Today’s weatherMostly clearHigh 79Low 45

ForecastWelcome to Paradise, my friends. It’s time again for the perfect spring California weather to take you away from the Hazy Shade of Winter to the Smokin’ weather of spring. Sundress season has now unofficially started as well, as I spotted the first dress of the season last week.

Tyson Tilmont, atmospheric science majorAggie Forecasting Team

Mostly clear Mostly clear

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High 80Low 48

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High 80Low 47

Why didn’t the sun go to college?Because it already had thousands of degrees!

May you all get above average grades this quarter! Good luck!

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serving the uc davis campus and communit y since 1915www.theaggie.orgvolume 132, number 31 tuesday, march 12, 2013

Yolo County creates travel magazine

Haiku are not just for English class

YOLO strives to attract more tourists

Professors incorporate poetry in non-English courses

Zenrow reaches out to college campuses

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UC Board of Regents to meet tomorrowThe UC Board of Regents is scheduled to meet tomorrow at UCSF Mission Bay. The meeting will be held at the Conference Center beginning at 8:30 a.m. and will con-tinue until Thursday. The meeting agenda includes the search for the next UC president, the systemwide Social Fundraising program, campus safety and security, court settlements involving UC

and auditing practices. A select number of sessions will be open to the public. More details on the meeting, as well as links to stream the meeting live, can be found online at regents.universityofcalifor-nia.edu/meetings.html.

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By GABRIELLA HAMLETTAggie News Writer

The new Yolo County tourist magazine, YOLO, published its first issue at the end of January. Also known as “You Only Live Once,” the magazine capitalizes on the popular acronym as a way to showcase all the at-tractions Yolo County has to offer. YOLO has since been re-ceived with much excite-ment by the Davis com-munity. The 10,000 cop-ies printed — funded solely through paid ad-vertisements — were dis-tributed free of charge at all local hotels, one hotel in West Sacramento and two hotels in Woodland; the Davis, Woodland and Winters Chambers of Commerce; and the Yolo County Visitors Bureau. “It has been a great oppor-tunity for local businesses to run with us, like the Sacramento Zoo and other businesses or places of interest for visitors that were unique to Davis — for example, the bike path,” said Nancy Hannell, advertising director for YOLO.

Since its release, the magazine has been gaining support throughout Yolo County.

“I think it’s a very good publication … it’s going to be a real useful tool for people inter-ested in touring Davis and Yolo County,” said Alan Humason, executive director of the Yolo County Visitors Bureau.

YOLO is a tourist-focused magazine that serves primarily as a hands-on guide for tour-ists and locals.

“As Davis tries to become more of a tourist destination, the magazine will be a useful re-

source for people coming in without having been here before and will also be helpful for locals to realize how much Davis has to offer,” said Tanya Perez, associate editor of YOLO. Publishing more than once a year is being considered, but for now the magazine will re-

main as an annual publica-tion.

“What we will do next year is still on the table ... this one will have a one-year shelf life. We won’t publish it again until next January, but after that we may do it twice a year,” Perez said.

Perez, who is responsi-ble for content, layout and pictures, felt the magazine would provide an alterna-tive option to newsprint for tourists.

“The content for the magazine came from our archives at the [Davis] Enterprise that we updat-ed to create a consistent

feel throughout the maga-zine. The goal was to have the

photos tell the stories,” Perez said. Hannell also said she thinks it will be benefi-

cial to parents of UC Davis students. “It’s a nice magazine to take home or to use

while visiting,” Hannell said. Currently, YOLO is gaining more momentum as it becomes more well-known among visi-tors. “It’s a handy reference for lots of facilities and venues that we can use to give to people who are interested in more info,” Humason said. “Many of people do research online but there are still many people that need a physical representation, and the YOLO magazine cer-tainly provides that.”

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

On Wednesday, Alabama Shakes held on to their audience’s attention at the sold-out Mondavi Center event. The southern rock band hails from Alabama and is currently touring with their debut album Boys and Girls. The band played most of the songs off of their album, along with some newer songs. Michael Kiwanuka and Sam Doores & Riley Downing opened.

— Hannah Strumwasser

Alabama Shakes rock the Mondavi Center

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Website aims to help roommates

settle bills

By PAAYAL ZAVERIAggie Staff Writer

Zenrow is a new tool that offers col-lege roommates a solution to han-dling and paying bills — a common grievance in college. “Like most useful applications, the founding team had a deep-seated need for Zenrow,” said Luke Langon, one of the founders of Zenrow. “At a certain point, almost every room-mate gets fed up with the elongated process of handling rent and bills be-tween each other.” The website allows roommates to post the quantity of each bill and cal-culate who owes what. It also keeps

track of issued payments. To make a payment for each bill, a PayPal button appears under the specified amounts and each room-mate can pay their individual dues. According to Langon, Zenrow cre-ates a central space instead of rely-ing on many different modes of com-munication to handle payments be-tween roommates. "I think anything that can solve po-tential conflicts over money is use-ful," said Deep Singh, a third-year me-chanical engineering major. "Dealing with money can put serious strains on friendships so anything to ease

Lucas Bolster / Aggie

Zenrow is a website that facilitates bill-paying between roommates.

see ZeNrOw, page 2

By ALYSSA KUHLMANAggie Features Writer

A student makes his way to the front of the class and starts to sing a rap about fish. He’s chosen to sing his haiku about salmon, a haiku he’s been required to write for his class, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation 120, also known as Biology of Fishes. This is just one of the inter-esting perks Professor Peter B. Moyle includes in his classes: poetry.

While poetry may seem a lost art to some, it is actually a unique skill many professors and graduate students here at UC Davis are incor-porating into their classes. Just because you are not enrolled in an English course does not mean you will escape the experience of writing poetry in a fish biology class or a design class.

Professor Moyle said he cannot ever remem-ber not using poetry in his classes, even when he taught as a graduate student over 40 years ago. “In my fish class, I write a haiku on the board every morning and require students to write at least one or some other form of poetry. I also encourage them to place haiku in class essays, which is tricky but can be done,” Moyle said. He considers haiku to require surprising dis-cipline when writing the five-seven-five sylla-ble pattern. While Moyle wants his students to try their best at composing haiku, he also uses them for entertainment. Design professor D.R. Wagner is also a poet and teaches Poetry by Design.

“I teach Poetry by Design, which uses de-sign principles as a basis for writing. I had them work with images that were very ephem-eral. It’s the only drawing class [that I know of] where you have to tell a story about [the art],” Wagner said.

Wagner recently published a book called 97 Poems. This is one of over 20 books on poetry and letters Wagner has published. He said that his style does not seem to have changed, but rather matured over time.

“I write in a variety of styles. It’s a lyrical [style], sometimes there’s a narrative to it, most of the poems seem to be atmospheric, there are different states of being [in them],” Wagner said.

His topics tend to focus on angels, stars and the moon, as well as emotional space. “I tend to think that emotions are really void,

Haiku by Peter B. Moyle

Biking in white fogBlack crows among dark branches:I think of hagfish.

Haiku, year after yearEvaporating like waterAfter summer rain.

see POeTrY, page 4

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Well, this is it. The last column of the quarter. If I

were in a more self-in-dulgent mood, I’d spend our final inches togeth-er musing on exactly what it means to me to be a sex columnist, and how my own sexy exploits have shaped what you’ve read here.

But then I remem-bered that this column isn’t about me. It’s about you, and your needs when it comes to sex. So, as a goodbye present, I’ve pre-pared some tips to help you feel comfortable and happy in your sex life. I’ll go into the saucy details of my personal life if you like, but you have to buy me a drink first.

1) Have a conversa-tion (or several): Use your words, or hand signals or text mes-sages or whatev-er meth-od of com-munica-tion suits you best. I know the thought of talk-ing about the details of sex makes some of you uncomfortable or strikes you as unsexy. But if you do not communicate with each other, you’re going to have a tough time hav-ing good sex. It may be hard at first, but be pa-tient with yourselves and each other. It’s worth it. I promise.

If you really feel that talking about your sexu-al needs and wants is go-ing to be too difficult in the heat of moment, I se-riously recommend set-ting up a time to sit down and have a formal conver-sation with your partner. Talk about contraception preferences, STI histo-ry, fantasies and anything else you feel it’s important to know about each other. You’ll be amazed at how helpful this can be.

Of course, I caveat the above for one topic: con-sent. Consent is non-ne-gotiable, and it must be obtained every time you do something sexual.

2) Be knowledgeable: You know that cliché that knowledge is power? This is doubly true in the bed-room. You’re going to have a much easier time feel-ing satisfied with your sex life if you have a sense of what you want. And that doesn’t mean you must be able to outline the details of your desires in an intri-cate flow-chart (although

hey, that might work great for you).

Knowing what you want can be as vague as “I like slow, lingering move-ments” or as specific as “I want you to tie me to this chair and lick Nutella off my collar-bone.” And, of course, it’s equally im-portant to know what you don’t want from a sexual experience. But just hav-ing a sense of all this can make all that communi-cating I keep telling you to do a lot easier.

I extend this maxim about knowledge to oth-er aspects of sex as well. Specifically, the ones about sexual health. Knowing your STI sta-tus, what kind of protec-tion you prefer and how to use it are all important to a healthy and stress-free sex life.

3) Go exploring: Since I’ve just stressed the im-portance of knowledge, you may be wondering how to obtain said knowl-edge. My advice is to ex-plore, both in the digi-tal and physical worlds. There are a ton of resourc-es out there, from info on health (HEP’s website) to info on pleasure and play (Good Vibrations) that can answer any questions you may have about sex. It can also be useful just

to learn about dif-ferent sex-ual prac-tices, if for no oth-er reason than it will

help you keep an open mind or reassure that you are not alone in your de-sires (plus, you may get a few ideas).

I also suggest explor-ing bodies, both your own and your partners. A good way to learn what you like in bed is to ... play around a little. Use your hands or a toy to figure out what makes you ache with pleasure, then show what you’ve discovered to your partner (or have them show you).

4) Have no shame: There are a lot of messag-es floating in the cultur-al ether about what you’re supposed to like in terms of sex. It seems that you’re supposed to only dabble in the really “dirty” stuff to prove that you’re not, like, totally boring. But don’t be too into the dirty stuff, because that’s just weird and icky.

Yeah, no. Be as kinky as you want, be as vanilla you want. As long as you and your partner(s) are safe, consenting and hap-py with what you do, who gives a damn if someone else thinks it’s too weird or not weird enough?

I don’t. And hopefully, after a quarter of this col-umn, you won’t either.

SAM WALL wants you send any questions, comments or tearful farewells to sewall@ucdavis.edu.

As this quarter sets upon the horizon, many of my fellow

columnists will be crank-ing out goodbye columns, trying to get their final say in edgewise about their opinions on drugs, sex, politics or what have you.

I, unfortunately, do not have this option, as I al-ready wrote my good-bye column last quarter, foolishly thinking that it was going to be my last as a columnist. A lot of you are probably thinking that last quarter should have been my last as a columnist. I can’t say that I disagree.

But that’s neither here nor there, and I’ve man-aged to stumble, blun-der and grope my way through another quarter’s worth of columns, only to find my-self at the preci-pice once again. This time, the curtain will definitely fall, as I will be graduating next week.

So I’ve been racking my mind about what I should write about in the sparse amount of print that I have left in my posses-sion. Since I’m graduat-ing soon, and I figure that most reading this will also one day be bound for what lies beyond the academic world, I may as well focus this column on the future.

One big issue that many of us will be facing in the post-college years will be student loan debt. In a recent article by The New York Times, a study was conducted by the New York Federal Reserve bank that found that stu-dent debt had nearly tri-pled since 2004 and is ap-proaching the $1 trillion mark.

That’s pretty disheart-ening news to hear, es-pecially since our econ-omy is finally beginning to pull itself out of the re-cession. How will this generation of 20-some-things be able to shoul-der such a tremendous debt burden? How will we afford to buy homes, start businesses and save for the future?

It’s definitely a scary thing for me, especial-ly since I don’t really have any tangible prospects upon graduation. I’m searching for jobs and

I’m considering getting my master’s. The grad school route would just lead to more debt, but I won’t be as competitive to employers without ob-taining a higher degree. You need to go above and beyond to demonstrate your worth.

In economics, this is called signaling. It’s a method in which one party tries to give infor-mation to another par-ty to try to alter the out-come of a situation. It’s like going to a fight with a loaded gun and showing it to your opponent to try to scare them off.

In the case of getting a master’s degree, you’re showing the employ-er that you have a cer-tain skill set that comes with the addition of ex-tra money and time spent at a university. You may know that you’re a hard-working, clever, resource-ful person, but your em-ployer will not know that upon your initial inter-view. Sure, listing those traits on your resume may help, but it won’t nail the point home, see-ing as how anyone can just lie and write down positive, glowing attri-butes about themselves.

I’m not saying that getting a master’s is neces-sary for ev-eryone, but it’s certainly an appeal-ing option,

especially for those that are unsure of what exact-ly they want to do out of undergrad and would feel more comfortable in an academic environment. I mean, after all, learning is pretty much all we’ve been doing for the last 20 or so years of our lives. On the other hand, that’s all the same reason to want to stop the academ-ic pursuit as well.

Graduating is a little bit of a scary thing. For now, I don’t know what’s on the horizon for me. All’s I know is that I’ll be flying home and will have to get my wisdom teeth pulled out and attend jury duty. Then, I’ll prob-ably start working and studying for the CPA test. My only hope for all of you out there is that your post-graduation plans are more exciting than mine.

Alright, that’s a wrap. This will be the last time I’ll be published in print until I decide to write my auto-biography after becoming an accomplished astronaut cowboy accountant.

It was most definite-ly a pleasure and I thank you all for even taking a glance at any one of my columns.

ANDREW POH is pretty glad to be graduating, but in the unlikely case that you’ll miss him, he can still be reached at apoh@ucdavis.edu.

One big issue that many of us will be facing in the post-college years will be

student loan debt

Use your hands or a toy to figure out what makes you ache with

pleasure, then show what you’ve discovered to your partner

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clearly the right numberThere was a hang-up call to the Davis Police Department; in the background were male subjects talking about drinking, driving and smoking weed on Hanover Drive.

tHUrSday

Smooth criminalA juvenile wearing a green baseball cap, green shorts and purple shoes used scissors to open and steal $100 headphones on Second Street. doggone itA subject kept dropping off his pitbull at someone’s house on College Park, and the person wanted the subject to quit it.

Friday

Be wary of dairyA group of juveniles took several milk cartons from Whole Foods on First Street and smashed them on the floor.

SUnday

Maybe he was hungryA male subject brandished a knife at a customer at Woodstock’s Pizza on G Street. water you doing?!Somebody was arguing with their roommate, so the roommate threw water on the person and their laptop on Ninth Street.

Police briefs are compiled from the City of Davis daily crime bulletins. Contact EINAT GILBOA at city@theaggie.org.

that is a good idea.” Langon launched the website along with his two friends, Matt Holt and Eric Bailey. It’s been over two months since they started the web-site, and Langon said they have seen it spread to many more people by word of mouth.

“We’ve received feed-back that Zenrow is par-ticularly useful for col-lege roommates because they tend to keep a tight-er schedule of settling up on shared bills soon after receiving them,” Langon said.

Third-year biochemis-try major Kevin Tran said that the website seems like a cool way to orga-nize apartment tasks and funds online. However, he thinks that using ex-isting modes of online communication, like Facebook groups, works just as well.

Zenrow has started to reach out to various col-lege campuses. Their rep-resentative at UC Davis

is fourth-year manageri-al economics major Sean Newell. “They’re just starting to spread on campuses across the nation and are solving big pain points for college students,” Newell said in an email. “The average group of room-mates calculates who owes what for bills and rent in Excel or on paper, then reminds each other of the owed amounts by different modes of com-munication [such as] in person, text [or] email because nobody ever has their checkbook on them, and then finally writes and exchanges multi-ple checks between each other.” James Sherrer, a fifth-year managerial eco-nomics and political sci-ence major, has been us-ing Zenrow for a while now. He said Zenrow has solved many money is-sues between him and his roommates. Individuals can sign up for Zenrow at zenrow.com.

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

ZENROWcont. from front page

OPINION TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013 3THE CAlifoRniA AggiE

One of the most common ob-jections to capitalism is that it leads to unchecked negative

externalities. An externality is an effect of economic activity that is not ac-counted for in the costs of the goods or services involved in the transaction. Many externalities are positive: For instance, when a park is creat-ed near some houses, it adds to the value of the surrounding property, even if the neighboring homeown-ers did not have to pay for its exis-tence. Others are negative, such as when an airport being construct-ed near houses reduces the value of those properties. Usually, people citing negative ex-ternalities as an objection to capi-talism have in mind the air or water pollution that capitalism seems to produce, since limiting such waste is often not profitable. The solution to these problems, says the oppo-nent of capitalism, is the interven-tion of the state via subsidies, public services or regulations. Such inter-vention will fix the “inefficiency” of the free market. In a completely free capital-ist society — in which the state is committed to nothing but protect-ing the lives, liberty and property of its people — how can this prob-

lem be solved? The answer might surprise you. It is a proper definition of individual rights, especially property rights. It may be the case that we can-not always say precisely where one’s property ends. With some kinds of physical property, such as land, the issue is straightfor-ward. With other kinds, such as the air above one’s property or the water that flows through one’s property, the issue is much more complex. Intellectual prop-erty is arguably even more com-plicated. However, this just demonstrates the need for objective criteria that determine when harm has been done on a level that justifies com-pensation. Obviously, there are clear cases when I am “harmed” that do not justify compensation — I cannot justly require com-pensation for the fact that see-ing a certain skyscraper next to my house annoys me. On the other hand, it could nev-er be the case that someone could get away with directly covering my property with toxic fumes. All of the cases in between can be solved by proper definitions of property in air or ocean, for example, and a system of courts that allows citizens to ex-press their grievances and engage in litigation. The ever evolving princi-ples of common law are an excellent tool here. Economic regulations or taxes unfairly punish every capitalist en-gaging in certain kinds of economic activity by restricting their freedom whether or not they have created

objectively defined sources of harm to others. Taxes on carbon emis-sions that can be found in sever-al European countries are one such example. It might be thought, though, that the restriction of freedom on some businessmen is worthwhile in the context of furthering the welfare of society as a whole. But we should not think in these terms — individuals do not exist

merely to meet the needs of the public at large (in-deed, there is no “public good” in-dependent of the values of each in-

dividual). The activities of people in trade and production will presumably of-ten create many positive effects and negative effects that are unaccount-ed for: The issue only becomes a le-gitimate state concern when peo-ple are objectively being coerced or a person or her property is direct-ly physically harmed. If a given eco-nomic transaction or productive ac-tivity does not harm others in this way, then individuals are perfectly justified in engaging in that action to seek their own profit or happiness. Not only are externalities not a problem for capitalism, but capi-talism is the best system for dealing with such externalities, since it is the system where all property is private-ly owned and therefore has the most objective method of addressing the side-effects of economic activity on individuals.

TRISTAN DE LIEGE won’t require compensation for the positive externality of this free column. He can be reached at tflenaerts@ucdavis.edu.

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There has been much discus-sion about how UC administrators are petitioning to keep UC SHIP exempt from the standards of the Affordable Care Act and how UC Office of the President misman-aged UC SHIP to the tune of nearly $60 million. What I haven’t seen or heard discussed is how these fac-tors may spell the demise of UC SHIP when the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) kicks in next January. Since UC SHIP is a self-fund-ed student plan, it is not mandat-ed by ACA to meet certain stan-dards. UCOP’s response to this has been to get UC SHIP classi-fied as “minimum essential cover-age.” The problem with UCOP do-ing this is that it keeps UC SHIP in this gray-zone where the elimina-tion of caps is still not mandato-ry. Currently, students face a year-ly prescription drug cap and a life-time coverage cap under UC SHIP. The reality is that this cap is far from sufficient for dealing with a long-term or costly medical condi-tion such as cancer. UCOP thinks it has done us a favor when in fact it has just further cemented UC stu-dents’ lack of health security. Next there is the deficit. UC SHIP is expected to be just under

$60 million in debt by this sum-mer. When UC SHIP was formed by consolidating the existing cam-pus health insurance plans all oversight became centralized un-der UCOP and campus health ser-vices were no longer able to over-see the plan. Hired consultants did some poor math, and UCOP didn’t keep their own tabs on the plan or get any second opinions, and let the plan go into debt year after year, until we got to the situ-ation we are in now. UCOP’s solu-tion is to charge students for their mismanagement, nearly doubling our fees over the next few years. Most important is what all this will mean if UCOP does pass the buck on to us and doesn’t remove the caps. Next January, students will face the option of buying a cheaper insurance plan on the state exchanges which doesn’t have any yearly or lifetime caps, or sticking with the more expensive UC SHIP plan which will not be there for them if they face a catastrophic ill-ness. Which would you choose: the cheaper plan which offers more health security or the more expen-sive plan with less coverage? The obvious choice for many students will be to go to the exchanges and drop UC SHIP. If students do this

in large enough numbers than the buying power of our plan will be significantly reduced. At this point we basically have a downward spi-ral, where more students leaving the plan causes more students to leave, until UC SHIP is just no lon-ger a competitive plan at all. I am not the only one who thinks this way. I sit on the UC SHIP stu-dent advisory committee here at Davis and one of the directors of Student Health and Counseling Services said in our Feb. 13 meet-ing that this is a very realistic sce-nario and that she thinks that after a few years of the state exchanges being established that the UC will no longer offer health insurance to students. Either we can demand that UCOP pay for its mistakes and that the caps are dropped, or we can sit by and watch as UC SHIP wastes away its last few years, at the ex-pense of those students who do not immediately leave the plan.

Duane Wright Ph.D student in Sociology

Unit Chair of the UC Student Worker Union UAW 2865 at UC Davis

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LET’S. GO. AGS. On Thursday, the UC Davis Pavilion shook with the intensity of Aggies who were attempting to prove much more than just how far our men’s bas-ketball team has come in the last year. Sometimes, UC Davis isn’t given enough credit. Occasionally, Aggie Pride is underestimat-ed. But on Thursday night, Aggie Basketball put these notions of not-good-enough-to-be-on-ESPN to shame. Not only was the night a history-making event for UC Davis Athletics, but it also gave our fan-tastic school the chance to real-ly prove itself in front of a nation-al stage. While we all know that UC Davis has everything (and more) to offer that the big-name schools have, sometimes this fact goes unno-ticed. Nevertheless, when faced with the opportunity to go big against Long Beach State, the Aggies did what we do best. We showed up, we showed pride and we showed the nation just how great Davis truly is. And the night that the Aggies al-most beat the 49ers represented so much more than just a one-point game. The fact that UC Davis, a relatively under-appreciated D1 school could not only put up an incredible fight against the num-ber-one team in the Big West, but

do it with such an incredible fan section behind it, demonstrated a few really important facts about our school. First, the game proved that UC Davis is on the brink. After fac-ing the growing pains of advanc-ing to D1 athletics a few years ago, Thursday night showed that Davis has finally arrived. It’s our time now. We all know what our school and our students have to offer. Aggies are talented, committed, passionate and brilliant. And we proved this to Thursday’s national audience by bringing it on and off the court. Second, Aggie Pack is a force to be reckoned with. Everybody knows about Duke’s Cameron Crazies, Indiana’s Hoosiers and the Orange Men of Syracuse. And, because of the epic battle on March 7, every-one finally knows about the Aggies of UC Davis, too. Standing in the audience at the Long Beach game was an Aggie-Pride-inducing, YOLO (county)-increasing, and complete-ly school spirit-infused experience. It was the first chance the Ags were given to prove how great our fan sec-tion is on a national level. And, boy, did we prove it. All I can say to the Crazies, Hoosiers and Orange Men is watch out. Aggie Pack be comin’ for ya. Finally, the showdown in the

Pavilion showcased that UC Davis is the total package. Sure, we have lots of cows and even more bikes. And, yeah, we might be a bit in the middle of nowhere. But we’re also the No. 8 public school in the na-tion and the No. 1 coolest school. And, on top off all that, Ags know how to have a good time. It is no question that Davis truly has it all. We all know that we love being Ags, and Thursday night earned this fact some much-deserved nation-al recognition. All I can say is that, against the 49ers, the Pavilion was filled as it has never been before, students were supporting Aggie athletics like no other time in history and our school was finally showcased on a national level. Never have I been as committed to UC Davis or have I felt more proud to be an Ag. You know you felt it, too. So, fellow Aggies, here’s my challenge to you. Keep it up. Be the Ags you showed the nation on Thursday. We know we’ve got something special here in Davis, and if we keep acting like we did on that historic night, soon the rest of the nation will realize how great Davis is, too.

Mary YoungThird–year history major

The excitement was tan-gible Thursday night as stu-dents formed a line from the Pavilion to the cows, wait-ing for the basketball game that was to be broadcast on ESPN2. Sadly, our team came out one point short in a heart-wrenching 77-76 battle. But Aggie Pride definitely won the game. The game was sold out, with 5,670 fans packing the stands — an impressive turnout for a UC Davis basketball game. Not only was the game an ex-citing show of the talent of our basketball players, it was one

of the best displays of Aggie Pride we’ve seen in a while. Aggie Pack got the crowd pumped up while Band-uh! played. There was a Harlem Shake moment and Gunrock got down. The men’s basketball team played hard and proved that UC Davis is a legitimate force in the Big West Conference. It was heartening to see stu-dents supporting students who work hard, every day and all day. We hope that this display of school spirit is not a one-time thing and Aggie fans make it out to more bas-ketball games in the future.

The West Village housing community has been receiv-ing lots of hype recently. Well, all the hype is recent since the community is only 2 years old. It’s young, shiny, colorful and not only is it net zero energy, it is even net positive. That’s right, the combined solar pro-duction from the acres of so-lar panels actually exceeds the amount of electricity used by the complex. While this is all well and good, a village can not be a village if it is just residenc-es. Obviously, the architects thought of this and incor-porated spaces that were to be filled with convenience stores, coffee shops and the like. If you happened to at-tend the Sacramento City College extension and live in West Village, these stores would ensure that you would never have to leave the com-fort of your resort-style hous-ing. But alas, for the past two years, residents have been forced to seek their conve-nience store nourishment by actually leaving the complex! Until about three weeks ago, all this store space was vacant and filled to the brim with cardboard boxes. At long last, the first sign has been hung for the HUB, a coffee shop and eatery that will be

the first of (hopefully) many shops to grace the storefronts of our housing paradise. Now, it’s great that a store has finally opened, but shouldn’t it have taken a lit-tle less than two years for this to happen? Couldn’t West Village have focused their energy on these stores in-stead of buying 10 iPads for the leasing office? Maybe ... But those iPads are just so darn pretty! We want a store where we can buy sunscreen before lounging at our two pools. We want a store that sells 600-thread count Egyptian cotton towels to wrap our-selves in after hot tubbing. But seriously, it would have been great to have a coffee shop nearby last year when construction was waking us up every day at 8 a.m. This coffee place should also stay open 24 hours a day, so that residents are not relegated to buying overpriced energy drinks from the vending ma-chine in the 24-hour, well-stocked gym. We look forward to see-ing what other amenities the famed West Village will soon be offering. Maybe when our grandchildren live there, they will have added in a store to buy test supplies.

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and that when we try to describe them we can talk around the edges of them; we can find out what they’re like but we can’t express them di-rectly except by immersing one’s self in the poetry,” Wagner said. Wagner read some of his poetry at the John Natsoulas Gallery this past Thursday. English graduate student Eric Sneathen, whose emphasis is poet-ry, has lived in Davis for seven years and considers Natsoulas to be the best place to read poetry. “There are [also] some other open mics — like SickSpits has one on campus, and it tends to be more spoken-word,” Sneathen said. “Dr. Andy has a radio show and he adver-tises his open mic on that as well.” While Wagner describes his style as lyrical, Moyle prefers to prac-tice the short rhythms of haiku and Sneathen prefers not to stick to a particular style. “For me, I think personal style is kind of a trap. Style is kind of an ar-gument unto itself. In making dif-ferent arguments, I try to make dif-ferent styles to make that happen,” Sneathen said. Both Sneathen and Wagner enjoy having their poetry published, con-sidering that poetry can often be overlooked in the readership world. “The readership for poetry is al-ways gonna be kind of low. Every magazine has its own audience; a lot of people would prefer to be in

smaller magazines where they know who they’re talking to than getting sold in a large magazine like The New Yorker,” Sneathen said. However, having smaller maga-zines pick up the poet’s work en-sures that the right target audience is being reached. As far as the content of his book, Wagner considers “Cancion del cie-lo” to be one of his favorite poems. Poetry, whether it be the lyri-cal poems of Wagner’s or the con-cise haiku of Moyle’s, can often be considered an old-fashioned art. Sneathen points out that many peo-ple read modern poetry without re-alizing it. “Do people read contemporary poetry? They do and they don’t. I had my [English] 5P class read Shel Silverstein, and most people have read [him] and Dr. Seuss,” Sneathen said. “I think people forget … that those things are poetry. I think peo-ple end up being afraid of what modern poetry is.” Sneathen hopes that students will continue to immerse themselves in learning and writing poetry, espe-cially with the many opportunities that exist today to explore more of it. “I think in terms of readership and access, I think [Master of Fine Arts] programs have really opened up au-diences and reception,” Sneathen said. “In a way poetry seems more ac-cessible now than ever.”

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

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Forgive me if I no longerRemember the names of villagesThat lie to the north of Rolztk.It has been many years and no oneHas spoken their names to meSince that time. I can recall themAfter a fashion and remember they wereSo lovely and bright and gay andThe women so beautiful. I alsoRemember the dancing, how spiritedIt was at the time.

Then too it was Winter and a coldOne with much snow most of theTime and wind! Wind like we hadNever seen before or since. It whirledThe snow so fiercely that it was nextTo impossible to see the buildings.

We would knock on any door we couldFind and were always allowed in, givenVodka, seated next to the fire.

And we danced. The entire WinterWas passed this way.Before Spring we were required to leave.

We took the dogs and left at night.The music inside the buildings stillExciting, the women so beautiful.the interiors so bright and filledwith laughing and good feeling.

We left before dawn, coursing intoThe throat of the storms and madefor the South. I cannot recallHow long we travelled but we wereNearly out of food when we reachedThe Lodzak, the river, I meanThe river, surely you know it.

Yet now you are here, asking meThe names of those cities andDiscounting the tales we tell you.Forgive me if I can no longerRemember these names. NamesAre not what the journeyWas ever about. Whatever it was aboutIt was not names and we wereSo young and full of newness thatIt seems a dream, yet I swearIt was not, no not at all.

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By VEENA BANSALAggie Sports Writer

With women’s water polo Big West action in full swing, the Aggies are facing tremendous challenges against their opponents. This past weekend the team fell to Cal State Northridge and UC Santa Barbara. The Aggies are ranked 13th and have fallen to 10-9 overall and 0-2 in conference.

UC Davis lost to Cal State Northridge 11-10 last Friday. Matador junior Leah Janke stole the show with a game-winner in the final minute. Although seniors Jessica Dunn and Carmen Eggert scored hat tricks, the Aggies were unable to snatch the win away from the Matadors.

Dunn scored in each of the first three quar-ters, while Eggert scored in the first, third and fourth frames. Junior center Hannah Curran chipped in two goals, while sophomore Katrina Husted and junior Alex Rawlinson added one each. Senior Riane Woods finished with ten saves.

Throughout the course of the match, neither team led by more than two goals. The Aggies were in a tie with the Matadors nine times while the lead shifted seven times.

Cal State Northridge extended their lead in the first quarter 4-2 with two goals from Nelson. Dunn and Curran fought back to level the match at 4-4 with 2:33 left in the half. With Rawlinson’s effort, the Aggies captured their first lead toward the end of the second quarter and were able to extend the margin 6-4.

In the second half, Dunn and Eggert scored,

tying the match at 8-8. Through a series of lead changes and goals scored by both teams, the match was leveled at 10-10. With 53 seconds remaining, Janke scored on an extra-player op-portunity, putting the Matadors up 11-10.

To add onto the heartbreak of the loss, UC Davis fell to 15th-ranked UC Santa Barbara in the final ten seconds in an 8-7 thriller on Saturday afternoon.

Curran, Eggert and Dunn scored two goals apiece while Rawlinson scored in the seventh. Freshman Jessie Porter led UCSB with three goals, including the game-winner.

Trailing 2-1 throughout the first quarter, UC Davis put on a show, scoring four straight goals in the second to gain a 5-2 halftime lead. Rawlinson scored on a 6-on-5 opportunity and Curran scored a minute later to give the Aggies their first lead. At halftime, the Aggies were up by three.

The Gauchos gained momentum after the break, however, and cut the lead to only one. Matador Kacey Creek equalized the match ear-ly in the fourth, netting her second goal at the 1:33 mark.

The Gauchos gained possession with 44 sec-onds left and called a timeout. Porter scored game-winner with only ten seconds left.

The Aggies continue Big West Conference road action, this time against first-year mem-ber San Diego State on Friday. The Aztecs are currently ranked seventh nationally.

VEENA BANSAL can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

Aggies suffer tough losses this past weekendCal State Northridge, UCSB come out on top

By KENNETH LINGAggie Sports Writer

Often times, high school friends part ways as they head to different colleges or endeavors. However, senior Blair Shinoda and sophomore Molly Greubel are not only are attending the same school once again, but are also playing on the same basket-ball team.

The two guards once again pair up in the UC Davis back-court after playing basketball to-gether in high school. They both attended Foothill High School in Santa Ana, Calif., where they played one season together. That one season was a positive expe-rience for both players as they forged a stronger bond over the course of the year.

"I had a really great freshman year. I was under the leadership of Blair, and I knew her going into that [season]. Our parents are good friends too," Greubel said. "I worked out with her dad a few times getting ready for high school. Right when I got there, she was a great leader, very posi-tive out on the court."

Greubel's and Shinoda's com-bined efforts, in their lone season playing together in high school, helped their team achieve an impressive 30-2 season record.

Greubel added some scoring and rebounding depth on a very good Foothill team. As a fresh-man, she averaged 2.2 points and one rebound a game. Greubel's and Shinoda's relationship grew stronger during their lone high school season together.

"She was the only freshman

and she played and contribut-ed," Shinoda said. "It was really fun getting to know her because I knew her always as a little kid, but now I saw just how hard she worked and her work ethic."

Shinoda was a key factor in Foothill's offensive and defen-sive game plan. She averaged 9.8 points and 5.9 assists on the of-fensive end of the court. What was even more remarkable about her play was that she also aver-aged two steals and 1.1 blocks a game. She truly exemplified the model of a two-way player.

Both Shinoda and Greubel left high school in historic fash-ion. Shinoda left Foothill as the all-time leader in career as-sists, sixth in steals and third in blocks. Greubel also finished high school with some impres-sive career stats. She was fourth in three-point shots made, fifth in career free-throw percentage and total points scored.

As both players left their illus-trious high school careers be-hind, they faced a new, more difficult challenge: college bas-ketball. However, Shinoda and Greubel made the transition smoothly and are key players on the Aggies' squad.

The Aggies almost missed out on signing Shinoda, who is sev-enth in the conference in as-sists, averaging 3.1 per game, and fourth in steals, with 1.9 per game. Her choice to play at UC Davis was an interesting deci-sion, as she did not seriously consider UC Davis in the begin-ning of her recruitment. Luckily, she fell in love with Davis during her visit, and the rest, as they say,

is history.“It was pretty random because

I had never been up here at Davis. But when I came up here for my unofficial visit, I loved the atmosphere, the college town, especially when I met the coach-es," Shinoda said.

The Aggies are sure glad that she did, as Shinoda's decision was a critical factor in the recruit-ment of Greubel as well. Greubel as a freshman is currently third on the Aggies in scoring with 6.1 points a game.

"Blair had a huge impact on me going [to UC Davis], indi-rectly. In fact, I would go just to watch her play sometimes and I really liked the style that the team played and I really liked the coaching staff," Greubel said. "It was never really in my mind that I wanted to play at Davis until a lot later on in the process. I ended up coming up to visit Blair over a weekend and got to know the girls and the team; loved them. The coaches were phenomenal."

The duo of Shinoda and Greubel have had great success in their playing experiences — first, having a phenomenal high school season, and now playing together as two key members of UC Davis' women's basketball team.

As Shinoda's final season as an Aggie wraps up, the Aggies are hoping for a little more of the Shinoda-Greubel magic as they head into the conference playoffs.

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

Molly Greubel, Blair Shinoda reunited in same backcourt

Teammates once again

By ALLI KOPASAggie Sports Writer

As the Aggies traveled to Tempe, Ariz. this weekend to compete in the Diamond Devil Invitational, the team brought with them the volatile weather Davis has been experiencing lately. Previously in the week, the Aggies al-ready had to reschedule their March 6 match-up against the Stanford Cardinal for May 1 due to potentially harsh weather conditions.

On the first day of play in Tempe, after com-pleting only the top of the first inning against the New Mexico State Aggies, severe rain and hail postponed the conclusion of their en-counter until Saturday.

Yet even with severe weather issues threat-ening the schedule of play, the Aggies proved to be contenders against their tough schedule featuring four opponents all with records over .500, culminating in the Aggies’ biggest chal-lenge against host and number-three ranked Arizona State.

The team split the weekend with wins against tough Notre Dame and Pittsburgh teams, aid-ed by the offensive brilliance of sophomore Amy Nunez who batted .600 on the weekend, coming up with clutch hits to record five RBI for the Aggies.

“It was a great platform for the Aggies to compete in, and facing the caliber of teams that we did I think challenged us and gave us good opportunities to give a variety of play-ers the opportunity to step up and be chal-lenged,” said coach Karen Yoder.

Saturday — UC Davis 2, New Mexico State 4Once the rain from the Friday had finally

subsided,the UC Davis Aggies (9-11) versus the New Mexico State Aggies (14-7) showdown resumed play again in the bottom of the first inning on Saturday.

A pitcher’s duel, featuring freshman Leah Munden for the Aggies, led both teams into the fourth inning with empty score columns. The Aggies were able to add their first run in the top of the fourth after a clutch triple off the bat of freshman Christa Castello, who end-ed up batting 3-3 on the game. After giving up two back-to-back solo home runs in the bot-tom of the fourth, however, Munden’s no-hit-ter would be shattered, resulting in a 2-1 lead for New Mexico State.

The New Mexico State Aggies again added another two runs to increase their lead to 4-1 after five innings. UC Davis would not chal-lenge offensively again until the top of the sev-enth when a leadoff solo home run off the bat of Nunez gave the Aggies their final run in a 2-4 loss in their first game of the tournament.

Saturday — UC Davis 5, Notre Dame 4Following their tough loss against New

Mexico State, UC Davis (9-12) looked to their second matchup of the day against a strong Notre Dame team (13-5) with the hopes of adding their first win of the tournament.

In the bottom of the second, a solo home run for senior Kelly Schulze served as the first run posted by either team. With the assis-tance of two untimely errors and wild pitch-ing by the Irish, the Aggies would add anoth-er four runs to increase their sizable lead to 5-0, maintaining this without challenge until the sixth.

After holding the fighting Irish hitless through five innings, sophomore Justine Vela’s final inning would feature four hits, including a two-run homer and a solo shot in the sixth inning to allow the Aggies to cling for life with

a 5-4 lead over the Irish.However, the final surge for Notre Dame

would prove to be a little too late, as the final score resulted in a 5-4 victory for the Aggies, increasing their record to 10-12, as well as im-proving Vela’s record to 6-1 on the season.

Sunday — UC Davis 2, Pittsburgh 0In the Aggies’ (10-12) first game of their fi-

nal day of play against the Pittsburgh Panthers (9-8), Vela proved once again to be a winning force for the Aggies, pitching a complete game shutout while allowing only one hit and retir-ing 14 to record her seventh win on the season to make the Aggies’ overall record 11-12.

Striking out the first two batters of the game swinging, Vela set the tone for the rest of the game early. In five out of the seven innings she pitched, Vela retired two or more batters, highlighted by a second inning where she struck out the side.

The Aggies’ offense recorded one run in the first off a timely RBI single by Nunez, and then added another to increase their lead to 2-0 in the fifth with a double by sophomore Kayla Tyler. Both Nunez and Tyler led the Aggies’ offense for the game, recording an RBI each while hitting 2-3.

Vela’s complete dominance in the pitcher’s circle aided the Aggies in their second win for the weekend.

“I know that our entire club and our entire coaching staff and the university is just blessed to have her, and I think that she is just a great competitor,” Yoder said. “She has a wide variety of pitches and continues to work on her game, and I think that she is truly coming together at the right part of the season. We are excited for what she is going to do in conference.”

Sunday — UC Davis 3, Arizona State 12 (5 innings)

In the final matchup of the tournament for the Aggies (11-12), formidable opponent Arizona State (23-1) would serve as the final opponent standing in the Aggies’ way from a solid weekend of play. Although the Sun Devils’ offensive brilliance would prove to be too much for the Aggies to overcome, UC Davis displayed admirable moments in their loss against the tournament host.

Nunez proved once again to be a power-ful force for the Aggies’ offense, picking up all three RBI for the game with a single in the first, followed by a two-run home run in the third.

Despite the Aggies’ attempts to challenge Arizona State, the Sun Devils demonstrated why they are the number-three ranked team in the nation, scoring in four out of the five in-nings played, highlighted by a seven-run third which locked down the win.

The Aggies were not without opportunities in scoring position, however, as they strand-ed six on base through five innings. With the loss, the Aggies recorded their second loss for the tournament, moving their overall record to 11-13, while the Sun Devils remained with only one loss on the season, improving theirs to 24-1.

The Aggies’ weekend ahead will feature a double-header against Cal State Bakersfield on Saturday, as UC Davis looks for redemp-tion from their 2-0 loss earlier in the season to the Roadrunners at the Stanford Invitational. Beginning on March 29, the Aggies will begin conference play as they travel to Hawai’i for a two-game series.

ALLI KOPAS can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

Nunez bats .600 on the weekend while Vela records seventh victory

Volatile Tempe weather does not rain on Aggies’ split weekend

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Senior Blair Shinoda (No. 10) and sophomore Molly Greubel (No. 23) played basketball together in high school.

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Junior Hannah Curran passes the ball in the game against Stanford. UC Davis is currently 13th in the conference.

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Having the world at your fingertipsSmartphone apps essential for spring break

By JOYCE BERTHELSENAggie Features Writer

With spring break right around the cor-ner, many students are anxious for their long-awaited trips. For some, frantic last-min-ute planning is still being put into motion as many attempt live up to the notorious col-lege spring break. Thankfully, we are in a gen-eration of smartphones, where the latest and greatest application can help you through the mog of planning the perfect getaway. In an era of thousands of smartphone ap-plications, users get lost in all of the possi-bilities available to them. But while you ven-ture out into the world, keep in mind that there are helpful and handy tools which you can use to broaden your horizon and become technologically adventurous as well. Steering out of the mainstream Facebook, Instagram and Yelp, there are apps that can cater to your specific needs. Dalena Chu, a third-year genetics major, sees the benefit of using travel applications for making sure college vacationing goes as smoothly as possible. “I think people who are in business [or who] travel a lot, having an iPhone or [any] smart-phone is very useful,” Chu said. “You carry your phone everywhere, so why not just put everything on one thing?” Planning your trip Today’s trip planning has become much more efficient with flight and hotel booking only a finger tap away. Besides its entertaining dancing chip-munk, Hipmunk is a unique flight search app that lists flights in easy-to-read visuals. In ad-dition to providing the typical price and du-ration sort feature, it can also sort by “agony,” which lists flights in terms of how much has-sle there is to use the flight service, including wait time, delays and carry-on information. Once you have decided on your flight, you can use SeatGuru to check airline seat maps. Does your window seat actually have a win-dow or are you going to be facing a wall be-

tween two windows? If, for some reason, your accommodation falls through, HotelTonight will find you dis-counted places to stay. It is designed to book rooms “tonight”; rooms cannot be booked in advance. If you do have a hotel booking, you can send your hotel, flight and even car rental itinerar-ies to TripIt, which compiles everything so you can check everything in one place. On the road Whether you’re on a plane, in a car or on a ship, there are a few more apps to keep in mind while you’re traveling. For instance, rather than opening Safari to find a curren-cy converter each time, consider download-ing XE Converter. It features every world cur-rency and stores the last updated rates, which means it can work even without an internet connection. Of course, it’s always helpful to have a translator. Even if you can’t get a full sentence across, having the word for “bathroom” might be helpful enough. Despite foreign language

professors’ warnings about using Google Translate to write full sentences, the app has a four-star rating from over 5,000 reviews and is good for translating short phrases. For those driving to their destinations, there are two essential apps for every driver. Waze is a community-based traffic and navi-gation app, with which users work together to avoid traffic and speeding tickets. Users can tell each other where there is an accident or where a highway patrol officer may be hiding and ready to pounce. Gas Buddy is exactly what it sounds like. When you share your location, it searches the area for gas stations. The list can then be sort-ed by distance or by price. Daniel Kapulkin, a second-year biomedical engineering major, agrees that travel apps are helpful, particularly when in completely un-familiar locations. “I used an iPhone for two years but now I use an Android,” Kapulkin said. “But it’s al-ways been helpful especially if you’re go-ing somewhere and you don’t know what’s there.”

At your destination Once you have landed and collected your baggage, you can use the MetrO app to find public transportation. The app, which has data on 400 cities around the world, allows users to download cities they need and search routes via subway, bus, tram and railway with-out an internet connection. When you finally arrive at your destination, the first thing you may want to do is check in on Facebook or post a photo on Instagram. But if you want to share photos with family and friends who don’t have social media, try Postagram. Take a photo with your phone and send it to loved ones as a postcard. Expensify helps users keep track of their spending. It creates expense reports and stores digital and paper receipts after users synchronize the app with their credit cards and bank accounts. Users can take photos of their receipts for cash purchases, and all other digital pur chases are tracked as they happen. Finally, users can let their friends and fam-ily know that they have arrived safely through imo messenger. This all-in-one app supports multiple messenger apps including Skype, MSN, Facebook and Yahoo Messenger, which allows users to message and call everyone from one app. “It’s a great communication tool for stu-dents either when they’re just taking a trip or when studying abroad,” said Brandi Kolmer, a UC Davis alumna and head of marketing for imo. “Or maybe even doing an internship or they’ve graduated and they move away from their family. It’s also for when they’re at school when a lot of students don’t have their family nearby. imo is great, because it’s free.” Smartphone applications have entertained and connected users. With a little explora-tion and adventure with different apps, they can broaden your technological horizon too.

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

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Camp Kesem comforts children of cancer

patients UC Davis students fundraise, staff camp

By ALICE LEEAggie Features Writer

At UC Davis, there exists a group of dedicated students using their time to not only raise money for all-expenses-paid children-care camps, but also provide emotional support to the children who need it. Camp Kesem is a summer camp sponsored by Camp Kesem National for children with a parent who has or has had cancer. The free overnight camp is planned for children between ages 6 to 16 to enjoy a fun-filled week of enjoying life and just being kids. The camp is open to all children regard-less of race, religion, national origin or financial status. Fifty college students spend the entire year before summer raising $60,000 to send at least 90 well-deserving children to camp for free. They contin-ue to help those children by working as camp counselors throughout the week at camp. “Everything we do at Camp Kesem focuses on our goal of giving campers the most fun week possible, while provid-ing the extra support and at-tention they need,” said coun-selor Ashley Wolf, a second-year biochemistry major. Camp counselors are put into four groups: arts and crafts, drama and music, sports and nature, or adven-ture. Throughout the year, they join together to plan ben-efit concerts, a 5K race called the Caterpillar Run, formals, bake sales, a camp reunion with the kids, Relay for Life and Make the Magic, a live si-lent auction. Executive members on Camp Kesem’s board plan and facilitate fundraisers, some-times working with different clubs and organizations on campus throughout the year. They also plan and schedule camp activities, recruit coun-selors and campers, and plan reunions. “There are way too many memories to narrow it down to just one. I do have one favor-ite activity, however. It is prob-ably the funniest scene any-one could ever stumble upon. We call it [the] Messy Olympics, where there are a bunch of games and activities where ev-

eryone ends up getting covered in some of the grossest things — like spaghetti, mustard, choco-late sauce and whipped cream. By the end of the activity it is just a mob of kids and college students trying to hit each oth-er with flying ketchup,” said co-chair Lauren Mackrell, a fourth-year community and regional development major. An important activity dur-ing camp is the Empowerment Ceremony, where everyone from camp comes together and shares their stories of why they are part of Camp Kesem. This night is often extremely emotional and kids of all ages lean on one another and look to each other for strength and comfort. “Camp Kesem has been the defining experience of my time at UC Davis. It is through this organization I have met some of the greatest people and my best friends. It has also provid-ed me with skills of leadership, honesty, hard work, organiza-tion, really more skills than I can even begin to describe, not to mention a family away from home,” Mackrell said. The counselors do all that they can to hold fundraisers to raise money for these kids so that the kids can come to camp just to be kids and meet others who know what they are going through and share similar fears, according to Mackrell. “ We have this camp so that the kids do not have to think about if their dad is going to have the energy to take them to the park or if they are go-ing to have to make sure their younger sibling gets their homework done so that their mom can rest,” Mackrell said. One of the biggest fundrais-ers coming up is called Make the Magic, a live silent auction that is projected to raise enough money to send 25 kids to camp. Ticket prices include a full-course meal, entertainment and notable speakers. Those who at-tend can learn more about the current mission and goals of the Camp Kesem Davis chapter as well as help send campers to camp for free.“My sister went to a silent auction and she was won over by how caring and sweet the counselors were. By the end of

the night, she donated a lot of money and gave me enough information that I tried to get involved as well,” said Mona Nguyen, a first-year psychol-ogy major. In 2000, the first Camp Kesem project was founded at Stanford University. It was a project of Hillel at Stanford, a nonprofit organization serv-ing Jewish students, and it was developed by a group of student leaders who sought to create a magical summer camp experience for children in need. After assessing the needs of the community, the students found that children who have or had a parent with cancer could benefit the most from a summer camp experience with peers who faced similar challenges. Camp Kesem at UC Davis was founded in 2005, and so far they have held seven camps. “People should apply [to be a counselor] because when a parent is diagnosed with can-cer, the whole family is affect-ed. For children, the carefree joys and adventure of child-hood are replaced with new responsibilities, anger, guilt and the fear of losing or loss of a parent,” Wolf said. “There are few services available to these children, and I am ex-cited to have the opportuni-ty to help make this summer’s session of Camp Kesem Davis a magical one for this often overlooked population.” Applications are available during both Fall and Winter Quarters for those interested in becoming a camp counsel-or. Meetings are held through-out the year in Wellman 7 at 8 p.m. on Sunday nights. “Even though I haven’t had a chance to be a counselor, I try to help out as much as I can by going to their fundrais-ers and small events that they have,” Nguyen said. “I some-times go visit their table at the Quad and learn about the chil-dren who suffer such hard-ships simply by having a par-ent with cancer. Camp Kesem is an awesome experience that does incredible things for well-deserving kids.”

ALICE LEE can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

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Editor’s Note: The E n v i r o n m e n t a l Policy and Planning Commission (EPPC) is an ASUCD commis-sion responsible for re-searching environmen-

tal issues affecting the campus and its surrounding area, and provid-ing recommendations for improve-ment. Doin’ It Green is a new feature that provides tips and ideas for be-ing green.

With finals fast approaching, many of us are turning to caffeine in its most delicious form: coffee. Whether it’s to get through the 8 a.m. review session or to pull an all-nighter, coffee is something that helps all of us during this stressful week. If you are one of the more fortunate who happens to own a Mr. Coffee machine or an espres-so maker, then good for you. But if you’re one of those students who wakes up three minutes be-fore class with only enough time to brush your teeth and hop on your bike, then I would advise you to continue reading. For those of us who lack the time and skills to brew our own coffee,

I think it’s generally agreed upon that the CoHo is the way to go. Every day Swirlz is swamped with students trying to get their organ-ic, Fair Trade coffee (or Yerba Mate) fix before class. Finals week is a week to study and focus on work, and I understand that the environ-ment may not be in the forefront of our minds (although it should), but there is one easy tip that we can fol-low to not only better the environ-ment, but also save a little pock-et change to buy that chocolate espresso cookie you were eyeing in the baked goods section. Something as simple as bringing your own coffee mug to class can make a huge difference. Not only does the environmentally friendly CoHo give a discount for those who bring their own cup, but your deli-cious coffee will stay warmer longer and you can bike with your coffee and not worry about spills. Also, you are also doing the environment a fa-vor by using a reusable cup! These cups can easily be acquired at Rite Aid, the bookstore on campus and Starbucks (in the Silo), so there’s re-ally no excuse for not having one. Try and do the environment a fa-vor, and good luck with finals!

EPPC’s “Doin’ It Green” Series