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By LAUREN MASCARENHASAggie News Writer

On Tuesday at the UC Davis Jobs and Career Initiative, students will have the opportunity to gain tools to prepare themselves for employment after grad-uation.

Organized by ASUCD, the free event will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Freeborn Hall, where speakers, em-ployers and various campus groups will

be ready to help students navigate what often feels like a rat race for employ-ment among college students.

ASUCD has set up the jobs initiative in partnership with the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, the Internship and Career Center (ICC), Student Affairs, the Provost and the Office of the Chancellor.

“All UC Davis students were tak-en into account in the planning of this event,” said ASUCD president, Rebecca Sterling in an email interview. “It will be

especially useful for seniors, but also for freshmen who are looking for what they can do while they are in school to bet-ter prepare themselves for a post-gradu-ation job, as well as gain the experience and skills employers are looking for.”

The day will be divided into two parts. The morning “Building Your Experience” session will be aimed toward first- and second-year students who wish to find

By GABRIELLA HAMLETTAggie News Writer

On Feb. 13, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) rejected the City of Davis’ request to implement an at-grade pedestrian/bicy-cle crossing at the Union Pacific Railroad tracks that connect the Olive Drive neighborhood with the rest of the city.

The City of Davis filed the re-quest on Aug. 11, 2011 in re-sponse to the fence Union Pacific had put up between the railroad tracks and Olive Drive neighborhood.

The fence has been a source for contention over the last two years, as it has prevented the res-idents of Olive Drive to cross that particular section of the railroad — considered the most direct route to downtown Davis.

“We want to maintain this crossing that’s been used for the last 70 years. It is the most di-rect route that students and res-idents use to get to work, cam-pus and the general downtown area,” said Anne Brunette, prop-erty management coordinator of the Community Development and Sustainability Department for the City of Davis.

The Olive Drive neighborhood of approximately 700 people is the lowest-income neighbor-hood in Davis, with 30 percent of the families living in poverty and 55 percent of households with incomes under $25,000.

The city believes that a more direct access to downtown — as opposed to alternatives locat-ed at Richards Boulevard, Putah Creek and Mace Boulevard — would alleviate the gap between Olive Drive and the rest of Davis.

Additionally, arguments were made that the at-grade crossing would provide for a safer alterna-tive, as evidence has it that resi-dents forgo the fence and illegal-ly climb over or crawl through it.

Furthermore, the city con-tended that the fence only cre-ates a more hazardous environ-ment, as the crossing had pre-viously seen only three deaths since 1992 — two of which were alcohol related.

“It is beyond comprehension that the CPUC could find that a crossing that existed for over 70 years without an accident is all of a sudden unsafe because we want to add warning bells and lights,” said Mayor Joe Krovoza in a press release.

The request for an at-grade

crossing is very much supported by the community. Local emer-gency authorities support that it would provide better access to the neighborhood during emer-gency situations.

The CPUC, however, main-tains that the city “[doesn’t] per-suade us of an absolute need for an at-grade crossing.” The Union Pacific Railroad supports the CPUC’s decision.

“Safety is a top priority at Union Pacific and we are confi-dent that the residents of Davis can already safely and conve-niently cross the railroad tracks at nearby grade-separated cross-ings,” said Aaron Hunt, director of corporate relations and me-dia from Union Pacific in a state-ment via email.

The City of Davis and com-munity supporters will contin-ue to find solutions to what they believe is an unsafe decision and hope to find plausible options for taking future action.

“The city council hasn’t decid-ed what to do, but we anticipate a closed session this coming Tuesday evening to discuss pos-sible solutions,” Brunette said.

GABRIELLA HAMLETT can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

At 10:25 a.m. on Thursday, Davis Police re-ceived a call from Davis Senior High School ad-ministrators reporting a male with a handgun at the north end of the library parking lot. Davis Senior High School, North Davis Elementary School, St. James Elementary School and King High School were put on lock-down as a precaution for about 35 minutes. The Davis Police detained the male suspect matching the reported description. The sus-pect, in his late teens and not enrolled at any of the schools, had a BB gun on him before dis-carding it. The BB gun was found in the area the suspect was detained. A second suspect who was with the aforemen-tioned male was detained. Both were eventually released at the scene, since the suspect with the BB gun was never on the campuses and did not use the gun as a threat or brandish it. As of now, no criminal charges are being pursued.

— Claire Tan

On Thursday at around 12:35 p.m., officers were called to the 4500 block of Alhambra Drive regarding a resident reporting that she was sex-ually assaulted. According to a press release, the victim said at 5 a.m., two males grabbed her as she walked out of her apartment. The two males forced the victim back into her apartment and sexually as-saulted her inside the apartment. According to the victim, both suspects ap-peared to be white, one with brown hair and the other with black hair. The Davis Police are still investigating the in-cident. The victim was treated for non-serious physical injuries.

— Claire Tan

Brian nguyen / aggie

AsUCD’s 2012 Job summit (pictured here) convened professionals from around the state to develop long-term solutions. This year’s Jobs initiative will help students develop skills to find jobs.

see CAreer, page 4

Results from the ASUCD Winter Election were announced Friday, with NOW candidates Carly Sandstrom and Bradley Bottoms voted to become the next president and vice president.

“[I feel] fantastic. All the work paid off. It was a great campaign. Everyone — from all slates — worked their butts off,” Sandstrom said.

Out of all UC Davis undergraduate students, 6,252 voted in the election — 24.2 percent. Aaron Hsu, ASUCD Elections Committee chair, said he was pleased with this voter turnout.

“Since 1991, this record has only been surpassed three times in a winter election,” he said.

Sandstrom and Bottoms garnered 2,989 votes, while independent candidates Paul Min and Sergio Cano received 1,934 and

FUQ candidates Migz Espinoza and Lane Lewis received 1,327.

NOW candidates lead the senate race as well, with Ryan Wonders, Amrit Sahota and Pamela Nonga taking the top three slots. Yee Xiong of SMART, Miles Thomas of BEST and Reuben Torres of SMART also came away with wins.

Elections Committee still must sort out any filed complaints against candidates, which is what made these results “preliminary.” Official results will be announced on Wednesday. If the committee disregards all complaints, then these senators-elect will be sworn in on Thursday, Feb. 28. The president-elect and vice president-elect will take office at a later date.

—Janelle Bitker—Photos by Brian Nguyen

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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex,” or “GitS:

SAC” for short, is an ani-mated television show that gives an unparalleled atten-tion of detail to human con-sciousness on a medium that is not made up of gray matter.

Whereas conscious ma-chines — machines that think like humans — have been a topic of interest in many works of science fic-tion such as The Terminator and The Matrix, it is the way in which “GitS” is true to contemporary cognitive sci-ence’s notion of synchro-nous intermodal matching that really sets it apart.

Cognitive science defines synchronous intermod-al matching as the process by which the human mind contextualizes itself in a spatial environment (kines-thetically) and within a spe-cific hu-man body (hapti-cally). For an ex-ample of this pro-cess be-ing manipulated in a fun, intriguing manner, look on YouTube for “The Rubber Hand Illusion.”

Several academic dis-ciplines currently study-ing human consciousness would seem to be converg-ing upon the notion that consciousness is a phenom-enon that spontaneous-ly emerges in a network of a certain degree of complexi-ty. It would seem as though the prefrontal cortex, a por-tion of the forebrain and a network of immense intri-cacy, is what gives humans the neurological complexity to reason with abstract no-tions like “cause and effect,” “chaos and order” or “good and evil.”

In the “Ghost in the Shell” universe, cyberization is the process by which someone’s “ghost,” the singular entity that is an individual’s con-sciousness, is uploaded to a digital medium. After a person has had their con-sciousness uploaded onto a cyberbrain, a machine mind with storage, longevi-ty and digital interfacing ca-pacities far beyond those of a non-cyberized human,

that person gains access to an online network that greatly exceeds the powers of today’s internet.

If, during the “GitS” cy-berization process, some-one perceives a break in the continuity of their con-sciousness, their mind re-jects the upload and they die due to a disruption in synchronous intermod-al matching. Cyberization therefore demands that the patient must feel as though they are constantly look-ing through one set of eyes, hearing with one set of ears and thinking about the world with one uninterrupt-ed mind in order to survive the cyberization process.

The philosopher John Locke would accurate-ly describe the workings of consciousness in “GitS” as self-reflexive processes with respect to its own af-fective, i.e. internal states. People are constantly aware that they are them-selves from one moment to the next as long as they can reflect back on what thinking was like for them several seconds ago.

A person undergoing cy-berization must keep expe-riencing the exterior world with what they perceive

to be their own interi-or senses, though these senses are slowly being roboticized and digi-

tized. Contemporary cogni-tive science would describe this as a necessary feedback loop between exterocep-tive measures (senses of the world exterior to the mind) and interoceptive measures (senses of the world internal to the mind).

The increasingly plau-sible question of whether human consciousness will ever be able to leave gray matter is one that has been foreshadowed in humani-ty’s fictions for a very, very long time. It would seem as though notions such as ghosts, chi, astral projec-tions, vibes, seances and the soul are humanity’s ear-ly drafts of the same ques-tion — “Will we ever be able to free our minds from the confines of our bodies?”

Though I as a humani-ties major lack the techni-cal know–how to be able to answer this question, I should hope that some sci-ence majors who take an in-terest in it will be able to an-swer it for me. I’m just dying to find out.

MICHAEL FIGLOCK can be found furiously attempting to cyberize himself at mpfiglock@ucdavis.edu.

Now, stop. In read-ing the title of this column, did you

think I would be talking about sex? I won’t be. I’ll be talking about nudity, which, although may per-tain to sex, is not mutual-ly exclusive to it.

I for one love to walk around in varying states of undress. Have you ever cooked naked? It’s thrill-ing! What about stroll-ing the gardens nude? The rays of sunlight peek-ing through tree leaves have never fallen on a more welcoming back-drop than that of a shirt-less back. How about bik-ing topless? Well, let me tell you — as a woman whose breasts have been confined to either a bra or shirt my entire life — it feels pret-ty damn good.

You may be inclined to think that I am lying, but I am not. Just ask my neighbors. Although cold weather sends me a run-nin’ to my piles of sweat-ers and wool leggings, we luckily live in Davis. Prime nekkid weather nine months a year.

So, why is our cam-pus not teeming with bare breasts and bounc-ing balls? There are, of course, religious reasons that keep some folks in clothes, but I would like to discuss other rational-ities — the ones that so-ciety hands to us as chil-dren and reinforces with a sturdy hand if we stray.

What are the reasons you aren’t reading this naked?

Perhaps you are afraid of offending others or, conversely, of others of-fending you. Society cer-tainly has different stan-dards of nudity for men and women. Oh, look! A naked woman! What a slut. Oh, look! A naked man! What a pervert.

Or perhaps you would

rather avoid confronta-tion with authority — af-ter all, getting pepper-sprayed while naked would probably be un-comfortable, if not com-pletely inconvenient. Maybe your “authority” doesn’t even wear a uni-form. It could simply be a stranger having the au-dacity to say, “This is in-appropriate.” Is it?

Have you heard of the guy who attended all of his classes at UC Berkeley in the buff? His name was Andrew Martinez, and he graced the student body with his bare body back in the early ’90s. He de-clared philosophical op-position to the use of clothing as a means of differentiating ourselves along class and gender boundaries.

After being arrested for indecent exposure on campus, a judge refused to prosecute him, citing that nudity was not in-decent unless it was cou-pled with lewd behav-ior. This did not satisfy campus officials, so UC Berkeley issued a campus policy that banned public nudity in 1992.

When was the last time you saw someone other than yourself na-ked, in me-dia or in the flesh, in a non-sexu-

al environment? Andrew Martinez provided folks with just that opportuni-ty. Nudity sans sex. What a novelty! And he was ar-rested for it.

I need not fall into a discussion about how oversexualized our cul-ture is: We are all familiar with the multitude of ris-que advertisements and obsessively sexual HBO shows.

I want to glorify the bare human form. All shapes, colors, lengths, widths and ages.

I’ve been to a num-ber of gatherings that have spontaneously transformed into cloth-ing optional events. In these moments, I am tak-en aback by how much more beautiful we are na-ked. When we strip our-selves of the tools we use to create our own indi-vidual identity, we real-ize that we are all more or less the same in a simple, real way.

To accuse ELLI PEARSON of having loose morals or laud her openness, email erpearson@ucdavis.edu.

So, why is our campus not teeming with bare breasts and

bouncing balls?

Will we ever be able to free our minds from the confines of our

bodies?

ElliPearsonOn thefringe

Let’s get naked!

MichaelFiglockGeeklyWeekly

Shelling ghosts

On Thursday at 10 p.m., Davis Police and the Yolo County Narcotics Enforcement Team served a search warrant at the 800 block of B Street.

Two people associated with the house with the search warrant fled in their vehicle, not before attempting to run down an officer who was trying to detain them.

Davis Police followed the vehi-cle and apprehended the two when they pulled over. According to a Davis Police press release, the driv-er, 20-year-old Davis resident Alfredo Ordonez, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon on a peace of-ficer and for felony evading and vis-iting a drug house. The passenger, 33-year-old Changleska Standingelk, was arrested for visiting a known drug

house.Three others were arrested at the

house as well.Sherry Harrington, a 43-year-old

Davis resident, was arrested for pos-session of an illegal drug and narcot-ics paraphernalia, and maintaining a house for narcotics sales. Tanisha Schuchman, a 32-year-old Davis res-ident, was arrested for maintaining a house for narcotics sales. Dwayne Durant, a 21-year-old Davis resident, was arrested for maintaining a house for narcotics sales and possession of narcotics paraphernalia.

The five were booked at the Yolo County Jail.

— Claire Tan

newS in brieFWe Are Aggie Pride hosts events

throughout the weekWe Are Aggie Pride, a

student-run philanthro-py program that aims to collect emergency funds for UC Davis students in need, is hosting a se-ries of events this week through Thursday.

The program is cur-rently in its second year and is the first student-run organization of its kind on the West Coast.

This week’s events will include a “Change Challenge,” promoting

first-year student do-nations in dining com-mons, which will last un-til Friday; “Doughnuts and Donations;” “Tiny Tacos, Mucho Impacto;” the “Get It, Got It, Give It” scavenger hunt; “Cupcakes on the Quad” with The California Aggie Marching Band-uh! and “Movie Night at Rock Hall.”

More details on these events and We Are Aggie Pride can be found at

weareaggiepride.ucda-vis.edu.

According to a Wednesday press re-lease, to date, We Are Aggie Pride has raised over $58,000 in dona-tions and sponsorships.

The release also states that University admin-istrators will be present at some of the week’s events.

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games will be against UC Riverside and Cal State Fullerton, both teams that UC Davis has played before. Both are be-low UC Davis in the Big West standings, with the Highlanders in last and the Titans in seventh. Depending on how the other games this weekend go, two road wins could vault the Aggies higher in the league standings.

The Aggies have been a second-half team this sea-son, which could be good and bad. They’ve been fig-uring out how to come out of the locker room with in-tensity from the first quar-ter, rather than just the third.

Still, it’s a work in prog-

ress. Granted, if the Aggies weren’t the way they are now, we would not have games like the ones against Cal Poly last month and against Northern Colorado.

On Saturday, senior Paolo Mancasola hit a clutch basket from the top of the key to give the Aggies a win with just 1.8 seconds left on the clock. UC Davis squeaked out another win at the buzzer this season.

Keep watch, as the Aggies will definitely pro-vide more entertainment to fans, and Curt Schilling may turn up with another bloody sock that he wants to sell.

Rain is gone, now wind is here. Summer comes in phases I guess. If you’d like to frolic in the fields with MATTHEW YUEN contact him at sports@theaggie.org.

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ASUCD Election Results

Brian Nguyen / Aggie

Top: Amrit Sahota records the election results announcement.

Left: ASUCD Vice president elect Bradley Bottoms and President elect Carly Sandstrom are hugged by supporters after learning that they won the election.

Bottom: Senator elect Yee Xiong reacts after winning the senatorial election.

Brian Nguyen / Aggie

Left: Candidates watch as election results are announced.

Bottom-Left: Lane Lewis and Migz Espinosa (center left to right) react after hearing the Winter 2013 Executive elections results.

Bottom-Right: ASUCD President elect Carly Sandstrom reacts after winning the Winter 2012 Executive elections.

eighth inning, Utah went on a power surge. With one out and a man on second, TJ Bennett crushed an opposite-field home run that easily cleared the left-field wall that gave the Utes the lead. In the bottom half of the eighth, the Aggies answered by scoring a run, but could have scored more. With the bases loaded and two away, Utes catcher AJ Young al-lowed a passed ball that plated a run and moved the runners to second and third. With the Aggies threatening to take the lead with a hit, pitcher Case Rezac got ju-nior Spencer Brann to ground out to second to kill the rally. In the ninth inning, the iden-tical situation replayed for the Utes as AJ Young pulled a ball that cleared the left-field wall with a runner on second and one out. Then, the very next batter, Cory Hunt, hit the ball down the left-field line that barely stayed fair for the third homer by the Utes. After the tough loss, Coach Matt Vaughn would have liked to see more from his team. “We just have to play better baseball going forward. We’re right in that game,” he said. “If we do some execution things earlier in that game, we’re in a much better position, but bot-tom line is we didn’t pitch well enough out of the bullpen to win that game.”

LUKE BAE can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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resources and opportunities they can utilize dur-ing the rest of their time at Davis. The afternoon ses-sion, “Launching Your Career,” is catered to third- and fourth-year students who may soon be searching for a job in “the real world.”

Informational booths including tables for building résumés and interviewing, will be present through-out the day for students who cannot make it for the whole event and can only attend on a drop-in basis.

There are many things students are expected to know when looking for a job on or off campus, ac-cording to Marcie Kirk Holland, a coordinator at the ICC.

“They need to know how to make résumés. They need to know how to interview well. And they need to know how to properly search for a job,” Holland said.

For students who are looking for employment and internship opportunities pertaining to their specif-ic field of study, the ICC will have four tables set up: health and biological sciences, engineering and phys-ical sciences, liberal arts and business, and agricul-tural and environmental sciences.

One-on-one sessions will also be available with on- and off-campus employers at the event.

This event is a part of the UC Davis Jobs Initiative campaign, an ongoing job and career campaign pro-moted by ASUCD to help Davis students prepare for and obtain employment during school as well as after graduation.

“The UC Davis Jobs Initiative aims to give our unique and highly qualified students the necessary information and materials to seek their desired em-ployment and remain competitive in today’s difficult economy,” the ASUCD website states.

ASUCD and the chancellor have specifics planned for how to meet this goal.

“We aim to increase the number of jobs and intern-ships offered throughout the departments on cam-pus, better track the number of alumni who are hired after graduating and in which fields, as well as con-tinue furthering the initiative and providing the cam-pus community with our progress by a website on the Student Affairs site,” Sterling said.

Many of the resources that will be present at the event are also available to students on campus year-round.

“There’s something for everyone that comes into the ICC. Peer advisors are available 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. They perform triage. They listen to students’ needs and direct them to the nec-essary resources,” Holland said.

The UC Davis Jobs Initiative is from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Freeborn Hall on Tuesday. For more infor-mation visit asucd.ucdavis.edu.

LAUREN MASCARENHAS can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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A Spectrum of experiences

Runways, sketches and parties

New Davis-based magazine launches first issue by high school students

Celebrating Sacramento Fashion Week

By JOYCE BERTHELSENAggie Features Writer

We’re all determined to save the world. For the students at Davis Senior High School, they’re taking the initiative to do just that through the power of written word. Davis’ very own student-run The World Spectra Magazine launched its first

publication last month. Spectra is a nonprofit journal featuring student works on different perceptions of the world. Led by Davis Senior High School fourth-year and editor-in-chief Linda Ge, the magazine was founded in August 2012. Last month, the team of 14 Davis high school students contributed to successful-ly launching its first issue.

“We want to teach people to appreciate others,” said Ge in an email interview. “We want to learn from new voices and from experts.” According to Spectra’s website, the mag-azine aims to bridge communities and cultures from all over the world. Spectra showcases a collection of works by peo-ple in their teens to their 60s, providing a wide range of experiences and perceptions about any human experience. The mag-azine publishes works in different forms such as articles, poems, photos and per-sonal essays. “I have always loved listening to peo-ple tell their stories and believe very, very strongly that if people actually listened to each other, then we would have a lot less problems in this world,” said Shelby Ziccardi, Da Vinci Charter Academy third-year and Spectra CEO, in an email interview. The magazine is based in Davis and is run solely by nine students from Davis Senior High School and five from Da Vinci Charter Academy. “Spectra remains entirely student-run: in learning how to produce the publi-cation, staff members have had to learn about management, marketing, publishing and graphic design, all in our free time,” Ge said. However, contributors to the magazine come from all over the world, including Bangladesh, Australia and Germany. Ge said that they are lucky to live in an inter-net era. To recruit writers, the team relies most-ly on flyers, social media sites and word of mouth, according to Elsa Young, Da Vinci Charter Academy third-year and Spectra public relations officer. It also recruits writ-ers abroad. “We are advertising Spectra abroad mainly by soliciting stories from interna-tional people, although we are also work-ing with the UC Davis Humphrey Fellows and Team Blend (a student group at Da Vinci that travels to Nicaragua each sum-mer) to spread our name,” Young said in an email interview. “Getting contributors from abroad is simply a matter of reach-ing out on social media sites (like Flickr) and emailing people we think will have a good story to share, regardless of whether we know them personally or not.” Although the first issue is only available online, Spectra plans to publish both on-line and print publications thrice a year.

“We do plan on publishing our next issue in print,” Ge said. “The problem with print-ing our first issue was our lack of funds and knowledge about printers. We’ll be better-prepared for the next issue though.” In order to bring communities togeth-er, Ge said that they plan to provide copies of Spectra to developing countries through physical print or e-reader editions. “By publishing stories written by com-munity members and then distributing them abroad, Spectra has the power to cre-ate understanding between different cul-tures and societies,” Young said. The magazine is currently free to every-one. In the future, a “buy a copy, donate a copy” option may be introduced to com-pensate printing costs, according to Ge. She said that the team has also talked to various organizations and student groups about bringing Spectra to their travels in developing countries. “We are excited about reaching an au-dience that would otherwise be unable to learn about how cultures outside of their own operate,” Ge said. Ge said that the Spectra team believes in education, empowerment of minority groups and entrepreneurship. The mem-bers portray this partly through the knowl-edge they would offer students in develop-ing countries, hands-on business and pub-lishing experience the team gets and even-tually sponsoring women entrepreneurs with small businesses. UC Davis students can also get involved with Spectra by sharing their stories or through mentorship. “We are extremely enthusiastic about reading and publishing true personal ac-counts from UC Davis students, whose own life experiences are varied and unique,” Ge said. “Additionally, we would love to re-ceive mentorship in the fields of legal mat-ters and business (particularly in account-ing). If any readers have ideas as to how Spectra could collaborate with UC Davis student groups, we would love for them to contact us.” To learn more about Spectra Magazine and check out the first issue, visit spectra.co.nr. “We believe that when people truly un-derstand one another and their stories, any conflict can be resolved, any bond can be created and a whole new way of life can be formed,” Ziccardi said.

JOYCE BERTHELSEN can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

By ALYSSA KUHLMANAggie Features Writer

Long legs strut down a walkway as photographers flash pictures of models and designers beam with smiles as their new fashions are on display. Yep, it’s that time of year again — the latest styles emerge with spring around the corner. What you may not know is that the Sac Fashion Week creates many opportunities for students right here at UC Davis. Sacramento Fashion Week, which takes place from Feb. 24 to March 2, features 18 designers, six boutiques, a film on fashion exhibition, three workshops and a num-ber of stylish parties. Originally launched in the spring of 2006, it launches designers and models into the fash-ion business and links entrepreneurs, makeup artists, photographers, advertising companies, hair stylists and many more. Duane Ram, executive director of Sac Fashion Week, says that he and his team usually start planning almost a year in advance. “You can’t come out to put on a full week’s schedule right off the bat,” Ram said. “In the early years we had a launch party and then a fashion show which in all took less than a month to produce. With a full week it can take up to a full year. We usually take a month off to recoup and then we start the planning. [By] November … we pretty much [work] full time on the production.” Jillian Walke, a first-year design major at UC Davis, has never been to a professional fashion show before but wants to check out Sac Fashion Week. “I like to learn and combine different elements from a variety of designers, so SFW would be a fabulous oppor-tunity to observe many different styles and trends from plenty of designers,” Walke said. Any designer, established or aspiring, can submit their work via sacfashionweek.com by submitting a letter of in-tent, a biography, a professional profile headshot, sketch-es and a press kit. Although Ram said that designers of any age can submit work, the team working behind the scenes at Sac Fashion Week does look for professionalism and talent.

“I’ve never put an age limit for designers; however, we want to make sure that the designers are able to produce a full collection. If you send stick figures we are not gon-na take you seriously. A featured designer [must] submit sketches and [a] storyboard for [their] collection,” Ram said. Ram moved to the larger Sacramento area in 2005 and noticed that the fashion scene was pretty small, and that there were no large-scale events to showcase fashion. “Everything was done in clubs and bars. Not that these venues were bad, it just wasn’t showcasing the designers very well. We have a lot of historic buildings and beauti-ful ballrooms that really highlight the city. Showcasing our designers there would be a benefit to everyone,” Ram said. Sac Fashion Week works with the larger Sacramento area’s businesses and also aims to help college students build connections in fashion design, merchandising, pub-lic relations, creative design, photography, videography, event coordination, staging and lighting, modeling, ad-vertising, journalism and more. This includes opportunities for students like Annie Dick, a third-year dramatic arts major. Dick works as the head costume designer for a class she currently takes and believes studying fashion helps her with costume design. “As a costume designer, it’s important to keep up with the latest fashion trends because you never know what kind of character you will be dressing on stage,” Dick said. As someone who aspires to attend a special-effects makeup school one day, she would love to attend Sac Fashion Week. “Makeup design is a passion of mine,” Dick said. Sac Fashion Week transforms aspiring makeup artists, designers and models into individuals with experience in the business, according to Ram. “We are preparing you for the ‘real world.’ If you want to showcase in New York Fashion Week you have to be ready. This is not a show just for your friends and family; it’s a business,” Ram said. “My goal is to get you the exposure and put you in front of important people. [For a designer], you must present a full collection of what you can do and

hopefully sell those pieces.” Walke agrees that for a designer to be successful, they must have a distinctive style. “A designer needs to have a unique perception of de-sign, and needs to be creative and innovative. Too many of the fashions we see on the market today are just a copy of the next designer’s collections, so a designer should want to bring something totally revolutionary to the ta-ble,” Walke said. A large number of top-notch experienced fashion work-ers participate each year to present revolutionary designs like Walke mentions. “[This year] we have about five core staff and about 30 interns. In all there are 16 designers with two assistants, six boutiques with two assistants. [We also have a] hair and makeup crew of about 30, staging crew of about 10 and about 100 models per day,” Ram said. Together, everyone works to host a lunch party and fashion affair, a fashion forum, a runway modeling 101 workshop, a “social gone vogue” workshop, a hair and makeup workshop, a fashion on film workshop, a bou-tique show, two sets of designer showcases, VIP galas and official afterparties. While the boutique became the first event to sell out this year, Ram says the Saturday showcase is the most popular. Ram said that for him the most rewarding part about Sac Fashion Week is the fact that so many people have come out to support the show. “In the past, I’ve always relied on ticket sales because we had a hard time finding sponsors. We didn’t have anything to show them and at the time the economy was down and money was tight,” Ram said. However, despite the tough economy, Ram has always believed in the show and persevered. Today, ticket sales have improved and Sacramento’s interest in fashion is growing. “Ticket sales are always slow in the beginning and I’m always worried that we would have an empty house. So it’s a good feeling to know that the community was support-ive of the production,” Ram said.

ALYSSA KUHLMAN can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

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decides who will win. The game definitely kept fans guessing and the victor was not decided until the final second of the game. With Davis trailing by one, sophomore J.T. Adenrele made a beastly block on de-fense that allowed the Aggies to have the ball back with 30 seconds left. UC Davis called a timeout to draft their final play and everyone assumed the ball would go to Mr. Red-Hot Hawkins, who had al-ready scored 34 points that game. Hawkins did get the ball and he took it down the court to try and set up a play for himself. As he drove into the basket, the Bears swarmed to him like bees on a hive, refusing to let Hawkins burn them again. Somehow, through the mass of blue, Hawkins managed to find anoth-er white jersey at the top of the key. He zipped the ball to a waiting Mancasola who sent up a beautiful shot with 1.8 seconds left. Mancasola and Co. exploded as it

swished through the net, giving UC Davis the 79-78 advantage and the win. UC Davis knew that this was not their best performance. The 18 turnovers and missed free-throws told them that, but they were ecstatic to have another buzz-er-beater win. “I was standing right under the basket when he [Mancasola] shot it, I knew it was good when it left his hands. I just did not want to celebrate too early,” Hawkins said. Mancasola took no credit for his own, but mentioned Hawkins’ impressive sixth-sense that allowed him to dish the pass out. “I could not believe he [Hawkins] had the awareness to find me with three guys standing all around him. I had to put it in for him,” Mancasola said. Coach Les was proud of the resilience and maturity his team has shown over the last week, despite the setbacks. “This team is all about finding ways to win. You can see them grow and mature as we head down the stretch with some big conference games ahead,” Les said.

KIM CARR can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

Fipps’ run. The Aggies’ stringent defense, coupled with the fantastic scoring out-put of Fipps proved too much for the Highlanders to handle. This game presented a nice momen-tum booster for the Aggies, who had been struggling before this game. “We feel good about the performance we had tonight and we’re excited to see where we can go,” said head coach Jennifer Gross.

Saturday — UC Davis 42, Cal State Fullerton 60 The Aggies suffered a second-half drought which led to a Fullerton come-back win. The Aggies started off well, lead-ing by five at the end of the first half. The positive start was led by Fipps, who had eight of her 14 points in the first half. The Aggies maintained their momen-

tum in the first two minutes of the sec-ond half, expanding their lead by nine. However, the Titans seemed to turn on a switch and went on a 9-0 run to tie the game. The Aggies managed to rebuild their lead up to four, with a jumper by French and a layup by Fipps. These were the last baskets made by the Aggies for almost 11 minutes. During the drought, the Titans went on a 19-0 run and pretty much sealed the game. The Titans outscored the Aggies by 23 points in the second half. “I thought our energy was good before the game; I thought our confidence was good,” Gross said. “We didn’t maintain that through the entire 40 minutes, and somehow we got in a rut in the second half.” The Aggies will now head out for a two-game road trip. They will play at UC Irvine on Thursday, and conclude their road trip on Saturday at Long Beach State.

KENNETH LING can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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THE BACKSTOP

The world of sports is an odd place. Curt Schilling’s

bloody sock from 2004 just sold for $92,613. My disgust here has nothing to do with the fact that I’m a Yankees fan and the 2004 American League Championship series was my least favorite series ever. Or the bloody fact that it’s a bloody bloody sock. There was a live auc-tion this week that saw the sock soaked with Schilling’s eight-year-old blood sell for almost the price of 100,000 McChickens, or 50,000 Pop Tarts when they’re on sale at Safeway. Think of how many people that could have fed (the answer would be one college student). I just can’t believe some-one would actually want this so-called “artifact.” Is this really going to become the symbol of the season that broke an 86-year World Series drought? First off, let it be known that, according to Yahoo Sports, this isn’t even the bloody sock. Schilling had two bloody socks (I could call them BS, which can ei-ther be short for bloody sock or something else), one that he wore against the New York Yankees late in the 2004 ALCS. Given the situation that each of the bloody socks was worn in, I think the first one that he wore against the Yankees was at a more pivotal point in Red Sox history. Unfortunately for Schilling, the sock appar-ently had been thrown away at Yankees Stadium before he realized he could discharge bodily fluids onto a sock and sell it. The fact that Schilling burned all his baseball earnings on his failed vid-eo game company might show why he could be so desperate to sell the sock. He can no longer afford to do laundry, so everything he wears he’s just going to auction off to buyers. Now that I realize this, it does make me pity Red Sox fans. Maybe a little. I’m not saying these things because I’m still bit-ter about that 2004 ALCS series. Okay, maybe I’m still a bit hurt. But I still can’t believe it — $92,613. Anyway, in other news, UC Davis men’s basketball has given its fans quite a thrill this season. The Aggies are current-ly 7-7 in conference this year, an improvement al-ready from their 3-13 re-cord last year. As crazy as it sounds, UC Davis has a shot at this conference title. If a bloody sock can be sold for $100,000, then this sort of statement is possible. UC Davis has won three of their last four games. With an added team to con-ference this year — Hawai’i — there will be two teams that don’t make it into the Big West Championship tournament. The Aggies have fared well against conference teams, and the 7-7 record, although not impressive, speaks volumes as to how far they have come. UC Davis played tight with Long Beach State, dropping a close 71-65 de-cision that saw the 49ers pull away late in the game. This is a team that went on an 18-game losing streak, facing off a perennial March Madness team. The Aggies will have one more matchup against the 49ers before the end of the season and it will be in front of the home crowd. A win over the first-place, 13-2 LBSU team won’t count any more than a win against 3-11 UC Riverside, but it would definitely do a lot to boost confidence and send a message. The Aggies’ next two

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Aggies put up 22 runs against San Jose State

Mancasola makes it happen against

Northern Colorado

Aggies split weekend

series at home

UC Davis drops first two weekend games to Utah

Aggies lose to Long Beach State, come out with win against Northern Colorado UC Davis takes down UC Riverside, falls to Cal State Fullerton

By LUKE BAEAggie Sports Writer

After a beat-down of San Jose State on Tuesday, the Aggies dropped two straight games to Utah on Friday and Saturday. UC Davis only need-ed eight innings to put up a season-high 22 runs on 23 hits Tuesday against the Spartans. However, its pitch-ing struggled in the late innings to secure wins against Utah. The Aggies hold a record of 4-3 after Saturday’s game without having played any of their games against other teams in their conference.

Tuesday — UC Davis 22, San Jose State 4 UC Davis won the single game in a blowout victory against the Spartans, with a clicking offense that did not let up throughout the game. Sophomore Nick Lynch was impressive, hitting 3-3 from the plate with one run bat-ted in and two runs. Sophomore John Williams led the team with four hits and four RBI. He recorded

three of the four extra-base hits the team had. He hit a two-RBI triple in the fifth. The game was capped off by a nine-run seventh inning, in which constant pressure was applied on the Spartans. The Aggies tallied up nine hits, all singles, in the inning and two batters were hit by pitches that led to the high-scoring frame. The team’s small-ball men-tality was in full effect, as 19 of the 23 hits the Aggies had were singles. Freshman Zach Williams started the game and pitched 3 2/3 innings. He gave up three runs, two earned, and allowed six hits. Then, sophomore Robert Parucha came in from the bullpen and tossed 2 1/3 innings, allow-ing one run, to record the win for the Aggies. Friday — UC Davis 8, Utah 11 After taking the lead late in the seventh, UC Davis surrendered five runs in the last two innings as Utah came back to win it. The bottom of the sev-enth inning was capped

off by a two-run triple by sophomore Kevin Barker. However, Utah answered with one run in the next in-ning and four in the ninth to take control of the game. This game was the first of two in which the Aggies’ bullpen allowed late runs to either give up a lead or tie. Junior Harry Stanwick started the game for UC Davis and pitched 5 1/3 innings and gave up six runs, four earned. He also walked two and struck out six batters. Barker had a good game, going 3-5 from the plate, driving in three runs and scoring a run.

Saturday — UC Davis 3, Utah 7 This game was a bat-tle of starting pitch-ers. Sophomore Spencer Koopmans and Utah’s Tanner Banks both threw seven innings and allowed two runs. The bullpens turned out to be the decid-ing factor. With the game tied up at two heading into the

By KIM CARRAggie Sports Writer

On Wednesday, UC Davis headed south for a match-up against the Big West Conference’s number one team, Long Beach State. If the 49ers were expecting to blow another team out at home, they were sorely mistaken. The Aggies took the court without their three-point connois-seur, junior Ryan Sypkens. Luckily, sophomore Corey Hawkins decided it would be a great night to emulate Sypkens’ form beyond the arc. Hawkins banked four threes for 12 points in the first half alone. UC Davis was scorching in the first half. Hawkins was not alone in frus-trating the 49er defense. Junior Tyler Les also land-ed three three-pointers of his own, while senior Paolo Mancasola made a three, two assists and a nice steal to help continue to Aggies’ momentum. At the end of the half, UC Davis was leading a stunned Long Beach State 33-24. After the break, the 49ers started to pull back in it. They stepped up their de-

fense and they were finally able to showcase that high-flying offense. Ultimately, this game came down to the wire and the Aggies were simply sapped of the energy needed to close it out. UC Davis’ roster was se-verely limited that night. Sypkens was out, and sev-eral other players were held to limited minutes, mean-ing that Hawkins played every single minute of the game. Les and Mancasola were right there with him, tagging 38 and 36 minutes, respectively. Long Beach managed to pull away with a 71-65 victory, but the score does not showcase the fight that went on between the teams. “They played their tails off tonight, fought hard and battled,” Les said. He said he felt like his players learned a lot dur-ing the loss, and he is quite certain that the Aggies will be able to bounce back and fight even harder next time. “This was a valiant ef-fort, hopefully we will have a big crowd turn out on March 7, when we see these guys again and take another shot at the best

team in our league,” he said. UC Davis was not able to dwell on the loss for long because they had plenty of prep to do for Saturday’s game against Northern Colorado. This game posed an in-teresting challenge for the Aggies because it gave them a chance to size themselves up against a relatively un-known opponent. To set the stage, know that the Bears are in the Big Sky conference and they have a productive of-fense that relies on two major players. Their de-fensive intensity is their strong suit and they have plenty of guys who like to jump into passing lanes for steals. UC Davis started the game with incredible spark, going up 28-17 in the first seven minutes. However, the Bears began to creep back in and they ended the first half with a 39-34 advantage. The second half contin-ued the back-and-forth between the teams. Both squads shot for over 60 percent from the field and neither had the defense breakdown that usually By KENNETH LING

Aggie Sports Writer

The Aggies had an up-and-down weekend, splitting their two-game home stretch. They played three good halves of basketball, but the final of the weekend cost the Aggies the second game. After splitting the weekend games, the Aggies are now 11-15 overall and 6-9 in conference. They are now sev-enth in the conference, just ahead of UC Irvine.

Thursday — UC Davis 70, UC Riverside 56 Sophomore Sydnee Fipps had a fantastic performance with 27 points and seven rebounds. Fipps and senior Cortney French, who added 13 points of her own, led the Aggies past the Highlanders. It was a back-and-forth affair for most of the game. The Aggies went into halftime with a 27-23 lead. This lead was due to their superb defense, which held the Highlanders to 25 percent from the field in the first half. Despite the Highlanders’ poor shooting performance, they managed to stay in the game with offensive re-bounds. Their second-chance opportunities and deter-mined play allowed the Highlanders to come back and gain a one-point lead with a little less than 13 minutes to go. This was when Fipps took over the game, as she scored 10 of the Aggies’ next 13 points. The crucial run gave the Aggies a 10-point lead to put them up 52-42, with nine and a half minutes remaining. The Highlanders could not mount a comeback after

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Sophomore Nick Lynch hit 3-3 from the plate against San Jose State University. UC Davis won 22-4.

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Cortney French scored ten points against CSU Fullerton. Fullerton won 60-42.