By GHEED SAEEDAggie News Writer

Ryan Clifford’s lawsuit against AEPi is set to start trial in Yolo County Superior Court on April 2. Earlier this academic year, Clifford, a former UC Davis trans-fer student, filed legal charg-es against the regents of the University of California, claim-ing he was subject to the “harsh-est form of hazing” for the dura-tion of his term as a pledge for the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi). Clifford claims his non-Jewish religious affiliation is the prima-ry reason for the alleged hazing. “Ryan Clifford filed a sepa-rate suit against the regents of the University of California, Paul

Cody and Tracy Grissom in feder-al court on Nov. 4, 2011. That fil-ing has now been amended and the university will file a response to the amended complaint by Feb. 17,” said UC Davis Senior Public Information Representative Julia Ann Easley. In addition to the regents of the University of California, Clifford has also filed complaints against Paul Cody of the Office of Student Programs and Activities Center and Tracy Grissom, Advisor for Undergraduate Education, for the latter’s alleged disregard for Clifford’s complaints and the for-mer’s refusal to follow through with the “conditional registra-tion” requirements placed on the fraternity. Clifford claims he was both “drugged and sexually assault-

ed by members of the fraternity” and was “compelled ... to drink in-ordinate amounts of alcohol and consume beverages containing unknown narcotic substances,” during a mandatory Lake Tahoe retreat, as stated in Clifford’s Complaint for Damages. Filing under the law office of Lisa Holder, Clifford is suing for the following damages: “[viola-tion of ] Ryan Clifford’s right to be free from discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs and activi-ties ... [deprivation of Plaintiff ’s] clearly established rights, privi-leges, and immunities secured by the 14th and First Amendments of the Constitution... [deprived of ] the right of persons to be free

Today’s weatherPartly sunnyHigh 64Low 47

ForecastAs nice as this weekend may have been, it looks like we will be giving winter another brief opportunity to show itself early this

week.

Alex Neigher, atmospheric science majorAggie Forecasting Team

Change of rain Mostly sunny

Wednesday

High 62Low 39

Tuesday

High 54Low 41

Sunday was a day full of green, as in, many are swimming in it. G-Men!!!

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UC President calls for UC system to be smoke-free by 2014

AEPi lawsuit to start trial on April 2

Former student suing for alleged hazing by UC Davis fraternity

Students have mixed thoughts on new policyBy MICHELLE MURPHY

Aggie News Writer

The fight against smoking is coming to UC Davis, as smokers will find it difficult to find somewhere to grab a quick smoke in two years time. In a letter to the UC chancellors on Jan. 9, UC President Mark G. Yudof asked each chancellor to form a committee to imple-ment a smoke-free policy by 2014. “As a national leader in health care and environmental practices, the University of California is ready to demonstrate leader-ship in reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke by creating a smoke-free environment on all of our campuses,” Yudof wrote. Yudof made explicit mandates that each university is to uphold in the smoke-free policy. “Smoke-free means that smoking, the use of smokeless tobacco products and the use of unregulated nicotine products (e.g., “e-cigarettes”) will be ‘strictly’ prohibited,” Yudof wrote. Davis already has multiple smoke-free areas on campus. According to the UC Davis Policy and Procedure Manual, state law and university policy prohibit smoking inside UC-owned and UC-leased buildings in order to protect the health, safety and comfort of university students, employees and visitors. In addition to the policy already in place, the new smoke-free policy will prohib-it the use of any type of tobacco products in parking lots, residential spaces and the Medical Center campuses. Furthermore, the sale and advertising of tobacco products will be strictly prohibited in university owned and occupied buildings. One UC Davis smoker, Amber Garcia, a junior sociology and political science dou-ble major, said that the smoke-free policy might have a negative affect on students’ ability to get away from the pressure of

school. “A lot of the students want that stress free moment from midterms and finals. It’s a little five-second release,” she said. Those stress free moments will be hard

to find though starting 2014. Julia Ruble, a senior anthropology major, doesn’t think this policy will really make a difference on campus. “I don’t think it’s going to do anything.

The few [graduate] students that I’ve talk-ed to about it said they are going to smoke anyway. It’s an enforcement issue. There’s

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students find places to smoke on campus, such as outside of the library and the 24-Hour reading room.

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Alpha epsilon Pi fraternity, UC Davis chapter, is currently facing charges for hazing.

Official ASUCD election candidates

Senate and Executive can-didates for the upcoming ASUCD election have been officially posted.

Senate candidates:Beatriz AnguianoBradley BottomsColten Ellison Saunders Desun OkaDonkeyonta GilbertDylan Schaefer Jacklyn Jaonino Jonathan Soo HooJose (Chucha) MarquezJoyce HanKabir Kapur Marcus King

Norman BorgoniaPatrick Devlin Paul Min

Vice President candidates: Amy MartinYena Bae

President candidates: Bree RombiRebecca Sterling

Elections will begin on Feb. 21 at 8 a.m. All students are encouraged to vote at elec-tions.ucdavis.edu.

— Hannah Strumwasser

The Downtown Business Association (DDBA) elected three downtown businesses owners to its board of direc-tors on Jan. 31. Janis Lott of Newsbeat, Alzada Knickerbocker of The Avid Reader and Dave Robert of Sugar Daddies were elect-ed to three-year terms. Lott was re-elected, making this her second term. “The DDBA Board of Directors is very excited with the new additions to the Board,” said Stewart Savage, director of the DDBA, in a press release. “As the Board was discussing candidates to present for election, they wanted to make sure that all candidates were innova-tive, creative, energetic, and involved. Janis, Alzada, and David certainly fit the bill.” The 2012-13 DDBA offi-cers are: Rosalie Paine of Nestware, co-president, Michael Bisch of Davis Commercial Properties, co-president, Newman

Associates’ Andrew Newman, treasurer, and Lyon Real Estate’s Kim Eichorn, secretary. Jennifer Anderson of Davis Ace, Sinisa Novakovic who owns Mishka’s Cafe, Varsity Theater and Icekremski, Scott Purves of Purves and Associates, Kevin Wan of Sophia’s Thai Kitchen and the three elected at the meeting comprise the rest of the board. In addition to the elec-tions, outgoing board members, Nina Gatewood and Kate Hutchinson, were recognized for their excel-lent efforts during their tenure. Hutchinson, owner of Ciocolat at 301 B Street, had served on the Board since 2009. Gatewood, owner of Haute Again at 129 E Street, was appoint-ed to the Board in 2011. Gatewood is now the dep-uty director of marketing for the DDBA.

— Angela Swartz

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The internet is sup-posed to be a free and open enterprise.

I’m sure it was at some point but, nowadays, it seems as though the in-ternet is just enterprise. With such large profits to be made and to be lost, is it possible for companies like Google and Facebook to see past their corporate interest to protect the freedoms of speech and expres-sion that the inter-net was supposed to fos-ter and facilitate? I got to thinking about censorship after Twitter made a small but signifi-cant change to their guide-lines last week that I be-lieve resolves a lot of issues facing sites with user-gen-erated content. Twitter announced that it would remove tweets only in specific coun-tries where the content was considered unlawful, and leave the message on-line for the rest of the web. What caught my attention was that this move toward seemingly more censorship actually makes for less cen-sorship overall. If a country requests that Twitter remove a tweet, the tweet in question will be blocked only for us-ers whose IP addresses are from that particular coun-try. Previously, Twitter would have blocked the tweet for everyone, but can now do so on a case-by-case basis. The policy is an inter-esting approach to a wide-spread problem — that not all freedoms of speech are created equal. In Twitter’s official blog post address-ing the change, “Tweets Still Must Flow,” the com-pany explained that coun-tries outside the U.S. have particular restrictions for “historical or cultural rea-sons” such as France and Germany who, under-standably, prohibit pro-Nazi content in all their media. Complying to certain countries’ codes of on-line conduct does, how-ever, raise another ques-tion. Is being complic-it in censorship — no mat-ter how minor or justi-fied — simply perpetuat-ing the problem instead of

actively working against it? I can name a few coun-tries wherein communica-tions constraints aren’t so reasonable (ahem, China). After the announcement, mobile developer Terence Eden, tweeted, “I helped develop a Twitter client that Chinese pro-democ-racy activists used. Guess that’s dead now. Thanks, Twitter.” I imagine that Twitter isn’t only concerned for the wellbeing of civil lib-erties. I’m sure profit mar-gins are on their minds, too. If Twitter extends its dominance into the inter-national market, then it MUST comply with coun-tries’ policies in order to compete with other net-working services — even if those policies are discrimi-natory. As with all advertis-ing schemes, Twitter’s pro-motional services become

more valu-able when it makes itself available to more us-ers, in more countries.

Despite this, I am hes-itant to accuse Twitter of having too strong a cor-porate mentality. They trail far behind the afore-mentioned tech behe-moths in profits and manage a much smaller operation. The company has also famously stood up against government orders when others did not. When the feds requested that Twitter hand over information re-garding users connect-ed with Wikileaks, it suc-cessfully fought a gag order that would have prevent-ed the company from pub-licizing the request and no-tifying those users (giving them time to defend them-selves against such an in-vestigation). Twitter has continued in this same vein, publicizing all its cease-and-desist re-quests on ChillingEffects.org/twitter. Google also de-serves accolades for post-ing to this site, as well as its own transparency report, which offers great coun-try-by-country visualiza-tions of content removal requests. Facebook, on the other hand, provides no such data. By virtue of its role in protest organization around the world, Twitter will be subjected to close examination as it exercis-es its new policy. I remain optimistic, maybe naively, about the company’s inten-tions. It is, after all, a ser-vice that can even seem a little too free and too open. Let us not forget the unfor-tunate case of Mr. Anthony Weiner who, thanks to Twitter, left very little to the imagination.

NICOLE NGUYEN’s home tweet home is @itsnicolenguyen, but send your sweet nothings to niknguyen@ucdavis.edu.

Usually, to borrow a phrase from the Black Eyed Peas, I

like to pride myself on be-ing relatively “3008;” I know all the 411, I’m lis-tening to the cool jams and I’ve even got a Twitter. But my problem isn’t staying hip to the jive, which I clearly excel at (check the lingo) — it’s technology. Sure I have a Twitter, and I’ve even heard of LinkedIn, but that doesn’t mean I have any inkling about how to use either. It’s not for lack of trying, mind you. It just seems like every time I bother to get acquainted with the latest and greatest device, it’s al-most immediately eclipsed by “the next big thing.” Even my prized cellphone — for all of its 1.3 mega-pixels and surprising du-rability — is now basical-ly regarded as a techno-logical fossil, whereas just two years ago the AT&T as-sociate pitched it to me as the top-of-the-line in Smartphones. You should know that I’m well aware of the risks inher-ent in writing this column: that I’ll end up sounding like an out-of-touch 83-year-old or a hipster wingnut on the brink of Amish conversion. Fine with me; when it comes to new forms of social me-dia and gadgetry, that’s of-ten how I spiritually identi-fy. Saying this might seem like a melodramatic inac-curacy, since readers are by now surely familiar with the blog I incessantly promote (cleverblog.tumblr.com, for the newcomers), but take it from me: Tumblr is where my savvy ends. More and more it feels like the tools with which I’m acquainted, like Facebook and even iTunes (thanks to Spotify), are be-coming relics. The bat-tery life of the laptop I pur-chased two years ago has already withered to a pa-thetic 44 minutes, and I’m certain the Windows 7 op-erating system will be ob-solete soon enough (if that isn’t the case already). As production gets better, shelf life is getting shorter and it’s becoming increas-ingly difficult to stay famil-iar with all the new indus-try standards and jargon,

especially for a premature curmudgeon like myself. The term “3G,” for in-stance, still means nothing to me no matter how many times I hear it, and the ex-tent of my knowledge on 4G consists of the logical assumption that it’s an im-provement on 3G. I’m able to recognize Pinterest as the name of The Site Where My Friends Get The Funny Pictures, although I have absolutely no clue as to what its actual purpose is. Frankly, though, I’m okay with not knowing about all of these things in detail as I have found that peo-ple who are technological-ly well-versed are almost more intimidating than the technology itself. This is why I view the Apple Genius Bar not as the mecca that everyone else seems to see it as, but as the closest on-Earth man-

ifestation of Dante’s 9th cir-cle of Hell. Everyone who works there is so

young and quick-spoken and robotic in their knowl-edge that when you throw in all the icy silver motifs it feels like being trapped in-side a futuristic nightmare scripted by Aaron Sorkin. The Genius representa-tives are almost intimidat-ingly knowledgeable. When I think of the immensity of the scale of Apple’s ongoing pro-duction, I can only imagine with some horror what the Genius’ orientation manual must look like — or what it’ll look like in five years — and what kind of superhumans it must take to retain that scale of information. What’s even more fright-ening, though, is that there are cads of ordinary peo-ple who fall for that shit — who get enticed by the un-ending, materialistic yearn-ing for whatever’s new and trendy in the way of tech-nological advancements. As long as there’s somebody tending, say, the Genius bar or the electronics section of the local Target, there’s always going to be a buy-er who’s susceptible to the “newer is better, upgrade now!” spiel. I know this be-cause I’m one of them. Just because I don’t un-derstand technology 100 (or even 50) percent of the time doesn’t mean that my comfortable existence of status updates and blog-ging isn’t just as dependent on it. Sacrifices must be made to maintain societal relevance, so I’m going to keep upgrading, download-ing, purchasing and even scheduling appointments with the Genius Bar in or-der to do so. So what if the emperor has no clothes? He has an iPad instead.

Stay tuned as DYLAN GALLAGHER (reachable at dylaaaaan@gmail.com) discovers the printing press.

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energy institute/bae/plant Sciences winter 2012 Seminar Series12:10 to 1 p.m.1003 Kemper HallJoin Dr. Manfred Auer, staff scientist at the Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley, as he discusses “Plant Cell Walls: Imaging Nature’s Solution to 3-D Design And Their Effective Deconstruction.” There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.

Summer abroad info Session4 to 5 p.m.Education Abroad Center, Third and A StreetsGet more information and ask questions about the program “Buenos Aires in Film, Literature and Popular Culture.”

peace corps info Session6 to 7 p.m.1128 Hart HallLearn how to get involved with the Peace Corps.

pi Kappa phi info Session7 p.m.Young 194 Pi Kappa Phi will be hosting an info session to inform students about the new fraternity on campus. Pi Kapp is looking for driven leaders on campus who want to redefine fraternities at Davis and who are focused on service, scholarship and leadership.

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event11 a.m. to 9 p.m.Rostini Italian Kitchen, 1411 West Covell Blvd.The Japanese American Student Society will be hosting a fundraising event to support the Soran Bushi dance group. Twenty percent of your purchase will be donated to the formation of Soran Bushi when you present a flyer with your order. To receive a digital copy of the flyer, e-mail cmlu@ucdavis.edu.

facebook to linkedin — How to get in4 p.m.South Hall 114An expert panel will discuss how social media can help you network and open doors and how to manage your image on social media sites. Employers are looking! How to manage your image on social media sites and what to be aware of concerning your privacy settings.

the edge auditions6 to 10 p.m.Wyatt TheaterAuditions are open to UC Davis students, faculty and staff. Bring a resume and head shot. Sign up in Art 101. To audition for the One Acts, review any of the sides that are provided in Art 101. For the Hour of 5’s, a new component to the EDGE that is comprised of an hour’s worth of five-minute pieces, your audition piece should be reflective of what you hope to perform.

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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 Feb. 2, 2012 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings.

Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m.

Adam Thongsavat, ASUCD president, absentBree Rombi, ASUCD vice president, presentYena Bae, ASUCD senator, presentJared Crisologo-Smith, ASUCD senator, present Miguel Espinoza, ASUCD senator, presentJustin Goss, ASUCD senator, present Anni Kimball, ASUCD senator, presentAmy Martin, ASUCD senator, presentMayra Martín, ASUCD senator, presentErica Padgett, ASUCD senator, presentBrendan Repicky, ASUCD senator, presentPatrick Sheehan, ASUCD senator, presentRyan Meyerhoff, ASUCD senator, present Yara Zokaie, ASUCD senator, present

appointments and confirmationsKatarzyna Izdebska was confirmed to the Academic Affairs Commission.

Monica Sharma was confirmed to the Business and Finance Commission.

Laura Murrell was confirmed to the Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission.

unit director reportsThe director of Picnic Day said this year’s theme is “Then, now and always.” The Parade marshals were selected. They created a new website including applications to help out with Picnic Day. Applications are due this Thursday. They are currently working with the greek system for publicity and public outreach

programs. She spoke about ordinances with alcohol and drugs during Picnic Day and mentioned working on continuing the sustainable Quad.

consideration of old legislationSenate Bill 49, authored by Cano, to restructure the process of recorder for subordinate bodies of ASUCD Senate. The goal is to change the bill to say that minutes need to be recorded but how this is done is up to the individual commissions. The bill passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 53, authored by Cano, to create the Pseudo-Secret Bylaw Special Committee, passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 55, authored by Cano, to establish consistent Bylaws for interviewing committees, passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 58, authored by Crisologo-Smith, to include the role of Recruitment and Retention Organizing Committee (RROC) Representatives within the ASUCD Bylaws. The bill passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 59, authored by Burke, co-authored by Sheehan and Kapur, to require that a copy of the ASUCD Bylaws and ASUCD Budget be present at every Senate meeting. The bill passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 61, authored by Goss, co-authored by Wold, to place the All Work and No Play Makes Davis Boring Ballot Measure on the Winter 2012 ballot. The bill passed 6-5-1 with Martin, Zokaie, Kimball, Repicky and Crisologo-Smith voting no.

Meeting adjourned at 8:01 p.m.

Open positions within ASUCD can be found at vacancy.ucdavis.edu. CHARLOTTE YOUNG compiles the senate briefs. She can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

More and more it feels like the tools with which I’m acquainted

... are becoming relics

not really a way to enforce everyone to stop smoking,” she said. Only about 10 percent of employ-ees and about 8 percent of students in the UC system regularly smoke, according to the UC Office of the President report.

Ruble said that the small portion of people who do smoke on campus are generally polite about it. “No one walks through a crowd and blows smoke in peoples’ faces,” she said. “People are usually pretty good about not smoking in doorways or where it is enclosed. The whole smoking thing can be totally socially controlled.” In the coming months, the commit-

tee charged with developing the poli-cy will look to help students and em-ployees alike reduce and all together cease tobacco related habits. “The enforcement of the smoke-free policy should be primarily educa-tional, with an emphasis on cessation resources,” Yudof wrote.

MICHELLE MURPHY can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

SmokerScont. from front page

from threats and intimida-tion based on religious and political affiliations or on the basis of sex ... defen-dants owed [Clifford] duty of care ... [Clifford suffered]

extreme emotional and physical distress,” as stated in Clifford’s Complaint for Damages. Alpha Epsilon Pi’s mis-sion statement includes: “Alpha Epsilon Pi is a Jewish fraternity, though non-discriminatory and open to all who are willing

to espouse its purpose and values,” as stated on the fraternity’s official nation-wide website. While AEPi members are currently not allowed to speak about the law suit, UC Davis AEPi President David Rosove highlighted the achievements of AEPi.

“We raised 6,000 dollars in the fall of 2011 for chil-dren who can’t afford heart transplants; the brothers of AEPi continue to strive to better our community,” he said.

GHEED SAEED can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

Hazingcont. from front page

Komen restores funding to Planned Parenthood

By katelynn mcColloughIowa State Daily (Iowa State University)

Susan G. Komen for the Cure founder Nancy Brinker an-nounced Friday that the organiza-tion will return funding to Planned Parenthood. This decision comes three days after the breast cancer movement organiza-tion pulled its funding from Planned Parenthood, citing a federal investiga-tion into Planned Parenthood as the cause for the decision. The original announcement creat-

ed a social media uproar of citizens who believed that cause for the with-drawal of funds came from pro-life activist pressures. “We want to apologize to the American public for recent de-cisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of sav-ing women’s lives. The events of this week have been deeply un-settling for our supporters, part-ners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been dis-tressed at the presumption that the changes made to our fund-

ing criteria were done for politi-cal reasons or to specifically penal-ize Planned Parenthood. They were not,” Brinker said in a statement re-leased to the public. Komen funding to Planned Parenthood goes toward breast ex-ams and cancer screenings for low-income patients. Since the announcement was made Tuesday, Planned Parenthood has re-ported nearly $1 million in donations, which includes a $250,000 dona-tion from New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

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Fight the rainy day bluesWhat to do inside when you can’t go outside

By CLAIRE MALDARELLIAggie Staff Writer

From the unavoidable mud streak, infamous-ly known as the freshman stripe, to sitting on a rain-soaked bike seat because your UC Davis Bookstore bag flew away, the Davis rainy season can really wreck havoc on your day. But have no fear. Davis has plenty of things to occupy your time when those rain clouds that just won’t go away. First of course, catching up on sleep is a safe bet. Most college students are sleep deprived on a consis-tent basis and a rainy day may provide the perfect ex-cuse to sleep in. Further, many people find the soothing sound of the rain to be the best way to get a good night sleep or even an afternoon nap. After getting well over the eight hours of required sleep, many agree that the best way to spend the day inside is by watching mov-ies and listening to music. “I like listening to surf mu-sic because rainy days are ugly but when you listen to beach music, it’s more beau-tiful,” said junior chemistry major Justin Lopez. With Netflix, Hulu and iTunes, there are plenty of great movies to watch with-out ever having to leave your room to rent or buy one. But, with the Academy Awards coming up, there are also great movies play-ing at local movie theatres — just as long as you don’t mind getting a little wet on the way over. Shalini Majumdar, a first-year biomedical engi-neering major, said watch-ing movies is her favorite way to pass time on a rainy, overcast day. “I love to stay in and watch as many movies as I can because on a rainy day I want to be inside where it’s warm and dry,” Majumdar said. But, if you find yourself sick of lounging around in your dorm room or apartment, the UC Davis Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) has a num-

ber of fun and, most im-portantly, indoor activities. During Winter quarter, the ARC offers three intramu-ral (IM) league sports: bas-ketball, racquetball and in-door soccer. In addition, the ARC of-fers a number of “Paloozas” — typically 48-hour con-tinuous tournaments. “Paloozas” offered this quarter include a Poker Palooza, which is current-ly taking entries and be-gins this Friday, as well as dodgeball, team handball and table tennis Paloozas. Times for these tourna-ments can be found on the ARC website. Kyle Urban, custom-er service coordinator for IM sports at the ARC, said these tournaments are very popular among students. “Basketball is our most popular league in the win-ter. Meanwhile, Dodgeball Palooza is definitely our most popular Palooza or tournament. We are always looking for more partici-pants, however, so all stu-dents are encouraged to apply,” said Urban, in an e-mail interview. Although registration for the five-week leagues has ended, the Palooza tourna-ments are still open for en-tries. An alternative option to a rainy day is to avoid it. That is, get out of Davis and the surrounding rainy area

— Outdoor Adventures can help with that. During Winter quarter, Outdoor Adventures (OA), locat-ed next to the Silo, offers a number of weekend day and overnight trips allow-ing the rain to be complete-ly avoided. Every weekend, OA of-fers cross-country skiing day trips as well as vari-ous backpacking and rock climbing trips. They also offer special weekend and three-day weekend trips. Eva Dwyer, a student man-ager at the rental center at OA, said many of these trips are very popular among students and she highly recommends them. “The most popular is the snow cave and Igloo building trip as well as the Yosemite Car Camping Trip and Mt. Lassen Cross-Country Skiing trip,” Dwyer said. Both the car camping and the Mt. Lassen trip will be from Feb. 18 to 20 and are currently open for registra-tion. All trips include trans-portation and students can sign up in person at OA or by calling its office at (530) 752-1995. Further, Dwyer said stu-dents could go on their own trips and rent equip-ment, such as tents, sleep-ing bags, skis, kayaks and more from OA for a very low price. “Students get a good discount from us and we

have plenty of equipment,” Dwyer said. More information about trips, sign-ups and rentals can be found on OA’s of-ficial website, or you can

stop by OA in between or after class. With these resources and activities so easily accessi-ble, hopefully the rainy day blues won’t be so terribly

draining. And still, for some select few, the rain can actu-ally brighten their day. Just ask first-year political sci-ence major Ryan Wonders. “I like to get dressed up on a rainy day and go for a walk because it doesn’t rain that often and I want to enjoy it when it does,” Wonders said.

CLAIRE MALDARELLI can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

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On a rainy day, students can enjoy a game of racquetball at the ARC with friends.

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(Top photo) The ARC climbing wall offers a challenge for adrenaline-seekers.

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(Left photo) Intramural basketball is one of the popular sports during Winter quarter.

the game at 36 with just over 16 min-utes to play.

Two free throws by Paolo Mancasola put the Aggies up 52-48 with six min-utes to play, but from there the team would watch the game slip away from them, as they have many times already this season.

“Our game plan was to give our-selves a chance to win with five min-utes to go and the guys did that,” Les said. “The last two ball games have been much better in terms of effort, energy and intensity.

“No we’ve just got to close out a game, and what that entails is making plays down the stretch.”

Saturday — UC Riverside 59, UC Davis 54 While the Aggies were again only a few plays away from earning their second win of the season at UC Riverside, Les did not praise his team’s effort or in-tensity after Saturday’s contest.

On the road against the Highlanders, UC Davis was able to win the rebound-ing battle but failed in other aspects of the game, particularly turnovers and points in the paint.

UC Riverside had 34 points in the paint to the Aggies 12 while they also won the turnover battle with only 10 to the Aggies 20.

On Sunday morning Les did not back away from his post-game comments and continued to be disappointed in his team’s effort, especially on the de-fensive end of the floor.

“The first three of four minutes the defensive intensity wasn’t there and we had to go to the bench,” Les said. “The bench came in and did a nice job, we got out to an 18-9 lead and went back to some of those starters and fell right back in the hole.

“[There were] too many breakdowns,” Les continued. “Too many mental con-centration lapses that on the road you can’t have. Some of our more veter-an players, some of our more talented players, that can’t happen.”

A high point for UC Davis this week-end was Ritchart’s 21 points against UC Riverside. Ritchart made a career high tying five three pointers and also had eight rebounds. He was the only Aggie to score in double digits.

UC Davis will return to ac-tion Thursday against Cal State Northridge.

CAELUM SHOVE can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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to too many players, though, as he had a limited number of scholarships to work with due to the small number of graduating seniors.

One area that the coach-es targeted for depth im-provement was the wide receiving core, which last season lacked a receiver with game changing speed or athleticism.

“We really hit a home run with some real playmak-ers in Devin Alexander and Ramon Vargas,” Biggs said. “Luke Williams is also a great combination receiver.

“Those were our top three choices and we were fortu-nate to be able to sign all of them.”

Biggs also brought in quar-terback Ben Scott, who won’t see the field next season but will compete for the starting spot going forward.

Headed into next season, incumbent starter Randy

Wright and backup London Lacy will compete for start-ing quarterback role.

There are no running backs in this season’s class of recruits, as the Aggies al-ready have seven on their roster.

Biggs expects to red-shirt all of this season’s re-cruits, meaning that they will have four years of eli-gibility remaining after the 2012 season.

The only exception is kick-er Marcus White, who led the state of California in touch-backs last season in high school and averaged 41.7 yards per punt throughout his career. He will take over the kickoff duties for the Aggies and compete for field goal and punting duty.

Defensively, Biggs strengthened the Aggies core of linebackers with two addi-tions, while also adding two cornerbacks and one safety.

There are three linemen in this year’s class, two of-fensive and one defensive tackle. The largest of the trio

is 6-5, 300 pound offensive lineman Armando Ceja-Lua, who dominated opponents in his highlight real.

Overall, Biggs was ex-tremely pleased with the players coming into the pro-gram and ready to see them succeed under the guid-ance of the still to be deter-mined future head coach of UC Davis.

“I thought we did a great job with the 13 spots we had,” Biggs said. “I think it bodes extremely well for the future and I want to do everything I can so that when we transition to a new head coach; it’s very seamless.

“It’s important that we continue to recruit a good combination of athleti-cism and size. Our physical play needs to continue to complement our skill [and] we were able to add those qualities with this year’s class.”

CAELUM SHOVE can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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Katya Rafanova, senior Russian and psychology major.

The Aggie: What are you wearing?Rafanova: A funnel collar dress and scalloped leath-er jacket from Yoox.com, Tory Burch bag, and Lucky Brand booties.

How did you decide what to wear today?“I really like dressing up and I don’t think there are enough special events in one’s life, so I dress up a lot. I also like mixing textures, it really helps if your outfit is turning out to be the same color.”

Where do you find inspiration?“I always look for embellishments and designs that I find unique. I guess I like being overdressed rather than under-dressed. I find that with dresses it’s easier to get ready in the morning, because there is only one thing to pick out.”

What’s your least favorite thing about dressing up?“The one thing I haven’t gotten down is how to wear towering heels comfortably for more than 30 minutes. Sometimes I can’t even focus on anything around me because I’m thinking of the pain I am in!”

SASHA SHARMA can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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By KELLEY REESAggie News Writer

UC Berkeley played host to the second University of California Global Health Day this past Saturday. The multitude of speakers centered on the topic of popula-tion growth, while global health disciples representing all UC campuses displayed current graduate student, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty work on a broad array of research falling under the global health banner. The burgeoning event was deemed a suc-cess on all accounts. The affair saw near-ly 450 attendees — a boost of double that of the previous year’s inaugural UC Global Health Day. In addition, the UC Global Health Day represented the feats of an un-precedented partnership between the UC Global Health Institute, the UC Berkeley Center for Global Public Health and the UC Berkeley Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability in collaboration with the Northern California International Health Interest Group. It was through the sponsorship of such facilities that the event was able to pres-ent its two keynote speakers, Sir John E. Sulston and Dr. Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu. The former, a Nobel Laureate and chair of the UK Royal Society Working Group on the People and the Planet project delivered an address mentioning the large backlash the subject of population growth conjures. As if in reference to current political ten-sions surrounding the topics of contracep-tion, Professor Malcolm Potts, director and founder of the UC Berkeley Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability, quoted Sulston’s writing detailing the ne-cessity of governmental and academic convergence. “Scientists have to join politicians in de-ciding the kind of world we want to live in,” Potts said. Dr. Zulu, director of the African Institute for Development Policy, spoke on the con-sequences of high fertility and population, focusing on their repercussions for Africa. Professor Ndola Prata, scientific director for the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability and medical director for Venture Strategies Innovations, similarly underscored the ramifications of limited or non-accessible family planning. Startling statistics were highlighted,

such as the yearly 75 million unintended pregnancies, the 215 million women with an unmet need for contraception and the annual 21.6 million unsafe abortions — all of which could be reduced with the provi-sion of family planning. The day, beginning with check-in at 8:30 a.m. and culminating with the end of smaller “breakout sessions” focused on specified global health issues around 5 p.m., provided an array of panelists and speakers all with backgrounds in the glob-al health arena. Potts commenced the pro-ceedings with an introduction touting global health’s over-arching significance to the international community. “An individual cannot be healthy if they live in an unhealthy world and much of our world is extremely sick,” Potts said. Among those in attendance were a con-glomeration of UC students interested in all aspects of global health from learning more on the subject to pursuing graduate studies and careers in the field. Roxanne Winston, a UC Berkeley graduate and cur-rent campus campaign organizer with Universities Allied for Essential Medicine expressed her anticipation for speakers to touch on possible means for UC campuses to address global health problems. “I hope the conference will focus more

on some larger global health issues that we within the university will have the ability to impact,” Winston said. “Such as addressing the prevalence of neglected diseases and ensuring access to the med-ical technologies that can vastly improve quality of life in low and middle income countries.” At the end of the day UCSF Program Manager of Global Health Sciences and

chief organizer of the event — beginning with preparations as early as summer – Catherin Lee, discussed her pleasure with the entire affair. “Our point of pride,” Lee said, “is the fact that we’ve been able to reach out to people at every single UC campus at all the differ-ent levels in the education hierarchy.”

KELLEY REES can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

UC Berkeley hosts second UC Global Health DayExperts and students alike unite under the banner of global health

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(Left photo) There were a variety of speakers at the UC Global Health Day.

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Doin’ iT GrEEn: AT THE sTorEit more likely that players will be subjected to practices in intense heat, but it makes it difficult for students to schedule their classes as well — since the majority of classes at UC Davis are scheduled between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

This causes conflicts for students, prompting some former athletes to complain that they were

unable to graduate in four years because they had to schedule classes around practice times.

Granted, UC Davis is not a BCS-level school, and we currently face a severe budget issue, but the addition of lights to current athletics facilities does not seem unreasonable.

It’s a long-awaited improvement, and the sooner we can get them, the better.

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

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THE BACKSTOP

It’s a simple change, but it could revolutionize the UC Davis sports experience.

With 23 sports teams, a football stadium just five years old and a renovated basketball arena, the next logical facility upgrade for UC Davis is obvious — lights.

As of now Aggie Soccer Field, Dobbins Baseball Complex and La Rue Softball Field all remain daytime only facilities, as no lights have yet been put in place. The 2008 edition of Aggie Pride Magazine — a publication released by UC Davis athletics development — cited lighting on all three facilities as a top priority for the upcoming years.

Yet here we stand, four years later, and no meaningful progress has been made.

The simple addition of overhead lighting would have a multi-fold impact on not just the teams that use those facilities, but all of UC Davis athletics.

First, and probably most importantly, it would increase the size of crowds able and willing to attend UC Davis sporting events.

As things stand, mid-week games for soccer, baseball and softball have to be played during daylight hours. This leads to a lot of contests that start between noon and 4 p.m. on weekdays. This is a time when most people are working or going to class, and this is reflected in the attendance numbers.

After the start of school in September, men’s soccer games held on weekends averaged 829 fans, while games held during the week netted an average of just 634 fans.

Adding lights to the field would help more people see Aggies sports events, creating a better environment in the stadiums as well as providing revenue and exposure for the university.

But fans are often reluctant to attend games based on more than just their work or school schedules. Many supporters are likely to be dissuaded by the blazing heat that can plague outdoor sporting events in Davis — especially during late summer and early fall.

On multiple occasions this year both men’s and women’s soccer had to play in temperatures approaching 100 degrees — conditions that are not exactly conducive to a pleasant fan experience.

The same is also often true for late season baseball and softball games — especially when softball plays doubleheaders that can require fans to sit in the sun for around four hours.

And not only is the heat negative for the fans, but it has an effect on the players as well. Expecting college students to perform athletically in temperatures over 95 degrees is not only physically taxing, but it is borderline dangerous.

Providing lights at UC Davis stadiums would allow teams to play at night, when temperatures are significantly cooler and both players and fans can enjoy a safe and exciting environment.

Finally, the lack of lighting has effects on players that most fans would never think about. Due to the fact that the stadiums remain unlighted, teams are typically forced to practice during the day.

Not only does this make

TrevorCramer

In the dark

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By CAELUM SHOVEAggie Sports Writer

The UC Davis men’s basket-ball team has now lost 18 games in a row, the worst such streak in school history since the 1951-52 team lost their first 22 games of the season.

Making this past weekend’s loss-es at UC Irvine and UC Riverside more painful for Aggie fans is the fact the UC Davis held a second-half lead in both of the contests.

The two losses drop UC Davis’ record to 1-21 overall, 0-10 in Big West Conference play.

Try as they might, the Aggies seem incapable of closing out a game down the stretch.

Head Coach Jim Les was pleased with the team’s effort in Thursday’s loss at UC Irvine, but following Saturday’s collapse against UC Riverside the coach laid into his team during his post-game radio interview.

The Aggies gave up a 14-0 run to the Highlanders in the first half to relinquish their early lead and then gave away the lead again in the second half during a six-min-ute scoreless drought.

All of this was despite the fact that UC Riverside was playing without its best player and leading scorer Phil Martin, who was out for personal reasons.

“For the scholarships they’re given they owe this program a lot more effort and intensity and ur-gency,” Les told KSAC’s Scott Marsh after the game. “If they won’t then we’ll find some other guys that will appreciate being here and give the effort.”

“I don’t ask [my players] to play a perfect game,” Les continued. “They’re going to make mistakes, they’re going to miss shots. [But] I’ll be darned if guys are just going to come out here and just show up.

“Maybe they can’t handle the pressure of stepping out here and playing Division I basketball. You need to be a competitor. Right now the only intensity comes from the bench and the coaching staff and that doesn’t quite cut it.”

“I’m disappointed from every

guy that stepped out here to play tonight,” Les continued. “It’s cer-tainly not the culture that I want to create around this program and that culture is going to change and either these guys will change to meet it or we’ll do what we have to do.”

Thursday — UC Irvine68, UC Davis 61 Unlike in their previous game against UC Irvine this season, the Aggies came out strong against the Anteaters on Thursday in the Bren Events Center.

After scoring the first five points

of the game UC Davis gave up the lead but hung around through-out the first half and went into the break trailing 28-32.

A three pointer by Josh Ritchart, one of this four on the night, tied

Losing streak continuesAggies continue to falter in close games

By MATTHEW YUENAggie Sports Writer

The UC Davis women’s basket-ball team started the second half of Big West Conference play in thrill-ing fashion and pulled out a victo-ry in the process.

The Aggies squeezed out a win over Cal State Fullerton by a score of 57-55 in a game that was decid-ed in the last 15 seconds. Junior Blair Shinoda’s shot in the final will be the one credited as winning the battle, but the entire game was a product of a joint effort from UC Davis.

“Kelsey [Beard] hit a few threes that got the bench roar-ing. Sydnee [Fipps] was all over the boards,” Head Coach Jennifer Gross said. “So it’s different play-ers every single day that bring something unique to the game and I think that’s what makes us really special.”

It seems UC Davis’ shots are starting to fall, as the Aggies shot over 40 from the field, including 67 percent from beyond the arc.

Every UC Davis player who got

playing time put points on the board except senior Hana Asano, who led the team with five assists.

The Aggies had their work cut out for them on defense, as they had to work to shut down the CSU Fullerton’s shooting guards.

The Titans struck first and the teams exchanged baskets for the duration of the first half. CSU Fullerton gained a two point ad-vantage when they got two free throws just as time expired for halftime.

The second half swung in the Aggies’ favor, though, as they shot an impressive 52.6 percent from the field.

When junior Hannah Stephens knocked down a jumper almost eight minutes into the second half, the Aggies gained their first lead since their 8-6 advantage seven minutes into the first half. At this point, UC Davis was up 38-36 and the game was heating up.

The teams traded buckets and were deadlocked until Beard came in with the score tied at 44. She drained two straight threes to put the Aggies up 50-44 with 5:31

remaining. Despite the momentum swing,

the Titans regained the lead with under three minutes left at 51-50 and the ball game could have gone either way.

With the score tied at 55 with 15 seconds remaining, Shinoda put away the jumper that trumped the Titans, giving the Aggies a 57-55 lead that they would protect for the rest of the game.

“I feel really comfortable putting the ball in her hands at the end of the game,” Gross said. “I thought [Shinoda] could get a good look attacking the rim and she brought great focus and finished a tough shot.”

Shinoda had just four points, but they came in the last two minutes of the game and were key to the UC Davis victory. Beard’s seven points in four min-utes of playing time were sub-stantial contributions, as were Stephens’ 14 points and Fipps’ eight points.

The victory moves the Aggies up to 14-7 with a 6-3 record in the Big West, good for second place

in the conference. UC Davis has a break before matching up with UC Irvine on Thursday.

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

Aggies top Titans by twoShinoda’s clutch shooting lifts UC Davis

Kristina Geddert / Aggie

Sophomore guard forward Josh Ritchart scored 23 points in the Aggies’ loss to UC Riverside.

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Junior Blair Shinoda scored four points in the final two minutes against Cal State Fullerton.

By CAELUM SHOVEAggie Sports Writer

In his 20 seasons as head foot-ball coach and nearly 15 years on the staff before that, Bob Biggs has shepherded countless players through the fields and classrooms of UC Davis.

Now in the run-up to his fi-nal season, Biggs has welcomed 13 new players to his Aggie squad that finished 4-7 last season.

Last Wednesday on National Signing Day, UC Davis coach-es, staff, alumni and supporters gathered at the Bruce Edwards

Club Room in Aggie Stadium to celebrate Biggs’ newest class of players.

In opening the event, Biggs shared with attendees the biggest difference between recruiting now and when he first started back in the 80s.

“We didn’t have GPS back then,” the coach said to laughter; recount-ing a time when as recruiting coor-dinator for the Los Angeles area he would often find himself lost on the way to a player’s home, hope-lessly searching through his col-lection of road maps for the right one.

Despite the marvels of modern technology, recruiting still has its difficulties.

This year the UC Davis staff had to address the uncertainty of the future with potential signees, as nobody knows who will coach the Aggies after the 2012 season. Throughout the recruiting process though, Biggs did not see the is-sue as a major hindrance to sign-ing key players.

“Yeah some schools used it against us,” Biggs said. “[But] I think people understand that you’re going to a school because of the program and the education.

The track record has been that the coach is going to stay here and do it with great integrity and the new coach will follow that example.”

One thing that Biggs could promise potential players was a highly competitive schedule in ev-ery upcoming season. The Aggies are set to play their inaugural sea-son in the Big Sky Conference in 2012, and the conference is wide-ly considered one of the best in the Football Championship Subdivision.

Biggs couldn’t make the promise

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