressed out senior,
I applaud your ability to jug-gle all of that at once. Take pride in knowing that you give hope to the many victims of seniori-tis. But there is a healthy medi-um between care-free couch po-tato (who usually fails a lot in life) and a manic overachiever (who is usually unhappier than most) and that healthy medium is what you want to aim for. You are never go-ing to be an undergraduate senior again. That makes it a special year, and one that you’re going to want to remember as being awesome. At the same time, grad school ap-plications, jobs and classes are de-manding, so it ends up being too much for one person to handle.
My mom always says, “You have the rest of your life to work, so focus on school and fun,” and
I must say she is absolutely right. College is expensive and I believe that students should have a part–time job to pay for toilet paper and the occasional sushi buffet, but that part-time job shouldn’t be top priority.
I highly suggest you quit one of your jobs, even if it makes you feel guilty. Tell your boss about your situation and I’m sure he/she won’t be a tyrant about it. And if he/she is, then that’s one less negative person you have to deal with, right? Trust me, the re-lief you feel with one less obliga-tion will out-weigh the temporary guilt you feel for quitting. It also sounds like you don’t have much time for a social life, but do some-thing for yourself at least twice a week. Naps, yoga, full-body mas-sages, concerts, baking ... I could go on for days! Pick one, you wont regret it.
If you don’t sleep enough and have dark circles under your eyes, if your hair starts greying or falling out, if you don’t see your friends anymore and they start forget-ting that you exist, if your “to-do” list takes more than five minutes to make, if you don’t have time for three meals a day, if you get sick more frequently than normal and finally, if you think you have too many things to do, then you are probably doing too much. Stay fo-cused but don’t burn yourself out!
Dear Gabby,
My girlfriend of five years just moved to the East Coast for school and I only get to see her during breaks. What is the best way to handle being away from her?
— Lonely lover
Dear Lonely Lover,
Long distance relationships (LDRs) are far from easy, but they aren’t impossible. Most things get easier with time; LDRs, however, get harder over time because you have different experiences, your
lives begin to diverge and your re-lationship is put to the test. A five-year relationship sounds like a solid one, but you’ll both have to work hard to make your absences easier on each other.
I’m sure you are well aware of one other disenchanting aspect of being apart from your signifi-cant other — you are the only per-son who can satisfy your sexual needs. It’s time to go back to the days where all you had was priva-cy and the internet. It may not be as good as the real thing, but you have to work with what you’ve got. Luckily, we are living in the day and age of Skype, Facetime and KY Yours & Mine, so you should be all set in that department.
Boundaries. Talk about them. If you are okay with each other hav-ing “cuddle buddies” then say so. If you don’t mention boundar-ies then one of you might over-step them, which will lead to a messy cascade of events, and you want to avoid that. The best thing you can do is to stay involved in her life in any way you can so she knows that you care. The worst thing you can do in a moment of weakness is to betray someone you care about. If that day comes and you find yourself falling for somebody else, do the right thing and talk to your girlfriend before you act on those feelings.
Try not to get frustrated, be-cause the more you dwell on the fact that you miss her, the harder you make it for yourself. Instead, occupy your time with things that you enjoy. Go out with your friends, join an IM athletic team, and focus on you. It also wouldn’t hurt to get a part time job so you can afford to visit her every once in a while. If you are so hopelessly in love that you can’t stand to live 3,000 miles apart, then start fill-ing out those applications and re-member to dress in layers!
Got a problem? Gabby can help. Really! E-mail her at [email protected].
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Dear Gabby
George Laverdet, a Davis resident, decorates a tent at the Occupy Davis campus on Sunday morning. At press, there were 17 tents on the Russell Boulevard end of Central Park, where protesters have been based since the occupation began on Oct. 15.
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What are you going to be for Halloween? Text by CLAIRE MALDARELLIPhotos by MADISON DUNITZ
“Ginger Spice, because I love the Spice Girls and girl power and also because I am
a ginger.” Molly Hoelper
junior mechanical engineering major
“For Halloween I am going to be a pimp because all the girls are
dressed like whores.”Alfredo Ramirez
junior exercise biology major
“We actually do not celebrate Halloween. Halloween honors the dead and God says we shouldn’t participate in events such as
these.”Linda Raty and Suzanne Metz,
Jehovah’s Witnesses who hand out free literature on the Quad.
“Mexico, with a short belt and Tequila belt because it’s fun and the only costume I have.”Fred Tattersalljunior chemistry major
“I am going to be River Tam because I didn’t plan very well and it’s the simplest thing I can do and still make it work.”Hannal Victoryjunior dramatic art major
and has been living on site.Jason Snyder, who received
a Ph.D. in geography from UC Davis, moved into Pacifico in 2007. Feeling dissatisfied with co-op, he moved out this fall.
“When I first heard about Pacifico, I thought it was a nice ar-rangement because my house [the B unit] was designated for [grad-uate] students; I was excited to live with people under similar cir-cumstances as me,” Snyder said. “Things started turning bad dur-ing December 2007 though. There was a lot of drug usage going on with some residents, as well as ha-rassment, fights, theft and I even
suspected one resident of poison-ing my food.”
Snyder said he believes these disruptive residents were symp-toms of the management not reg-ulating who was coming in.
He said the situation began im-proving last year, but soon took a turn for the worse again. He also said the management’s manda-tory chore schedule required too much time from residents.
“I think if management brought in the right people [residents], making it more student friend-ly, Pacifico has a lot of potential,” Snyder said.
Two of the four buildings on the property are currently empty — with the A and B units closed and the C and D buildings open. In total, the four units have the
capacity to house 112 residents.With 53 rooms available now,
12 rooms are occupied and 41 are available for rent, according to Danielle Foster, the housing and human services superintendent for the city.
Lisa A. Baker, executive direc-tor at YCH, said YCH’s long term plan is to rehabilitate the build-ings. The property’s contract with the county requires the managers to house nine foster care children.
“With the multifamily housing situation, we want to make sure we have a safe, good community,” Baker said. “Several people have moved out of Pacifico in the last couple of weeks if they weren’t abiding by their contracts.”
Baker said she is actively seek-ing people to fill the vacancies in
the co-op.A couple weeks ago, manage-
ment changed residents’ keys, so that they can only enter their own units. She said this key control is essential for a good community.
Though management said it has been trying to make changes to the co-op, some still have seen recent issues at the location.
One resident, who chose to re-main unnamed, said this past summer another resident stole a laptop from management and set off fire extinguishers. The source also said there were public fights between residents which man-agement let get out of control.
Alexandra Ramirez, a Mexican exchange student to UC Davis working on her masters degree in plant biotechnology, has lived in
the D unit since September and was initially drawn to the co-op when she viewed its website.
“I wanted to move out when I first got to Pacifico because it was under my expectations,” Ramirez said. “It was a mess. People were stealing food. In the first two weeks the police came five times because of troubled residents.”
Ramirez said the co-op has im-proved recently, mostly because those causing problems were evicted.
“Would I recommend Pacifico to others? That’s hard to say,” she said. “Things were traumatic, but it’s gotten a lot better.”
ANGELA SWARTZ can be reached at [email protected].
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Russell Boulevard in the middle of the road. A bike cop and a police officer on a motorcycle followed the protest down Russell Blvd., and a squad car came to stop traffic as the protestors walked in the street.
The group ended its walk in Central Park, where the Occupy Davis movement is camping, and participants lis-tened to more speeches and talked about their personal stories.
The protest lasted for over two hours and fluctu-ated in size from 75 people to over 100 people through-out the march.
“There is a statewide, na-tionwide and world wave sweeping and I think we
should all try to surf that wave,” Zelnik said. “That wave hopefully will help change the way we think, change the way we talk,
change that paradigm that we’re so committed to.”
HANNAH STRUMWASSER can be reached at [email protected].
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The group entered Olson Hall, where upset students came out of classrooms to see what was going on.
By cHristiNa NoVaKoV-ritcHeYAggie Features Writer
When you drive up to the UC Davis Equestrian Center — a part of campus most students have never visited — you re-alize that a separate world exists within the borders of Davis. This world is focused on one thing: horses.
The horse community is made up of those who take classes at the Equestrian Center, participants in the different eques-trian teams, members of the Rodeo club and people who board their horses on campus.
It’s true having a horse can be consid-ered at times to be both pleasurable and hard work. These students use their hors-es as a source of relief from the stresses of regular college life, such as homework, a job, an internship and a sometimes-hectic personal life.
“I really love having him here. He's very centering. I always joke that ‘my thera-pist lives in a barn’ and it's very much the truth,” said Emily Lucic, junior environ-mental science and management major.
Students said they chose to board their horses at UC Davis most importantly be-cause of the convenience and proxim-ity of the barn to campus. They also en-joy the covered arena, great for going for a ride when it’s raining, along with the care of the staff, who muck stalls and feed the horses.
“I absolutely love being able to leave my organic chemistry class, bike through the arboretum, ride my horse, clean up and go to my linguistics class. Where else can you do that?” said Emily Seubert, junior bio-logical sciences major.
Leanne Moore, senior animal science major, initially housed her horse on cam-
pus because she loved the connection she could forge between her everyday class life and horse life. Moore housed her horse on campus for her first two years at UC Davis.
The decision for Dina Schneider, senior animal science major, to bring her horse to campus was easy.
“It’s either my horse comes with me or he’s going to get sold,” Schneider said.
Boarding a horse in a barn stall, which includes an indoor and outdoor space, costs $415 per month. Barn employees will also feed the horse hay and clean the stall twice a day.
Boarding a horse in an outdoor pas-ture with five other horses costs $250 per month. This fee also includes regular feed-ings and pasture cleanings.
Sophomore animal biology major Kristyn Pendley chose to board her horse in a stall so she is better able to control what he eats.
“A lot of people choose based on price, but it really depends on the horse,” Pendley said. “As much as I would have loved to choose based on financial rea-sons, I thought he’d do better in a stall.”
Potential boarders must sign up on a waiting list in order to secure a spot at the barn. Currently, Pendley said the wait-ing list for a stall has seven people and the waitlist for a pasture has 14.
“If you’re currently a boarder and want to go from a stall to a pasture, you get pri-ority. So the pasture waitlist doesn’t move as fast as the stall waitlist,” Pendley said.
Schneider said that it’s important to get on the waiting list as soon as possible.
“I put my name down on Preview Day and almost didn’t get the spot because they wrote my number down wrong. It’s al-ways full,” Schneider said.
In addition to the monthly boarding fee,
horse owners must pay additional fees for supplies, extra food and medical care.
Pendley said she pays about $100 every 8 weeks for horseshoes, $200 to $300 a year for veterinary care and $400 a year for ex-tra supplements and food.
Many of these students are partic-ipants on the school’s riding teams, and continually train, not only for their teams, but also to simply improve their skill and be able to enjoy riding to the fullest extent. Pendley said most of the students who board their horses on cam-pus don’t take formal lessons, but rath-er are members of the UC Davis eques-trian team. People who take riding les-sons typically do not board their horses on campus.
Thanks to riding teams and clubs, the communities of students that hold their roots in the Equestrian Center borders reach much further than the gravel and shrubbery outlining the center.
“The other girls that board their hors-es at the equestrian center have become some of my closest friends,” said Sonali Rathod, junior animal science major, who boards her horse on campus and runs the 3-Day Event Team.
Even during the summer, when the den-sity of Davis residents plummets, the horse community remains strong.
“A bunch of us stayed in Davis over the summer and we had a Facebook group where we would just post, ‘Hey anyone want to go for a ride?’ We went on trail rides and swimming” Schneider said.
The gushing of these riders is not to say, however, that there aren’t difficulties as-sociated with having their horses during school. Many mentioned the difficulty of finding enough time to visit the barn dur-ing midterms and finals.
Despite some of the difficulties associ-ated with horse ownership, one thing rang true among all of the horse-owners: they think their horses are incredible and worth every minute of the time they devote to them.
“The time I put into my relationship with my horse is more rewarding than any-thing else I can think of,” Rathod said.
CHRISTINA NOVAKOV-RITCHEY can be reached at [email protected].
Horsin’ around at UC DavisEquestrian students form a unique community
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Dina Schneider and her mustang pony Tango are a popular pair at the EQC.
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THE BACKSTOP
By CAELUM SHOVEAggie Sports Writer
After their worst offensive perfor-mance of the season, the Aggies now find themselves in an unfamiliar posi-tion.
Saturday’s 34-3 loss at Southern Utah drops UC Davis to 2-6 on the season and 0-2 in the Great West Conference. The team has not started a season 2-6 since the switch to Division I in 2007, and is now assured of its first losing season since 2008.
“This is uncharted territory for us,” Head Coach Bob Biggs said. “It’s time to really test ourselves and challenge ourselves.”
UC Davis could not get any-thing going offensively against the Thunderbirds, and for the second week in a row turnovers are the story.
The Aggies fumbled three times in the game, and Southern Utah made them pay for their mistakes. Fumbles in the third and fourth quarter both led
directly to Southern Utah touchdowns, putting the game out of reach for a UC Davis team that did not score un-til midway through the fourth quarter.
“We just couldn’t get any momen-tum going,” Biggs explained. “They were running a coverage to take away the pass, so we knew we had to run the football and we just weren’t able to do that constantly.”
UC Davis rushed for a season low 43 yards in the game and managed only nine first downs throughout the con-test.
With the offense struggling to move the ball downfield, it was the Aggie de-fense was on the field for most of the game.
After giving up two long touchdown drives on the first two Thunderbird possessions, the defensive unit settled down and kept their team in the game.
A 10 yard sack by redshirt freshman Steven Pitts late in the first quarter forced a 51-yard field goal attempt by Southern Utah that they were unable to convert.
By MATTHEW YUENAggie Sports Writer
The UC Davis men’s soccer program’s three game winning streak was ended on Wednesday when it dropped a 3-1 decision to No. 23 UC Santa Barbara.
UCSB is the very team that handed the UC Davis its last loss before the Aggies strung to-gether the three straight victo-ries that put them at the top of the Big West Conference.
With the loss the Aggies fell to 7-7-2 on the year, and moved to second in the Big West with a re-cord of 5-3.
Despite the Aggies’ nine-point advantage over the Gauchos in the conference standings prior to the match,
it would be a stretch to say UC Davis entered the game as the favorite — playing at Santa Barbara in front of a crowd of 2,456 Gaucho fans.
Looking to prove they weren’t out of the season just yet, the Gauchos showed why they are atop the Big West in nearly ev-ery offensive statistic. They got the first lead of the game in the 37th minute when a free kick got through the UC Davis de-fense and UCSB’s Tim Pontius knocked the ball in to put the Gauchos up 1-0.
Keeping UC Davis on its back foot, UCSB tacked on anoth-er goal in the 61st minute on a bizarre play that found sopho-more goalkeeper Omar Zeenni way out of position. Pontius seized the opportunity and put
By TREVOR CRAMERAggie Sports Editor
The Aggies may struggle on the road at times, but when they play at the Pavilion they are lights out.
UC Davis beat Big West Conference opponents UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly over the weekend, moving their record to 8-0 at home this season.
“We love playing at home,” said senior Betsy Sedlak. “We feel comfortable here and the crowd is amazing.”
With the wins, the Aggies move into a tie for second in the Big West with a conference record of 6-5.
The Aggies also moved over 20 wins on the sea-son with a record of 20-6. Coach Jamie Holmes believes that could help them get in to the NCAA Tournament.
“When it comes to the NCAA,” she said, “they take a look to see that you got over 20 wins. The fact that we did well at home this weekend defi-nitely works in our favor.” Friday — UC Davis 3, UC Santa Barbara 1 Friday’s match was a barn-burner.
The Aggies found themselves behind early, after losing the first set 25-20. The second set was hotly contested throughout, but UC Davis finally broke through on its third set-point to win the frame 27-25 and even the match at one set apiece.
After taking the third set 25-23, the Aggies had the Gauchos’ backs against the wall entering the fourth set.
UCSB responded early, jumping out to a 20-14 lead, but UC Davis would not go quietly. The Aggies rallied to even things at 24, placing extra pressure back on the Gauchos.
After several hard-fought points, UC Davis
By KAITLYN ZUFALLAggie Sports Writer
UC Davis knew the result of its final regu-lar season game against Pacific would set the tone as it enters the Nor Pac Conference Tournament on Thursday.
Through a strong display of offensive strength, UC Davis powered to a 4-1 victory over the Tigers, building necessary momentum as it continues play this week in Stanford.
UC Davis struck ear-ly on Pacific’s home field and continued that offensive pressure through the rest of the game.
Junior Casey Wollbrinck scored on a penalty corner less than two minutes into play, taking control of the game for the Aggies ear-ly on.
“[Wollbrink] really did a lot in starting the at-tack,” said coach Vianney Campos. “She really gets
the energy going for our team … we love seeing that from her.”
Though Pacific was able to retaliate with a goal of their own, the Aggies scored twice more on plays by soph-omore Cloey Lemmon and senior Kristen Lopez before the end of the first half — pulling ahead with a solid 3-1 lead.
UC Davis continued to control the game in the second half, hold-ing Pacific scoreless through a strong de-fense led by Aggie goal-keeper Conley Craven’s six saves. Junior Nadia Namdari extended the UC Davis lead with a goal in the final ten minutes of play, result-ing in a final score of 4-1.
“We’ve been really fo-cusing on playing a con-trolled game and I think we showed that today,” Campos said. “We got some momentum going and the defense slowed [Pacific] down.”
The win improved the Aggies’ record to 4-11 overall and 2-4 in the
Men’s water poloUC Davis finished its Western Water Polo Association regular season this past weekend with two road losses.
With the losses, the Aggies drop to 20-9 overall and 11-4 in league play.
UC Davis will now have to wait on other WWPA results to find out where it will be seeded in the WWPA Tournament.
The weekend opened with a 10-6 loss to UC San
Diego on Friday.Senior Walter Eggert scored a hat trick in
the first half, but it wasn’t enough as UC Davis dropped its second game of the season to the Tritons.
UC Davis certainly had its chances to score, but it missed its last seven 6-on-5s.
The Aggies followed that match with a loss to Loyola Marymount by the score of 8-5.
UC Davis was stifled offensively throughout the match against the four-time defending WWPA champion Lions.
Junior Colin Hicks netted a hat trick for the Aggies, but UC Davis was never closer than three goals after the first quarter.
This was the last conference game for UC Davis this season before the WWPA tournament. The Aggies return to action on Nov. 12, hosting California for their home finale.
— Russell Eisenman
The wait is overUC Davis women notch first ever Big West cross country title
Courtesy of Matt Brown
The UC Davis women’s cross country team celebrated their first Big West title.
Aggies enter “uncharted territory”
UC Davis locks down first losing season since 2008
By TREVOR CRAMERAggie Sports Writer
The weight has been lifted — UC Davis cross country now has its first ever Big West Conference women’s title.
“It’s been something that’s been talk-ed about in the program since we moved to Division I,” said coach Drew Wartenberg. “In the short term it relieves a lot of pressure, be-cause now we don’t have to deal with the ques-tions of ‘When are you going to win one?’”
The long-awaited win was a group effort for the Aggies.
UC Davis placed three runners in the top-10 and five runners in the top-14 of the women’s 6-K race. To Wartenberg, the team depth led them to victory.
“Anytime you place that well you’re going to have a good chance to win,” Wartenberg said. “The team is at a point where they re-ally trust their fitness and trust each other and that’s what it takes to win.”
Junior Sarah Sumpter led the Aggies with a second place finish in her return to the Big West Championships. After missing all of last season due to her bout with brain cancer, Sumpter made her coach proud in this race.
“[Sumpter] ran hard and she ran from the front,” Wartenberg said. “Despite all the adversity she has gone through she hasn’t changed her style at all.”
Sumpter was followed by sophomore Alycia Cridebring and freshman Kristine Lozoya — who finished eighth and 10th, respectively.
On the men’s side, UC Davis was led by senior Jonathan Peterson, who finished fifth as he attempted to defend his Big West individual title.
While it is difficult to repeat in Division I athletics, this was not the result Peterson was hoping for.
“He just didn’t have gas in the tank late,” Wartenberg said. “There are some pieces to pick up, but also there is a lot of motivation that will come from this.”
With the conference championships now out of the way, UC Davis will focus its attention on the Doc Adams Invitational in Davis on Saturday and the NCAA Regionals at Stanford Nov. 12.
“Recovery starts immediately,” Wartenberg said. “Monday is a new week, so now it’s time to get fresh and hungry for our upcoming meets.”
TREVOR CRAMER can be reached at [email protected].
Evan Davis / Aggie
Kicker Sean Kelly set a career high by knocking down a 54-yard field goal.
See BALL, page 4
Aggies slip on roadUC Davis falls to second in Big West Conference
See SOCCER, page 4
Madison Dunitz / Aggie
Freshman Matt Wiesenfarth provided the assist for the Aggies only goal against the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos on Wednesday.
Home-cookingThe Aggies stay perfect in Davis
See VOLLEY, page 4
FOOTBALL
WOMEn’S VOLLEYBALL
FiELD hOCKEY
MEn’S SOCCER
CROSS COUnTRY
UC Davis finishes strong
Aggies’ win secures third seed in NorPac tournament
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