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Police pepper spray student protesters, community outraged

Faculty members call for Katehi’s

resignation following week of protests

Protesters surround Chancellor’s press

conference on Saturday evening

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UC Regents meeting rescheduled for Nov. 28The University of California

Board of Regents meeting that was postponed last week due to “public safety concerns” has been rescheduled for Nov. 28.

Public comment has been ex-tended from its usual 20 minutes to an hour with UC Regents, UC staff and members of the public through a teleconference with four

UC campuses: UCSF, UCLA, UC Davis and UC Merced, as well as the Palm Beach Gardens Marriott in Palm Beach, Fla. Regents will call in from each of these campus-

es. A live stream of the meeting will be posted on the internet for oth-er members of the public. Public comment will begin at 9 a.m.

Regents will discuss sources of

private funding and vote on the 2012-13 budget and state funding request. They will not vote on tu-ition this month.

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At approximately 3:30 p.m. on Friday, police officers marched to the UC Davis Quad to confront student protesters who had set up tents the previous afternoon. After protesters refused to leave, police arrested 10 individuals, nine of which were UC Davis students. Between ar-rests, a line of protesters linking arms was sprayed in the face with a thick mist of pepper spray. Videos quickly emerged after the inci-dent happened revealing UC Davis Police Lieutenant John Pike pepper spraying the line of non-violent protesters. Many stu-dents not linking arms used laptops and cellphones to film police action. California Aggie photographers were threatened with batons while being pushed and shoved by police officers. According to Fatima Sbeih, a senior in-ternational relations major who attend-ed the protest, students had been sitting peacefully and were not warned about the actions police enforcement used to

break apart a circle formed around the encampment. “We were sitting there peacefully,” Sbeih said. “I didn’t even hear a warning for the spraying, just by the students telling us all to turn around, and then we turned and we were sprayed, just like that. One of the cops was yelling at a guy saying he’s going to spray him in the face and then grabs him in the face and sprays him. They grabbed one of the protesters and sprayed it direct-ly in his mouth. We were there peacefully, the tents were down, they had no reason to spray us.” The protesters had received an or-der from Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi to leave the premise by 3 p.m. Shortly after, a general assembly meeting took place among protesters to decide what actions should be taken. Muneeza Rizvi, junior sociology and in-ternational relations double major, wit-nessed students standing in solidarity when police enforcements arrived on site. “Our general assembly meeting didn’t

see KATeHi, page 5

By HANNAH STRUMWASSERCampus News Editor

Two unnamed UC Davis Police offi-cers have been placed on administrative leave, according to a statement issued by the UC Davis News Service on Sunday morning. This followed a press conference on Saturday, where UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi addressed police activity during a protest that took place on the UC Davis Quad on Friday. The press conference was slated to last until 4:30 p.m., however it ended early due to protesters chanting outside and flood-ing the hallways of the building. Protesters were there in response to po-lice action on Friday, when officers arrest-ed 10 individuals and pepper sprayed stu-dent protesters who were sitting on the Quad linking arms. During the press conference, which took place on campus in Surge II, Katehi and UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza fielded questions from the press. “Our hope was that the camp would go away and the students would remain to

continue their rally and to continue with their expression of the issues. The intent was not to disperse the rally, because that is allowed. The intent was just to remove the equipment,” Katehi said. During the press conference the chan-cellor said that she would be attending the rally that protesters are holding today at noon on the Quad. Katehi also announced that the uni-versity would be forming a task force to look into the events that took place on Friday. The task force will consist of facul-ty, students and staff, and it will review the events and report on them within 90 days. Katehi acknowledged that some university policies may need to be reconsidered after this task force completes its investigation. The press conference took place among calls for the chancellor’s resignation, spe-cifically by UC Davis assistant professor Nathan Brown and the UC Davis Faculty Association Board. When asked if she plans to resign, Katehi said no. Approximately seven minutes before

see Press, page 5

Jasna Hodzic / Aggie

It’s hard for me to imag-ine just exactly how bad it is to get a face-

full of pepper spray. What’s even more diffi-cult for me to understand is how it might have felt to sit on the ground with my arms entwined in a show of peaceful solidarity and be subjected to what has become the catchphrase of our time, “Police Brutality.”

The sim-ple yet glar-ing idiom has come to signify so much, has come to represent an amalgama-tion of so many separate in-cidents that to use it now makes each seem connect-ed to a collective whole.

There’s a difference here between other instances of “police brutality” and the one enacted on Friday on our Quad. Most of the inci-dents we think of when we hear the phrase involve in-dividualized action. That is, instead of a battalion of po-lice officers responding to a non-violent protest, they involve an officer, or some-times two, taking liber-ties with their power for su-premacy in a momentary circumstance. It seems im-portant not to confuse the two.

On one side is an offi-cer clearly outside the law, such as when a police offi-cer shot an unarmed man at BART a few years ago. On the other is one well within it, well within what he was expected to do. Which, somehow, doesn’t feel comforting. Where the isolated officer in the BART station was acting as a separate, unconnect-ed agent of his own voli-tion, the officer on Friday was acting on behalf of another.

I’ve never stood before a line of seated, peaceful pro-testers and had to decide whether or not to drench them in pepper spray, so I can’t really empathize with the man. But, in this in-stance, where empathy might usually be a positive thing, I’m glad I can’t. More concerning than how he and his fellow officers re-acted to the crowd of pro-

testers is the fact they were involved with reacting to them at all.

The protesting students were advised with a written warning to remove their tents, people have argued. But, logically speaking, why would the demon-strators, who are protest-ing the very system that ordered them to disband, comply? When has silent compliance gained the oppressed change? Why, with the throng of po-lice officers before them, equipped with rubber bul-lets, tear gas, batons and pepper spray, “riot gear” as it is called, would the pro-testers concede to the au-thority seeking to abolish their efforts and quell their collective voice?

Why — and perhaps this is a better question — were the police ever summoned to disband a collection of

peaceful student protesters? Who made this call, this de-cision, to

enact this violence on this campus?

The answer, which has been widely circulated, is our chancellor. The head of our campus, our academ-ic lives, the individual in power because of the mon-ey we give in exchange for our education, which is, written or otherwise, a hu-man right.

We as the student body are the ones paying for her authority, we are the ones affording her the privilege of overseeing our university and our campus and our academ-ic lives. We are the ones leaving college the most indebted generation ever, and are doing so while her salary increases as tuition affordability decreases.

Indirectly or otherwise, as the head of our uni-versity, to whom we all pay thousands of dollars a quarter, we are funding her leadership, her posi-tion, and, what’s more, her decision to enact violence against us.

We must ask ourselves now, is the money we are paying for our education worth it? Maybe that seems like an easy question. But, is it so easy that the deci-sion to protest comes im-mediately to all of us?

I would imagine the pro-testers from Friday, our col-leagues, our instructors, our peers, our friends — our chemical-burned, beat-en friends would say, with-out faltering, without hesi-tating and without resigna-tion, yes.

EVAN WHITE can be reached at emwhite@ucdavis.edu.

I feel insulted, I feel be-trayed, I feel horrified and, quite frankly, I feel more

unsafe on campus than I have ever felt. Yet, after being part of the protest outside the press conference Saturday, I feel impressed by the elo-quence of my fellow students.

Like so many others, I’d assumed that violence to-ward protesters was some-thing that only happened in New York or Oakland, not in Davis where there are more onlookers than dem-onstrators. If someone told me that our campus police would pepper spray and attack our students for expressing their right to free speech, I would not have believed them.

Though the actions of our chancellor and the UC Davis Police Department disap-point me, the united, elo-quent and democratic re-sponse of students to the in-cident reaffirms my faith in the quality of this campus.

On Saturday, those of us outraged by the pepper spraying gathered outside Surge II to send a message to our chancellor. We stood to say that we have a right to our education, our opinions and, most importantly, to our safety.

To say the start of the pro-test was chaotic would be an understatement, but in all the noise and confusion, several students came for-ward to lead us. They all had ties to the pepper spray inci-dent, one having been pep-per sprayed herself, the other having watched his friends be attacked and arrested.

Their stories and pain were enough to move me to tears.

Wanting to ensure that anyone who wanted to hear or be heard could, we devel-oped a democratic system of speaking and voting. After agreeing to keep the pro-test non-violent and respect-ful, someone suggested that we make a human pathway through which Chancellor Katehi could leave her press conference.

With a unanimous show of thumbs up, we approved the suggestion, wanting a chance to let our chancellor see our indignation and sad-ness. Without hesitation, the hundreds of us standing out-side Surge II moved to make

a channel. Linking arms with friends and strangers, I felt a sense of community and pur-pose greater than I’ve ever felt before.

Then the waiting game began as the chancellor re-fused to leave the build-ing. Unfortunately for her, we were determined to be heard and willing to ignore the cold and the lure of a re-laxing Saturday night to out-wait her.

After two hours, people dropped off dry Top Ramen for us, and another protest-er also arranged a collec-tion for pizza money, and eventually we got enough food to feed everyone pres-ent. It was a blessing since, like me, a lot of protesters had not eaten in a long time, since no one had expected the press conference.

Those of us who had smartphones Facebooked, tweeted and streamed our

stories out to the world, utilizing the only advan-tage we have as young tech sav-

vy people. We were dumb-founded to hear that the sto-ry of our protest had reached CNN, Yahoo and Google. The press had come, we’d gone vi-ral and our voice had finally been heard.

Despite the world watch-ing, it took an interfaith min-ister, who was not previous-ly involved with the protest, to get the chancellor to listen and finally begin to compro-mise with us.

We requested that she walk by us and look us in the eye, hoping for a semblance of ac-countability from her. She re-quested that we move to one side, sit down and allow her car to be driven to the street.

Eager to enter into the dia-logue, we complied.

After three hours of wait-ing patiently in the cold, the few hundred of us present sat side-by-side, linking arms to show solidarity with the pep-per sprayed protesters.

Our silence was louder than our chants had been, as a line of us, stretching from Surge II all the way to the Science Lecture hall, watched as Chancellor Katehi walked to her SUV and drove away safely.

We were respectful, we were peaceful and above all, we were successful.

It was an empowering and cathartic experience to be with others as hurt as I was. To me, the response of our students reaffirmed the in-credible compassion and in-telligence of this community.

So now, I call on all of you to stand for what you believe in. Or sit for it, you choose.

KATE ZARRELLA would like to hear what you would be willing to sit down for at kazarrella@ucdavis.edu.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Nov. 17 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m. Adam Thongsavat, ASUCD president, presentBree Rombi, ASUCD vice president, presentYena Bae, ASUCD senator, presentMiguel Espinoza, ASUCD senator, presentEmmanuel Diaz-Ordaz, ASUCD senator, presentAndre Lee, ASUCD senator, presentAmy Martin, ASUCD senator, presentMayra Martín, ASUCD senator, presentTatiana Moana Bush, ASUCD senator, presentDarwin Moosavi, ASUCD senator, presentMatthew Provencher, ASUCD senator, presentBrendan Repicky, ASUCD senator, presentRebecca Sterling, ASUCD senator, presentRyan Meyerhoff, ASUCD senator, present

PresentationsExceptional Presence at senate award was given to Rebecca Sterling and Matt Provencher. Most Legislation Written awarded to Andre Lee. Michael John Tucker Leadership Award was given to Darwin Moosavi. The Hottie Hot Hot award was given to Tatiana Bush and Matt Provencher. Diaz-Ordaz, Sterling, Moosavi, Provencher, Bush and Lee said their farewells. Anni Kimball, Justin Goss, Patrick Sheehan, Yara Zokaie, Erica Padgett and Jared Crisologo-Smith were sworn in as senators.

Appointments and confirmationsBae was elected as the new pro-tempore. Zokaie was appointed as a senate representative to the Student Health and Wellness Committee.

Consideration of Urgent LegislationSenate Resolution 3, authored by Crisologo-Smith, co-authored by Bush, Diaz-Ordaz, Espinoza, Martín, Montelongo and Repicky, to denounce recent hate crimes committed on the UC Davis campus and reaffirm their support of our Principles of Community. The table and the public talked with the Student-Police Relations representative. The table also added a part to the resolution that stated it was against The California Aggie running a particular column. The resolution passed unanimously. Senate Resolution 4, authored by Roberts, Barcello, Tajada, Knouse, Baker, Kealoha, Samaan and Altenberg, co-authored by Goss and Sandstrom,

introduced by Martin, in support of a sustained occupation on the campus with the absence of police interference. After a long discussion with the authors about legality issues, the resolution passed in a 9-2-1 vote. Zokaie and Meyerhoff voted no.

Consideration of Old LegislationSenate Bill 25, authored by Lee, co-authored by Bush, authorizing the complete transfer of funds from the ASUCD Scholarship Fund to the ASUCD Awards Endowment Fund, was tabled. Senate Bill 27, authored by Martin, to clarify closed session proceedings, passed unanimously. Senate Bill 28, authored by Hu, co-authored by Chu, Ho, Lee and Thongsavat, to allocate $34,574.72 from Capital Reserves to fund capital costs for custom garment printing at Campus Copies/Classical Notes, and to make amendments to the Campus Copies/Classical Notes annual operating budget to reflect new income and expenses. Repicky said he would like it if they could put something in the bill about eventually switching over to sweatshop-free companies regarding the t-shirts they buy. The bill passed unanimously. Senate Bill 31, authored by Rombi, co-authored by Bae, Montelongo, Provencher and Stone, to amend the procedural time periods for the ASUCD Scholarship Committee, passed unanimously. Senate Bill 32, authored by Repicky, co-authored by Bush and De Los Reyes, to allocate $330.00 from Senate Reserves to fund the third annual ASUCD Financial Aid Awareness Week. Business and Finance Commission had a problem with the bill. The table discussed raffling gift cards to the UC Davis Bookstore and the ASUCD Coffee House. The bill passed in a 9-1-2 vote, Meyerhoff voted no. Senate Bill 34, authored by Lee, co-authored by Maemura and Rombi, to clarify language governing ASUCD Reserves and institute bylaws governing ASUCD Endowments in the ASUCD Bylaws, was tabled.

Public discussionJerome Wren came with the UC Black Coalition and spoke about the hate crime at the Students of Color Conference, the swastikas and “white power” that were drawn around campus, and the column titled “Jungle Fever” that ran in The Aggie. He said he felt it was inappropriate to publish the article. He also talked about the hate crimes that have gone unnoticed by police on campus. Osahon Ekhator spoke about the racist issues on campus as well. He demanded a formal apology and recognition from The Aggie.

A student said they want to see the policy for which the police document things to change. They also want Aggie writers to go to diversity training, along with first-year and transfer students. Padgett said that she appreciated everyone who put effort into the Students of Color Conference.

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yolo natural Heritage JPA board Meeting5:30 p.m.Yolo County Administration Building, Room 206, 625 Court St., WoodlandThe board will hold a public hearing to accept comments on the scope of HCP/NCCP Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR).

the edge Performance festival Auditions6:30 p.m. Warm-up, 7 p.m. AuditionsHickey GymAuditions are open only to UC Davis students, faculty and staff, unless members of the public are specifically invited.

Linux Users’ group of davis Meeting7 p.m.Explorit, 3141 Fifth St.Linux Users’ Group of Davis will host a presentation on creating web applications

using “Pyramid”, an open source, Python-based web framework.

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bicycling in davis: what Lessons Can we Learn from europe?Noon to 1 p.m.The Barn Conference RoomSarah Underwood will discuss her UC Davis Master’s degree in public health research, in which she focused on exploring youth and adolescent attitudes toward bicycling, as seen in retrospect from adulthood. Included in the talk are her subsequent travels to Europe, where she presented her findings at international conferences and obtained feedback.

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By SARA ISLASAggie News Writer

UC Davis students could receive free preventative care services rang-ing from diet counseling to vac-cines to lab testing at the on-campus Student Health and Wellness Center (SHWC). But they are paying.

Since Sept. 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has mandated that all health insurance plans cover clinical preventative services without patient co-pay. Effective August 2012, the ACA is expanding mandated cover-age to include women’s preventative health services, such as well-woman visits (such as pelvic and physical ex-ams, health tests and immunizations) and contraception.

UC Davis students cannot use their health insurance on campus at SHWC, so they cannot benefit from the free services the ACA provides.

Nationwide, universities are mak-ing the switch to the new model of on-campus health care that acts as a fully functioning clinic, providing students a wider range of care and allowing them to bill their insurance and benefit from the free preventative care services that the ACA requires. Bowling Green University, Southern Georgia University and University of Massachusetts are only a few of many universities that have switched to the in-network model.

Dr. Glenn Egelman, former health services director at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, calls it a crisis.

“Students at UC Davis are strug-

gling to pay for rising tuition,” Dr. Egelman said. “On top of that, they pay for health insurance that they can’t use at the new, multi-million dollar health center?”

Virginia Bryant, a SHWC insurance services employee, said her department doesn’t have access to the number of students that already pay for health in-surance before coming to UC Davis.

Bryant said the great thing about the center is the availability of their services to all registered UC Davis students regardless of their health in-surance coverage.

“Most people we see have the UC Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) and that’s about 13,000 to 14,000 stu-dents,” Bryant said.

All UC Davis students are required to have an insurance plan in order to enroll in classes. That means, the ma-jority of UC Davis students have opt-ed out of SHIP and are insured under a private plan.

Students pay the same price for general visits, specialist visits and some lab-tests whether or not they have SHIP. This is a low fee that is sub-sidized by the university.

Dr. Egelman said that the current system at SHWC is resulting in revenue losses and unnecessary student costs.

“If students could bill their insurance, the SHWC would not have to subsidize payments,” he said. “Insurance would pay about five times the amounts of subsidized student payments.”

Dr. Egelman said the University of California still bases its health care off the old model of on-campus health

care, but is working to aid them in the transition.

“The old model was to help students with small issues and get them to the nearest hospital quickly,” he said. “But with the inception of a new multi-mil-lion dollar facility, that model is ob-viously changing so that it can serve more students more thoroughly.”

Emily Mekinna, a junior interna-tional relations major, said she won-ders why UC Davis hasn’t made the switch yet.

“We just build this brand new health center where we can do all sorts of things that the old clinic couldn’t do,” she said. “Our facility was upgraded, shouldn’t we upgrade our system?”

Transitioning to becoming an in-network facility is a laborious process, according to Bryant. SHWC would have to credential of its all health care providers and implement a new system of submitting bills and collecting payments.

The university can take two paths to becoming in-network: hire more employees to facilitate the transition or outsource the job to a company, such as Vivature Health LLC.

Dr. Egelman, who is also the chief medical officer at Vivature, said that they service universities around the nation.

“Becoming in-network is immedi-ately cost-effective,” he said. “Every university we have worked for has thanked us, students, health provid-ers and administration alike.”

SARA ISLAS can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

Affordable Care Act expands to cover women’s health services

UC Davis remains in old health care model

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quad protestResponse to student feedback Police brutality unacceptable

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The California Aggie would like to express thanks to all of the students and community mem-bers who commented on and di-rectly addressed disappoint-ment and upset over the column “Jungle Fever,” which ran in The California Aggie last Tuesday.

It is important that newspapers be considered a place for self-ex-pression and a catalyst for facili-tating discussion on important is-sues, such as cultural misconcep-tions and racism.

To further ensure that this is done in a sensitive and con-structive manner, staff of The California Aggie will be par-ticipating in diversity train-ing. We would like to encourage

and support all members of the campus community in increas-ing awareness of cultural diver-sity on campus.

We would like to continue discus-sions with the Black Student Union and any other groups on campus that feel their needs as a communi-ty have not been met by their cam-pus newspaper. Without this input, we would not be able to improve as a newspaper and as individuals.

The California Aggie, like all things at UC Davis, is an educa-tional experience for readers and staff alike. We encourage our fel-low students to apply for colum-nist or reporting positions and help shape The Aggie into what they would like to see.

On Friday, UC Davis cam-pus police used pepper spray to break up student protest-ers sitting and linking arms on the Quad. This travesty came at the end of a week of peace-ful student protests in defense of public education.

This was completely unac-ceptable, uncalled for and in-appropriate. Police should not have used pepper spray or ex-cessive force on peaceful pro-testers, and the people re-sponsible for these actions need to be held accountable.

Lieutenant John Pike, the officer who stepped over stu-dents to pepper spray them in the face, should immediately be removed from his position

as a campus police officer. The actions he took against peace-ful protesters were inexcus-able. Furthermore, any oth-er police officers who abused their power during this ordeal should also be removed from the police force.

Chief Annette Spicuzza needs to correct her mislead-ing justification for the police actions, which she made dur-ing a press conference. John Pike stepping over students is clear evidence that police of-ficers were not entrapped by protesters, as Spicuzza said.

Campus police should strive to protect students, and the act of pepper spraying the protesters was a clear viola-

tion of this goal. The universi-ty should revisit policies about using any kind of violence against peaceful student pro-testers, and changes should be made.

Students should and need to be able to feel safe on campus.

Chancellor Katehi an-nounced Saturday that a task force made up of students, faculty and staff will be inves-tigating the incident, and will report back to her in 30 days. This investigation should be more immediate.

We, The California Aggie ed-itorial board, support the stu-dent protesters, and hope the university rights these wrongs immediately.

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I watched the actions of Friday unfold on my Twitter feed. Saturday morning, I woke up to see the name of my uni-versity on the front page of The Huffington Post and on the pages of countless other national news outlets. I would have hoped UC Davis had found the cure for cancer or a way to help solve world hun-ger. No. We are famous for police brutality. I must admit that I’ve tried to ignore the protests and rallies that have been happening in the last few months. When protesters interrupted my class in Wellman on Thursday, I was upset. While I support free speech and the right to protest, I am here to learn, not to be shouted at. I have papers to write, two jobs to work and ex-ams to study for. But after Friday, I can no lon-ger close my eyes to the events happening around me. Instead of working on final papers this weekend, I’ve been glued to the internet, watching and waiting for a proper reaction from the UC Davis administration. Protestors on Friday were wrong not to comply with po-lice. But the police took the prize when they refused to comply with the basic codes of humanity. I do not pay for a police de-partment that will pepper spray peaceful protestors. I do not pay for a school that then must clean up the mess by sending the fire department to wash out my peers’ burning eyes and throats. I have not committed to years and years of future student debt so that I can watch my fellow stu-dents writhe in pain in a YouTube video. The last time I checked, this was a public university in the United States. My professors teach me about free speech and the importance of non-violence. We use our words, not our weap-ons. We use our pens, not our pepper spray. UC Davis is my home. UC Davis is a place where people are friendly and welcoming. UC Davis is not a place where brutal-ity should be or will be tolerated. Chancellor Katehi, how could you possibly let this happen?

Corrie JaCobsJunior English major

I am writing to express my sad-ness and horror in response to the images from the Nov. 19 in-cident at the UC Davis cam-pus. I graduated from one of my state’s public universities, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I cried as I watched people I consider fellow students react in pain to the unprovoked spraying of pepper spray at close range. I will be reading The Aggie for updates and will be on the lookout for any opportunities to help and support.

abigail FranklinSandwich, MA

Chancellor Katehi, I once had the pleasure of par-ticipating at an event at UC Davis and was amazed by the wonder-ful campus community. What I witnessed today by the UC Davis police was shameful, unneces-sary and will forever change my impression of the beautiful UC Davis campus.

Your remarks in the press are unfortunate at best. I agree with the calls for your resignation and I expect several members of the so-called police force to be pros-ecuted themselves. What a dark and sad day for an otherwise wonderful community.

sCott barnwellPresident, Mountain GIS

Consulting

I respect the university’s right and obligation to ensure safe-ty on its campuses, subject to and in accordance with applica-ble laws. I believe that the uni-versity has violated those laws, both at the recent protests at Berkeley and Friday at Davis, but that is not my primary rea-son for writing you today. In our time of deep financial cuts, I am very concerned that the univer-sity’s interest in stopping pro-tests through violence will harm the public’s view of the universi-ty and, therefore, have the unin-tended consequence of impact-ing fundraising. I am a donor to the universi-ty and, while I continue to sup-port the university, I have to say that I do factor in the universi-ty’s behavior when doing so. By acting with violence on non-vi-olent protesters, the university may solve its immediate prob-lem but it loses in the long run if donors withhold funding as a result. I urge you to stop the violence and start thinking strategically. Yes, the whole world is watching.

Matt burrowsUC Berkeley class of 1987

I’m a retired New Haven de-tective with 27 years of service. I was among the officers in the ’70s assigned to the Vietnam War and Black Panther trial as thousands demonstrated, in-cluding Yale students, pub-licly expressing their convic-tions. I did not witness the mis-use of justice due to the leader-ship of then Chief James Ahern. He clarified the constitution-al rights of the participants and ordered that it be respected. It was a proud period. The spraying of pepper spray in the face of anyone by a police officer is a defensive action that should be used only when nec-essary to protect another or the officer. Decisions by leadership thus far are confirmed invalid by the presence of videos –– thus undermining the creditability of the institution itself. Our constitution is not to be denied for the sake of convince or political preference.

thoMas F. Morrissey, Jr.Cheshire, CT

I was a lecturer at UC Davis for 38 years, retiring in July 2009. After watching the video of Chancellor Katehi’s exit from Surge II, I can honestly say that I have never been so proud of UC Davis students as I am today. Disciplined non-violence in response to violence is the most powerful speech there is. Congratulations, folks. Keep on keeping on.

bay butlerRetired lecturer, agricultural

economics

The incident of non-violent protesters being pepper sprayed has sent shock waves here in Canada. It is a disgusting inci-dent which puts shame on your institution and frankly, your country as well. How can you call yourself a place of higher learn-ing when you respond to protest in this manner? Linda Katehi should resign, plain and simple. She is respon-sible for this incident and her continued employment at the university adds insult to injury. SHE HAS TO GO!

roberto rosenManToronto, Canada

Dear Chancellor Linda Katehi, Like tens of thousands of UC Davis alumni, my family and I were appalled by the behavior of campus police last week. The image of peacefully submissive people being pepper sprayed will become iconic for our trou-bled times. The fact that it hap-pened anywhere is tragic, but on the UC Davis campus is par-ticularly horrifying to those of us who recall the atmosphere at Davis 1968-70. When, after the tragedy at Kent State, uni-versity and college campuses in California were closed for four days to avert violence during stu-dent demonstrations, Chancellor James H. Meyer encouraged a campuswide dialogue on the Vietnam War for the remainder of the quarter. More than 40 years later, I have students from that era and their children and grandchildren in my classes at Cal Poly speak of that time as the most formative in their education. Friday’s pepper spraying goes far beyond raising “many ques-tions about how best to handle situations like this” as you put it in Saturday’s letter to the cam-pus community. It was simply unacceptable from any stand-point. It’s not something than can be resolved by a process of policy review in the echelons of power. Such a breakdown of the uses of authority in the universi-ty setting came close to destroy-ing higher education in America during the 1960s. As you walked through the three blocks long gauntlet of silence from the uni-versity community you must have recognized that only gen-uine contrition for what has oc-curred and openness to a new set of solutions can resolve this impasse. You still have an opportuni-ty to follow your predecessor, Jim Meyer’s example by encouraging dialogue with the Occupy move-ment’s justifiable critique of eco-nomic inequality in America. A real discourse can only exist in an environment where all par-ties feel safe and legitimate free-dom of expression is guaranteed. That’s what a true university is all about. To achieve this you need to immediately suspend all mem-bers of the university securi-ty force and line of administra-tion who were involved in the incident. Impartial disciplinary hearings need to be convened in an atmosphere of complete transparency. Open leadership in all sectors of society is the only hope for America. Please reach out to the campus community with its di-versity of voices. A conversation is still possible.

Daniel e. kriegerPh.D. UC Davis, 1973

Professor Emeritus, Cal Poly State University

To the Davis City Council, Whether you agree or disagree with the various manifesta-tions of the “Occupy” movement throughout our community, our country and our world, one thing is indisputable: the use of violence in the face of nonvio-lent, peaceable assembly is un-conscionable. It is the mark of dictatorship and not the face of freedom. In light of recent events, it is your moral responsibility to rein-force this principle for the City of Davis to the world now watching us. Those who choose to ignore an important fact — that the well-being of the greater Davis com-munity is inextricably linked to the economic, social and cultural welfare of the UC Davis campus community — may say that what transpired last Friday does not pose a moral issue for the City of Davis at all. After all, the po-lice response involved at the UC Davis demonstration was out-side the city limits, with appar-ently only members of the UC Davis Police Department wield-ing riot gear and pepper spray at UC Davis students. However, as you are probably aware, members of the City of Davis Police Department were in fact on the scene, playing a secondary, supporting role as a responder to UCDPD’s request for “mutual aid.” Despite this secondary role, our City peace officers were seen by millions around the world participating in the suppression of students who, while passively resisting, were actively engaged in exer-cising their constitutional free-doms to speak out. Secondary or not, it is our obligation as a free-dom-loving community to clear-ly and formally articulate our values so that there be no mis-understanding. In short, going forward, the city must make a public com-mitment to deal with non-vio-lence non-violently, whether it be at the Occupy Davis protest at Central Park, the Occupy UC Davis protest on campus or be-yond. I ask that all concerned community members join me in this call.

laMar heystekFormer Davis City Council

member

Dear Chancellor Katehi, I am writing to you in protest of the unnecessary police brutal-ity that occurred on the UC Davis campus. Having participated in a peaceful change of government in Serbia as a student in the ’90s, I was struck by the video of UC police, funded by the citizens of California, attacking peaceful student protestors with pepper spray. This kind of barbaric be-havior is worse than I have ever experienced, even when dealing with a police force that was pro-tecting an autocratic regime. I feel that this type of action is ab-solutely unacceptable, as is your defense of the act. While I understand that part of your responsibility is to main-tain a productive working envi-ronment on your campus, your commitments to the freedom of

speech, non-violence and your students should come first, and I request that you do everything in your power to identify and punish the members of the UC police who ordered and carried out the despicable acts on your campus.

Dr. Milan MashanovitChUCSB adjunct professor, electrical

and computer engineering

I continue to be disturbed by Friday’s incidents on the UC Davis campus Quad, especially because I was there physically. There seem to be many loop-holes in our Chancellor’s logic for why police action was required in the first place. It is a glar-ing contradiction that the same UCDPD team that was called to the scene to ensure the safety and health of the demonstrators also sprayed them with noxious chemicals. But what I am really really ap-palled from watching the press conference video is the lack of any remorse or any semblance of an apology from Chief Annette Spicuzza or a desire to take re-sponsibility for her actions and those of the officers she direct-ly commands, and what clearly looks like disproportionate show of force against peaceful and un-armed student demonstrators. You can hear her “I dont knows,” “I was not there” and I am not sure” comments for yourself in videos. This is cer-tainly not the America I ex-pected or look forward to liv-ing in! This feels more like a third world country without any sort of accountability or the con-cept of chain of command. To me, Spicuzza seems to want to save her skin and not appear cul-pable. I suspect she will prof-fer a sacrificial scapegoat in due course from the lower echelons of her police force so that her role in this debacle may never be called into question. Today I am very proud of the maturity, the peaceful civ-il dis-obedience and the dedi-cation of my fellow students at UC Davis to what they believe in. I am equally ashamed of the UCDPD’s behavior –– they be-haved like brainless thugs who needed to take out their frus-tration via physical violence on someone. Personally, I have a soft cor-ner for Chancellor Katehi be-cause she is someone who was once an international graduate student just like I am now. She has moved up the ranks, which is tough to achieve for a wom-an, even in academia that is a meritocracy. I now wait to see if our Chancellor will make a sin-cere and honest effort to re-store public and student confi-dence, in her and the rest of the UC Davis administration –– the manner in which the indepen-dent inquiry panel is constitut-ed, the powers and the access this panel is granted to conduct its inquiry and how its findings and recommendations are fol-lowed will be the true measure of whether the Chancellor can walk her talk. As for UCDPD, I will always obey them because I obey the law of the land. But will I respect them? Never ever again.

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By STEPHANIE B. NGUYENAggie News Writer

Last Wednesday, UC Davis stu-dents joined UC Berkeley stu-dents in Sacramento to lobby leg-islators in a press conference and rally regarding the UC budget cuts and tuition hikes. About 100 students, approxi-mately 50 from UC Davis and 50 from UC Berkeley, bused to the state capital early Wednesday morning and congregated on the steps of the California State Capitol to address decision makers and speak out against the state’s role in the recent cuts to public high-er education. The event was well attended by the press as student

and faculty leaders took turns ad-dressing the crowd of reporters. The event was organized with the help of Joey Freeman, UC Berkeley (ASUC) External Affairs Vice President, in the wake of the announcement that potential au-tomatic trigger cuts of almost $2 billion could directly affect high-er education. “We’re here in Sacramento to make a powerful message that we need the legislature to reinvest in higher education,” said Freeman in his speech. “This is not a time where we can have more cuts, where we can have our tuition continue to go up, and that’s all the more reason that we’re here, to let them know that that has to stop.” Before the press conference be-gan at 11 a.m., students and ad-ministrators gathered to prepare. “We had a room reserved in the building where we congregated, made tons and tons of phone calls to the ‘big five,’ signed postcards to

the governor in favor of Proposition 13 reform, and made signs for our press conference,” said Jonathan Stein, UC student regent-designate. The “big five” includes Gov. Jerry Brown, speaker of the assem-bly John Perez, Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway, Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dutton. Proposition 13 refers to the constitutional amendment that brought changes to the California property tax system. “Reforming [Proposition 13] will help fund our public priorities, like public higher education,” Stein said. “There is a University of California Student Association (UCSA) cam-paign currently underway to get tens of thousands of postcards signed by students urging the governor to sup-port Proposition 13 reform.” Those who participated in the rally felt that it was an important supplement to the various protest

movements taking place on UC campuses across the state. “We’ve realized that students need to look at all fronts, including lobbying,” said Adam Thongsavat, ASUCD president. “We chose to focus on Sacramento because they have a huge part, if not the biggest part. We need to put pres-sure on the regents, on the state of California, on local leaders, and on community members. No one should be spared from this con-versation, because it affects every-one. We all need to be united and to offer any resources we can.” Freeman agreed. “We think it’s incredibly impor-tant and powerful to be here in Sacramento standing jointly with our administration,” Freeman said. “We are all on the same page. We all care about an affordable and acces-sible public education system.”

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UC Davis students lobby against tuition hikes in Sacramento

Students and faculty leaders held press conference to address the budget cuts

Barbara Bonaparte, Black Student Union (BSU) president, said there have been a lot of things attacking the African American community on campus, and thanked the senators on behalf of the BSU. Another student and member of BSU, said she felt it is unacceptable that these hate crimes were allowed to happen and nobody took the time to investigate them. She said that she does not feel safe on campus. Edd Montelongo, Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission chair, said that he thinks that the table needs to reaffirm its support for people from underrepresented minorities. The Aggies of Color are putting on a town hall meeting at Soc Sci 1100 on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Willee Roberts from the Occupy movement came to talk to the table. He said there are no leaders out there, anything they say is not reflecting the group. They discussed passing a resolution, which was approved by the Occupy movement group, to support the Occupy movement on campus. The table and the authors discussed what peaceful meant to them. Meeting adjourned at 2:58 a.m.

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end on a completely decisive note. Some protesters wanted to defend the encampment while others thought packing up and reconvening on Monday might be a better plan,” Rizvi said. “But once folks saw 30 cops clad in full riot gear marching toward peace-ful students, an overwhelming sense of loyalty and solidarity seemed to wash over the Quad, and a large group of students — some of whom weren’t initial-ly keen on staying — began link-ing arms and chanting. I remem-ber uncovering my eyes for a mo-ment to see my friend David’s face dripping with pepper spray. He was facing the sky, practically screaming in agony.” After the student protest-ers were sprayed, more students were physically moved by author-ities onto the grass area where they were restrained with plastic handcuffs. “We struggled to keep our ground,” said Evan Loker, a se-nior comparative literature stu-dent who was pepper sprayed. “I felt them pulling at our limbs, be-gan twisting and thrashing us in an attempt to dislodge us. At least one of the officers kept gassing us even while this was happening.” Around 15 pepper-sprayed stu-dents were treated with water and baking soda donated by the ASUCD Coffee House. Volunteers rushed to purchase other anti-ac-ids. Within the hour, the UC Davis Fire Department came to treat those who were still in pain. “We were lucky to have peo-ple there who knew how to treat these injuries,” Loker said on Saturday. “Although my hands and forehead still burned as of this morning.” The events on Friday came at the end of a week of student pro-tests. The Occupy Davis encamp-ment, in Central Park, has been in effect for over a month, but dur-ing an afternoon rally on Tuesday, with an attendance estimated by protesters to be around 2,000 people, the focus shifted to occu-pying campus buildings. Students slept overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in Mrak Hall in opposition to the 81 per-

cent fee hikes proposed over the next four years. Students were evicted from the administration building on Wednesday after-noon and Mrak Hall was closed to business. On Wednesday morning, buses of students went to the Sacramento state Capitol to advo-cate against fee hikes. This came partially in response to the cancel-lation of the UC Board of Regents meeting that had been scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. The meeting has since been resched-uled for Nov. 28. Others went to San Francisco to participate in Occupy SF. Occupy SF held a non-violent sit-in at Bank of America. Out of the many participants, at least 12 UC Davis students were arrested and cited after refusing to leave the bank. On Thursday, another gener-al assembly was held and stu-dents set up tents on the Quad. Thursday night was active for many participants. Students ex-changed information about their legal rights and what they may face if arrested. Potluck dinners fed the crowd. “The people who participat-ed in the protest were largely stu-dents who were standing on uni-versity property — that is, student property — in the middle of the day,” Rizvi said. “I don’t under-stand Katehi’s logic.” Following police actions on Friday, various faculty members expressed concerns through re-leased public statements and Twitter and Facebook posts. Nathan Brown, an assis-tant professor in the English Department, sent an open letter to Chancellor Katehi, calling for her resignation. “You are responsible for the police violence directed against students on the UC Davis quad on November 18, 2011,” Brown wrote. “As I said, I am writing to hold you responsible and to de-mand your immediate resigna-tion on these grounds.” At press on Sunday, a change.org petition calling for Katehi’s resignation had nearly 40,000 signatures. UC Davis Professor of cine-ma and technocultural studies Bob Ostertag released an e-mail to students saying that action of

linking arms was misunderstood by police officers. “Throughout my life I have seen, and sometimes participat-ed in, peaceful civil disobedience protests in which sitting and link-ing arms is understood by both police and citizens as a posture that indicates the clearest possi-ble way available to them, pro-testers’ intent to be non-violent,” Ostertag said. UC Davis students and facul-ty took to Twitter Friday night to spread information about the day’s protest. A video of police using pepper spray on students was widely spread through both Twitter and Facebook, and the event has since been reported many national and international news sources. Alumni and community members took to the UC Davis Facebook page to express disap-proval of campus authorities. Around 9 p.m. on Friday, Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi re-leased a campuswide letter stat-ing that “the group was informed in writing this morning that the encampment violated regulations designed to protect the health and safety of students, staff and faculty. The group was further in-formed that if they did not dis-mantle the encampment, it would have to be removed.” On Saturday afternoon, Chancellor Katehi released a fol-low up statement mentioning the creation a task force made of fac-ulty, students and staff to review the past week’s events. The let-ter also mentioned potentially changing the campus policy on protests. “If our policies do not allow our students enough flexibility to ex-press themselves, then we need to find a way to improve these policies and make them more ef-fective and appropriate,” Katehi said.

Editor’s note: This article was orig-inally posted on theaggie.org on Nov. 19. A previous edition of the article stated that students went to Sacramento and San Francisco on Thursday. These events occurred on Wednesday.

Becky Peterson and HannaH strumwasser contributed to this article. cao, Peterson and strumwasser can be reached at campus@theaggie.

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the press conference was sup-posed to end, protesters’ chants could be heard from outside. Protesters managed to get inside the building, and some forced their way into the room the press conference was being held in. After being asked to leave the building, a group of an estimated 700 people stood outside, forming a human pathway for the chan-cellor to walk through, which they called “the walk of shame.” The group of protesters includ-ed undergraduate and graduate students, alumni and communi-ty members. “I came out because I felt the way the students were being treated was inappropriate. The violence that was put on them was unnecessary because they were not doing anything, they were just protesting. Even if it was an issue of having tents on cam-pus, it was inappropriately dealt with,” said Neda Yousefian, a UC Davis graduate student. Shannon Giammichele, sopho-more UC Davis student, was one of the protesters who was pepper sprayed by the police. “I quickly covered, and next thing you knew you just heard the sound of spray going off and felt it in your mouth and your nose,” Giammichele said. “I accidentally slipped the lower part of my cov-er and inhaled pepper spray, so I ended up being transported to the hospital because I have asth-ma, and I had an asthma attack as a result. It was all over my hands so I go it in my eyes.” Many protesters on Saturday echoed Giammichele’s senti-ments, and a general sense of dis-belief and confusion was evident among the crowd. “I don’t understand why they did it. We were just sitting there so peacefully, it’s just really hard to understand,” Giammichele said. Throughout Saturday after-noon and evening, the group chanted things such as, “You can leave in peace” and “Chancellor, if you can hear us, we will not harm you, we have the world as our witness.” The protesters focused on mak-ing the event peaceful, chanting

“This is not a negotiation, this is not a hostile situation.” AggieTV and other local news outlets kept a live stream of the events online. By the time Katehi exited the building, the stream was being viewed by over 600 peo-ple. Major news sources such as CNN covered the event, and both Twitter and Facebook were used by protesters to spread the word. After select protesters negotiat-ed with officials inside, the chan-cellor’s husband moved her car from right outside the building to farther down the road. At 6:50 p.m., approximately two hours and 20 minutes after the press conference ended, the pro-testers sat on the ground in com-plete silence as Katehi left the building and walked to her car. Katehi walked past hundreds of people, making eye contact with individual students. Participants described the scene as haunting. As Katehi neared her car, some-one asked her if she still felt threatened by students. She said no, got into her car and was driv-en away. Protesters rejoiced afterward, chanting “Whose university? Our university!” and rushed into the street. “I think that now it’s a matter of the university realizing that it’s not just a few students that are protesting, but it’s a mass of students who are upset with this and disagree with their policies,” Yousefian said. In a statement released by University of California President Mark Yudof Sunday morning, Yudof denounced actions taken by police officers on UC campus-es in response to protests. “I am appalled by images of University of California students being doused with pepper spray and jabbed with police batons on our campuses,” Yudof said. “I in-tend to do everything in my pow-er as president of this university to protect the rights of our stu-dents, faculty and staff to engage in non-violent protest.”

Editor’s note: This article was orig-inally posted on theaggie.org on Nov. 19. The article has been edit-ed to reflect updates.

HannaH strumwasser can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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Biggs, a former UC Davis and Canadian Football League quarterback, showed his quickness when he avoided the ice-cold Gatorade shower as he made his way to the post-game handshake. Now, after months of hard work, the Aggies season has come to an abrupt end. With the long off-season now upon them, Biggs explained the importance of ending the season with a win. “[This game] helps a lot,” he said. “We’re a young football team and we have a lot of play-ers returning. Their effort has been second to none. To end in a game like this and go into the off-season with a team that feels good about themselves, it means a lot.”

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all year? It raises questions about the leadership on the team, the play-ers’ effort and the coaches’ ability to have their players ready to play. It’s easy to get fired up for rival-

ry games, but this season has been characterized more by frustrating losses than thrilling victories. The bottom line is that the final record of 4-7 does not fairly reflect the talent on the field, but it does reflect the way the team played this season. And while we should all take out time to bask in the glory of the vic-

tory over Sacramento State, we should also keep in mind that this year’s rivalry games were only part of the story this season. If this team plans to move for-ward it needs to change its mindset and it needs to do it fast.

treVor cramer can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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Davis history. “It meant a lot,” Denny said . “It feels good to go out like this. I am very proud of the way we played.” Junior Allison Whitson led the Aggies with 12 kills, follow by Sedlak with 11. Whitson also tallied 11 digs, four be-hind fellow junior Caroline Mercado’s game high 15. Denny finished with sev-en kills and three digs in the match. The game was followed by senior day ceremonies. Holmes choked back tears

as she addressed the crowd to say goodbye to two of the cor-nerstones of the program. With the chances of UC Davis making an NCAA Tournament berth slim, the Aggies will now take a short break before be-ginning to focus on next year. Even with two big pieces missing, Holmes believes UC Davis volleyball can continue to move forward as a program. “We have young players who can step in,” Holmes said. “Right now is a time for rest, and after that there’s a lot of motivation to work hard in the off-season.”

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UC Davis athletics. All that po-tential we saw is gone. The re-port has nailed what I’ve been trying to say.” Perry’s sentiments were lat-er echoed by the first football player to speak at a town hall meeting — redshirt freshman Jacob Waas. “Dr. Dempsey provid-ed an in-depth analysis that UC Davis can use to exploit its strengths, improve in its weaknesses and explore its opportunities,” Waas said. “I’m here to say let’s take that step forward.” While the Dempsey Report certainly received support at the meeting, there was also a fair amount of frustration stat-ed as well. “Every student athlete is a part of this community,” said senior water polo play-er Lindsay Sutterley. “We want to make the sports strive to be their best, but cutting sports is

not going to do that.” One anti-Dempsey Report speaker invoked the pedophil-ia allegations levied against for-mer Penn State defensive coor-dinator Jerry Sandusky as an ex-ample of the evils brought forth by “big-time athletics,” while an-other suggested that the univer-sity raise revenue by building an on-campus golf course. The meeting also featured Vice Chancellor Fred Wood’s announcement that the Dan Wilson, Chair of the Academic Federation, would be added to the Recruitment Advisory Committee — the body charged with providing sug-gestions to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi before she makes chooses and athletic director. Wilson brings the committee membership to 16. The committee will now be-gin meeting to discuss poten-tial candidates, with a final de-cision expected to be made in late-winter or early-spring.

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Jasna Hodzic / Aggie

Protesters linked arms and stood around their encampment as police approached them Friday afternoon on the Quad.

Brian Nguyen / Aggie

Evka Whaley-Mayda, a sophomore art studio major, gets treated by a member of the UC Davis Fire Department after being pepper sprayed by police on Friday afternoon.

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Chancellor Katehi’s husband, Spyros Tseregouni, drove their car and parked near the entrance of Surge II, where he waited for Katehi following the press conference. Jasna Hodzic / Aggie

Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi walked past hundreds of silent students who were sitting down and holding hands as she exited Surge II after the conference on Saturday night.

Jasna Hodzic / Aggie

Protesters filled the street as they celebrated Chancellor Katehi’s departure from the press conference on Saturday evening.

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Frustrating win?

No one should take anything away from the UC Davis

football team’s win in the Causeway Classic on Saturday. The Aggies fought hard, ran the ball well and ulti-mately came away victo-rious in what most fans would consider their most important game of this season. Yet as I watched the fi-nal seconds tick off the clock, my joy as a fan was tempered by an underly-ing question: Where has this type of effort been all season? In their biggest triumph of 2011, the Aggies showed exactly why they have been such a frustrating squad this year. The team is capa-ble of playing at a high lev-el and competing with the best schools at the Football Championship Subdivision level, but at the same time, their levels of intensi-ty fluctuated week to week throughout the season. UC Davis clearly brought all the energy it need-ed against its two big-gest rivals: Cal Poly and Sacramento State. Prior to kickoff in those games, the Aggies showed a great deal of excitement on the sideline, drawing the crowd into the game. UC Davis also ran the ball well in both contests, posting 149 yards against the Mustangs and an im-pressive 206 yards against the Hornets. Not surprisingly, the Aggies won both games, giving their fans bragging rights in both the Battle for the Golden Horseshoe and the Causeway Classic. Yet on far too many occa-sions this season, UC Davis failed to play at a competi-tive level. The most glaring exam-ple obviously came in the embarrassing 23-17 loss to Humboldt State in Aggie Stadium. While failing to defeat a Division II team on your home field speaks for itself, even more frustrating was that, UC Davis rushed for just 78 yards, averaging 2.4 yards per-carry. This type of rushing production is un-acceptable, especially com-ing against an undersized defensive front. Another failure to dis-play maximum effort came in UC Davis’ match-up between the Cal Poly and Sacramento State games, against North Dakota. In a lack-luster effort, UC Davis managed just seven points on under 230 yards of total offense. The problems in the game were spotlighted on a single play. Late in the fourth quar-ter, the Aggies were driv-ing to tie the game with a touchdown. The offense stagnated near midfield, leading to a key fourth and 10 play. Breaking through the defense on fourth down is difficult enough, especial-ly considering that back-up quarterback Austin Heyworth had just en-tered the game, but the error came not from the play on the field but from the lack of communica-tion off it. Heyworth clearly did not receive the play call un-til the play clock was near-ly expired, leading him to rush the team to the line of scrimmage and snap the ball before the offense was prepared for action. Needless to say, the Aggies failed to convert and they ultimately lost the game. Juxtapose that with the impressive offensive pro-duction seen on Saturday, and fans can’t help but ask: Where has this team been

By CAELUM SHOVEAggie Sports Writer

The football team finished their 2011 cam-paign with a win, beating Sacramento State 23-19 in the 58th Causeway Classic. The Aggies first road win of the season brought their final record to 4-7, ensuring that they avoided their first eight-loss season in more than fifty years. Saturday’s contest showcased the same foot-ball the UC Davis has been playing all year, al-beit with one large exception. There was solid defense, a balanced rushing and passing attack and consistent special teams. The large exception came from freshman running back Colton Silveria, who ran rampant against the Hornets. The team’s leading rusher finished the con-test with 170 yards and a touchdown. It was the first 100-yard rushing performance by a single player for UC Davis this season and the most single-game rush yards for an Aggie since the 2000 season. For head coach Bob Biggs the result wasn’t extraordinary, but rather a product of the team’s

hard work throughout the season. “We played with the same intensity [as al-ways],” Biggs said. “There’s no magic formula. We just played with great effort and executed.”As always, the defensive execution was strong for the Aggies. UC Davis gave up less than 20 points for the third consecutive week and held Sacramento State to 3 of 16 on third down conversions. “[We] didn’t give Sacramento consistency with their offense,” Biggs said. “We forced them to do things that they [didn’t want] to do.”Junior Byron Gruendl led the way with nine tackles, one sack and a forced fumble. Offensively, the Aggies were able to break free for some big plays, something that hadn’t happened very often this season. A 66-yard run from Silveria set up the final UC Davis field goal, which gave the Aggies a decisive 23-13 lead with just over two minutes remaining. “We ran the ball well,” Biggs said. “[We] got some big plays in the run game and hit a big pass play. That’s going to happen in games like this.” Senior kicker Sean Kelley made all three of his field goal attempts in the game. Quarterback Randy Wright finished 14-23 for 171 yards with one interception.

When the clock reached zero, the Aggies were finally able to celebrate, having sent 14 seniors out with a win against the rival Hornets. “It was great to get wins against Cal Poly and Sacramento State for our seniors,” sophomore receiver Tom Hemmingsen said. “This is a great group of guys who represent what Aggie pride is all about.”

Cross Country This afternoon the fast-est collegiate runners from across the nation will assem-ble for the NCAA Division I Championship. For the second consec-utive year, senior Jonathan Peterson will represent the Aggies as the sole runner for UC Davis. Peterson is one of 38 col-legiate athletes from across the country that will be run-ning the 10K race. The run-ners were selected through

an automatic qualifier and at-large selection process based on last week’s NCAA Regional meets. Peterson was announced as an at-large qualifier after placing 10th in the West Regional with a time of 29:30. Based on Peterson’s suc-cessful career with UC Davis, the Aggies will be represented well in this fi-nal event of the cross coun-try season.

— Kaitlyn Zufall

Aggie Digest

Aggies revel in rivalry winUC Davis closes season with victory over Sacramento State

FOOTBALL

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Freshman Colton Silveria rushed for 170 yards against Sacramento State on Saturday.

By TREVOR CRAMERAggie Sports Editor

The last of four town hall meetings to discuss the hiring of a new athlet-ics director was held on Wednesday. Like the three previous meetings, the talk cen-tered on the Dempsey Report, which proposes paths for UC Davis ath-letics to make a transition from the current “educa-tional model” to a “busi-ness model.” The change could include cutting five sports or significantly al-tering athletics spending in order to raise the ra-tio of dollars per student

athlete. While the meeting cov-ered the same topics, the tone was very differ-ent from the heavily an-ti-Dempsey Report sen-timents seen in the prior three meetings.Indeed for the first time a pro-Dempsey Report speaker kicked off the proceedings. “When we made the move to Division I, there was a great deal of excite-ment and energy,” said alumnus and former Aggie Pack MC Chris Perry. “Now that momentum is gone. There is stagnation within

By TREVOR CRAMERAggie Sports Writer

The atmosphere in the Pavilion was electric. Nearly 4,500 fans filled the arena as Stanford came to Davis to revisit the site of the Aggies 64-58 upset over the Cardinal in 2005. No such drama would ensue this time, howev-er, as UC Davis fell 70-49. The Aggies got off to a slow start, as the Cardinal was able to reach the basket at will early on, con-verting several lay-ups and dunks to take a 21-8 lead in the first 11 minutes. “I think we were kind of a deer in headlights [in the early going],” said coach Jim Les. “They were the aggressor on the road and I thought we were a little too passive, kind of waiting for things to happen versus making things happen.” The Cardinal shot over 50 percent from the field and scored 22 points in the paint during the opening frame. By contrast the Aggies shot just 35 percent and netted eight points in the paint during the period. Stanford maintained that level of play through

the remainder of the first half, taking a 36-19 lead into the break. UC Davis started the second frame with a 9-0 run to cut the deficit to single digits. It was not enough, however, as Stanford outscored UC Davis 34-30 in the second frame, stretching the lead to 26 before settling for the 21-point win. “I thought the second half approach, again, [showed] signs of improvement,” Les said. “We weren’t able to sustain it but the intensity and ag-gressiveness was a lot better.” The loss moved UC Davis to 1-4 this season, with its lone victory coming over UC Santa Cruz last week. Sophomore Josh Ritchart led all scorers with 19 points, while fellow sophomore Harrison DuPont was the only other Aggie in double-fig-ures with 10. Stanford had three players in double-figures, led by Anthony Brown with 14. Overall, the Cardinal out-shot the Aggies 47.5 percent to 38.5 percent. UC Davis will return to action Tuesday against rival Sacramento State. The game will tip off at approximately 7 p.m. as the second half of a dou-ble-header with women’s basketball.

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

Stanford stifles UC DavisEarly run sparks Cardinal to double-digit win

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Sophomore Josh Ritchart led UC Davis with 19 points against Stanford on Friday night.

By TREVOR CRAMERAggie Sports Writer

There could not have been a more fitting ending. Senior Betsy Sedlak recorded the block to give UC Davis a 3-0 win over Pacific, drawing cheers from the crowd as the Aggies finished their season with a victory. It was the final game in the career of both Sedlak, who leads UC Davis in ca-reer hitting percentage at .336, and fel-low senior Katie Denny, who has been a fixture of the UC Davis lineup for four

years. The match got off to a bit of a rocky start for the Aggies, but they battled Pacific to secure a 25-21 victory in the first set. UC Davis then followed that with a 25-22 second frame triumph before fin-ishing things off with a 25-23 third set. “Figuring out the game as it was being played was key for us,” said coach Jamie Holmes. “I was proud that our players were able to pick up on [Pacific’s] weaknesses and exploit them.” The victory was the perfect way to send off two of the best players in UC

Aggie seniors go out on top

UC Davis sweeps Pacific

VOLLEYBALL

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Fourth athletics town hall meeting

breaks trendFinal meeting gives more balanced appeal

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