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serving the uc davis campus and communit y since 1915www.theaggie.orgvolume 131, number 91 tuesday, october 9, 2012

Phone application records live reactions to presidential debate

Davis/Berkeley Shuttle increases rates

Davis Neighbors’ Night Out deemed a success

110 block parties held, down from 123 in 2011Students weigh pros and cons of transportation options

UC Davis professor unveils new app at Law School

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By DANIELLE HUDDLESTUNAggie News Writer

A brand new, real-time smart-phone application was unveiled last Wednesday night at the UC Davis Law School at King Hall. Seventy-five to 100 participants were hosted at a presidential de-bate viewing party and were in-vited to cast their live reactions to the debate via the app. Co-founder Amber Boydstun, an assistant professor of polit-ical science at UC Davis, draft-ed the idea for the app with oth-ers from UC Davis, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. “We have been working on it for over a year. It is really interest-ing to figure out how people re-spond to different cues and spe-cific behaviors,” Boydstun said. This app provides research in-formation as to how viewers re-spond to rhetoric, such as when candidates focus the conversa-tion on issues that are advanta-geous solely to them, neglecting the real question. “The app allows instant polling

on a larger scale than has been possible in the past, and is envi-sioned as a way to help engage the Facebook generation in poli-tics,” according to a press release on the app. The students who participat-ed in the event were able to view their live results on a large televi-sion screen. According to the results, Obama received the most pos-itive responses when he spoke on tax break elimination, but had a negative response overall on his fight for the middle class. Meanwhile, Romney was able to gain support with his energy and trading ideas to boost the econo-my, but fell short with his energy policy positions. Fifty-two percent claim that Romney won the debate; how-ever, 60 percent say they plan on voting for Obama. Fifty-six per-cent of the students identified themselves as Democrats and 27 percent as Republicans. Some felt that the app could be improved. Student Gordon Ballingrud participated in the

By PAAYAL ZAVERIAggie News Writer

The Davis/Berkeley Shuttle recently increased its fare from $9 to $11. The change was effective start-ing Oct. 1. The intercam-pus bus provides transpor-tation between the Davis and Berkeley campuses on weekdays, for students, fac-ulty and staff. “We haven’t raised rates since 2009, so the increase is actually overdue to ad-dress the program deficit due to increased salary and benefit costs. Even with the increase — which is $1.35 over the current price — the Davis/Berkeley Shuttle is still the cheapest way to travel between Berkeley and Davis,” said Michelle Arnold, communications and training manager for facilities management, in an email interview. When comparing rates between the shuttle and an Amtrak ticket, the shuttle is the cheaper option. A one-way Amtrak ticket is be-tween $14 and $23, accord-ing to a flyer distributed by Fleet Services at UC Davis. With the shuttle, there are fewer options regard-ing timing. It runs between 7:30 a.m. and 8 p.m., mak-ing two round trips in that time. For Davis students traveling to Berkeley, they have the option of going at 7:30 a.m. or 4:30 p.m. There are still some stu-dents who prefer to use other modes of transporta-tion over the shuttle. “I would rather take my car than the Berkeley shut-tle because I haven’t had a good experience with them in the past. They have bad timings and I’ve found their customer ser-vice to be very poor. There was an instance when I needed to cancel a reser-

vation due to a misunder-standing and was not able to get a refund for it,” said Stephanie Johnson, a third-year political science ma-jor. “However, it is a good option if the timings work for you because even with the fee increase it’s cheap-er than Amtrak and it picks you up from campus.” Additionally, it is not a guarantee that rates won’t increase again in the future. “Since the drivers are represented employees, union agreements deter-mine labor costs. Fuel and

maintenance costs are not within our control either, so it is hard to predict what will happen in the future,” Arnold said. “We have and will continue to take mea-sures to increase busi-ness to cover our increased costs. Some examples in-clude establishing an on-line waiting list to ‘right-size’ the bus when ridership increases on certain routes. Additionally, we purchased a dedicated vehicle for the Davis/Berkeley Shuttle ser-vice to decrease the costs

By CLAIRE TANAggie City Editor

Sunday marked the seventh annu-al Davis Neighbors’ Night Out. Once af-ternoon peaked, neighborhoods around Davis began to host block parties ranging from various types of potlucks — dessert,

BBQ or dinner — to ice cream socials. About 110 block parties were held across the city. Students, Davis residents and members of the City Council of Davis were in attendance.

“Highlights included visits from [the] UC

The California Department of General Services will be hold-ing a vehicle auction Wednesday, Oct. 10.

The auction will include used cars of various makes and models and will begin at 9 a.m. after viewing and registration. The auction will end after the last ve-hicle is auctioned and bid-

ders will have until 4 p.m. to submit a complete pay-ment to take the vehicle off the lot. All vehicles will be subject to additions and deletions, according to the California Department of General Services website.

The vehicle auction will take place at 5950 Chiles Road in Davis. Viewing and registration begins at

7:30 a.m. and ends at 9:00 a.m.

For more informa-tion and a list of vehicles that will be auctioned visit The office of Fleet and Asset Management page on the California Department of General Services website.

—Muna Sadek

Brian Nguyen / Aggie

Law student John Hollis uses the real-time application at the UC Davis law school last wednesday. The app was developed in conjunction with multiple universities to provide researchers unprecedented data.

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Davis Neighbors’ Night Out was held across Davis last sunday. Over 110 block parties were held.

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see NeiGHBOr, page 2Lucas Bolster / Aggie

The Davis/Berkeley shuttle fare increased from $9.65 to $11.00, effective Oct. 1.

As I perused my Facebook timeline to find photos from a

skinnier and more athlet-ic time in my life, it came across my mind to check my old MySpace account. I have some great pictures on there, I thought to myself. During an obnoxious process of resetting my long-forgotten password — which I only got to after re-setting the password to my long-for-gotten email (aZn_Sp0rtz_ gurLxx or some embarrassing name like that) — I was asked the security question, “What is your favorite col-or?” I thought, easy, blue! But alas, it was not so. My complicated adoles-cent self had to write some obscure shade called “syn-thetic ultramarine.” Finally, I made it into my MySpace account. Good grief, has that site changed since 2007. What I had come to learn after this educational excursion turned out to be a uni-versal truth that we all al-ready know … we were all once idiots. I mean, I knew I was ang-sty at 16, but I thought I was a pretty cool kid over-all. Boy, did my image of my past self drop 10 flights of stairs. Who knows what I was thinking when I reposted the chain letter about the bloody 6-year-old with no legs hiding under your bed. It couldn’t possibly be be-cause I actually believed he would come into my house and kill me if I didn’t repost it in 13 seconds. Of course not. And I couldn’t possibly have thought that reposting the I-love-Jesus-forward-this-only-if-you’re-a-true-believer bulletin would prove my undying faith and keep me from getting bad luck for seven years. Oh, but I did. And after I got over my initial shame, I concluded that everything was okay. I reminded myself that all of this was just a necessary part of life that everyone goes through. However, af-ter that relief, I came to an-other realization — I’m still ignorant. Everyone is. Our friends, our professors, Romney, Obama. If we combined the knowledge

of every human being on earth, it would amount to an infinitesimal grain of stardust compared to the vastness of all existence. We only inhabit this mo-ment of time and space that we call the pres-ent, but really there’s ev-erything that came be-fore and everything that will come after us, and of these matters, we have little knowledge. We know so little, yet we are naturally inclined to feel that our perspec-tive of the world is the cor-rect one and that the way we do things is the way that makes the most sense — true objectivity has nev-er been mankind’s strong suite. But this kind of ignorance is not completely bad. In fact, our brains would probably explode if we tried to comprehend everything

in exis-tence. The good news is that our perpet-ual state

of unknowing drives us to keep growing, keep striv-ing and keep moving for-ward. It’s how we were de-signed — to go through this natural undulation of peaks and troughs, cycles of feel-ing like we’re on top of the world followed by feeling like the weight of the world is on our shoulders. It’s how we stay confident in ourselves yet are simul-taneously humbled so that our pride doesn’t swell and go unchecked. Not know-ing everything gives us the drive to continue learning and working toward a goal, yet it also reminds us to stop occasionally and appreci-ate the flowers that we know won’t be there forever. It’s how we’re able to look back at our old selves and see how far we’ve come, how we’ve grown from dorky teenagers to more mature college stu-dents. It’s because of this ignorance, this unknow-ing, that we are able to look to the past with a clearer vision of who we are and also work toward the future with hope that we will become better ver-sions of our present selves. So, MySpace, thank you for being with us in our early years and provid-ing us a window into our past — even though some of us would rather for-get the pictures of our ter-rible bright red lipstick phase when we thought we looked so hot. Facebook, good job recording the present and connecting us with friends and family around the world. To whoever’s next in line, I hope you can fill some pretty big shoes.

JHUNEHL FORTALEZA is embarrassed to still have a MySpace. Tell her your social network woes at jtfortaleza@ucdavis.edu.

With the economy still struggling to get on its feet and

a tepid recovery, the battle-field is set, and the most ef-fective policy arguments will revolve around job cre-ation and economic growth, right? As James Carville fa-mously posted on the wall of President Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Voters al-ways vote from their checkbook — some more literally than others — right? With unem-ployment stubbornly sitting above 8 percent nation-ally and Gross Domestic Product growth less than 2 percent, the presidency seems ripe for the picking by anyone with a plausible recovery policy. Where then, is that grand policy debate? Where are the competing policy pro-posals from Barack Obama and Mitt Romney — the Keynesians versus the lais-sez faire soldiers? Who’s tell-ing it to us straight — that the reality is, cutting govern-ment spending will physi-cally remove GDP and slow the economy? — and may lead to recession. Who is ar-guing that we all must be prepared for inevitable and necessary sacrifice — to bite the bullet and cut the debt for future generations? Instead the candidates spend the most time chalk-ing up out-of-context slo-gans (see “you didn’t build that,” “corporations are people”) to create imag-inary positions for imag-inary candidates to run against. Romney is quick to point to Obama’s 2008 cam-paign, claiming it was built on cheap words and emp-ty rhetoric, yet invents false policies and ideologies (see SOCIALISM) from three words Obama uttered in ref-erence to the “roads and bridges” that businesses rely on to run. From this state-ment, they created the en-tire Republican National Convention theme, “We built it,” and spent the entire con-vention talking about their commitment to creating jobs as if simply by saying it enough times, they could cut unemployment in half. Obama spends a good portion of his campaign-ing reminding people that

Romney enjoys tax advan-tages that allow him to pay a lower tax rate than the rest of us and that in his tenure at Bain Capital, he fired a lot of people and ended up with huge profits from fail-ing businesses. While that might not excite you to vote for him — it doesn’t pro-vide any insight to what he would do with the presiden-cy (a public, NOT private, institution) or what Obama can do to continue to im-prove the economy. Show me the policy. Is it wrong to expect pres-idential candidates — to whom we are expected to give our time, money and the keys to the White House — to sit down and spend time making policy before they campaign? Goals and objectives are fantastic but in the absence of mecha-nisms by which to accom-plish them — they are pure-

ly fantastical (see Newt Gingrich’s promises for $2.50/gal-lon gas and a perma-

nent colony on the moon). Rhetoric provides energy, vi-sion and an idea of what our country should look like, but the presidency is not a ceremonial position (see the Queen of England) — it is the inventor-in-chief. You may not always have a friendly Congress but you damn well better jam enough policy propos-als down their throats until they listen and cough up a signable bill. Call me a “pol-icy wonk” but I want your blueprint for the coun-try before we give you the office — I’m not going to vote based on your bumper sticker or your expensive negative campaign ads. The campaign website shouldn’t be full of cheap talk but filled with bold, de-tailed policy proposals so the American people can see all your cards laid out on the table and get the de-bate they deserve. Campaigns should edu-cate — not mislead, mis-represent or distract. Want an educated populace? Educate them. Formulate real policy and let the voters decide with all of the facts, not only rhetoric. We shouldn’t have to translate the “visions” and campaign ads into what you would do with the highest office in the country for you. We shouldn’t have to wait and hear what you’re going to do until after we cast our vote. It’s your job to scare the living daylight out of us with the hard truths and inspire us about the fu-ture. But if you’re not go-ing to tell us how you’re go-ing to fix it — I think you’re misunderstanding the job you’re applying for.

If you have anything more to offer than cheap talk, email KEVIN PELSTRING at kpelstring@ucdavis.edu.

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autism awareness association first Meeting7 to 8 p.m.158 WellmanJoin the Autism Awareness Association for its first meeting.

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author Q&a and book signingNoon to 1:30 p.m.The Fielder Room, Memorial UnionJoin Sandy Lerner in a talk about her new novel Second Impressions, the first historically and socially accurate sequel to Pride and Prejudice. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A period and a book signing. The event is free and open to the general public.

biking 1011 to 2 p.m.16 SouthLearn the ins and outs, resources and safety measures that come with riding your bike on campus with this workshop presented by TAPS affiliates Leslie Mancebo and David Takemoto-Weerts.

the liquid Hotplates fall auditions7 to 9 p.m.Student Community Center, Meeting Room EIf you can sing, come out and audition for the premier a cappella group at UC Davis, the Liquid Hotplates.

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depression awareness day: asap screening and webinar9 to 10 a.m.10:30 to 11:30 a.m.1:30 to 2:30 p.m.3 to 4 p.m.Online and in ARC Meeting Room 1The webinar will be presented by Dr. Joseph Hullett of United Behavioral Health. Employees can view this presentation at their own desks at the specific times listed. ASAP will be hosting the 10:30 a.m. webinar along with a free depression screening. Please join us while we discuss the signs, symptoms and treatment of depression. For information about how to join the webinar and for links to your campus Employee Assistance Program webpage go to: universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28349.If you have any further questions please contact ASAP at (530) 752-2727.

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stucc-on youA man was loitering in someone’s backyard saying he was a stucco inspector.

babies sitting babiesSomeone saw a 6-year-old girl pushing a 6-month-old in a stroller without parental supervision, swinging him around and sitting on him on Fifth Street. goth party of oneA female in all-black clothing was lying drunk in the gutter on the corner of J and Fourth Street.

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d’oh noSome vehicles were spinning donuts in the intersection at Shasta Drive and Rio Grande Street.

divine interventionSomeone called in saying there was an intruder downstairs, and then stated she thought that the two people who had come into her house were dead and that the Lord had killed them.

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deterred gentA man was reported for carrying bottles of blue liquid, supposedly for selling them as cleaning supplies without a permit.

like moths to a flameSeveral intoxicated people were trying to climb up a light pole on Cowell Boulevard.

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involved with renting it from the Charter Bus program.” Fleet Services released a survey after increasing the rate in order to learn more about the people who use the shuttle service. They concluded that most peo-ple use the shuttle for personal use. The sur-vey is aimed to help Fleet Services keep improving their service. Reservations for the shuttle can only be made online at the Fleet Services website. In Davis, the shut-tle picks up and drops off at the south side of the

Shields Library, and in Berkeley, it does so at the West Gate entrance on West Crescent Circle. “While we certain-ly understand that no-body likes to pay more for something, the ma-jority of our respon-dents so far have indicat-ed that the rates would not deter them from us-ing the service, as they recognize that the Davis/Berkeley shuttle contin-ues to provide the most affordable service be-tween destinations,” said Richard Battersby, direc-tor of Fleet Services, in an email interview.

PAAYAL ZAVERI can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

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polling at the debate. “The new app was fantastic, though I thought the choices were a bit limit-ing. The options of ‘agree’ and ‘disagree’ seemed to be surrogates for ‘approve’ and ‘disapprove,’ as I think we were sup-posed to choose them whenever we had

a positive or negative reaction to one of the people onstage,” Ballingrud said. “Still though, I think it could use a bit of tweaking as far as the options, it seemed to work well in gauging people’s reac-tions, and I thought it gave me a great outlet to express dissatisfaction or sat-isfaction with particular issues, state-ments and behaviors in general.” He also commented that having the results posted so quickly was slight-

ly distracting and he wondered how it affected the users. However, he did find it successful in allowing viewers to provide real-time responses. Boydstun says she is excited because the app provides controlled data and real-time results across the country in a way that is engaging to students.

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

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Davis cheer team, Gunrock and our hallmark, double-decker Unitrans buses,” said Gary Sandy, UC Davis senior executive di-rector of the Office of the Chancellor, in an email. “Each of them toured parties and represented UC Davis. UC Davis Police and [the UC Davis Fire Department] visited two parties on cam-pus, one at West Village and the other at The Colleges [at] La Rue.”

City of Davis Community Partnership Coordinator Stacey Winton said to en-courage more UC Davis stu-dents to be involved, the city and ASUCD delivered

boxes of brownie mix to students in neighborhoods having a party along with a letter from ASUCD request-ing the students to make the brownies as well as attend the party.

“Target donated the brownie mix. ASUCD and city staff delivered 112 box-es of brownies to UC Davis students,” Winton said in an email.

Davis residents hosting the potlucks and ice cream socials said their parties were successful, with res-idents and students inter-mixing and getting to know each other.

“We had about 25 or so attend, including about eight college students who live in nearby rentals,” said Davis resident Shannah

Whithaus in an email. “We put on an ice cream social, which worked well — all the neighborhood kids came out to enjoy cones and sun-daes, and we had all kinds of toppings brought by neighbors from all around the block.”

Whithaus said her favor-ite part of Davis Neighbors’ Night Out was that all the neighbors could get togeth-er to meet each other, catch up with folks they didn’t see often and enjoy an after-noon of chit chat while the kids played.

Organizers saw different levels of attendance.

Davis resident Steve Fineberg said in an email that the neighbors had a good time despite the turn-out being less than half of

what it had been in previ-ous years.

Conversely, Trish Whitcomb, manager at The Colleges at La Rue, said their party was such a suc-cess that food ran out. The event was held by Tandem Properties and ASUCD.

“I think our students really enjoyed the event because it was a great opportunity for them to meet their new neighbors,” Whitcomb said in an email. “This event is important because it truly represents the essence of Davis – people care in Davis – about our neighborhoods, our families, our students, our businesses and our university.”

CLAIRE TAN can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

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Sterling’s right, the editorial board is wrongBy ANDRE LEE,

BRENDAN REPICKY Former ASUCD senators

The editorial board’s accu-sation in its Thursday editori-al that ASUCD President Rebecca Sterling “unlawfully” attempt-ed to remove former Senator Yara Zokaie from ASUCD is misin-formed and factually inaccurate. Zokaie’s actions — completing her coursework and graduating from Davis last spring, and enroll-ing in an outside law school this fall — necessarily entail she has resigned her seat. ASUCD Bylaw 703.2 states that only enrolled students may serve as a senator and Section 3 of the ASUCD Constitution states that graduate and professional stu-dents may not hold an elected or appointed office in ASUCD. These are in addition to university em-ployment rules specifying that only undergraduate students may be student employees — a catego-ry that includes ASUCD senators. Although ASUCD has tradi-

tionally allowed for a grace peri-od of one quarter after comple-tion of coursework to continue employment, Zokaie exhausted this option when she did not en-roll in this calendar year’s Summer Session. The “bylaws” that the editori-al vaguely claims Sterling violat-ed simply do not exist, and the premise that Zokaie, after leav-ing Davis and enrolling as a law student at another university, can somehow have the luxury of choosing whether or not to resign is nonsensical. The reality that Zokaie is no longer an ASUCD Senator is ev-idenced by the fact she was re-moved from university payroll due to her non-student status — something entirely outside the control of any ASUCD official. A commonsense understand-ing of university and ASUCD pol-icy would clearly lead to the con-clusion that Zokaie has resigned, de facto, by virtue of her actions. Since Zokaie has resigned, the Elections Committee is required

to commence a count-back elec-tion, and if no student is eligi-ble to serve from the count-back, then Sterling must post the va-cancy for a specified period of time, after which she will make an appointment with the ASUCD Senate’s confirmation. This is exactly what Sterling is lawfully and responsibly attempt-ing to do. Contrary to The Aggie’s specious assertions, the ASUCD Court has no stipulated or re-quired role at any point in this process. To the best of our knowledge, the editorial board determined it was unimportant to seek out Sterling’s justifications. While the board is free to do as it pleases, it should have made a good-faith ef-fort to listen to both sides before calling her actions “ridiculous.” More worryingly, the board ap-pears to have been co-opted by one or two sources with a political agenda, and relied solely on those sources in condemning Sterling. The students deserve better from their newspaper.

Today, former President Bill Clinton will speak on the Quad at 10:30 a.m. It certainly says some-thing about UC Davis that we are a destination for a well-known political figure. While Clinton’s decision to visit Davis is likely related to the proximity to the state capi-tal, the fact that UC Davis is becoming a more prominent and successful university cer-tainly played a part in grab-bing Clinton’s attention. This year, UC Davis was named the No. 8 public uni-versity in the nation by US News & World Report and ranked No. 3 (tied with UC San Diego) within the UCs. It’s exciting to see UC Davis recognized for its excellence, and Bill Clinton’s visit is yet another form of recognition for our school. Regardless of political affil-iation, every student should

be on the Quad this morn-ing, taking advantage of an amazing opportunity to see national politics in action on our very own campus. The upcoming election could easily change the lives of every college student in America, so college students should be showing that they care. We hope professors understand if their class-rooms are pretty empty this morning. The Davis College Democrats should also be commended for coordi-nating with the California Democratic Party to orga-nize the Bill Clinton event. It’s encouraging to see stu-dent groups being proactive in getting important infor-mation to the students. So, Mr. Clinton, welcome to our university. And stu-dents, we hope to see you out there this morning.

In response to incidents of “racial intolerance and ho-mophobia” on various UC campuses, UC President Mark Yudof launched the Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion in June 2010. The council, which is comprised of various administrators and cultural and religious lead-ers, was tasked with outlin-ing ways UC can attempt to make their campuses more accommodating for students of ethnic and religious mi-norities by minimizing hate speech on campus. Plans of the report, which will come out in November, were met with skepticism and claims that the report was only created to silence these minorities, while lit-tle would be implemented. The council created a public survey for the campus com-munities of the UC system to participate in, giving them the opportunity to share their opinions on campus climate. In actuality, Yudof also rec-ognizes that little can be done to completely remove hate speech completely from UCs. In his words: “We can’t do it.” This September, The Aggie, along with eight other UC campus newspapers, spoke with Yudof about various is-sues of concern to the UC system. Among those issues was the creation of the council, and in response from ques-tions from editors at UC Irvine and UC San Diego,

Yudof was pragmatic. Yudof said that in an ideal world ev-eryone would respond to the climate survey and the re-port would have an accept-able sample size. However, if the report does not garner re-sponses from at least 30 per-cent of UC campus commu-nities the report will not be accurate. This may be un-likely, considering many col-lege students just don’t seem to care and the report would take 45 minutes to complete. While we value his frank-ness on the issue, we don’t think coming to terms with the nature of hate on cam-puses and the laziness of col-lege students should be quite that easy. Yudof, who was a pro-fessor that taught the First Amendment for 30 years, ex-plained that they have just about gotten it right, but we’re wondering if that is ac-tually true. “I’m not planning on trying to go further than our consti-tution permits,” Yudof said. That statement is accept-able and we admire his re-alism, but more needs to be done to get people to actual-ly care. The survey should be mandatory or an incentive should be offered for com-pletion, not allowing stu-dents to register for class-es until the survey is com-pleted. While it is admirable that Yudof can be honest, the Office of the President could be doing more to get stu-dents involved in making our campuses hate-free.

re: ‘uc davis cancer center opens new building,’ oct. 4 The UC system saved my life. I was diagnosed with stage one Wilms’ tumor just before I turned 3 years old, and I was treated at UC San Francisco. After having the affected kidney removed, I contin-ued onto chemotherapy, receiving treatments every other week. I am now proudly cancer-free and deal-ing with minimal long-term side effects to treatment such as small

teeth and diminished abdominal muscles on my left side. For cancer patients and their families, having more high-quali-ty cancer centers across California is a necessity, and communica-tion between pediatric cancer ex-perts and regular cancer profes-sionals is vital, especially for chil-dren transitioning into adoles-cence and adulthood. Being a childhood cancer survivor, I am excited to see that the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center

connected its pediatric center with the main location. It is a sign of progress that pe-diatric and non-pediatric profes-sionals are making an effort to connect and communicate. It will surely make a difference in some young child’s life — fewer long-term side effects to treatment and more years ahead.

Jennifer SheffieldUC Davis sophomore mechanical

engineering major

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Sunday — UC Davis 2, Cal State Fullerton 1 This past Sunday, the team ex-tended its streak to three wins with a 2-1 win over the Titans. Over the last three games, the Aggies have outscored their opponents 6-2. Henry got the Aggies started of-fensively at the 8:59 mark, lining up a direct free kick but hitting the shot into the wall set up by the Cal State Fullerton defense. From there, however, UC Davis outshot Cal State Fullerton 7-3 in the first half. Junior Alex Aguiar then put UC Davis up with a successful penalty kick in the 36th minute. He kept the ball low and on the ground, slotting the shot just past Cal State Fullerton goalkeeper Robbie Hannon and into the lower right corner. It was Aguiar’s third goal of the year. The Titans put away the equal-izer in the 63rd minute, however. Jameson Campbell’s header was deflected away by UC Davis goal-keeper Omar Zeenni and, after a scramble in the box, Ian Ramos was on hand to put it away and tie the game at one goal apiece. Henry then put the Aggies up for good with a goal in the 79th min-ute. After attempts by Schulte and junior Pat Reese were cleared away by the Titan defense, Henry con-trolled the clearance and hit a low hard shot from 35 yards out that

found the far right corner of the net perfectly. It was his first goal of the year. “We gave them life and allowed them the opportunity to score that goal and it turned into a good, hard game,” Shaffer said. “We responded and Alex Henry scored a great goal. I’m happy with my team. Aguiar led all players with four shots as UC Davis outshot Cal State Fullerton 17-8. “We’ve played an extremely diffi-cult schedule and we’ve won three

conference games in a row so I feel like we’re getting better and better,” Shaffer said. “We have a big game coming up on Saturday against UC Santa Barbara so we’ll take a couple of days to rest and get our legs and our minds back and get prepared.” UC Davis wraps up a three-game homestand on Saturday, hosting UC Santa Barbara at 3 p.m. at Aggie Soccer Field.

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Junior alex henry (no. 4) led the aggies to its win against csu fullerton. henry was named as big West conference offensive player of the Week.

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By VEENA BANSALAggie Sports Writer

This past weekend, the UC Davis men’s soccer team came away with two strong wins over UC Riverside and Cal State Fullerton at home. This marks the Aggies’ third straight win and a record improvement to 5-4-4

overall and 3-1-0 in the Big West Conference.

Friday — UC Davis 2, UC Riverside 1 A much-anticipated match-up against UCR went in favor of the Aggies by a score of 1-0 this past Friday. The Aggies battled throughout the first half, taking the first five shots and prevent-ing UC Riverside from generating any offensive attacks.

Junior goalkeeper Omar Zeenni saved three goal attempts result-ing in a scoreless first half on both sides. The UC Davis momentum car-ried into the second half and the Aggies’ efforts began to reflect positively. In the 57th minute, Zeenni came up with a huge save on Neil Ignacio’s shot, deflecting the ball after Ignacio fired a close-range shot. Just three minutes later, junior

Kevin Schulte gave UC Davis the 1-0 with his 60th-minute score on fellow junior Alex Henry’s in-direct free kick on the far end of the penalty box. “I was just trying to make the shot,” Schulte said. “The sun was in my eyes – I was lucky to make it in.” Following the goal, the Aggie defense strengthened and lim-ited the Highlanders to just two goals in the final 30 minutes of

the game. “Today was our day,” said coach Dwayne Shaffer. “We were outstanding in every aspect. Our defense played outstanding and held the shutout. Kevin Schulte had a nice goal against his home-town and Matt Wiesenfarth was great for us and put a lot of pres-sure on their defense. Tactically, we played a great game and it

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Aggies get two thrilling Big West victories this weekend

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