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serving the uc davis campus and communit y since 1915www.theaggie.orgvolume 131, number 68 monday, may 21, 2012

UC Regents meet in the capital

East Davis standoff required extra level

of caution

UC Regents discuss fee increases, chancellor appointment amid protests

Rare event ended with a surrender

Alternative Learning Project starts this Fall

Experimental College creates forum for student-led workshops

By JUSTIN ABRAHAMAggie News Writer

The UC Regents meeting was held last Wednesday in Sacramento for the first time since 1993. Usually organized at campus lo-cations, the meeting was transferred to the Sacramento Convention Center in order to rally government support for the financially debilitated university system. Among other issues, the Regents discussed an impending 6 percent tuition increase for all students if voters reject Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed tax initiative. Annual costs for an in-state UC student have doubled to around $30,000 since 2007 and a 6 percent fee increase would add $732 to that total. UC would need $125 million of state funding to prevent recourse to anoth-er round of fee hikes and university officials urged legislators to consider this alternative. “There has been some interest by the gov-ernor’s office in buying out the tuition in-crease,” said Daniel Dooley, UC senior vice president for external relations. “We’re going to fight like crazy for that.” Californians will be able to vote on Gov. Brown’s tax initiative this November when the proposal goes on the ballot. The Regents also confirmed the appoint-ment of UC San Diego’s new chancellor, Pradeep K. Khosla. Khosla, who will replace Marye Anne Fox on Aug. 1, was the former Dean of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Controversy surrounds Khosla’s $411,084 salary, which represents a 4.8 percent in-crease from his predecessor’s pay. The UC administration is facing criticism for rais-ing executive salaries amid continued bud-get cuts. Only Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Student Regent Alfredo Mireles, Jr. voted against the compensation package for the new chancellor. “What we are asking for is a crackdown on the mismanagement itself in the form of high executive pays, in the form of increas-ing and relentless tuition hikes,” said Cheryl Deutsch, a UCLA graduate student speaking during the public comments period. The meeting was interrupted by a more theatrical expression of protest as a group of approximately twenty students dressed

By PAAYAL ZAVERIAggie News Writer

While Davis is generally consid-ered a relatively safe and crime-free area, there are times that re-quire extra caution. On May 7, a Davis man wanted for a weap-ons charge allegedly barri-caded himself in a house on Adrain Drive and kept the police occu-pied for over five hours before surrendering. According to Lt. Paul Doroshov of the Davis Police Department the suspect, 26-year-old David Manuel Cervantes, was ar-rested on a gun charge and his case is still under investigation. The police were called to the scene to serve a restraining order.

“This type of incident is rare in Davis; we normally don’t get these type of crimes,” Doroshov said. The standoff required the evac-uation of many houses on Adrian Drive and the surrounding blocks. Additionally, SWAT teams and crisis negotiation teams had

to set up posts around the neighborhood.

For hours Cervantes allegedly would not

open the door or answer telephones to speak with the

officers at the scene, according to a Press

Release from the City of Davis Police Department. Because of the suspect’s history of weapons possession the police took a

By DEVON BOHARTAssociate Features Editor

You have probably imagined what it would be like to make up your own course or even to take one taught by your peers about something less formal than Chemistry 2B or English 40. Well next year, you will have that opportunity. For Fall 2012, the Experimental College (EC) is unveiling the Alternative Learning Project (ALP), a set of workshops centered on the topic of the instructors course. Hannah Moore, the office manager for the EC said that these courses are aimed to give another perspective on things, other than the purely academic. “It’s a more personal sense fos-tering much more discussion,” Moore said. “Not everybody is going to take a women’s studies class or an ethnic studies class

and those are things that you may say are interesting, but you might not have the time in your schedule or have that chance. This is a space where you can do that — getting back to the EC roots.” Junior international relations major and director of the EC Suzanne Lewis came up with the idea after realizing the history and the mission of the EC as well as seeing a need for alternative voice on campus. “The EC was started with a really radical mission to bring subjects to campus that the university wouldn’t teach like ethnic studies and women and gender studies. Now the university offers those, but I feel like there are still some limitations to what can be done in a classroom set-ting, at least as sanctioned by the university,” Lewis said. “I thought that it would be

kind of cool to offer a space where there really aren’t limita-tions on who can teach or what can be taught. Students have a lot of knowledge so why can’t students teach students?” However, Lewis said that the fact that the EC offers workshop series aren’t the unique part about the program. “What is unique is we already have the structure set up and all people have to do is think

News iN BrieF

Forum today on improving

revenue for public education

On Saturday, KDVS 90.3 FM, a student and community radio station based in Davis, held their 12th annual Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom (ORMF) music festival at Plainfield Station Bar & Grill in Woodland. The event lasted from 1 to 10 p.m. and was open to all ages. Comprised of a lineup of 13 bands from Sacramento, Davis and the Bay Area, the festival was geared toward a more experimental electronic vibe. “The festival is a showcase of things that KDVS represents,” said Sharmi Basu, events coordinator for KDVS. “KDVS is a college radio station at UC Davis and we pride ourselves on being freeform.” Basu said the festival is named

ORMF since it is different than other music festivals. “You could go to Coachella or Outside Lands and be overwhelmed with people,” Basu said. “But at ORMF, it’s a very relaxing, non-oppressive environment.” Situated in the back of Playfield Station’s bar — essentially a backyard — Basu said the event has been held at the same venue since its conception. “We were thinking of doing it elsewhere this year, but part of it is tradition and part of it is [that] Plainfield is really beautiful,” Basu said. “It’s kind of a field with a little stage and kind of off in the middle of nowhere, but not totally isolated.” To obtain the festival’s lineup, KDVS

reached out to different bands. Basu said sometimes the bands will find out about ORMF and reach out to KDVS. “Sometimes we start with a ridiculous amount of bands who want to play,” she said. “Then we narrow it down from there, but it’s hard because there’s so many awesome people who want to play.” The profits earned at the door were given to the bands and venue. However, putting the event together is relatively low-budget, Basu said. “In general, it’s like we’re having a big party for ourselves,” Basu said. “But we do it for the bands more so; it’s a nice thing we can put our stamp on.”

— Written by Claire Tan— Photo by Brian Nguyen

KDVS hosts 12th Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom Festival

Saving California Communities and ASUCD are sponsoring two fo-rums on proposed initiatives that will examine how to increase revenue for California’s public education system. Advancement Project’s senior poli-cy analyst Sandy Escobedo will pres-ent information on “Our Children, Our Future,” an education initiative that would raise over $10 billion in funding to help children succeed in school. The ballot is also sponsored by Civil Rights Attorney Molly Munger and supported by the California PTA. The event will take place on campus tonight in 206 Olson Hall at 7:30 p.m. Escobedo said she is pleased to be a part of an event that encourages dialogue. “Forums of this nature are the epit-ome of direct, participatory democra-cy,” she said. Susan Lovenburg, president of the Davis School Board and a founding member of Saving California Communities, said that in the two forums UC Davis students and Davis community members will come together to become informed voter options. ASUCD president Rebecca Sterling said tuition increases are on the minds of every UC Davis student. “We want to know how California will continue to invest in its future,” Sterling said. Another forum will be held on June 4 at the same time and location that will be focused on the revenue initia-tive sponsored by Gov. Jerry Brown. Both sessions are open to the pub-lic and will have an open question and answer session.

— Muna Sadeksee reGeNTs, page 2Brian Nguyen / Aggie

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Last week I told a story about my mother and it has come to my at-

tention that we will not still be in school over Father’s Day and that this is un-fair to my male parent. So I will tell an equally flatter-ing story.

When I was little and a budding comedian I used to make jokes in which I would rib my pops (giving each other a hard time is basically a Hempstead fam-ily tradition), to which he would in-variably re-ply, “That’s snot funny! It’s snot, it’s snot, it’s snot.” Upon which the aforementioned snot would fly out of my nose as I cackled uncontrolla-bly in the passenger seat of his truck at what was defi-nitely the funniest joke ever made. My dad is great.

Funniness is subjective. I’m into comedy in a big way and the thing is you can never tell exactly what will make someone laugh. In fact, you can’t even real-ly tell what will make you laugh. It’s not like you’re sit-ting in front of an Apatow movie, saying to yourself, “that gentleman just ref-erenced the act of coitus! How droll, I believe I shall laugh now. Hah! Hah!” It would be a very different kind of world if we thought that way.

So if you can never pre-dict what people will find funny, how do you be fun-ny on purpose? Don’t look at me, I don’t have a freak-ing clue.

Ok fiiiine, I’ll look into it.Here’s something inter-

esting. Did you know that your average baby laughs 15 times more per day that an adult? Which makes me question just what the duck is so funny that our ba-bies are cracking up all day? What are these infants see-ing that we’re not? Have we become so jaded to the wonderful funniness of the world that we’ve lost our ability to laugh? Or maybe their standards for what’s funny are just way lower than ours because babies are dumb. Either way.

Time for a science party! When you laugh, the ven-tromedial prefrontal cortex lights up, which is the part that squirts out endorphins. But from the ridiculously tiny bit of research I’ve read

on the subject, it’s not to-tally clear to me which hap-pens first. That is to say, do you observe something, laugh at it and then receive a big endorphin boost, or are the endorphins the cause of the laughter? Does happiness make you laugh or does laughter make you happy? There’s probably an answer somewhere that I don’t know because I’m ba-sically as dumb as a dumb, stupid baby.

So I did something in that last paragraph that comedy people term a “call-back.” That’s when you ref-erence something that hap-pened earlier, funny or not, in the hopes that your audi-ence will remember it and giggle. Callbacks are satisfy-ing to hear because – even if they’re as cheap as mine just was – you feel smart for catching on. Which, of course, you are. You’re

also very good look-ing and have per-fect hands. Please keep read-

ing my column?Another thing comedy

nerds talk about is the rule of three, in which you set up the premise for a joke, repeat it in a slightly differ-ent permutation and then defy the expectation you’ve just set up. I sort of did it when I was complimenting you. I called you smart (es-tablished that you are being complimented), called you pretty (a natural succes-sor to “smart” that creates a pattern of flattery) and then said you have perfect hands, which was probably borderline creepy. Rule of three, bro.

Hey, here’s something I’ve been thinking about. Folklorists in a couple countries have demon-strated the existence of what they’re calling “joke cycles.” These are the kinds of jokes we all know and eye-roll at, dead baby jokes or dumb blonde jokes or those annoying “blank that blank people say” videos that have for-tunately gone away.

They find these formu-laic jokes everywhere and my hypothesis on why they’re so popular is that they’re both comfortable and rich with possibility. When someone says “why did Helen Keller’s dog run away” you know exactly what you’re about to get — namely something tasteless about an American hero. The jokes are simultane-ously old and new, a gen-tly surprising twist on a fa-miliar recipe, transgressive but not too transgressive. And to our weird mammal brains, that feels nice.

It’s okay if you didn’t find this column funny, neither did KATELYN HEMPSTEAD, who can be reached at khempstead@ucdavis.edu.

I hardly hesitate before agreeing to a product’s terms and conditions

anymore. I can barely keep up with the reading in my own classes, let alone spare the time and energy to read a 6,500-word essay written in legalese. But I’m trying to un-derstand what it means to have good privacy hy-giene — to know where my data is going and how it is being put to use. The amount of informa-tion that sites legally col-lect from you on a daily ba-sis may come as a surprise. For the most part, these collection processes are au-tomated and done discreet-ly. Sites and mobile apps are said to be “harvesting” your data — in other words, fetching personal informa-tion from your browser or phone and using that infor-mation to tailor their ser-vices to you. If you use Facebook, Twitter or nearly any Google product, you can be sure that data harvesting applies to you. We use these sites and their products for free and we pay the price by offering information about ourselves. But is it worth it? Last Thursday, Twitter wrote a blog post about a new “experiment” they are conducting, which sly-ly hints at the very practice of data harvesting with-out ever explicitly explain-ing it. When you visit a site with a “Tweet This” but-ton, Twitter not only knows you visited that site, but also how frequently you visit that site. Considering the ubiquity of the Twitter share button, Twitter es-sentially sees your brows-ing history and uses it to better suggest the kind of Twitter users you might like to follow. Influential tech blogger, Dustin Curtis called it “wrong” and “a violation of privacy and trust,” which is true, but also begs the question — just how valuable is your web browsing history? The average Joe prob-ably cares about his fan-tasy baseball team a little too much and checks his Yahoo stats four, five, may-be forty-five times a day. So

Twitter suggests he follow @YahooSports. Not too bad, right? But what if your web browsing history wasn’t used to better social media connections? What if it was sold to, say, advertisers? How would you feel then? Twitter points out that LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube already engage in this practice, which is hard-ly reassuring. What’s even more disturbing is that data harvesting isn’t just limit-ed to our computers — our phones are vulnerable as well. Path, a mobile-based so-cial networking app for smartphones, came under fire when a hacker discov-ered that the application was uploading their users’ address books to the com-pany’s servers and recom-mending those users to add as contacts to their Path networks — all without

their con-sent. The outrage re-vealed the lack of pro-tections iP-hones have

over address books — an all-too-common loophole iOS developers use to mine data. Location and cam-era roll have far stronger se-curity settings in iOS, while address book had virtually none. Both Apple and Path eventually changed their policy on the issue, but still left users unnerved about the security of the person-al information they store on their phones. Android users are not excluded, unfortunately, which was recently prov-en by security research-er Paul Brodeur who de-signed an app just to see how much data it could extract without permis-sion from the Android phone’s owner. As it turns out, quite a bit. Brodeur’s app was able to procure photos stored on external SD cards and launch the phone’s browser to upload those photos to a server. And yes, the app did it all without consent. It’s important, then, to reconcile how much your privacy means to you — and modify settings on all of your devices and so-cial media accounts to re-flect those concerns. It also stresses the signifi-cance of hackers in reveal-ing such security breach-es, and scaring companies away from data harvest-ing. Anybody can become a hacker by learning comput-er programming language – knowledge that I think is in-creasingly important in un-derstanding this digitized world – but I’ll save that de-bate for another Monday.

NICOLE NGUYEN is wondering whether or not you people got a piece of the $14 billion Facebook pie. If you sold your soul and bought shares, e-mail niknguyen@ucdavis.edu.

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So if you can never predict what people will find funny, how do

you be funny on purpose?

It’s important, then, to reconcile how much your privacy means

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today Spring Book fair10 a.m. to 3 p.m.WRRC, Front Porch, North Hall Each quarter the Joy Fergoda Library at the Women’s Resources and Research Center hosts a book fair where books can be purchased for under $3. Proceeds will be used to buy new books for the library. The event starts today and will continue at the same time and location through Friday. itS-davis Special Seminar2 to 3:30 p.m.1065 KemperJoin Amy Myers Jaffe as she discusses The Shale Gas Revolution: Implications for the United States. There is no cost and all are welcome to attend. linux Users’ group of davis meeting7 to 9 p.m.Yolo County Public Library, Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch, 315 East 14th StreetGo to the Linux Users’ Group meeting about “Ubuntu 12.04 and Unity; What is it all about?” with speaker Philip Ballew, Head of Ubuntu Youth. For more information, go to http://www.lugod.org/meeting.

tUeSday H.e.l.p. club Kickoff event6 to 8 p.m.206 OlsonGo to the kickoff event for “Empathy Not Apathy.” H.E.L.P. will be promoting the awareness of poverty in our community to hopefully inspire students to get more involved in helping the community.

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H.e.l.p. club event “empathy not apathy”6 to 9 p.m.King’s LoungeThis is H.E.L.P.’s annual event where they host a free banquet dinner and have guest speakers to inspire students and community members to be more

involved in helping others within the community. The guest speakers will include a community leader who will discuss working with those in poverty and a currently homeless community member who will share his experiences being homeless. Uc davis concert Band and campus Bands7 to 9 p.m.Jackson Hall, Mondavi CenterWatch the UC Davis Concert Band, Campus Bands and more at this performance. Tickets are $8 for students and children and $12 for adults. Movie night in the arboretum7:30 to 10 p.m.Mrak Lawn, Lake SpaffordThe Arboretum Ambassadors and UC Davis Entertainment Council present Movie Night in the Arboretum. Bring a blanket and enjoy seeing the epic Academy Award-winning movie AVATAR in the Arboretum under the stars. There is no charge for the movie; parking is available for $7 in Visitor Lots 1 and 2 and the Mondavi Center parking structure. For more information, call (530) 752-4880 or visit arboretum.ucdavis.edu. the 12th annual Uc davis film festival8:30 to 10:30Davis Varsity Theatre, 616 Second StreetThis is an evening of unpredictable and exciting short student films including comedy, drama, animation, documentaries and more. The festival begins Wednesday and continues Through Thursday at the same time and location. Tickets are $7 for each night or $10 for a two-night pass; available at Davis Varsity Theatre starting May 16. For more information, go to http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

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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 May 17 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings.

Meeting called to order at 11:50 p.m.6:10 p.m. to 11:49 p.m. was the continuation of budget hearings. Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, absentYena Bae, ASUCD vice president, presentKabir Kapur, ASUCD senator, presentJared Crisologo-Smith, ASUCD senator, presentBradley Bottoms, ASUCD senator, presentJustin Goss, ASUCD senator, presentAnni Kimball, ASUCD senator, presentPaul Min, ASUCD senator, presentDon Gilbert, ASUCD senator, presentJoyce Han, ASUCD senator, presentErica Padgett, ASUCD senator, presentBeatriz Anguiano, ASUCD senator, presentPatrick Sheehan, ASUCD senator, presentYara Zokaie, ASUCD senator, present

consideration of old legislationSenate resolution 26, authored and introduced by Crisologo-Smith, co-authored by Torres, to condemn discriminatory marriage laws in the State of California. The resolution was tabled.

Senate resolution 27, authored by chief of staff to the president, Sabrina Dias, co-authored and introduced by Kapur, to support the recommendations given by the Reynoso Task Force. The resolution

was tabled.

Senate resolution 28, authored by Dias, co-authored and introduced by Kapur, to commend and appreciate members of the Reynoso Task Force, passed unanimously.

Senate resolution 29, authored and introduced by Goss, co-authored by Bottoms, Kimball, Sheehan and Padgett, opposing the compulsory purchase of Aggie Cash by incoming UC Davis first-year students, passed unanimously.

Senate bill 106, authored by Internal Affairs Commission chair, Sergio Cano, co-authored by Dias and introduced by Min, to allocate $490.25 from Senate reserves to purchase ASUCD graduation stoles for the class of 2012, passed 8-1-3.

Senate bill 109, authored and introduced by Goss, to allocate $126.00 for Aggies @ the Pub: Trivia Night, passed 11-0-1.

consideration of urgent legislationAn urgent senate bill, authored and introduced by the External Affairs Commission, co-authored by Hawe and Miller, to award the ASUCD Lobby Corps Legislator of the Year Award to Speaker John A. Pérez, for his commitment to higher education, passed unanimously. Meeting adjourned at 1:45 a.m.

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as inmates marched and chanted dur-ing the morning session. “That’s the sound of the students working on the chain gang,” protest-ers chanted.

Dressed in luminescent orange cos-tumes, these students represented condemned inmates “sentenced to debt” by the recent fee hikes. Similar disruptions in the past were met with police response to remove the protestors from the meeting. This time, however, the protesters were al-lowed to continue chanting while the

regents adjourned the open session and retreated to the closed segment of the meeting, away from the public. The Regents’ next meeting will take place from July 17 to 19 at UC San Francisco, Mission Bay.

JUSTIN ABRAHAM can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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cautious approach. After many hours of negotiation Cervantes finally surrendered to the police at 7 p.m. and was arrest-ed for the warrant and taken to Yolo County Jail. Nobody was injured. No weapons were found and it was

a peaceful surrender. A resident of Adrian Drive, Elizabeth Lacey told the Davis Enterprise that she hasn’t noticed anything suspicious in that house before but this incident makes her concerned about safety in the neighborhood. Doroshov stated that the case in being investigated further and a re-port will be submitted to the Yolo

County District Attorney’s office. After this the DA will decide if he will be charged for further crimes. He further stated that these types of crimes are rare and students are normally affected by crimes involv-ing property theft, alcohol, etc. and it is important to always take safety precautions involving these.

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of what they are going to teach during each session,” Lewis said. “I think it’s unique how convenient it is for stu-dents and faculty and whoever wants to lead a workshop.” As far as the topics that students can choose for their workshops, Lewis said that almost anything goes as long as it doesn’t clash with the mission of the EC and attracts student interest. “We are always looking for some-thing interesting — for the most part we are pretty open to what people have to bring us,” Moore said. Lewis said that anyone can teach, including students and communi-ty members, who feels passionately about any topic be it animal science to activism. “The hierarchy of who can teach and who can learn is kind of removed from this whole process because any-one can teach, anyone can take. We’re making education accessible to as many people as we can,” Lewis said. Whitney Ricker, EC course coordi-nator and senior psychology major, said that not only can anyone be an

instructor, but the way that the work-shops are set up allows for even the in-structors to learn due to the collabora-tive learning environment. “It’s not just the students that learn but it’s the instructors as well. I think that students and instructors can get a lot out of this experience,” Ricker said. “In recent years we haven’t had dis-cussion type courses and that’s what we’re trying to revive right now. One misconception might be that this is going to be a dry boring lecture-type class and my hope is that they are more about collaborative learning.” Because the courses are more dis-cussion based and do not have grades or homework associated with them, they allow for a different kind of learn-ing said EC publicity director, Peter Neeley, a sophomore English and Human Development major. “I think it’s always important to keep in mind that learning should be as much for yourself as it should be for a grade,” Neeley said. “The ALP provides a space where it’s about growing your knowledge. We are all students and we’re all interested in learning but I think there is a sense that people want to learn on their own terms. What I hope for this proj-

ect is that people use it as an oppor-tunity to create more spaces for open learning on campus where real dia-logue can happen.” With that in mind, none of these courses count for university credit, but both Lewis and Ricker said that a majority of the workshops will be free, increasing accessibility. “They are just something fun and interesting to add into your schedule,” Ricker said. “I think that these classes can be for everyone.” Overall though, the ALP follows the main goals of the EC, to create a unique learning environment and make way for new conversation. “Its just about bettering yourself and furthering your own education,” Lewis said. “There’s just as much val-ue learning about cooking as there is learning about physics. I feel like ev-ery subject is valuable and every per-son who is passionate about subjects and wants to teach them is valuable as well.” If you are interested in applying to teach a course through the ALP, con-tact eccourses@gmail.com before Aug. 1.

DEVON BOHART can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

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Resident advisors: Friend or foe?Past, present and future RAs reflect on the position

By KELSEY SMOOTAggie Features Writer

If you’ve been a student at UC Davis since freshman year, chances are you’ve lived in the dorms amongst other first years and one or two Resident Advisors (RA). RAs are undergraduate students who work for Student Housing and live within the residence halls during the school year. Though some see RAs as di-dactic and meddlesome, others view the full-time advisors as necessary for emo-tional and academic support, as well as for safety reasons.

RAs are responsible for putting on pro-grams in the residence halls that are both socially and academically oriented, as well as monitoring the overall safety of their designated floor and building.

They are also required to “document” any situation that is illegal, hazardous to someone’s health or against the Student Housing policies. In addition to their ev-eryday daily duties, RAs rotate in and out of the position of “RA on call,” the resident advisor that is available at night after the area service desk is closed.

A large incentive for becoming an RA is the free room and board in addition to a free meal plan that accompany the po-sition. For students that cannot afford to pay rent on an apartment or live too far to commute after their first year, becoming an RA is an economically sound solution. However, the perks are balanced with sac-rifices as RAs are expected to spend a mini-mum of 20 hours on their respective floor.

David Thompson, senior sociology and African American studies major worked as a resident advisor for the 2010-11 school year in Campbell Hall. The former RA said the position entails someone who can fol-low rules, but understands when a situa-tion calls for thinking outside of the box.

“If I had to give advice to a future RA, I would have to say embrace the rules, but know when those rules don’t apply. As an

RA, you learn different techniques in order to deal with different situations; however, a big mistake that RAs make is that they handle situations as if they all fit within an equation. Though Student Housing teach-es you to deal with one situation a certain way, there are thousands of factors that can change the situation from the model that they presented,” Thompson said.

In addition, Thompson said that time management is crucial to the position as some may not realize the extent to which being an RA depletes leisure time.

“A lot of RAs get caught in an ‘I know how to handle my time’ mentality. So they come into the RA job and get slammed, like I did. I was on call and I had a impor-tant midterm. To make a long story short, I failed that midterm and the class. I initial-ly blamed the RA job, but then I realized, I didn’t start studying until the night be-fore the test and after a while just gave up,” Thompson said.

First-year economics major Star Bacon is currently anticipating her role as an RA for the 2012-13 school year. She said her reason for applying for the posi-tion stems from her experience as a resi-dent this year as well as her desire to en-rich the first-year experience for future UC Davis students.

“After living in the residence halls this year, I’ve seen a lot of opportunity for me to add things next year, as far as resourc-es. I know a lot of people that struggle in finding out where to get help for certain things. I feel like I could be the person to help them get ahead of the game, wheth-er it’s by making someone aware of differ-ent workshops or leadership opportuni-ties they have available or just giving them someone to talk to,” Bacon said.

She also said she is excited about the position though she feels her biggest chal-lenge will be restricting herself as far as campus involvement.

“I’m not nervous as all. I feel like I’ll adapt, and I’m more than willing to do

anything that will make me a better RA, as well as a better person. The only challenge might be fighting the urge to get involved when I hear about issues in the communi-ty or leadership opportunities. The people in Student Housing understand that we’re students first and RAs second, so they don’t allow us to do anything other than school and Resident Advising for Fall Quarter,” Bacon said.

Current RA and sophomore communi-ty and regional development major Robert Helfend said that he enjoys living in the dorms and felt that he was the right fit for the Rainbow floor, a themed housing floor that is open to members and allies of the LGBTQ community.

“I really like the dorm atmosphere and I was really close to my RA last year, who in-spired me to be an RA. As far as being on

the Rainbow Floor, as a gay college student, I know how hard it is to make the transition from high school. I felt that I could be the person to help them,” Helfend said.

Ultimately, past, present and future RAs can agree that the key ingredient to having an enjoyable experience in the residence halls is a positive, open rela-tionship between residents and their advisors.

“Throughout the year as an RA, you grow to love the people on your floor and consider them family. So it’s important for residents to know that you are there for them,” Thompson said. “If they trust you, it makes it easier for the residents to ap-proach you when they really need you for serious incidents.”

KELSEY SMOOT can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

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First-year economics major Star Bacon is planning on being a resident advisor next year.

By MAX GARRITY RUSSERAggie News Writer

Last Wednesday, conservationist pho-tographer and former TEDx speaker Garth Lenz came to UC Davis to give his talk ti-tled “The True Cost of Oil” which explores the destruction of Canadian wildlife and oil sand mining.

Bituminous sands, which are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit and have only in recent years been considered part of the world’s oil reserves, are being ex-tracted in an enormous mining and frack-ing-equivalent effort in Canada’s Boreal forest. The Boreal is the largest forest eco-system on the planet, covering nearly 60 percent of the countries’ land and is be-ing cut down and polluted by the mining efforts.

“Our prime minister had said that this is an incredible enterprise on the size of building the Great Wall of China or the pyr-

amids,” Lenz said. “It’s wreaking a level of destruction we just haven’t seen before.”

The Boreal is home to some of na-ture’s largest wonders. It is home to near-ly 400,000 caribou and an intricate net-work of rivers, contains half the migrato-ry birds in North America, has the world’s largest freshwater delta and is considered the planet’s greatest terrestrial carbon di-oxide sink.

The recent popularity of oil sands is due to the rising cost of traditional oil extraction.

“The price of oil has to get around $80 a barrel in order to get any profit,” Lenz said.

The numerous petroleum companies that are involved in the extraction effort are using two different methods to get to the tar-like oil trapped in the sands below the soil.

The first method is a simple mining ef-fort that is so large that the trucks used for

transporting the bitumen are 3,000 square feet, the size of a large house.

The second method is similar to hydro-fracking, which liquefies the bitumen so that it is easier to extract. This technique leaves huge non-lined pools of toxic waste as a byproduct.

Both approaches to extract the bitumen produce two times as much carbon as tra-ditional oil extraction does. Per day, 250,000 tons of bitumen sand is processed.

“This is considered the world’s dirtiest oil,” Lenz said.

The oil extraction is having immedi-ate consequences on the local first-nation populations which depend on the Boreal for their livelihood. Being so isolated, the cost of food is extremely high. As the for-est is quickly cut down, many of the indig-enous populations’ hunting and fishing grounds disappear.

Another consequence of the mining includes highly carcinogenic chemicals

present in the toxic ponds that contin-ue to show up in natural rivers in the Boreal. Cancer rates for very unusual and rare types of cancer are soaring in some communities.

“Oil companies plan on industrializing an area the size of Florida by 2030,” Lenz said.

Other projects that are being planned are an industrial highway and pipeline that would stretch from northern Alaska to oil refineries in and around Louisiana.

After his talk, Lenz answered questions from the audience.

“The Boreal and the Amazon are the lungs of the planet,” Lenz said.

TEDx talks are independently organized TED events. Lenz’s lecture was not part of TEDx, though UC Davis hosted a TEDx talk on May 19 that was titled “The Power of Perspective.”

MAX GARRITY RUSSER can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

Education for Sustainable Living Program hosts TEDx speaker

Conservation photographer Garth Lenz talks about ‘The True Cost of Oil’

Campus art museum to open in 2016Art Exhibit Forum held last Wednesday

By DANIELLE HUDDLESTUNAggie News Writer

After a $10 million gift over the holidays from the Jan Shrem, a friend of Margrit Mondavi, UC Davis is now planning to add a new art museum near the Mondavi Center.

“The museum will be a re-source for students, faculty, staff and members of the communi-ty to experience art in the broad-est sense of the word. We imag-ine that students will have the

chance to work directly with ob-jects through classes and to vis-it the museum often to look at exhibitions of works of art, both from the UC Davis Fine Arts Collection and from other mu-seums and private collections,” said Dean Jessie Ann Owens, division of humanities, arts and cultural studies, College of Letters and Science.

A consultant hired by the uni-versity, Lindsay Martin, of Lord Cultural Resources, has been speaking with faculty, staff

and students about what they would like to see in an art muse-um. A focus group was held on last Wednesday in the Student Community Center in order to get more student insight.

“I was surprised that we don’t already have a [major] art mu-seum on campus,” said Kayla Rouse, a senior biological science major.

Options that are current-ly available for students include the Basement Gallery, Gorman Museum, Design Museum and

the Nelson Gallery. These cur-rent galleries are all connected to campus departments.

Some students attended merely because they were in-terested in what the art muse-um was.

“I drove by the Mondavi Center and saw a sign for an art museum, then received an email. I was curious about what was going on,” said Carolina Pina, a junior human develop-ment major.

There is currently no pre-

conception of what the muse-um at UC Davis should be like. According to Owens, the hope is that it will be a place that stu-dents visit often.

“We are still figuring it out. I am hired to help understand what types of spaces the University wants in their art museum,” Martin said.

The museum is projected to open in 2016.

DANIELLE HUDDLESTUN can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

By Megan SandersonOregon Daily Emerald (University of Oregon)

People often turn to exercising or dieting as ways to lose weight, but what some may not realize is get-ting enough sleep may be an effec-tive way to shed the pounds, too.

A recent study published in the journal “Current Biology“ sug-gests the difference in a person’s internal clock and social clock, known as “social jet lag” can lead to weight gain. In the study, peo-ple who had the most differing sleep schedule from the week to the weekend were more likely to

be overweight. One hour worth of social jet lag leads to a 33 percent increase in a person’s risk of be-coming overweight.

A person’s internal clock — called the circadian clock — is set by day and night time. Our bodies want to be awake when it’s sunny and be asleep when it’s dark. This provides people with the opti-mal time for getting an adequate amount of sleep. But due to peo-ple’s busy schedules, people often ignore their internal clock.

“Our body clocks run different-ly because we don’t see the sun anymore because we work inside, and that makes our body clocks

go later and later,” said the study’s leading author Till Roenneberg, in a video. When a person stays up while they should be sleep-ing, the body’s metabolism pro-cess doesn’t function normally, creating a lower resting metabo-lism rate and a higher body mass index.

“Because the difference in sleep timing between work and free days resembles the situa-tion of traveling across several time zones to the west on Friday evenings and ‘flying’ back on Monday mornings, the phenom-enon of regular, weekly chang-es in sleep timing was coined so-

cial jet lag,” Roenneberg said in the study.

For students, getting up for that 8 a.m. class, working a night shift, pulling a late night to finish that paper or just staying out late with friends all contributes to social jet lag. When people pull that all-nighter, they tend to load up on caffeine and eat unhealthy food.

U. Oregon freshman Katy Kachmarik knows several people who have gotten less than four hours of sleep and gained weight this year.

“I’d probably try to get more sleep because I know physical-ly what it’s like to have jet lag,”

Kachmarik said. “And I don’t like it.”

One-third of the 65,000 study participants suffered from two or more hours of social jet lag, while 69 percent of the people suf-fered from one hour. If a person times their day and sleep sched-ule to mesh more with their inter-nal clock rather than their social clock, the study said, the amount of social jet lag a person suffers from will decrease.

“Our data suggest that improv-ing the correspondence between biological and social clocks will contribute to the management of obesity,” Roenneberg said.

Obesity related to lack of sleep, study says

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Change is looming over UC Davis athletics, and a variety of paths the

University could choose to take. Last week Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and Vice Chancellor Fred Wood an-nounced the four finalists for UC Davis’ new Director of Athletics. The candidates vary greatly in experience and outlook. They feature experience in large and small schools, private schools and public schools, schools with mas-sive budgets and schools that have had to take serious bud-get cuts. Now UC Davis has to pick just one, and whatever deci-sion is ultimately made could drastically change the future of UC Davis athletics for over a decade. Over the next few weeks the candidates will be host-ing open forums to answer questions from the public — after which the University will accept feedback. This is a chance for the students of UC Davis to make their voices heard and you should all take full advantage. During the fall the Recruitment Advisory Committee (the group tasked with helping cut down the list of candidates) held four town-

hall meetings that were in-tended to facilitate feedback. While the meetings were high-ly opinionated and did indeed open the floor to all comers, one group was largely under-represented at the meetings: the student body. The speakers at the town-hall meetings came almost exclu-sively from three groups: alum-ni, faculty and student athletes, but the general student body was nowhere to be found. The upcoming decision will have untold effects on the UC Davis athletics department and any student who has an opinion regarding the current state of Aggie athletics should do their part to make their voice heard. After all, UC Davis athletics are funded primarily by stu-dent fees, which means that, if given the opportunity, stu-dents should be more than willing to give their opinion. Of course you will be able to follow the latest updates from the athletics director search in The California Aggie and on our Twitter page, but be-fore the meetings start, here are some basic strengths and weaknesses of each candidate. Ray Purpur — Strengths: Purpur has solid experi-ence with several years as Deputy Director of Athletics at Stanford which gave him a chance to work at not only an academically prestigious in-stitution, but one with a wide array of sports programs, sim-ilar to the UC Davis Athletics Department. Weaknesses: While Stanford has an impressive athlet-ics department, it is also very well-funded. This means that Purpur does not have ex-perience working with the type of cramped budget that he would face as Athletic Director at UC Davis. Desiree Reed-Francois

— Strengths: As Senior Associate Athletics Director at Tennessee, Reed-Francois has experience working at a state institution with high-profile athletics. She also has experi-ence academically, serving as a law professor. Weaknesses: Lacks experi-ence in a program of the ac-ademic caliber seen at UC Davis as well as the local mar-kets in Northern California. Terrance Tumey — Strengths: Tumey has served at Dominican University of California during the diffi-cult transition from NAIA to a Division II program. Additionally, he has exten-sive experience in the sport of football — as a former mem-ber of several NFL organi-zations including the San Francisco 49ers. This experi-ence could help him select UC Davis next head football coach — the first major decision the incoming AD will make. Weaknesses: Tumey’s back-ground is highly football-cen-tric which could cause prob-lems as he enters a university with 23 athletics programs. Foti Millis — Strengths: Millis has solid experience at University of California, Berkeley, during a time where Cal has faced similar bud-get constraints to the ones he’d encounter at UC Davis. Additionally, Millis is a UC Davis alumnus, which should get him some added points from some of the other alumni. Weaknesses: Cal came close to permanently cutting sports during Millis’ tenure, which will likely make some in and around the athletic depart-ment uneasy, especially fol-lowing the sports-cutting de-bate sparked by the Dempsey Report.

TREVOR CRAMER can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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By MATTHEW YUENAssociate Sports Editor

The Aggies earned a berth into the NCAA Regional with a tremen-dous performance at the Big West Conference tournament, but didn’t have enough magic in them to ad-vance to the NCAA final round. The upset-minded UC Davis men’s golf team entered Stanford as the 13th seed in a field that consisted of some of the top teams in the nation. A finish in the top five would have al-lowed UC Davis to advance, but over-coming so many of the nation’s top schools that was a tall order. “I think we competed really well and I’m happy with them, but we just weren’t as good as the top five teams,” said coach Cy Williams. “This is a very talented team and I’m very proud of the guys.” UC Davis brought what Williams guessed to be one of the young-est teams in the NCAA tournament. Three sophomores and two fresh-men made up the Aggie lineup and only sophomore Matt Hansen had previous NCAA Regional experience. A tough first round all but destroyed the Aggies chances of placing in the top five and advancing to the NCAA championship as their 293 had them in last place in the 13-team field. UC Davis was led by sophomore Jonny Baxter, whose one-over 211 to-tal tied him for 27th place in the field. Baxter followed his even first round

with a two-under in the second round that featured five birdies and 10 pars. Baxter’s round led the Aggies to their best single day of the tourna-ment as they shot an even 280 on Friday. Sophomore Matt Hansen shot an even 70 followed by 71s from sophomore Matt Seramin and fresh-man Luke Vivolo. “The last rounds were solid and everyone contributed, they compet-ed hard and I’m proud,” Williams said. “Your goal is to minimize the bad round and that’s what put us out of the running.” Hansen placed 41st overall and freshman Mike Brockington led the Aggies with a 68 on the final day for his best round of the tournament. All told, the Aggies can take sev-eral positives from their 17-over 857 overall team score. “Familiarity helped a little, but we were just a way better team than we were then,” Williams said. “As young as they are, we were ready because athletes get better with experience.” As far as experience goes, the fu-ture looks bright for UC Davis, who closes the 2012 campaign ready to tee off next year. The Aggies have all their starters returning and will have red-shirt senior Tyler Raber back. “This season was a success since it was supposed to be a rebuilding year,” Williams said. “For these guys to come out and deal with all the things that happened and to win the Big West was a huge success.”

MATTHEW YUEN can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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Aggies place 12th at NCAA Regional

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