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Downtown Davis named a Cultural Arts and Entertainment District

Farmers Market Vendor of the Week: Affi’s Marin Gourmet

New Entrepreneurship Fund gives student businesses a helping hand

ASUCD grants new program $6,000

Family recipes passed down for 25 years

Three new art pieces unveiled at Flourish Davis movement

Read about how the UC Davis Women’s Club Lacrosse overcame the odds to win the WCLA National Championship on page 4.

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Lecture today on teaching evolution in public schools

By ANI UCARAggie News Writer

Concluding the strug-gle to expand art in public places fought by communi-ty members, artists, and gal-lery owner John Natsoulas, the Davis City Council on May 15 unanimously vot-ed to make Downtown Davis a “Cultural Arts and Entertainment District.”

Davis is among the first 20 cities in California to carry such a title.

Currently the city has publicly displayed 18 pieces of art, all of which are part of the transmedia art walk. Of that total, 16 of the pieces are sculptures and two are murals. Natsoulas and his team plan to have 40 pieces exhibited in the public do-main by January 2013.

In an effort to restore the arts in Davis, Natsoulas has worked diligently at gaining community support and in-volvement.

“This is all about creating community,” Natsoulas said.

In celebration of the new-ly named district was the

Flourish Davis movement created by Natsoulas him-self, held this past Saturday. Joined by Mayor Joe Krovoza, Natsoulas and his supporters unveiled three new pieces downtown.

Two of the three new pieces are Susannah Israel’s new sculpture “Circus” and the California State colleges “Collaboration” piece.

The third stands as the world’s first interactive mu-ral envisioned and execut-ed by Davis artist William Maul in collaboration with the Davis mural team, lo-cated on a wall fronting the E Street alleyway behind Peet’s Coffee & Tea on 231 E St.

Titled “It Can Happen Now...TO YOU,” the tower-ing mural highlights a scene of an actress screaming from the old horror movie The Devil Thumbs a Ride.

Beneath the graffiti-proof gloss lies a small silicon chip known as a radio-frequen-cy identification (RFID) tag. Through the free mobile

Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, will be giving a talk on evolution in public schools to-day in Haring Hall. The talk, titled “Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools: After Kitzmiller — What?” will take place in 2205 Haring Hall from 7 to 9 p.m.

The talk was organized by the UC Davis Science Policy Journal Club after legislation challenging the teaching of evolution was proposed this year in sev-eral states, including Tennessee, Indiana and New Hampshire.

Colin Cunliff, a physics graduate stu-dent and member of the Science Policy Journal Club, says that the controversy keeps arising because opponents of evo-lution don’t need to win court cases.

“They keep losing court cases like Kitzmiller v. Dover, but that doesn’t matter,” Cunliff said. “All they have to do is generate enough controversy that high school biology teachers are in-timidated into watering down their in-struction on evolution, or avoiding it all together.”

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) found that 97 percent of its members agreed that humans evolved over time. However, a recent report by the National Science Foundation found that only 47 percent of Americans think that humans devel-oped from earlier species of animals, and only 61 percent think that scientists generally agree that humans evolved over time.

The case of Kitzmiller v. Dover oc-curred in 2005, when 11 parents of stu-dents in the Dover Area School District of Pennsylvania sued the school dis-trict for advocating intelligent design as equally viable as evolution. The court decided that intelligent design is not science.

“[After Kitzmiller v. Dover], we’re real-ly entering a third phase, involving pro-posals to disparage and belittle evolu-tion while remaining silent about any supposed alternative,” Branch said.

The talk is free and open to the public.

–– Amy Stewart

By LANI CHANAggie Staff Writer

Who would have guessed that an egg-plant dip could have developed into a cu-linary business of such scale? Over 25 years ago, the Panahi family de-veloped a recipe for a special kind of baba ghannouge, an eggplant dish popular in the Middle East. Today the exact same dish, which Affi’s calls Aubergine, is avail-able every Saturday morning at the Davis Farmers Market along with a complete line of dips, sauces and crackers that fea-ture Middle Eastern and Mediterranean flavors. Made from fresh and natural in-gredients grown in Fresno, Affi’s Marin Gourmet products are a family legacy, carrying the same flavor combinations through the generations. The Aggie sat down with Anton Bozcagna, manager of the Affi’s Marin Gourmet stand in Davis, to get a glimpse of the company’s history and what it has become today — all because of a revolu-tionary baba ghannouge recipe. “If the recipe ever changed that would be a riot,” Bozcagna said. “It’ll always be the exact same recipe. We’re not allowed to touch it.”

The productsThe Aggie: What’s the Aubergine like?

Bozcagna: The Aubergine is this really fan-tastic thing. It’s made from four different types of eggplant, grilled over mesquite and then finished with a really fantastic olive oil. Everything is done by hand, which makes it expensive, but it guarantees a certain qual-ity. It’s not mass-produced, so each batch

can be very different. All the eggplants are grown in-house and don’t even have com-mon names, just scientific ones. They are very special eggplants and it tastes like that — the store-bought eggplants will not taste

By ADAM KHANAggie News Writer

Last quarter saw the in-ception of ASUCD’s Entrepreneurship Fund, a new $6,000 grant established to support undergraduate busi-ness ventures and promote in-novation among the under-graduate class.

The program runs on a two-quarter system in which win-ning applicants are picked from a diverse pool of business proposals and can be allocated up to $1,500 in funding.

These projects, as stated on the Entrepreneurship Fund website, are supposed to be “socially-conscious business-es” that are aimed to “recog-

nize a social problem and use entrepreneurial principles to organize, create and manage a business venture that helps to achieve social change.”

The Entrepreneurship Fund, as drafted in ASUCD Senate Bill 100, is organized into the entire-ly student-run Entrepreneurship Fund Special Committee, which in turn is divided into two sub-

committees. First, a selection committee comprised of various members of ASUCD, alumni and faculty is responsible for review-ing applications, conducting in-terviews and determining the re-cipients of the funding. Second, an entirely student-run adviso-ry committee is responsible for

Evan Davis / Aggie

susannah israel’s piece, Circus, was just unveiled in Davis last week as a part of the Flourish Davis event.see FLOUrisH, page 2

see BUsiNess, page 2

Bijan Agahi / Aggie

Affi’s Marin Gourmet developed an original recipe for baba ghannouge called Abergine.

see FArMers, page 5

“I wanna be a billion-aire, so freakin bad … Buy all of the

things I never had...” A billion dollars. Do any of us know what that real-ly is? I mean, on paper, it’s $1,000,000,000. The num-ber one followed by nine zeros. If you can actually conceptualize one billion dollars in your mind, hats off to you. I’m jealous. I personal-ly can’t wrap my head around it. I even did a Google search of “what can one billion dollars buy” and the results were quite un-satisfactory. You think one billion is challenging? Imagine 20 billion dollars. This past Friday, that’s how much this 28-year-old CEO near-ly made in one day with his company’s IPO (ini-tial public offering). The CEO is Mark Zuckerberg — you’ve probably nev-er heard of him. He creat-ed this site called Facebook that apparently a lot of people use. His company’s stocks went on the market and the hype earned him a little bit of extra pocket money. When I heard the news about the Facebook found-er’s feat, I felt a range of emotions, from awe to dis-gust to envy to disbelief. The starting salary for a journalist? About 30 to 50 thousand dollars. Here I am, sleep-deprived and stressed out. I’m incurring debt and slaving away in classes in hopes of maybe earning a semi-decent liv-ing someday while some-one is making billions in less than 24 hours. I definitely won’t be breaking any “youngest self-made billionaire” re-cords, and I’m OK with that. The older I get and the more I explore my field of interest, the more I realize that I’m really not in it for the money. I love express-ing myself and connecting with others through writ-ing. If I can continue to do that with my future career and provide for myself and my family, I will be more than happy. That’s not to say that

I don’t like money. You wouldn’t have to hold a gun to my head to get me to enjoy the luxe life. I wouldn’t terribly mind weekend trips to New York, summers in Saint Tropez, shopping sprees on Fifth Avenue, fine din-ing, decked-out sports cars and invites to exclu-sive upper-crust parties. It wouldn’t kill me to nev-er have to worry about money. I could tolerate it, but it’s not my main aspira-tion in life. It’s not the end goal, the light at the end of this long, dark scantron and Red Bull-lined tunnel. It’s not what will fulfill me. Honestly, I don’t think the promise of money alone can fulfill anyone. I remember when I was in high school, my mom wouldn’t let me get a pay-

ing job. It’s not that she didn’t want me to have a sense of autono-

my or a strong work eth-ic or any of the other ben-efits of being employed. She told me directly that she didn’t want me to de-velop a “love of money” — at least not at that age. I needed to focus on my grades, and I could get the same benefits from vol-unteering. It was the right decision. There are some of you out there majoring in something you can’t stand because you want to have a lot of money in the fu-ture. You might want to take the time to think about the long-term im-plications of that decision. And there are some people out there who forwent get-ting an education or work-ing hard, choosing instead to take shortcuts in or-der to get rich quick. We all know how that tends to work out (or not work out). I’ve gradually let go of my quest for riches in ex-change for a journey of following my passions. Not that riches and pas-sions are mutually exclu-sive, but it’s better to pur-sue the latter and let the former come to you. I’m not saying anything that hasn’t been said before, but it’s nice to be remind-ed of the big picture every once in awhile. That being said, there’s nothing fulfilling about my current status of Broke College Student, either, so if you’ve got the hook up with a summer job, feel free to get in touch immediately.

She’s not joking. To receive her resume and cover letter, contact PAMELA NONGA NGUE at pamnonga@ucdavis.edu.

With summer vaca-tion coming up, my life is about to

lose some structure. I won’t have class, or homework, or a weekly column, or have to go grocery shopping. Until I find a job, I will most-ly be doing things I want to do, like reading and watch-ing TV. Yet when I’m asked by one of my friends what I’m doing or plan on do-ing, what will my an-swer be? Nothing. I will say I’m doing nothing. Of course, even when you’re doing nothing you’re doing something. Outside of mundane autonom-ic functions, you’re still watching TV, surfing the web, listening to music, etc. Maybe you’re just sitting there meditating. But rarely do we admit to doing any of those things. Why? Because doing nothing is the last ac-ceptable form of boredom. When we say we’re do-ing nothing, we’re admitting to the idea of boredom. We may not actually be bored, but what we’re doing may be seen as boring to someone else. And we can’t have our friends think we’re boring, can we? They’d snicker at our boxed-in boring lives of inac-tivity as they pack their suit-case full of fun and leave us for more exciting pastures. We all know how ridicu-lous that sounds. If you have friends that would leave the second they perceive you as boring then they need to lower their standards and wean themselves off adrena-line. Is it more likely we don’t say anything because what we’re currently doing is ob-viously not the point of the conversation? Probably. But let’s set up another scenario. You and your friends are talking — maybe it’s in per-son, maybe via group text or chat. The topic of discus-sion: what you’re going to do later that day. At first, no one offers any suggestions, just a variation of the phrase “I dunno.” Then, frustra-tions start leaking out and someone says something along the lines of “Let’s just do something, I don’t care what it is.” This is followed by a few meek suggestions

— maybe bowling or card games or Monopoly. These are all rejected, probably by the same person that didn’t care what the group decided on doing. After that, more “I dunno” statements follow. Eventually, nothing is decided on and plans are scrapped. If you’re texting, it ends with “We’ll figure out something tomorrow.” If this conversation happened in person, you all contin-ue doing whatever you were doing before. Then peo-ple will slowly head home to avoid the boredom that started collecting like dust on everybody’s heads. This situation has oc-curred with slight variation since Adam told Eve climb-ing trees and talking to snakes was stupid. What’s happening here? We live our lives through this prism of “no regrets,” so we live looking backward

on what we’ve done and often-times al-ready look-ing back-ward on

what we’re about to do. If our eyes of the future think we’ll regret doing some-thing, that idea is shut down. In these situations, there’s this fear that what we choose to do will be boring so we choose to do nothing instead. It’s better to not try than to fail. You want to play poker tonight? C’mon man, live a little. But why choose to do nothing, the most boring thing possible? Because it’s not just about what we did but where what we did took place. Playing card games at my house isn’t excit-ing. But playing those same games at a bar? Now that sounds like a story I want to hear. We need plans, we need a story, we need to go out and immerse ourselves into the more exciting world. We think our lives need to be perceived as entertaining at all times so we work on making that per-ception a reality. Doing noth-ing is accepted because it sounds like it wasn’t a choice. We would never choose to be boring; there’s just nothing better to do. That’s where we’re wrong. Something is always better than nothing; we just need to change our definitions and expectations. Not ev-ery night can be spent doing things worthy of a mention in the tabloids or emulated in a song or movie. But ev-ery night can be spent doing something. Next time you and your buddies get togeth-er, don’t let plans dissipate. Don’t let yourself do nothing. C’mon man, live a little.

NOLAN SHELDON can be reached at nosheldon@ucdavis.edu.

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spring Book Fair10 a.m. to 3 p.m.WRRC, Front Porch, North HallEach quarter the Joy Fergoda Library at the Women’s Resources and Research Center hosts a book fair where books can be purchased for under $3. Proceeds will be used to buy new books for the library. The event will continue at the same time and location through Friday.

circle K international general meeting6 to 7 p.m.Olson 6If you are interested in doing community service, developing leadership skills, and gaining friendships, then go to this meeting to see what the club has to offer you.

H.e.l.p. club event “empathy not apathy”6 to 9 p.m.King’s LoungeThis is H.E.L.P.’s annual event where they host a free banquet dinner and have guest speakers to inspire students and community members to be more involved in helping others within the community. The guest speakers will include a community leader who will discuss working with those in poverty and a currently homeless community member who will share his experiences being homeless.

Food addicts in recovery anonymous7 to 8:30 p.m.Davis United Methodist Church, 1620 Anderson RoadFree yourself from excess weight and/or obsessional thoughts about food and body image. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is a 12-step fellowship based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Meetings are open and free to the public. Go to foodaddicts.org for other meeting locations.

uc davis concert Band and campus Bands7 to 9 p.m.Jackson Hall, Mondavi CenterWatch the UC Davis Concert Band, Campus Bands and more at this performance. Tickets are $8 for students and children and $12 for adults.

poetic resistance7:30 to 9 p.m.Olson 206Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting an event titled “Poetic Resistance” with nationally renowned poet Remi Kanazi from New York. Join them for spoken word poetry and a discussion. The event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies department. For more information, go to facebook.com/

events/362816877108668 or e-mail davis.sjp@gmail.com.

movie night in the arboretum7:30 to 10 p.m.Mrak Lawn, Lake SpaffordThe Arboretum Ambassadors and UC Davis Entertainment Council present Movie Night in the Arboretum. Bring a blanket and enjoy seeing the epic Academy Award-winning movie Avatar in the Arboretum under the stars. There is no charge for the movie; parking is available for $7 in Visitor Lots 1 and 2 and the Mondavi Center parking structure. For more information, call 752-4880 or visit arboretum.ucdavis.edu.

the 12th annual uc davis Film Festival8:30 to 10:30Davis Varsity Theatre, 616 Second St.This is an evening of unpredictable and exciting short student films including comedy, drama, animation, documentaries and more. The festival begins Wednesday and continues through Thursday at the same time and location. Tickets are $7 for each night or $10 for a two-night pass; available at Davis Varsity Theatre starting May 16. For more information, go to theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

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shinkoskey noon concert12:05 to 1 p.m.115 MusicWatch this Undergraduate Composers Concert in honor of Grant Noda’s 90th Birthday.

Bme alumni seminar series4 to 5 p.m.1005 GBSFJoin Dr. Alesha Castillo as she gives a talk titled “Skeletal Mechanobiology, Regeneration and Aging.” For more information, contact BME Alumni Seminar Series at bmealumniseminar@ucdavis.edu.

uc davis’ localtones 2012 showcase7 to 9 p.m.FreebornThis event features UC Davis’ a cappella groups The Spokes, The Afterglow, The Liquid Hotplates and The Lounge Lizards, and will be hosted by UCD’s Birdstrike Comedy Theatre. Tickets are $5 presale at the Freeborn Box Office or tickets.com and $10 at the door. For more information, go to davisspokes.com.

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witness reports collaborating students A student in a philosophy class was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for allegedly collaborating on an exam. A witness told the instructor that he had heard a group of students discussing how they were going to cheat before the class began. During the exam, the students sat together in the back corner of the room and were perceived to be cheating by the witness. In her meeting with a judicial officer, one of the referred students said that she did not have any recollection of engaging in behavior that could be perceived as cheating. In a later meeting, however, the student admitted that she had talked to some other students about cheating but claimed that she had gotten up and moved during the exam in order to avoid sitting next to people who planned to cheat. Although questions still remain about the student’s initial statements and her conduct during the exam, the University decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and resolve the case with an administrative notice. This is not a disciplinary sanction, but rather puts a student officially “on notice” about specific University policies, in this case the rule that prohibits collaborating on exams.

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A student in a physics class was referred to SJA for altering a quiz and submitting it for re-grading. The instructor was able to confirm that an alteration was made because he had photocopied the quizzes after they were graded and before they were handed back. The student agreed to be placed on disciplinary probation until graduation. This means that if the studentis found in violation of campus policy in the future, he will receive more serious disciplinary sanctions the second time, most likely suspension. The student also agreed to complete 10 hours of community service.

nerves lead to wandering eyes A student was referred to SJA for copying during an exam in a microbiology class. The TA noticed the student looking at the exam of the student sitting next to her and told the professor, who also perceived the student to be cheating. In her meeting with a judicial officer, the student admitted that she was nervous about the test and had copied from the other student. She agreed to disciplinary probation and 10 hours of community service.

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guiding the fledgling projects to meet their full potential.

While ASUCD will be providing input on each selected venture, the Advisory Committee does not aim to assume control. Phillip Chu, a senior economics major and chair-person of the Entrepreneurship Fund, clarified the extent of influ-ence the committee will hold.

“We don’t actually consult them with what to do with their busi-ness,” he said. “We recognize that in a university without a business school, it would be ill advised to do that. We just want to offer out-side advice as a springboard for discussion. It’s a good idea to give an outside opinion, and can be very useful.”

Business proposals that are not chosen for funding are also wel-come to seek advice from the committee.

“I’m very much in favor for kind of an ‘open door’ policy, so stu-dents that don’t get selected don’t get ignored,” Chu said. “We would still answer questions about their strategy.”

One such project was a micro-finance company that would sup-port economic growth in countries like Armenia.

The Advisory Committee at-tempts to hire students with sound foundations in economics and finance.

“The main thing is they do have a sound academic base,” Chu said. “They are hardworking, reliable, and also students that share the vision of the program — inspir-ing students to pursue their ideas. The consulting relationship is not the same that you would get from a professional consulting firm, but rather it’s with respect to the idea that some of these students’ ideas will not be fully formed. They just might not have had the opportuni-ty to take a class on market research or how to write a business plan.”

Approximately six companies

are working with the program, with three currently receiving full funding and a fourth officially se-lected to receive money some-time soon. Examples include The Runaway Robot, a T-shirt company created by sophomore Alexander Ogloza, that will print designs centered around the thematic el-ements of various local charita-ble organizations. Half of the prof-it made on each eco-friendly, stu-dent-designed, and water-based inked shirt will be donated to their respective partner charity.

Cosine Concepts, another se-lected company, plans to create a smartphone application that links each student’s personal schedule to a calendar, complete with club events, practices, fundraisers and notifications on special happenings around campus.

ASUCD Senator Justin Goss is ex-cited about the implications and possible monetary benefits of such an endeavor.

“I think this is really cool idea in that ASUCD potentially grow-ing businesses is huge and totally unprecedented forward outreach for us,” he said. “Also, these proj-ects can be clear targets for alum-ni to give back to UC Davis, as they might be more incentivized to give to a target instead of just this big ephemeral idea of the ‘university.’”

The budget, which currently comes from ASUCD, is already ac-tively trying to reduce the subsidy from the school and is coordinat-ing with alumni, as well as starting a donation site.

Holistically, members of the Fund seem energized about the future of such a unique program.

“It’s just a mind-blowingly ro-mantic idea, job creation,” Goss said. “At least it’s a beginning effort to try and combat job loss. We talk a lot about ‘small business,’ but we use that word so much it sort of los-es its meaning. But [the fund] gives college students something to do and gives them clear directions af-ter they graduate.”

ADAM KHAN can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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app “Microsoft Tag,” participants can access the video files embedded in the transmedia sculpture plaques directly to their cellphones.

“Personalization is what I am work-ing on,” said Dr. Monto Kumagai, the transmedia designer for the Flourish Davis movement. “The goal is to try and get people involved in the art.”

As an active partner in this transfor-mative movement, Dr. Kumagai hopes to provide people with an outlet of physical interaction and expression.

The RFID chips empower viewers to leave a message, whether that be a feel-ing that was evoked or one directed to-ward the artist.

“Transmedia is exactly the right thing we need for this movement,” Mayor Krovoza said. “Voices can be heard and can be shared with the community.”

As an avid supporter of the shift, Mayor Krovoza believes the city needs to figure out how to put aside per-manent funding for this movement. Currently the artists on the team have been working for free and the majority of the funding has been subsidized by Natsoulas.

“We are not wrapped up in the cost of all the supplies,” Natsoulas said. “We are doing this because we see a change happening in the city and we want it to flourish.”

In the process of transforming these public spaces, Natsoulas and his sup-porters have a vision of engaging the community, and bringing people in from all over the world to witness the beauty.

“We have a long history of Davis be-ing synonymous with art,” Natsoulas said. “And the Davis mural team, Davis sculpture team and artists in Davis are taking over because we can’t wait anymore, we are making the change happen.”

Guided tours are available every Saturday beginning at 11:15 a.m. in front of the John Natsoulas Gallery, lo-cated at 521 First St.

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Imagine that a fire has just devastated a small area of forest. Trees have

burned to the ground, leav-ing stumps and cracked trunks. All of the small bushes or grasses are com-pletely blackened. What’s left? Tiny seeds. The healing of the forest is partially accomplished by these seeds that only ger-minate after a fire. When the old, dry trees burn down, the fire breaks these seeds’ dor-mancy and allows new, fresh trees to grow. This ex-ample shows how plants are evo-lutionarily advanced or-ganisms. Though they can’t walk around like animals can, they are capable of a great deal of strategy, as well as offensive and defen-sive action. Simple defenses are com-mon among the plant king-dom, all to make them less palatable or even dead-ly to their many enemies. Thorns, pricks, irritants and poisons are all to make sure that they won’t be devoured as soon as they sprout. Except, of course, the parts they they want to be eaten. The next time you bite into an apple, remember that what you’re eating is an ovary. The idea from the plant’s point of view is that an animal will eat the entire sweet, juicy fruit and walk a distance away before defe-cating out the seeds. Seeds reach the ground with ready-made fertilizer, and the plant has success-fully spread its genes. Human-cultivated fruit has bypassed some of these evolutionary mech-anisms, with worrying re-sults. The most common type of banana is called the Cavendish banana, a seed-less banana first cultivat-ed in the 1860s. In order to propagate more trees, farmers have to carefully remove and transplant the underground stem where they want the new plant to go. When Panama disease, a fungal infection, near-ly wiped out the entire ba-nana population of the popular Gros Michel strain, breeders scrambled to find a new type of banana that was resistant to the disease. The result was the Dwarf Cavendish, a strain chosen for its hardiness and ease of transport rather than supe-

rior taste. Thankfully, we learned our lesson by ... uh, making all of these bananas clones of each other. Well, live and learn. Researchers have learned their lesson some-what, as they are working to make resistant hybrids that are still tasty enough for the mass market. Some species of plant are much more resistant to be-ing eaten, and in fact are sometimes the ones doing the eating. Take a species of pitch-er plant, Darlingtonia cal-ifornica. This plant is also called the cobra lily for its almost predatory trick-ery. The basic strategy of the pitcher plant is to lure hapless insects inside of its container, which is full of digestive juices. Why can’t the bug just fly out again, if they man-age to get out of the dead-ly liquid fast enough? Well, the inside of the container is slippery, first of all. It also

has clear ar-eas, like lit-tle win-dows. The fly jumps up to what it thinks is an escape route,

bumps against the wall and falls back into the liquid. Rinse and repeat un-til the insect is dead. Plants are more diabolical than we give them credit for. Most plants aren’t car-nivorous and are just con-tent to grow and spread their genes. This must in-volve some strategy as well, though. The leaves are the organs that absorb the most sunlight; if the plant grows in the deep for-est and ends up covered by shade, how can they get the sunlight that they so des-perately need? They either must grow huge leaves (which is of-ten what you’ll see in the deep underbrush of a trop-ical rainforest) or they must change where the leaves grow. It’s difficult to see in real time, but if you’re able to find fast-motion growth of a plant on YouTube, find one and watch it. You’ll no-tice that often, the stem will grow in one direction, stop, then take a stem in a dif-ferent direction. This is of-ten because the original stem wasn’t getting enough sunlight and it just wasn’t worth the energy it would take to completely grow it. Roots do this, too. When a plant is just starting to grow its roots, they usu-ally spread in all direc-tions. Soon enough, they find that one location hap-pens to have more nutri-ents than another. The sec-tion of roots in the low-nu-trient place will die, and the plant now has more energy to spread in the place with the highest nutrition. So when you look at a plant, remember that you’re looking at one of nature’s most strategical organisms.

AMY STEWART can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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you’re eating is an ovary

By ERIC C. LIPSKYAggie Science writer

A new study by UC San Francisco researchers indi-cates that the drug varen-icline, a drug used to help stop smoking, can be used to reduce drinking. Varenicline, commonly known by the brand name Chantix, has been FDA-approved since 2006 for helping people to stop smok-ing, but only recently did the researchers theorize that the drug could reduce alco-hol consumption and began testing the drug on rats. After yielding results that indicated this drug could be effective in reducing drink-ing, human testing was done and a significant re-

duction in heavy drinking was found. Howard Fields, professor of neurology at UCSF and director of the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, and his colleagues split the participants into two groups and gave one group a place-bo and the other group va-renicline. He said that they started seeing results around the third week of testing. “We didn’t know what we were going to find,” Fields said. “We thought we would see something similar to the rat reduction.” The results confirmed the researchers’ hypothesis. Fields believes the drug to be a great treatment for

By BRIAN RILEYAggie Science Writer

Last July a NASA-sponsored space-craft called “Dawn” slipped into or-bit about the first of its planned des-tinations — the asteroid Vesta, which is the second-largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. About 5 percent of meteor-ites recovered after falling to earth are believed to have come from Vesta’s surface. The Asteroid Belt is the name giv-en to hundreds of thousands of as-teroids, both large and small, that or-bit the Sun in a band of space that stretches partway between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Were the asteroids once a planet in the past that broke apart? “Quite the opposite,” said Christopher T. Russell, the principal investigator of the Dawn mission. “The material tried to accumulate into a planet but never was able do so.” Russell coordinates and directs the science aspects of the Dawn mission as a part of his work as a professor in the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UC Los Angeles. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena is in charge of the actu-al operation and flight of the space vehicle. Elizabeth Palmer is a first-year graduate student who is working as a research assistant under Russell’s guidance at UC Los Angeles. She studied astronomy as an under-graduate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, but ended up deciding that planetary science was a better fit for what she wanted to do. She was able to find a planetary science internship at JPL. While at JPL, Palmer began learn-ing about the technique of interpret-ing radar signals which have been bounced or grazed off the surface

of a planetary body and received on Earth. She hopes to be able to do the same type of work interpreting mi-crowave transmissions from Dawn that have grazed the surface of Vesta in order to determine aspects of Vesta’s make-up, such as whether ice is present on the surface and in what amount. “It’s an opportunistic experiment that’s not perfect, since it’s hard to alter such concrete mission plans to the way that would be most ideal for our microwave experiment to work best,” Palmer said. “We are just wait-ing and hoping the geometry will work at some point.” If Dawn is able to successfully graze signals off Vesta, which are then suc-cessfully received here, Palmer will be able to compare that data with ex-perimental data obtained from me-teorites found on Earth. This min-eral material was likely knocked off Vesta’s surface as a result of ancient

collisions in space. Dawn gets its name from its prima-ry purpose, which is the study of our solar system’s early history. Russell often stresses that he views Dawn as being a kind of time machine trav-eling back in time, since both Vesta and Dawn’s second target, Ceres, have likely preserved evidence of the Solar System’s formation in the con-tours of their crust and in their com-position. Both Vesta and Ceres were formed 4.6 billion years ago. Dawn is currently scheduled to leave Vesta in August later this year and enter orbit about Ceres, the largest asteroid, in February 2015. According to Russell, it is the long-term thrust enabled by Dawn’s effi-cient ion-propulsion system which made the mission cost-effective and a visitation to two asteroids possible as a project goal.

BRIAN RILEY can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

By HUDSON LOFCHIEAggie Science Writer

Our technological prowess is increasing every day, but the machines we use are still limited by the knowledge that the design-ers put into them. Researchers have started experimenting with a branch of computer science called “machine learning,” where computers can learn and adapt. The name evokes sinister Terminator imagery, but re-searchers at UC San Diego have been using machine learning to develop the most ad-vanced music search engine ever created. The researchers are using the same methodology in their system as hospitals use to train new doctors. “When doctors learn how to diagnose diseases, they are trained to find pat-terns in patient data that indicate which disease the patient has. With many pa-tients, patterns begin to emerge,” said Gert Lanckriet, a professor of electrical engi-neering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. People identify music by its character-istics, just like doctors identify diseases based on symptoms; is it jazz, rock or dub-step? Is it happy or sad, slow or fast, ener-gizing or relaxing, piano or saxophone? The researchers started with a library of about 13,000 songs in their program, called Herd It, and started labeling each song with tags like those above. The program would then

analyze patterns in the music and associ-ate those patterns with the tags. As more songs were tagged, Herd It be-gan to learn for itself what patterns con-stituted each genre or style, and it began to make its own tag suggestions. The re-

searchers would simply confirm or reject the program’s suggestions. The more data Herd It received from confirmations and rejections, the better it became at suggest-ing tags. “The algorithms continuously adapt,”

said Doug Turnbull, a graduate student working in Lanckriet’s lab on the project. “People labeled music for us in the fun context of a game. People label the song with any tag [they think is appropriate] and we use the most common ones.” The music streaming service Pandora already does something similar. However, Pandora pays music experts to label songs. Each expert at Pandora takes about 30 minutes to tag each song by hand, making Pandora’s process very expensive. As such, Pandora has only about 900,000 songs in their library, compared to the near 20 mil-lion in the iTunes library. Herd It is an AI (artificial intelligence) that can tag any song it encounters in a matter of seconds, using plain english ter-minology to describe genre, feelings and settings. It does the same thing that paid musicologists do, but cheaper, faster and in simpler terms. The program works by ana-lyzing the waveform of a song and identi-fying patterns in the frequencies that are indicative of each tag. The machine learning process is a con-tinuous feedback loop. Users confirm or reject the program’s predictions, the ma-chine learns something, and then it refines its predictions for the next guess. Every lit-tle bit of input from a user refines the algo-rithms’ accuracy on its future guesses.

Smoking drug effective in treating drinking

‘It would save hundreds of lives every year’

Spacecraft “Dawn” reaches the Asteroid Belt

Mission begins exploring asteroid Vesta

Crowdsource for truly unique musical experiencesResearchers create the ultimate personalized music search engine

courtesyScreenshot of Herd It game.

courtesyNASA model of asteroid Vesta.

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courtesyCould anti-smoking drug help curb drinking?

By KIM CARRAggie Sports Writer

Exhausted but exhilarat-ed, the newly reigning National Champion UC Davis’ Women’s Club lacrosse team walked past a sign that read, “I learned to win by learning to lose.” “I feel like that quote real-ly summed up our season,” said freshman goalkeeper Amy Corstorphine. A few weeks ago, UC Davis did not even know if they would be seeded at the US Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates (WCLA) Division I National Championship Tournament. It had been a rough season featuring some tough losses, as the Aggies had suffered

all eight of their defeats by a sin-gle goal. “Every game we lost was by one point which is really frus-trating,” said junior midfielder Molly Fensterwald. “When you lose by one point, it really kills you mentally.” However, those losses would ultimately fuel a fire, the likes of which UC Davis lacrosse has nev-er seen before. UC Davis entered the National Championship Tournament seeded 10th and defeated Texas in the first round. The Aggies then faced against the No. 2 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos in the quarterfinals, where UC Davis fought back from a five-point deficit to win by one in a thrilling overtime finish.

At that point, UC Davis had surpassed the expectations of everyone. “We’ve never made that far so I think was a huge breakthrough,” said Corstorphine. Senior attacker Lauren Colby shared those sentiments. “When I joined the team as a freshman Nationals wasn’t even a word in our vocabulary because we had never even gotten close to earning a bid,” she said. UC Davis was matched up against third-ranked Michigan for the semi-final match. The team came together to pull off anoth-er thrilling overtime win, earning a bid to the WLCA Div. I National Championship. Defending champions and number one seed Colorado State

was riding a 14-game win streak as they faced off against UC Davis. “We prepared for that game,” Colby said. “We dissected their defense and we knew exactly what we had to do to win. “We watched film and came up with strategies and we just went out there and played. Everything came together and it was the best way to end the season.” The Aggies fought hard in the first half but Colorado State was still holding a 6-5 lead at the half. “We were down at half but we never gave up and pulled together in the second half,” Fensterwald said. “It was the best we have ever played.” Fensterwald lit up like a fire-cracker in the second half. She scored three consecutive goals to pull the Aggies to an 8-7 lead with just 13 minutes remaining in the half. While Fensterwald exploded on the offensive side of the ball, Corstorphine refused to let any-thing enter her goal. CSU had an average of 19.3 goals per game throughout the rest of the tournament but Corstorphine and the Aggie defense held them to seven on the day, and only one in the second half. “The defense really came to-gether in the second half. We were playing as a unit and the com-munication was really strong,” Corstorphine said. Corstorphine was also quick to mention that the strong defen-sive performance in the second half was aided by the Aggie of-fense who simply refused to give CSU any chances to score. With UC Davis up by two points, the attackers managed to maintain possession of the ball for 12 of the last 13 minutes of the game. “Stalling is something we’ve practiced all season. There is no shot clock in lacrosse so you can keep the ball for as long as you want, as long as you don’t lose

possession,” said Colby. “I think we all were so sick and tired of losing by one point that we played our hearts out and refused to be second best,” said Colby. As the last few seconds ticked off the clock, the Aggies realized that they were about to finish their season in a well-deserved movie script fashion. “We definitely came in as the underdogs and to win — it was just great,” Fensterwald said. “We had all the California teams on our side rooting for us and it just gave us the energy to keep work-ing hard.” “It was 20 smart girls playing the best lacrosse I’ve ever seen them play ... That’s what it takes to win a national championship,” said head coach Eric Valois. UC Davis graduates seven se-niors this year but Colby is con-fident that the team will continue to succeed in the coming years. “When I joined as a freshman it was an up-and-coming club. Now we’ve won and it’s been a great opportunity for our team to be recognized by the lacrosse com-munity as a whole,” Colby said. “It puts us in a great spot to show the nation what our club is all about.” In addition to their National Championship title, UC Davis earned several All-Division I team honors. Three Aggies made the All-Division team and Fensterwald earned Most Outstanding Midfielder Honors while Corstorphine was named Most Outstanding Goalkeeper. While the Aggies are looking forward to a little rest before next season, they will not be coming down from the clouds any time soon. “Seriously no amount of screaming could express the ex-citement we all felt when we won. It was absolutely crazy,” Colby said.

KIM CARR can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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By DOUG BONHAMAggie Sports Writer

The date April 16, 2010 will forever be re-membered as the day that athletics changed forever at UC Davis. On that day, due to a $1.4 million budget deficit, four sports – men’s wrestling, men’s indoor track, men’s swimming and women’s rowing – were per-manently cut by the university. With two years passing since that fateful day, only one sport, women’s rowing, has survived to compete as a club team. Although the squad has faced numerous struggles from funding to team member-ship, the stability given by upperclassmen and head coach Carissa Adams has allowed UC Davis women’s rowing to continue the program’s successful legacy. The pro-gram, which won back-to-back Division II national championships in 2002 and 2003, hopes to augment their success this weekend at the Division I level when they compete at the 2012 American Collegiate Rowing Association Championships in Gainesville, Ga. The journey to Memorial Day Weekend’s Championships has been an eventful one for the women’s rowing program. After dis-covering that the 73-member team had been cut, players and coaches faced a crit-ical decision about what to do. With an an-nual operating budget of roughly $75,000, large concerns loomed over whether the team could be sustained as a club program. Following numerous fundraisers and peti-tions, the team was finally adopted by the university’s club sports program. “The hardest part about being a club team is managing a budget,” says junior rower Brianna Bieghle. “Although the team held fundraisers when it was ICA, we rely heavily on it to keep our team functioning [now].” Team membership was hit espe-cially hard by the transition from an Intercollegiate Athletics program to a club sport. Although rowers would not lose their scholarships and priority registration, only 11 members returned to the team in the program’s first club season in large part due to the increased financial pressure on team members. With women’s rowing no longer being part of ICA, some members, like current team captain senior Danika Reddick, even considered joining another club team. “I looked at going to other teams,” said Reddick. “[But] I chose to stay with it be-cause ... [no other sport] had the combo

that rowing had which is team and athletic intensity.” Although just a club team these past two years, UC Davis women’s rowing – thanks to their successful history – has been able to compete and succeed in the premier rowing events around the country at the Division I level. In last year’s ACRA national champion-ships, all three competing UC Davis boats medaled as the Aggies brought home a gold, silver and bronze medal against teams that were fully funded by their universities. As well, head coach Carissa Adams was recog-nized as the 2011 ACRA Western Regional Coach of the Year. Much of the program’s success is due to the unchanging culture that the coach-es and upperclassmen continue to instill. Great dedication is still needed by the cur-

rent 38-member team as players have practice at the Port of Sacramento from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. six days a week. “It’s a commitment,” says Reddick. “[It’s] different than other club teams because for this one, if you’re not there every day, the eight other people in your boat can’t go out.” The high standards of the program continued to pay off this year as wom-en’s rowing worked hard to maintain a strong foundation for future success. At this year’s Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association (WIRA) Championships, the novice team finished second in the grand final — beating rival Sacramento State and losing to first-place Gonzaga by less than a second. “The upperclassmen that were on the team before it became a club sport are

valuable to the team,” said freshman rower Erin Glasspool. “They are really hard work-ers … and are there if we need help.” With UC Davis’ varsity eight-person team ranked fifth in the nation in ACRA’s May rankings, the future of this once-seem-ingly dead program is bright. Fundraising continues to be successful as coin drives, bowl-a-thons and many other efforts allow the team to cover over 50 percent of the costly program. In addition, with the help of reserve funds and additional fundrais-ers, the team hopes to buy a new boat in the next couple of years. “There’s a sense of pride,” says Reddick. “The other three teams that were cut [are] not here anymore so we’re really lucky to be able to continue.”

DOUG BONHAM can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

Staying afloatWomen’s rowing continues success in second year as club team

courtesy of Danika Reddick

UC Davis Rowing has continued as a club sport despite being cut as an ICA program in 2010.

Underdog Aggies take National titleTenth seed UC Davis pulls off series of upsets in national tournament

courtesy of Brett Colby

UC Davis Women’s Club Lacrosse won the WCLA National Championship over Colorado State.

Once the program has cor-rectly identified songs, it adds the song name to a database with its related tags. Currently, Herd It uses between 200 and 300 tags to identify music, but it will soon use close to 1000. According to the research-ers, the machine learning was not the most impressive part of this project. Instead, the

most unique feature was the use of crowdsourcing to cre-ate training data for a comput-er program, where humans are teaching a machine. The final goal is for Herd It to not just identify a music type, but to identify the preferences of a listener, even if the listen-er is not consciously aware of those preferences. By analyz-ing listening patterns, Herd It will be able to give you the best possible match for your next song.

For Luke Barrington, founder of the UC San Diego Computer Audition Lab where Herd It was created, the advantage of Herd It is that people can search for music in natural language, rather than technical jargon. “[Herd It] describes any piece of music in human words,” Barrington said. “You give [Herd It] words, it gives you music.”

HUDSON LOFCHIE can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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like that or grill like that. It’s grilled on an open fire, over mesquite that gives it that fla-vor and extra smokiness that people prefer.

The Aggie: What types of ingredients are used in your other recipes?Bozcagna: Arabic food uses lots of salt be-cause it’s meant to withstand certain con-ditions, like those of a workman’s schedule. The food is generally kept in a warm place in the sun, so the food has to measure up to certain standards. It’ll have a lot of gar-lic and olive oil and salt. In our kitchen, staying healthy is a concern so many of our products are healthy in the classical sense. We have a lot of items that are vegan; for in-stance, people always think the hummus has cream or something higher in fat in it, but it really is just that texture without it. It’s an easy way to trick your body into eating something that is good for it.

their storyThe Aggie: The birth of the company was over 25 years ago. How has it developed

since then?Bozcagna: It’s sort of an oral tradition. There are legal traces of it, but most of what I know is what I’ve been told. The or-igins were when the Panahi family moved from Persia to France, which is where I’m assuming some of these recipes matured and where some of those special egg-plants were picked up. The French connec-tion had a very big impact on how the food tastes. So they lived there for a number of years before coming to the United States, to California because it’s similar to that per-fect part of the world.

The Aggie: How did the inspiration come to start a food business?Bozcagna: In the Middle East, baking bread is a special bonding ritual. It’s a way to know the person and to know respect; it has a specific social function. You eat it a certain way, at a certain time. [After the move to the U.S.] this passion came back, and Affi de-cided that she wanted to have a food com-pany, and started a catering business. [The movement into the Farmers Market] was a natural evolution; it happened very quick-ly. They decided Farmers Markets made the most sense, as we are a farmer’s com-

pany. Today, the main focus is the Farmers Market.

serving suggestionsThe Aggie: What are some of your favorite products and how do you like to use them?Bozcagna: The one that I’ve used the most is the olive walnut tapenade. It’s super usable — sandwiches, salads, with goat cheese, you can make pasta and throw that on for a 10-minute lunch ... it really takes no time at all, it’s like comparatively very healthy fast food. I’ve used so much of it I think I’ve overused it. So for a while I’ve been in-fatuated with the lemon hummus. There’s no garlic, meaning you can eat it anytime, with a bagel in the morning. It won’t upset your stomach like it does to some people. Super healthy and super tasty. But what I keep around all the time is the Aubergine, not just because I like it, but because oth-er people like it.

The Aggie: It always comes back to the Aubergine.Bozcagna: It’s a very easy way to please foodies. Nine out of 10 people that have tasted it say that they like it. Throw it over pasta or just use it as a dip. It goes really

well with goat cheese; it’ll highlight it well because the flavors have such a stark con-trast. Spread it on something Italian like pizza, or sandwiches. It just brightens ev-erything up. I think people are genetically programmed to like whatever’s in it.

At the davis Farmers MarketThe Aggie: You have your products at sever-al Farmers Markets in northern California. Is there anything about the Davis market in particular that makes you look forward to coming here each time?Bozcagna: It’s a very special market for our company. Davis has this very vintage feel to it. Besides the fact that the market’s been there for a long time and had the time to mature and grow, you can feel that the market has been there for a long time. For the people that work there, it is like family, because they’ve been there forever. It’s a more pleasant Whole Foods. There’s a nexus of common custom-ers that I know by name who I don’t have to ask them what they want, I just hand them the regular. It’s a very special place; if you want to meet the nicest people in a neighborhood, go to the Davis Farmers Market.

LANI CHAN can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

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By STEPHANIE B. NGUYEN

Aggie News Writer

Rachel Goldstein, 2010 alumna in international relations, researcher and coordinator at the Center for Regional Change, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science

The Aggie: What are you wearing? Goldstein: “The booties are from Nordstrom. I’m wear-ing J Brand mid-rise capri jeans in ‘cafe’ and my shirt is from American Apparel. My watch is Casio and my lipstick is called ‘Red’ by Bobbi Brown. My bag is vintage Dooney & Burke.”

How did you decide what to wear today? “I had no idea what to wear this morning. I was in a rush, and it’s air conditioned in my office, so I had to wear layers. These booties are my go-to.”

Where do you find inspiration?“Urban people watch-ing. Just getting out of Davis and spending the day hanging out in San Francisco.”

What’s your favorite item in your closet?“Probably my chunky heel platform gray booties that I got in Berlin.”

STEPHANIE B. NGUYEN can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

By CHELSEA MEHRAAggie Features Writer

Carlos P. from Honduras was abandoned by his mother when they lost their home and she fled to the United States. He stayed with his grandmother until she passed away in bed next to him. Carlos’ historical-ly absent father came to pick him up at the funeral, but only a week later his dad was shot 12 times by gang members in front of Carlos’ face.

Living on the streets for months, Carlos finally got a job at a market with his dad’s friend, who helped him cross over to Mexico and then Los Angeles. Still, Carlos had no money or food and resorted to sleeping at bus stops. The happiest day of his life, he explains, was seeing and reunit-ing with his mother at a street light while begging for a hot dog.

This is just one of many devastating sto-ries written by incarcerated, immigrant youth and displayed at UC Davis’ Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) Awareness event last week on May 15.

Founded in 2009 by UC Davis alum-na Alison Jebrock, YEP provides a network of college student mentors to immigrant youths detained in Yolo County Juvenile Hall.

At the awareness event, the lights in Griffin Lounge were dimmed, save for the few spotlights on poems, art and stories posted on black poster board. Members of YEP, formally known as YEP’ers, were also clad in all-black formal attire as maybe an-other way to turn the attention off of them and onto the otherwise hidden tales of dis-placed adolescents.

“We held this event to give them a voice. It’s bringing light, letting students know that there are kids of the same age going through so much worse, and just because we aren’t, others are,“ said YEP’er and sophomore sociology major Anissa Ruiz.

Growing up with a lot of immigrant youth and attending high school right by the Mexican border, Ruiz can remember a time when kids would come to school at 4 a.m. every day, attend classes and com-

mute back home to Mexico. The idea of straddling two different lives

is a familiar one to many UC Davis YEP leaders. Their motivations for joining the program and mentoring undocument-ed children at the Yolo County Juvenile Detention Center are varied, but all agree upon a positive message: There is oppor-tunity for life outside of prison.

“I was born in U.S. but I still consider myself a Mexican immigrant — I am stuck between two cultures. I know that I’m doc-umented, but there are individuals, in-cluding people in my family, who can’t en-joy common rights like education,” said se-nior Chicano studies major Jose Pedroza. “My biggest message to these kids is, ‘Hey, you might be in here right now but one day you’re going to walk out. When you do, I want you to know there’s a better life for you. All you have to do is look for it, work for it, and know to take advantage of it.’”

Current YEP President and senior American studies major Roxanne Calimeris gets giddy when she speaks about “her kids” and inspiration for joining the move-ment. Her flaming red hair practically lights on fire from the excitement she gets out of visiting the youth.

“YEP is just looking for all the love we can get. The moment someone comes out and hears what we’re doing – teach-ing lesson plans to dispossessed kids, listening to what they have to say, be-friending them – they are immediate-ly hooked,” Calimeris said. “We aspire to do something about their situation, to help advance their trials by providing them with enough knowledge to know that if they get deported, they can’t come back to the States for life but that they have the option to voluntarily de-port themselves and come back within 10 years.”

When asked what the children get out of the program, she retorts “You mean, what do we get out of them!”

Program Leader and junior international relations major Daniel Kent said that they often feel like the kids teach them more about life than they teach the kids.

“It’s amazing how much my own journey has changed because of these kids I men-tor. They probably don’t fully understand their effect on us, but I feel odd at times because it seems like the relationship can be very uneven at times. Their impact on me feels like it’s in greater proportion to my impact on them,” Kent said.

As you walk around the room and take in the sights, there are certain jarring im-ages. A painting of a child being choked by letters and numbers reads, “Words hurts. Verbal abuse is still abuse.” Another is an intricate sketch of a boy sitting in court, and the caption explains that a youth on trial for MS13, the violent Mexican Los Angleles-based gang, asked for the tip of a pen when they refused to give him any writing utensil. He spent his entire trial drawing with the small ink point absolute-ly detailed images.

Priscila Mendoza, another YEP’er and junior international relations major, closed the event by taking apart the word “immi-grant.” Her message was that it’s hardly a foreign word, for at one point we can all re-late to these young immigrants.

YEP’ers hope the event brings awareness to a typically overlooked group of people in the U.S. Their optimistic message serves as a reminder that there are multiple ways of looking at difference, they said.

“If you break the word ‘immigrant’ down, you get migrant. We can all consider our-selves a migrant, someone who has in one way or another been displaced and a trav-eler. When I broke the word down a second time, I thought it was neat it had the word ‘grant.’ To me, it means to bestow, to give, to agree or confer. The next time you hear the word ‘immigrant,’ think about that,” Mendoza said.

CHELSEA MEHRA can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

Youth Empowerment Program shares immigrants’ stories

Incarcerated children mentored by students

courtesy of Andres Gonzalez

UC Davis’ Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) members Silvia Vargas (far right) and Jose Pedroza discuss artwork made by children in Yolo County Juvenile Hall.

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drinking. He hopes that people will read the paper he and his col-leagues published and use the drug to treat heavy drinking. One of the options patients have currently is to ask their doc-tors to write them a prescription of the drug to see if it helps. Fields said that the medical in-dustry, in general, is “pretty con-servative,” meaning doctors may be reluctant to prescribe the drug at first. Although it will probably take a

larger clinical study for the drug to gain approval for drinking by the FDA, Fields believes the drug is safe and effective. Varenicline can have some side effects, including nausea and heartburn. Fields also said that there is a black box warning of se-vere mood changes and suicid-al thoughts, though the role of va-renicline in these side effects is unclear. However, these side effects don’t deter Fields from recommending the drug. “It would save hundreds of lives every year if it [Varenicline] were being used widely,” Fields said.

Fields said that a good, large study might allow professionals to publish a guideline that will help physicians know to prescribe the drug to their patients. “We’d like to see more people quit heavy drinking, but there’s not much we can do about it,” Fields said. “There are a lot of hur-dles from the time a drug is dis-covered to be effective.” Fields said that one of the rea-sons the drug might go unnoticed in the beginning is due to the fact most doctors won’t see the results just yet because they don’t have the time to read every journal. Jennifer Mitchell, clinical proj-

ect director at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center in San Francisco, also believes that the drug is effective and that pa-tients can get the drug from their physicians. “The FDA will reconsider [ap-proving for treating drinking] once there is enough evidence,” Mitchell said. “Physicians can pre-scribe it ‘off-label’; it doesn’t mean you can’t get it for drinking.” Mitchell said that the drug can also bring new hope to people that have tried treatment for drinking before. Mitchell believes that people need to focus more on the “enor-

mous societal effects” of drinking. “People don’t realize that there are drugs out there that can help,” Mitchell said. “They need to take control of their own destinies.” According to the UC Davis Medical Center (UCDMC), drink-ing can have profound effects on the body. “Long term use [of alcohol] can cause cancer, brain damage, cir-rhosis of the liver, weight gain and birth defects if drinking while pregnant,” the UCDMC website states.

ERIC C. LIPSKY can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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