By KELLEY REESAggie News Writer

The notion behind the new-ly implemented Davis Flea Market sprung not from the small town in Northern California after which it is named but from across the Atlantic in Ireland. Lauren Norton arrived in Davis to begin her degree in the UC Davis Master’s Program in Creative Writing with a single suitcase. Norton left an Ireland in a severe economic down-turn, because of which flea markets and a variety of hodge-podge shops were abundant. Hoping to find fur-niture and clothes to fill her apart-ment from various such venues in Davis, Norton was surprised when she came up empty-handed. “I thought there was a need that wasn’t quite fulfilled,” said Norton.

The E Street Plaza plays host to the flea market the last Sunday of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The setting currently accommo-dates 26 vendors, each as varied and thrifty as the next. In addition to vendors, Norton said she wanted to provide a space where local musicians could play while being compensated for their work, the latter Norton says can be quite a rarity. At one end of the flea market Tha Dirt Feelin provided musical accom-paniment to shoppers’ experiences. Marque Cass, a UC Davis commu-nity and regional development ju-nior and lead vocalist for the Davis band, affirmed if he had any say in the matter the band would certainly be back for future performances. “This is spectacular. On par with the [Davis] Farmers Market,” Cass

said. Dr. Andy Jones, UC Davis profes-sor of technocultural studies and writing, seemed to agree with Cass’s statement. “I think [the flea market] is anoth-er terrific opportunity to draw peo-ple to Downtown Davis in a com-munity of discovery, cultural con-sumption and community-build-ing,” Jones said. Vendors and patrons were com-prised of both past and present UC Davis students. American studies senior Roxanne Calimeris worked behind a booth selling predominately women’s clothing with a few knick-knacks, KDVS CDs and a painted desk thrown in the jumble as well. The clothes seemed highly fashionable

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Dairy field set to become turf field for multipurpose use

University releases guidelines on dealing

with protests

Inaugural run of Davis Flea Market entices crowds downtown

Opponents of Occupy call university “too weak” and “too soft”

Construction to begin after spring quarter

Event will be held last Sunday of each month

By GHEED SAEEDAggie News Writer

Dairy Field, located next to the University’s Dairy and across the street from Hutchison Field, will begin recon-struction into a multipurpose turf field in the spring. With 36 sports club teams and many Intramural (IM) sports teams from 27 activities, there was a need for an all-purpose, all-weather field, consider-ing not all sports teams require practice on indoor fields, according to Assistant Director of Competitive Sports Andy Ramirez. Ramirez, who has been involved with most of the project, said that a turf field will allow flexibility in sports practice times — anytime, any weather. A turf field is a synthetic grass field, also used at Aggie stadium, that requires less maintenance and upkeep than a regular grass field, thereby saving the university money and labor. “Even if it’s raining outside, you can pretty much play through anything. A lot of times we cancel practice because of the weather; however, a turf field will afford us more flexibility,” Ramirez said. Construction teams hope to break ground after spring quarter, and the uni-

versity’s goal is to finalize the project by October 2012; sports teams begin play in mid-October, adds Ramirez. Associate Director of Facilities and Capital Projects Matt Fucile has been in-volved with the project since its inception. “The Department of Campus Recreation is very excited about this project. This fa-cility will continue to enhance the ability for students to participate in recreation-al activities that promote student life and wellness,” Fucile said. The project is set to cost around or un-der $4.5 million. “The cost of the project is not just the turf itself; it’s the whole complex, which is set to include various facilities for student use, including restrooms, drinking foun-tains, storage area, bike racks, fencing and energy-efficient lights,” said Intramural Sports Coordinator Ben Dao. In addition to these amenities, the field itself will include a full-sized wom-en’s lacrosse field, a full-sized men’s la-crosse field, a men’s and women’s full-sized soccer field, and three IM soccer fields. Approximately 450 IM soccer teams, both indoor and outdoor, are established annually. Because of this, the demand for soccer fields is high. The newly construct-ed Dairy Field will permit six teams to play

at one time. “The new field will be more available to the student population that wants to throw the ball around or play a game of pick-up soccer and it’s a great addition to the campus — a long time c`oming,” Dao said. The new turf field’s multipurpose, multi-use availability will allow students to use it informally for virtually anything.

“It will prove to be a wonderful asset to the entire campus community, bring-ing additional year-round program use to Dairy Field,” Fucile said. Many students seem to agree. “I think it’s great that UC Davis is finally paying more attention to its athletics,” said senior psychology major David Rosove.

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

By RICHARD CHANGAggie News Writer

Struggling to cope with recent protest ac-tivity, the university released guidelines last Wednesday on how it will respond to future demonstrations. But with some students now criticizing the university as being “too weak,” the adminis-tration may eventually crack down. “We want to start a dialogue and get out of that push-pull mode,” said Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter. The guidelines were written in response to University of California President Mark G. Yudof’s Jan. 10 letter asking chancellors of the 10 campuses to re-evaluate policies sur-rounding the use of police force. “This would help to ensure any decision to

use force is consistent with academic values and campus culture,” UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi wrote. The guidelines call for the presence of a “senior official” from the university at major demonstrations and the establishment of a police advisory board. Hexter, as well as Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Fred Wood have been designated to serve in that capacity. Hexter said the new policies were inspired by the principles of patience, dialogue and collaboration, but admitted most of the guide-lines are still works-in-progress. That has led the university to take a hands-off approach in dealing with the occupation of the former Cross Cultural Center and the per-sistent blockade of the campus U.S. Bank. But

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The Dairy Field, used for IM sports, will be turned into a turf field after this Spring quarter.

Financial Aid Awareness Week kicks off todayCongressman Garamendi to answer financial aid

questions at forumBy CHARLOTTE YOUNG

Aggie News Writer

Have questions about financial aid? Feeling stressed or worried about up-coming FAFSA and your budget for next year? This week, the Financial Aid Office is hosting Financial Aid Awareness Week at the new Student Community Center. Financial Aid Awareness Week is an all-inclusive week of events geared towards helping students better understand their financial options. “There are countless students who needlessly self-select themselves out of several thousands of dollars of financial aid eligibility from fear or dread of the perceived complexity of the FAFSA pro-cess,” said Robert Davis, assistant direc-tor of the Financial Aid Office. The week will offer various events in-cluding different seminars and workshops about the FAFSA, money management,

student employment, student loans and funding for travel abroad. There will also be a forum where students can raise con-cerns and questions with Congressman John Garamendi and Congressman Mike Thompson’s office about changes to fi-nancial aid. “We want our students and families to

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See PROTESTS, page 2 See AID, page 3

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Yesterday marked the first ever Davis Flea Market, which will be held monthly. See MARKET, page 2

Senior year of high school holds such fond memories for

me. That was the year I finally became thin and, by extension, relevant.

After some rigorous soul-searching, my friend Sophia and I realized that all of our life problems could be solved by a simple weight loss regime; it was so obvious, we couldn’t understand why we had never thought of it before. After all, it’s almost impossible not to realize in this day and age that being slender is synonymous with being sexy, and sexiness is tandem to success. It’s scientific. Look it up.

People always preached throughout my upbringing that the most magnetic feature a person can have is a terrific personality, which is, obviously, a horrendous lie. My eyebrows attract a net minimum of six compliments per year, but I can’t even recall the last time somebody told me, “You know, you have the most amazing sense of empathy.” This, I’ve come to realize, is because it isn’t education or personal affectations that attract people; it’s the confidence to wear your God-given looks well — the kind of confidence one acquires from being skinny.

It was probably about halfway through adolescence when it dawned on me that, in spite of my glowing charisma, I was still criminally under-appreciated by my high school peers. Two friends and I would spend lunch in solitude behind the science building, eating boxed California rolls and lamenting how misunderstood we were. Since the general consensus seemed to be that we were perfect personality-wise, it stood to reason that my only roadblock to universal adoration was an imperfect physique.

This epiphany was bound to strike at some point; like any other American kid who grew up in front of a TV screen, I was raised to believe that the average girl was born a waif and the average guy came into the world lithe, toned and with the face of Jonathan Taylor Thomas. These were common traits I noticed amongst the crowd

of my favorite childhood celebrities and, I deduced, the markers of a likable, successful person.

The only issue I’ve been able to find with such thinspiration, though, is the extremism it seems to elicit from certain people. It seems that not everyone is capable of digesting the gently subliminal messages the media provides us with. I recently came across an expanding internet trend of people leading what they call a “pro-ana” lifestyle.

The women and men of the pro-ana (a shortening of the word “anorexia”) movement claim that “ana” is their friend, often personifying it as a “she” and stating that it’s an active lifestyle decision rather than a disorder. The movement has, like everything else, been condensed into a hashtag which can now

be seen all over Tumblr and other websites, usually with an

accompanying photo of a horrifically malnourished human being.

More than simply being “so jealousssss” of skeletal body types, though, pro-ana/pro-mia (for bulimia) activists have a tendency to insult anyone without visible pelvic bones or rib cages. It’s not uncommon to see one of their brood disparaging a fellow blogger just for having thighs that touch each other.

In one particularly troubling case, I followed the digital breadcrumbs of an ana-keen blogger all the way back to her YouTube account, where I found a series of videos documenting her efforts to juggle her pregnancy and anorexia.

“And this is me at eight months,” she said to the camera, lifting up her cami to reveal a third trimester bump no larger than a kaiser roll.

By now it’s pretty clear that I’m a proponent of beautification, but not when it flirts with self-harm. If you ask me, it’s absolutely indisputable that, while the quest for skinniness and popularity can often be one of desperation and extraordinary measures, it’s never necessary to develop an eating disorder.

The real question is, where did these disorders come from? Who could argue that forced regurgitation or intentional starvation are healthy dietary means? Why would anyone willingly suffer just to become thin? These will be good questions to keep me occupied while I wait for the next season of American’s Next Top Model.

DYLAN GALLAGHER can be reached at dylaaaaan@gmail.com, cleverblog.tumblr.com/ask, or his office in the Downtown Davis Chipotle.

“Will you marry me?” [Beep, beep, pause.]

“Let’s just be friends, OK?”‘Atta girl, Siri. In October,

Apple debuted the latest in artificial intelligence, their sharp-witted Siri, as a headlining feature of the iPhone 4S. The voice-recognition software was released in beta, of course, because technology meant to mimic human behavior is bound to fall short of expectations. Siri is supposed to do everything a personal assistant would, like schedule lunch dates, set timers, jot down reminders, send a text or make calls. She’s certainly willing, but she isn’t very capable.

On Amtrak, I overheard this Siri conversation: “Will it rain?” “Do you mean ‘Will Rentay’?” “No. WILL. IT. RAIN.”

I find most people talk to their Siris this way, the same way most American tourists speak to non-English-speaking nationals — at snail pace and near-shouting volume. If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of that kind of speech, you know that the “loud and slow” approach doesn’t actually improve your comprehension of an unfamiliar language. The same goes for Siri.

In my experience, Siri takes too long to respond to my commands and doesn’t get it right when I need her, rendering the feature useless. The product is rough around the edges, which is completely out of character for a company as detail-obsessed as Apple. You’d think Apple would keep this beta app behind the scenes, under wraps, or in development (where it belongs) until it has been perfected. Yet, Siri continues to appear at the forefront in the company’s national TV ad campaign, which airs at least twice during “Modern Family.” On Apple’s website, Siri stands alongside two substantial developments — a dual-core A5 chip and a high-def camera — that make the 4S “the most amazing iPhone yet.”

But I am so disappointed by Siri’s performance because she’s not polished in the way I have come

to expect from Apple products. Apple continues to tout Siri as one of its most revolutionary features, even though she doesn’t seem to work. So, Apple, why so serious about Siri?

My first hunch is Apple’s eye on things to come. The future of computing, at least according to “The Jetsons,” Star Wars/Trek and Smart House (you know, the Disney Channel movie), involves more human sensory experience. We will engage with technology less through keyboards and mice, and more through touch, motion and speech. Apple has perfected the touchscreen and produced the best tablet in the industry, the iPad, so touch is already under the company’s belt. So, I suppose, on to something

new: speech.

Apple’s foray into the realm of voice recognition

is not surprising. Visions of the future suggest that we will be able to tell our ovens, “Pre-heat to 375 degrees” and tell our showers, “Heat up my water just the way I like it.” But this kind of technology, at least for now, only exists in galaxies far, far away. This may be why Apple has been pushing Siri on their most popular product, the iPhone (37 million units sold last quarter). When people use Siri, Apple collects data — people speaking in different languages, in different accents, with different jargon — so that the service will improve over time.

Every time you ask Siri a question, the program turns your speech into text and sends that text to Apple servers. Then Siri’s response is sent back to your phone. Even seemingly useless questions like, “What is the meaning of life?” have serious implications for the research and development of integration with future products. The more people use Siri, the more data goes into the servers, the better she gets.

And Apple certainly hopes to be the best, as it does with all its products. Siri is said to be the main attraction of the long-rumored Apple television set, which is expected to be the first TV that thinks the way you do. Say “ESPN” and you’re already there.

Siri, as she is now, is too slow for what we’ve come to expect from our phones. But maybe we’ll take her more Siri-ously once she’s in our ovens, showers and TVs.

This column nearly went unfinished because Siri forgot to e-mail NICOLE NGUYEN at niknguyen@ucdavis.edu, reminding her that it was due.

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winter book fair10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Women’s Resources and Research Center, North Hall First FloorEach quarter the Joy Fergoda Library at the Women’s Resources and Research Center hosts a book fair where books can be purchased for under $3! Proceeds will be used to buy new books for the library. Nonfiction, fiction, poetry and more. Drop by and browse. The fair will continue through Thursday.

summer abroad info sessionsNoon to 2 p.m.Education Abroad Center, Third and A StreetLearn about UC Davis Summer Abroad programs “Chiapas: Indigenous Literary and Social Movements” at noon and “Vienna: At the Crossroads of Central Europe” at 1 p.m.

energy institute/bae/plant sciences winter 2012 seminar series12:10 to 1 p.m.1003 KemperJoin Dr. Nathan Parker, Post-Doctoral Scholar with the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, as he discusses Development of Biofuel Supply Curves Using Spatially-Specific Supply Chain Optimization Model. There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.

dead arts society auditions4:30 to 7:30 p.m.Lab B, Wright HallDead Arts Society is holding auditions for its winter quarter showcase of original student-written scenes. Everyone is welcome to audition; no prior experience or monologues are necessary. Auditions will also be held Tuesday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, e-mail deadartssociety@gmail.com.

tUesday

internship and career center intern/advisor info sessionNoon229 South HallGet information about applying to be a 2012-13 ICC Peer Advisor or Intern. The

application deadline is Friday.

author talk: allison p. coudert1 to 2 p.m.Special Events Room, Memorial Union BookstoreUC Davis Religious Studies professor Allison P. Cudert will talk about her new book, Religion, Magic and Science in Early Modern Europe and America. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

workshop: How to write in the abstract4:10 to 5 p.m.Meeting Room D, Student Community CenterThe Undergraduate Research Center will be holding workshops on “How to Write an Abstract” in preparation for the upcoming Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Conference and President’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF) deadlines. The workshop will also be held on Wednesday at 3:10 p.m. and Thursday at 12:10 p.m.

wednesday

eat Healthy, live well! weight Management series12:10 to 1 p.m.Student Health and Wellness Center, third floorLearn how to eat well, live healthy and feel your best. This series covers cooking tips, physical activity, meal planning and more. Free to all UC Davis students. Must register at attend. Call the Appointment Desk at (530) 752-2349 or go to healthcenter.ucdavis.edu/services/nutrition.html.

H.e.l.p. club general Meeting6 to 7 p.m.146 OlsonLearn about H.E.L.P.’s community service programs and find out how to get involved in the community. Food will be provided.

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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 Jan. 26 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 6:13 p.m. Adam Thongsavat, ASUCD president, presentBree Rombi, ASUCD vice president, presentYena Bae, ASUCD senator, presentJared Crisologo-Smith, ASUCD senator, presentMiguel Espinoza, ASUCD senator, presentJustin Goss, ASUCD senator, presentAnni Kimball, ASUCD senator, presentAmy Martin, ASUCD senator, presentMayra Martín, ASUCD senator, presentErica Padgett, ASUCD senator, presentBrendan Repicky, ASUCD senator, absentPatrick Sheehan, ASUCD senator, presentRyan Meyerhoff, ASUCD senator, presentYara Zokaie, ASUCD senator, present

presentationsKen Burtis and Karl Mohr of the 2020 Initiative made a presentation. Mohr said the goals of the initiative were to maintain access to UC Davis, not have to contract and reduce enrollment, continue the financial stability of UC Davis, foster economic development and create jobs. Burtis said that there are three task forces who are in the planning stage of the project. Goss asked about the potential facility upgrades that would be necessary. Martin asked about the city of Davis’s ability to deal with 5,000 more students. Padgett discussed the issue of allowing more out-of-state students into the university. Espinoza also talked about international students coming to the UC, and said he wants access to education to be

transparent. Burtis said he would love to have more students get involved in the initiative. Dominick Carlson and Asha Fereydouni from Student Housing came to speak to the table. Carlson said that he is graduating and Fereydouni will be taking over. Fereydouni said he looks forward to working with the senate, and wants to continue holding senate meetings in residence halls. Carlson also introduced We Are Aggie Pride, a new philanthropic organization where students can help other students by donating money. The program will go through the Financial Aid Office and Student Accounting and it is planning a kickoff event for the end of February.

Unit director reportsBihter Ozedirne of Lobby Corps said it is focusing on legislation, specifically a bill for cheaper textbooks. She also said that Lobby Corp’s letter writing campaign is coming up.

consideration of old legislationSenate Bill 33, authored by Martin, to clarify the definition of vacancy in the ASUCD bylaws, passed unanimously. Senate Bill 38, authored by Lee, co-authored by Ho, Hu, Maemura and Thongsavat, to require all ASUCD units to obtain t-shirt quotes through Campus Copies/ Classical Notes’s garment printing service. The table discussed whether or not it should force ASUCD units to get a quote from Campus Copies t-shirts before they get t-shirts. Many senators expressed the idea that they did not want to force their units to buy their t-shirts from Campus Copies. After a long discussion about the bill, the bill passed in a 6-5-1 vote. Espinoza, Martin, Kimball, Goss and Crisologo-Smith voted no.

Senate Bill 51, authored by Ho, co-authored by Lewis, introduced by Zokaie, to reallocate funds within Experimental College’s Budget to more accurately depict its daily operations. The bill passed unanimously. Senate Bill 54, authored by Dias, co-authored by Cano, Meyerhoff and Sheehan, introduced by Meyerhoff, to allocate $1,612.98 from Capital Reserves to purchase three netbooks for Creative Media. The bill passed unanimously. Senate Bill 57, authored by Kimball, co-authored by Bae, to allocate $1,176.68 from Capital Reserves to purchase reusable trays in the Coffee House in place of the old and lost tray, passed unanimously. Senate Resolution 7, authored by Crisologo-Smith, co-authored by Anguiano, Borgonia, Gilbert, Ilano, Joanino, Marquez, Martín and Oka, in support of California Assembly Bill 889 (the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights). Espinoza and Martín discussed the importance of this bill. The bill aims to protect domestic workers and their rights. The bill passed unanimously.

Urgent legislationSenate Resolution X, authored by Sandstrom, introduced by Crisologo-Smith, to oppose the Minor Alcohol Preclusion Ordinance that has been introduced to the Davis City Council. The Act would allow police officers to breathalyze anyone walking in the city of Davis, and would make it illegal for minors to have a BAC of more than .01. The bill passed unanimously.

public discussionThere was a long discussion about the hiring of a new Chief Justice. Thongsavat wanted to appoint a candidate after he was confirmed as

a Justice. Some senators said that this would go against hiring practices, and that the entire process needed to be re-done. Thongsavat agreed to redo the hiring process. A student came to talk to the table about the Occupy UC Davis movement. He said he was unhappy that they were occupying the Cross Cultural Center and the U.S. Bank, and he wanted them to leave. The Education Opportunity Program (EOP) was supposed to move into the Cross Cultural Center building. Members of the Occupy movement came to join the discussion. Edd Montelongo of the Ethinc and Cultural Affairs Commission said EOP needs to exist, even though it would be better if they didn’t have to exist. He said that the occupiers were not just being disrespectful, they were making underrepresented student more invisible.

public announcementsFlorence + the Machine will be playing at the Mondavi Center on April 18. Margaret Link of the Environmental Policy and Planning Commission (EPPC), said that EPPC will be holding a sustainable transportation event on Tuesday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the ASUCD Coffee House. Meeting adjourned at 12:57 a.m.

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for some students, patience is wearing thin. “At first there was solidari-ty, but now it’s chaos. Instead of bringing people togeth-er, the Occupiers are divi-sive,” Rebecca Lopez, a fifth-year Russian major and one-time Occupy supporter, said of the recent occupation and

blockade. The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) was slated to move into the building currently occupied by protesters. Negotiations between EOP and Occupy are at a standstill, with protesters demanding EOP sever links with the university before be-ing allowed to move in. “The university is being too weak and soft on the pro-testers. At some point, stu-

dents will rebel and there will be a riot,” Lopez said. Sacramento-based KCRA re-ported that the Occupy move-ment has cost the campus over $21,000 thus far. The costs included $7,000 for repairs in Dutton Hall and $5,850 in po-lice and staff overtime. The Davis Enterprise also reported that the university paid a con-sulting firm $100,000 in wake of the aftermath of the Nov. 18 pepper-spray incident.

According to Hexter, Student Affairs personnel are active-ly engaging the protesters, al-though he admitted no signifi-cant progress had been made. When pressed to draw the line for when the universi-ty’s patience would run out, Hexter said, “At a certain point, we would like to believe that discussions would end.”

RICHARD CHANG can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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and low-priced. An Urban Outfitters trench coat sold for an eighth of its original price, while a leather belt was purchased for 50 cents.Calimeris said as seniors and graduates, she and her booth mates were looking for a way to leave Davis with a much lighter load. “It’s almost a purging,” said Calimeris. On the other side of the market David Sachs and Sarah Bronstein were selling an array of vintage-inspired kitchenware and clothing. “Sarah’s clothing has defi-nitely been our biggest sell-er,” Sachs said. Their table housed white coffee mugs, espresso cups, tea plates and old glass med-icine bottles, all selling for around 50 cents. Much of the antique-inspired sup-ply came from the recent-ly closed downtown Blue Elephant Used Furniture store. Both Sachs and Bronstein agreed the turn-out was much greater than anticipated and the couple readily replied they would enjoy returning for a second time as vendors. A brightly colored booth

by the entrance to the event donned a sign de-claring “Hand Made Crafts by Kids.” It was also home to the market’s

youngest vendor, a five-year-old master at crochet. Yelena Ivashchenko, self-proclaimed “mom of the booth,” oversaw a group of six children selling any-thing from earrings to knit-ted scarves, all, as the sign proclaimed, handmade by the kids. Ivanshchenko is a craft-er herself, but when she heard about the flea mar-ket she thought the oppor-tunity was too good to pass by for her daughters and their friends. “I said, ‘This is a chance for you guys to make something yourself,’” Ivanshchenko said. The booth was manned entirely by kids from the group; they sold the items and the adults were pres-ent merely for supervision. Ivanshchenko explained that the kids will put the money they have earned toward buying supplies for future crafts projects. The next Davis Flea Market will be held Feb. 26.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012 3The cAlifORNiA Aggie

know that we are here to help an-swer their questions about the process of applying and getting fi-nancial aid,” Rachel de los Reyes, Coordinator of Financial Aid Awareness Week, said. “The pro-cess at times can be confusing and challenging, especially for our new students.” Though many of the events are similar to last year, on Monday a new event entitled “Congress on Campus” will be held from 1-3 p.m., where students can ask con-gressmen questions about both state and federal financial aid. “If you have any questions about the new changes to the Pell Grant, repayment of your loans, chang-es to the Federal Direct loan pro-gram or the Dream Act, come by the Student Community Center

and speak to the many represen-tatives that will be present,” Reyes said. The workshop hopes to encour-age students to better understand how to get control over their mon-ey and how to work with financial aid. “This year we have expand-ed Financial Aid Awareness Week to provide even more informative events for our students and the community,” said Katy Maloney, director of the Financial Aid Office. “We are especially excited to have the support of Congressman Garamendi and the Office of Congressman Thompson.” More information about the Financial Aid Awareness Week and any other questions regard-ing Financial Aid can be found at financialaid.ucdavis.edu.

CHARLOTTE YOUNG can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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when it came to developing talent Stewart was an abject failure. The most obvious case in recent years was the development (or lack there-of) of Mark Payne, who graduated at the end of last season. Payne entered UC Davis as an in-credibly skilled player, who could shoot the three, attack the rim and play solid defense. During his soph-omore season he drew the eye of NBA scouts, who believed he could develop into a top-level talent. But after four years under the coaching of Stewart, Payne received only a passing glance from NBA scouts following his graduation, and is now playing in Spain’s sec-ond division. The Stewart debacle reached its low-point at the end of the 2009-10 season, when eight of his own play-

ers submitted a petition to then Athletics Director Greg Warzecka re-questing that Stewart be fired. The players cited Stewart’s use of mind games as well as his inability to develop talent. Warzecka — in a move that de-fies explanation — chose to retain Stewart for another season — a de-cision that remains a black mark on Warzecka’s otherwise impressive tenure as Athletics Director. Stewart is now the head coach of Division III Stevenson University, where he is 4-12 this season. While Stewart may have moved on to a university thousands of miles away, his mindset still plagues the UC Davis players, coaches and fans — and that’s where most of the blame lies for the disaster that has been the 2011-12 season. When the game comes to crunch-time, the lack of confidence is palpa-ble to everyone in The Pavilion. Breaking the mindset will be

a process — one that has barely begun. This team might not learn how to win close games at any point this season, and UC Davis may struggle to move off the bottom of the RPI. This season has been embar-rassing for anyone affiliated with the UC Davis men’s basketball pro-gram, and there is no excuse for a 16 game losing streak (and count-ing), but once this season is over UC Davis has a chance to continue rebuilding. With this group of freshmen and a head coach with NCAA Tournament experience, the Aggies could be ready to compete for a Big West Title by the 2014-15 season. They just need to exorcise the ghost of Gary Stewart before they can get there, and that requires time.

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

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The california aggie4 monday, january 30, 2012

THE BACKSTOP

TrevorCramer

The blame game

When things go wrong it becomes only natural to

point the finger. Over the past several months, the talk of the UC Davis athletics community has centered on the strug-gles of the men’s basketball team. With a team that has yet to defeat a Division I school and has been in and out of the bottom spot in the NCAA’s national RPI rank-ings, many — including me — have been highly critical of the team’s performance this season. So the question quickly becomes: where should the blame lie? Some might point to the players. The men on the court are easily visible, and the simple solution is to criticize their skill level and work ethic. But jumping on the back of the players is a misguid-ed approach when looking at the Aggies. Sure, UC Davis’ talent lev-el is well below Big West Conference powers UC Santa Barbara and Long Beach State — let alone the NCAA’s top squads. It proba-bly doesn’t even compare to the 2009-10 UC Davis roster that included Mark Payne, Joe Harden and Dominic Calegari, among others, but this year’s team is nowhere near the worst group of players in the nation. Anyone who has watched the Aggies at length this season knows that the players have been work-ing hard on the floor. They have been close in near-ly every game this year, but they lack the poise to close games out in the final 10 minutes. While this is certainly a big problem for a team that is going to be hard pressed to blow anyone out, it is also worth noting that this squad is very young, and veteran players such as Eddie Miller, Harrison DuPont, Ryan Sypkens and Ryan Howley have all missed time at some point this season due to injury. So if the players aren’t to blame, then the next logical choice is the coach. There have even been some calls for Jim Les to be removed from the head coaching po-sition after just one season.Les certainly should shoul-der some of the blame. He claims to pride him-self on his team’s defense, but the Aggies’ have had difficulty preventing oppo-nents from scoring. Furthermore, while inex-perience is a partial expla-nation, Les must also take some responsibility for his team’s lack of composure in close games. But even so, calling for Les’ head at this point is no-where short of ridiculous. While his results on the floor have been frustrating to say the least, Les’ first re-cruiting class was the most talented and deepest that UC Davis has had over the past several seasons — and could ultimately prove to be the best group of players in UC Davis history. More importantly, how-ever, it must be acknowl-edged that Les took over with a nearly impossible re-building task — a task that will undoubtedly take at least a few years. So if Les is doesn’t take the brunt of the blame, then who does? The answer is the man who left Les with a pro-gram in shambles. The man who single-handily burned the UC Davis men’s basket-ball program to the ground –– former head coach Gary Stewart (freshmen: take notes). Throughout his tenure with the Aggies, Stewart struggled to produce wins.He was successful in bring-ing in talented athletes, but

By KAITLYN ZUFALLAggie Sports Writer

UC Davis returned to the Pavilion for a second time last week in a tri-angular meet on Friday that kept hometown fans on the edge of their seats. After leading through the first three rounds, UC Davis was narrow-ly defeated by California 191.750 to 191.600 in the fourth and final round of the meet. Mountain Pacific Sports Federation conference rival Seattle Pacific placed third with a score of 189.275. The score is UC Davis’ highest of the season. After starting the year with a respectable 190.500, the team has improved upon their score at ev-ery meet this year. “We really had a good day,” head Coach John Lavallee said. “We’re inching forward.” The Aggies began the meet on

vault where junior Katie Yamamura scored an impressive 9.850 to take first in the event. Sophomore Anna Shumaker’s 9.725 put her in a three-way tie for second. UC Davis struggled with some slips on the bars and beams in the following rounds, but was able to maintain its hold on first place going into the final round by 0.025 points. Yamamura placed in both events, earning second on the uneven paral-lel bars (9.775) and tying for first on beam (9.700). Despite strong floor routines by the Aggies, including Yamamura’s second place finish with a score of 9.850, Cal was able to edge UC Davis in the final round, taking first by a narrow margin of 0.150. “We’ve got to work on holding our technique when we get to the com-petition and doing it the same way that we do in practice every day,” Lavallee said. “That’s really hard to do.” Yamamura’s overall performance proved to be the highlight of the meet for the Aggies. In addition

to placing first or second in every event, she was also won the individ-ual all-around. Her score of 39.125 is not only a personal career best, but is the third highest score in UC Davis history. “I’m really happy with my perfor-mance,” Yamamura said. “Especially on beam since I had some falls in the last couple of meets.” Freshman Tiana Montell finished third in her collegiate all-around de-but, with solid performances in all four events. Other highlights included a tie for third on floor by sophomore Madeline Kennedy and junior Taryn West (9.750), and a career-high in the event by Schumaker (9.700). “We still have some falls to get out of the routines on bars and beams, but we’re really doing the right things,” said Lavalle. “As I’ve been saying for a couple of weeks, it’s going to kick in … [the freshmen and soph-omores] are really coming around.” The Aggies will have a chance for redemption on Sunday when they travel to Berkeley for a dual meet

against Cal.

KAITLYN ZUFALL can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.t

UC Davis thrills at homeYamamura sets third highest mark in all-around in school history

Aaron Juarez / Aggie

UC Davis gymnastics came in a close second to Cal on Friday.

GYMNASTICS

By CAELUM SHOVEAggie Sports Writer

The UC Davis Aggie Pack was in full force this weekend, belting the “I believe the Aggies will win” cheer repeatedly throughout the games against UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly in the Pavilion. The chanting was never loud-er then in the closing seconds of Saturday’s match-up against Cal Poly. Down 67-65 with 9.4 seconds left, the Aggies had a chance to go the length of the floor and either send the game to overtime or win. Point guard Tyrell Corbin took route one, dribbling straight down the court before coming off a screen and trying to get to the basket. Blocked off, he turned and passed it out Josh Ritchart in the left corner. Ritchart took the space in front of him, dribbling once before shooting a running floater from six feet. The rebound fell to Harrison DuPont, whose wild tip went off the backboard and came to Eddie Miller. Miller got his desperation tip to go off the glass and in, but the buzzer and red light on the backboard had gone off. No basket, Cal Poly wins. That final play was the end of a dis-

appointing weekend for the Aggies, who were crushed by UC Santa Barbara just two days earlier. The weekend’s two losses dropped the Aggies to 1-19 overall, 0-8 in Big West Conference play. Thursday — UC Santa Barbara 86, UC Davis 59The Aggies were undermanned as they faced the Gauchos. Junior guard Ryan Howley was not in the starting lineup for the first time all season against UC Santa Barbara due to injury. Howley is the team’s leading rebounder this season. He did not play in either game over the weekend. Ritchart was also out against the Gauchos with the flu. The loss of the two starters showed in the Aggies’ game, especially defen-sively and on the boards. UC Davis was out-rebound-ed 45-23 in the contest and gave up their third-highest point total of the season. UC Santa Barbara had 43 points in the paint and 20 second-chance points, compared to 20 and zero for the Aggies, respectively. “I thought we did a poor job of defensive rebounding to open the game,” head coach Jim Les said. “We got some stops early and just couldn’t come up with the first rebound which led to some easy put backs for them and got them going offensively.”

On the other end, it was a struggle for UC Davis offensively. UC Santa Barbara’s zone defense kept the Aggies at bay, with only three players scoring more than six points for UC Davis. Tyler Les was the high scorer for the Aggies with 16 points, making four of 10 from behind the arc. Saturday — Cal Poly 67, UC Davis 65The Aggies played their best first half of the season on Saturday, jumping all over Cal Poly defensively. Starting in a zone, UC Davis played with a defensive energy that it hasn’t had all year. The Aggies were pick-ing up the ball well outside the three-point arc, trapping and helping, and rotating back on every possession. The energy was rewarded early on when UC Davis jumped out to a 7-0 lead. After 14 minutes of play the Aggies lead 28-11 and they took a 14-point lead into halftime. Cal Poly slowly chipped away at the lead throughout the second frame before taking their first lead of the game with just over two minutes to go. The Aggies didn’t appear fazed, continuing to play tough defense and coming up with a do-or-die stop on the final Mustang possession of the game. In the end, the shot just wouldn’t fall, as the Aggies failed to score at

the end of regulation and were sad-dled with the defeat. “Their effort was outstanding es-pecially on the defensive end of the floor,” Les said of his team. “I thought the defensive intensity propelled us to doing some really good things of-fensively.” Eddie Miller was the high scorer for UC Davis with 16 points, tying his second highest total of the season. Four Aggies scored in double dig-its and Corbin added nine points, part of the most balanced offensive attack the team has had this year. “I told the guys that their effort was certainly worthy of a victory,” Les said. “We just came up a little bit short.” “We keep on this process and play-ing as hard as they did tonight, I told them we’ll be celebrating in the lock-er room before too long.”

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

Struggles continue in Cal Poly heartbreaker

Roller coaster weekend sees Aggies lose twice

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Shazib Haq / Aggie

Eddie Miller led the Aggies with 16 points in its loss to the Cal Poly Mustangs.

Aggies split on coastal tripUC Davis remains .500 on the road

By MATTHEW YUENAggie Sports Writer

The UC Davis women’s basketball program has half the season under its belt and entered this week with a couple of important road games. The Aggies are 7-1 at the Pavilion this year, but have had a tough time on the road –– going just 6-6 away from UC Davis. Head coach Jennifer Gross, how-ever, focuses more on her team’s per-formance than the game’s location. “We came into this week feeling really confident and excited about where our team is, we’re improving every single day,” Gross said. “We know what it’s going to take to be successful and when we’re not bring-ing those things to the court, we’re going to struggle.” With a win over UC Santa Barabara and a loss to Cal Poly this week, UC Davis moved to 13-7 overall and 5-3 in the Big West Conference, good for a three-way tie at second place.

Thursday –– UC Davis 51, UC Santa Barbara 47UC Davis brought a lot of fire into the game against UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, and it turned out to be more than the Gauchos could handle.

“We’re a team that feeds off of each other so our energy was really great at the start,” Gross said. The Aggies put up 11 points to start the game before UCSB even scored. It took six minutes for the Gauchos to find the basket. UC Davis would nev-er look back from there, holding the lead the entire contest. By halftime, UC Davis had built up a 33-15 score. The Gauchos were shooting just 31 percent from the field, no match for the Aggies’ 57 per-cent, which included 6-11 from three point range. Yet, the game still wasn’t over. The Gauchos came creeping back into the game with about eight minutes to play. The Aggies saw a 46-31 lead shrink to three points with 21 sec-onds remaining. Unfortunately for the Gauchos, this was as close as they would get. Senior Samantha Meggison was fouled and went to the line and drained two clutch free throws to make the game 50-45 with 16 sec-onds to go. She was once again fouled with seven seconds to go and made one of her free-throws to close the game for the Aggies. Meggison ended with 15 points. Junior Hannah Stephens led the Aggies, with 16 points, shooting 6-8 overall and a 4-5 from beyond the arc.

Saturday –– UC Davis 65, Cal Poly 87

The victory over UCSB extended the UC Davis win-streak to four, their longest since starting the season 5-0, but it would end there. The Aggies were ousted 87-65 in a game quite different from the win over the Gauchos. “The confidence we showed at the UCSB game was missing and we were playing a little passive,” Gross

said. “We weren’t being very assertive and … we weren’t getting it done de-fensively.” UC Davis fell behind early and simply could not make up the 52-25 deficit they allowed in the first half. They put up 40 points in the second frame thanks to 57 percent shooting, but it was too little too late. The Aggies had one of their high-er scoring games, with three players scoring double digit points, but they could not shut down the Mustang offense. Stephens once again put up big numbers, with 17 points, backed up by junior Cortney French’s 16. “She’s been so reliable both offen-sively and defensively, she brings a great level of energy and focus to the game,” Gross said of Stephens. “She’s been so consistent throughout the year, and is one of the hardest work-ing players on the team.” UC Davis’ achilles heel came in crashing the glass, as it was out-rebounded 43-23, which resulted in 23 second chance points for Cal Poly. “We knew they were going to come out and play hard because we have developed a nice rivalry with them,” Gross said. “For us, it’s not so much about the opponent — it’s about do-ing the things that we do night in and night out.”

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

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In the last seven seconds, Samantha Meggison made the game winning free throws against UC Santa Barbara.

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