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Whole Earth Festival approaches, planning is in full swing

Who’s your favorite

professor?

Rominger West Winery to put a cork in it

Universities turn to lecturers in place of tenured faculty during hard times

This week is the last chance to view live music at the winery

Awards give students a chance to highlight outstanding

educators

Karma Patrol currently seeking new volunteers

UC Davis proves to be exception

By DYLAN GALLAGHERAggie News Writer

From May 11 to 13, the UC Davis Quad will become home to the 43rd an-nual Whole Earth Festival.

For this event, which is a unit of ASUCD, a variety of local food vendors, performers, alternative-living educa-tors and more will gather to both enter-tain and educate students about the val-ues of living sustainably. Although there are several activities meant to entertain the festival-goers such as arts and crafts booths, live musicians and even mas-sage tables, at the core of the festival is the goal of preserving the planet.

“Both on campus and off campus we try and bring people together who are linked by the common goal of wanting to keep the earth a long-lasting place for us,” said Willee Roberts, a senior in-ternational relations major and Karma Patrol Supporter for the festival.

As a Karma Patrol Supporter, Roberts

By MAX GARRITY RUSSERAggie News Writer

Every so often there is a teacher who ex-tends office hours a precious two hours before the day of the midterm or sparks a communication major’s interest in organ-ic chemistry that leads to an unexpected minor.

The 10th annual ASUCD Excellence in Education Awards aim at making sure these educators are noticed and honored for their service. The awards are run and funded by the ASUCD Academic Affairs Commission (AAC). Students who put on the event hope to give their undergraduate peers a chance to show appreciation for the teachers and professors who go above and beyond when it comes to instructing.

“We want to celebrate those teachers who we think are really dedicated toward teaching,” said Annemarie Stone, junior English major and ASUCD AAC Chair.

“Because we go to a research universi-ty, I’m sure everybody’s had a professor that they could tell was here for mainly re-search, and we really want to cherish those professors who have found a good balance and really dedicate a lot of their time to-ward students.”

Undergraduate students are the only in-dividuals involved in nominating and ul-timately deciding who will receive the awards.

Teachers and professors are first nar-rowed down to a winner for each college within UC Davis through student nomina-tions. These finalists are then interviewed for the top award.

“We’ve had professors from various col-leges and divisions win the Excellence in Education Award,” said Jessica Jaswal, se-nior psychology major and AAC member, in an e-mail interview. “Generally the pro-fessors that win the award are highly distin-guished by students and colleagues. They go above and beyond their role as a professor and mentor for their students.”

The awards are extremely broad in who is capable of winning, giving graduate stu-dent TAs just as much of a chance as ten-ured professors.

“If they are in front of a classroom dissem-inating knowledge, they can win,” Stone said.

Students have in the past enjoyed the awards and the impact that it has upon teachers and professors.

“I went to the awards ceremony last year,” said Marcel Bernucci, a second-year biolog-ical chemistry major. “I felt like the profes-sors that attended really felt like they had been noticed.”

Any student can nominate an educator of their choosing until Sunday. The online form to nominate a teacher or professor can be found at asucd.ucdavis.edu.

The awards are set for late May with an exact location and date to be announced.

MAX GARRITY RUSSER can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

By PAAYAL ZAVERIAggie News Writer

By the end of Saturday, the Rominger West Winery will be shutting down. The busi-ness, located in East Davis on Second Street, was founded in 2006. Over the years it has host-ed many concerts, fundraisers and other community events. The Winery was founded by Mark West and the late Charlie Rominger. Rominger grew grapes and West produced the wine. Rominger and his broth-er were involved with agricul-ture in the region for many years before the partnership started. “I was working in Napa and I met Charlie because I started buying grapes from him and we became good friends and decided we wanted to set up a company that would show-case the quality of his fruit. And we could use the compa-ny and resources to support the community,” West said. From the beginning, the winery was geared toward serving the community. They held many concerts at the venue featuring musicians and various bands from the area. Additionally, they held fundraisers for the Davis High School and other causes. The company suffered a set-

back in 2006 when co-found-er Charlie Rominger passed away from cancer. His broth-er Bruce Rominger then took over the grape-growing and they were able to keep the company afloat. However, even though the winery was heavily involved in the community, their wine sales did not reach the pro-jected amount. “One of the great things about this company is that they try to be sustainable for economics, soci-ety and the environment, so they did a really great job incorporat-ing sustainability into the envi-

ronment,” said Jennifer Kilroy, a staff member at Rominger West Winery. “The reason we’re really closing is because we can’t be ec-onomically sustainable and not enough people from the com-munity come to us on a regu-lar basis. We sized this place to make upwards of 6,000 cases and right now we’re only selling 1,500 a year.” The winery is known for holding weekly live music events Wednesday through Saturday, and this is the last week the events will be held. Wine-In-Wednesdays will fea-ture the local band Souterrian,

who will perform from 7 to 9 p.m. This event is more geared toward the college crowd. Happy Thursdays are from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. On Thursday, the winery will host the Mike Justis band. Friday Night Live will fea-ture artist Elizabeth Busch, who will perform from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The final event is the Last Saturday event. This April, the focus of Last Saturday is stay-ing green and being sustain-able. There will be vendors from noon to 5 p.m. and live music from 2 to 5 p.m. All events are free and open to everyone; only those over 21 can get drinks. “The winery closing means an end to all these great live music events. I always enjoyed attending them and it will tru-ly be missed,” said sophomore genetics major Robyn Lindsay. Managing staff at the winery is still looking for a potential buyer to take over the company. “We really enjoyed being here and being a part of the community. We’re just sad that we weren’t able to become fi-nancially stable, so we could continue serving the commu-nity,” West said.

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

By KELLEY REESAggie News Writer

A trend sweeping across U.S. uni-versities seems to have missed the University of California campus at Davis. The hiring of lecturers as a means of confronting budgetary con-cerns has yet to be implemented.

The U.S. Department of Education cites the national average of “part-time faculty” as nearly 41 percent — roughly a 9 percent increase from 1993.

In comparison, while a rise in both ladder facul-ty and teaching assistants has remained rather con-stant at UC Davis, the welcoming of lecturers has stalled and petered out over the past decade. In the 1997-98 school year Davis was home to 656 ladder faculty and 155 lecturers. Jump forward to this past year’s census and the number of lad-der faculty has increased to

880, while the number of lecturers has dropped to 138.

“Our campus certainly has no pol-icy of increasing the numbers of lec-turers at the expense of ladder-rank faculty,” said Vice Provost of Academic Affairs Maureen Stanton.

Concern has been raised over

the influx of lecturers at other insti-tutions, arising chiefly from the in-stability seen to accompany certain, particularly newly instituted, lectur-ing positions. Due to the inability to receive tenure, some have voiced the opinion that lecturers are not able to champion their beliefs regarding sensitive subjects, such as school reform or students’ rights.

The possible circum-stances of lecturers, such as those mentioned previ-ously, have not flown under the radar of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies Dean Jessie Owens.

“The Provost has estab-lished a task force to address

non-senate academic appoint-ments [which would include lec-turers],” Owens said. “I am chair-ing the task force, and expect that we will have draft recommen-dations for consideration by the entire campus ready during the summer.”

Jasna Hodzic / Aggie

Whole Earth Festival will be May 11 through 13. The drum circle is a popular activity at the festival.See WEF, page 2

Aaron Juarez / Aggie

Rominger West Winery was established in 2004 and first opend for business in 2006. It will be closing later this week.

SHAWCIng TIpSPrepare to be disgust-

ed: Many products we use every day, such as lipstick, gelatin, candy and shampoo, contain dye. Even some foods we eat contain dye. The disgusting part? Dyes such as carmine contain minuscule amounts of Dactylopius coccus, which is a beetle that can be found on cacti.

According to the World Health Organization, carmine has been known to be associated with asth-ma or allergic reac-tions. Individuals who are more susceptible to asthmatic attacks or even allergens should look out for terms such as “crimson lake,” Natural Red #4, E120 or cochineal dye in the in-gredients.

F o r t u n a t e l y , Starbucks Corporation recently released a statement saying that the carmine dye in many of their strawber-

ry-flavored foods will be replaced with lyco-pene, a tomato extract. It should be noted that not all food products contain the same co-chineal dye; others use Red Dye #40, which is extracted from petro-leum and also has side effects such as hyper-activity. Take a look at your food label — you might be surprised to see how many artificial and cochineal dyes you might find.

The ASUCD Student Health and Wellness Committee (SHAWC) aims to promote and address important health-related issues on campus. We serve as a li-aison between ASUCD and campus health or-ganizations, clubs and resources. If you have SHAWCing suggestions, questions or tips, please e-mail us at shawcucd@gmail.com and “Like” us on our Facebook page!

See DISpOSIBLE, page 2Irisa Tam / Aggie

Are you familiar with the phrase “happily ever after”? It’s often

used to conclude children’s classic stories, particularly the romantic kind featuring prince charmings and prin-cesses. Do you know which two-word phrase comes right after it? It’s the phrase “The End,” which signals to the reader that the story is over. There’s nothing left to question, to analyze or to anticipate. It’s the end of the story, and the end of the world you were tem-porarily im-mersed in. Unlike the fairy tales many of us grew up on, there are no neat conclusions in real life. There are no endings, be-cause everything builds on everything else. Real life is a lot more complicated and twisted and messy. The conclusions are either un-satisfactory or nonexistent. Take, for example, the sto-ry of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old boy who was shot by George Zimmerman in his Florida neighborhood on his way home. Martin was young, unarmed and carrying a bag of skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea. He was also a black male, wearing a hoodie, walking through a suburb after the sun had gone down. Although Zimmerman claimed to have shot Trayvon out of self-defense, many people across the na-tion and the world believe that he initiated the alter-cation that led to Trayvon’s death due to racial profil-ing. Many believe that the incident was a hate crime, and if not that, at the very least manslaughter. When it came to light that Zimmerman was a free man due to a techni-cality in Florida’s law that allows people to kill out of self-defense, outrage spread throughout the U.S., sparking protests, dem-onstrations and threats to Zimmerman’s life. The courts would ultimately de-cide his innocence or guilt, but why wasn’t the man even arrested? A young boy was dead and his killer was walking free. On April 11, Zimmerman

was finally arrested and of-ficially charged with sec-ond-degree murder, answer-ing the wishes of Trayvon Martin’s family and his sup-porters. If this was a chil-dren’s tale, the story would conclude at this point with a definitive “The End” or may-be even a “happily ever af-ter” preceding it, depend-ing on your viewpoint. But this is real life. On April 23, Zimmerman was released from jail on a $150,000 bond. He is once again a free man. The most recent events of the case fall under the recur-ring pattern of life, in which nothing ever really turns out the way you expect it to. In college, we’re faced with so many situations where we think that we can fi-nally make out the finish line, only to be thrown for a loop, and, of course, when we least expect it. We ques-tion the things that happen

to us and come up with few answers, if not more confusion. The pow-

er behind this challeng-ing time is that it forces us to keep pushing through and to confront the uncer-tainty. There’s so much to deal with: growing into or out of friendships, chang-ing as a person, finding out that you no longer want what you thought you want-ed out of life, learning about injustices in your country and abroad … as we come across unforeseen, often frustrating situations, we learn to accept the fact that there will be questions with-out the answers and begin-nings with no ends. In other words, we grow up. Through my personal ex-perience, I’ve learned that when you close a chapter or have an answer for every-thing, you’re attempting to deceive yourself in order to remain in the haven of cer-tainty. It’s too easy to set your sights on one endpoint and ignore all the other fac-tors that come into play. For some people, the ar-rest of Zimmerman was the cause for which they were championing. Those people will now have to re-evalu-ate what they see as the end goal. They will have to do it again after Zimmerman goes through trial, whatev-er the outcome is. Similarly, as college students, we are continuously challenged to redefine ourselves, our world and our goals, be-cause the things we’ll face tomorrow are based on our actions of today.

Contact PAMELA NONGA NGUE at pamnonga@ucdavis.edu.

Kick back, relax and imagine we’re taking a road trip together.

We don’t know each other well (the trip was organized through a mutual friend) so conversation is scarce. After exchanging the usu-al pleasantries about our majors and the weather, we sit in silence as you contin-ue to drive down the high-way. Then, without permis-sion, I reach over and grab your iPod and begin merci-lessly perusing your music library, oc-casionally laughing to myself and shaking my head. Are you stressed out by this hypo-thetical scenario? Are you amazed that hypotheti-cal Nolan is so rude and in-vasive? I am, and I was the one doing the perusing. I don’t think I’m alone in being overly protective of my musical preferences. And not protective in the confrontational “I’ll argue in defense of everything I’ve ever listened to” sense, but more in the “I change my iPhone password daily because my music is for my eyes and ears only” sense. Sound crazy? Alright, Courage McBravepants, try this one on for size. Go to a public place (say the CoHo or the next party you go to), hook your iPod up to some speakers, throw it on shuf-fle and see what happens. At a party, there’s always some-one that knows of a better song to play than the one you chose. At the CoHo, I imagine you’d be complete-ly ignored or you’d constant-ly be confronted about your music choices. This might sound radically different than our scenario in the car, but I don’t think it is. Both involve sharing music and both sound scary. The way I see it, it takes a truly brave soul to set your library to shuffle with-in earshot of strangers and an even braver one to let them look through it. I feel that eventually the wrong song will play or they’ll find some silly music, and rid-icule will certainly follow. I’m not sure if that’s true – that ridicule is a certain-ty – but I fear that it is. And

that’s enough to stop me from being the DJ in almost any situation. But where does this fear come from? Did I and ev-eryone that shares in my fear have some music-re-lated tragedy scar us in our youth, forever closing the doors of our music library to others? I don’t think so. Is it fear of confrontation or crit-icism in general? We all have our own opinions on sports, fashion, movies and life and don’t shy away from sharing those. Usually these opin-ions and arguments aren’t malicious, but they still invite criticism. So that’s not it either. What is it about music? Why is it different? For some reason, mu-sic holds an incredibly per-sonal and emotional stake in our lives. Books and mov-ies can also evoke emotional reactions – many tears have been shed in theaters and

others have stained the pages of books ev-erywhere – but mu-sic makes

emotional connections. We can hear songs and instant-ly travel back in time, live in memory even if it’s only for a moment. Hidden between the lyrics and melodies are thoughts and images that make us who we are, and each song added to our li-brary is another entry in the running diary of our lives. Some of us fear shar-ing our music because we fear sharing our lives like an open book. My reasons for liking a song or a band may not make sense to you. I might not even be able to express why I like it. My opinion may be baseless or could lack any artistic sen-sibility, but my music is mine just like my memories are mine. And if I like Lady Gaga because it reminds me of racing around in a Jeep on a cold night with a girl I used to know, that’s OK by me. But I fear it won’t be OK by you. I think that’s what it comes down to. Any con-nections we share with each other over a band or a song will be superfi-cial at best. I feel our mu-sic libraries are so personal and so emotionally irratio-nal that they should be im-mune to criticism. But the world has rarely been how I think it should be, so I keep my musical diary locked up. My memories are mine just like my music is mine, shared and cherished with a special few, and they’ll al-ways be myTunes.

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

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world Malaria day at Uc davis 20129 a.m. to 4 p.m.1041 ValleyIn recognition of World Malaria Day and in support of the Roll Back Malaria Program in promoting education and research in the fight against malaria, students and researchers at UC Davis engaged in vector biology and genetics research will come together to discuss their research. This free event is sponsored by the School of Veterinary Medicine and a National Institutes of Health, Institutional Training Grant in Vector Biology to UC Davis.

tibet Burning discussion2 to 4 p.m.217 ArtThe former prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile will lead a discussion about the resistance and repression in Tibet today.

dance dance davis4 to 6 p.m.Davis Art CenterIf you want to be part of a flashmob on May 9, go to this event for free dance lessons.

H.e.l.p. general club Meeting6 to 7 p.m.1130 HartGo to the H.E.L.P general meeting to learn about community service programs (i.e., feeding the homeless, tutoring foster children and more) and find out how to get involved in the community. The club will play a game of ultimate frisbee after the meeting.

Food addicts in recovery anonymous7 to 8:30 pmDavis 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.

Kp Meeting of the 43rd annual whole earth Festival7 to 8 p.m.Student Community Center (across from Chem 194/Bike Barn)Learn the history of the festival, reconnect with your loving community, schedule Non-Violence Training, explore KP responsibilities and discover a little bit about yourself.

French club cheese night7 to 9 p.m184 Young

Join the French Club for their cheese night.

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poetry in the garden: andy Jones and Bob StanleyNoon to 1 p.m.Wyatt Deck, Old Davis RoadThe UC Davis Arboretum invites fans of good writing and beautiful gardens to enjoy a reading by poets Andy Jones and Bob Stanley. Parking is available for $7 in Visitor Lot 5, at Old Davis Road and A Street. For more information, please call (530) 752-4880 or visit arboretum.ucdavis.edu.

Biomedical engineering Seminar Series4:10 to 5 p.m.1005 GBSFGo to this seminar to listen to Dr. Nicholas Kenyon give his lecture “Nitric Oxide at the Interface of Therapeutics and Biomarkers in Asthma.”

arts Versus Science debate8 to 9 p.m.UC Davis Conference CenterMartin Perl, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics, and his son, Jed Perl, art critic for The New Republic, will discuss the creative process in science and the arts. Their discussion will be moderated by Dean Simonton, distinguished professor of psychology at UC Davis. The event is free and open to the public.

Friday Folk Music Jam SessionNoon to 1 p.m.Wyatt Deck, Old Davis RoadJoin your fellow musicians for a little bluegrass, old-time, blues, Celtic, Klezmer, and world music over the lunch hour. All skill levels and listeners welcome. Parking is available for $7 in Visitor Lot 5, at Old Davis Road and A Street. For more information, please call (530) 752-4880 or visit arboretum.ucdavis.edu. tri-co-op garden partyNear Regan dorms1 to 3 p.m.Join some hippies for a gardening party at the student co-ops, on campus every friday. The tri-cooperative community is now seeking applicants for fall; everyone is welcome. Contact sjrush@ucdavis.eduwith any questions.

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At UC Davis, a professor may take one of two routes. The first, that of a lecturer, is focused solely on teach-ing as opposed to research and pub-lishing. Lecturers are granted merit-based pay raises with student evalua-tions constituting a significant role in this determination.

The second means, tenure-track or ladder-rank faculty, is differentiat-ed by a heavy emphasis on research and publishing — many a time com-ing before teaching abilities as an in-dication of tenure. Therefore, student evaluations factor little, if at all, in a professor’s ability to achieve such a

position.The two paths do have the possibil-

ity of intertwining. Owens explained that certain lecturers have the oppor-tunity to become members of the ac-ademic senate — tenure-track or ten-ured faculty.

Apart from questions arising over lecturers, some critics have com-mented on the use of graduate stu-dents as essentially cheap, readily available labor.

“Just as adjuncts are used for cost saving, grad student ‘readerships’ seem also to be used to cut costs,” said an English department graduate student.

Although those participating in readerships are generally given duties virtually identical to those of teach-

ing assistants, they receive half the sti-pend teaching assistants do.

And although the university may not be taking as severe a route as oth-er institutions when it comes to facing monetary concerns through decisions in faculty hiring, budgetary trepida-tion is far from over.

“Budget cuts have made it impos-sible to replace all ladder-rank faculty members when they retire,” Stanton said. “Until those positions can be filled, the campus uses many differ-ent mechanisms — including hiring lecturers, increasing teaching loads of remaining faculty and doing tem-porary recalls of retired ladder-rank faculty.”

KELLEY REES can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

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is partially responsible for the recruitment of the group of 400 volunteers, dubbed the Karma Patrol (KP), needed to work in the event’s various areas, in-cluding the performance stages, the kids’ space and the resource recovery zone where compost is sorted. Currently, Roberts and his fellow KP Supporters are working fervently to show students how their volunteer work is not only necessary for the festival’s operation, but an enjoyable and rewarding experience as well. “Volunteers get a very spe-cial experience,” Roberts said. “Aside from the perks of having a free meal ev-ery shift and getting a free T-shirt, they get to see the Quad transformed from a patch of grass to a very en-ergetic space.” Moreover, Roberts stressed the valuable les-sons about sustainability that the festival might teach both volunteers and visi-tors alike. The event strives to show attendees how pos-

sible it is to be “zero-waste,” or producing no landfill-bound garbage. In the past, roughly 97 percent of the waste from the festival has been recy-cled or composted each year. This is largely due to the use of reusable plates and eating utensils which are washed rather than thrown in the trash, as well as the strict monitoring of any waste products being brought into the festival by both vendors and visitors. Junior sustainable agri-culture and food systems major Lauren Cockrell, an-other KP Supporter, insist-ed that the festival’s legacy of sustainability and friend-liness could not be upheld without the assistance of student volunteers. “Volunteers are the life-blood of the festival,” Cockrell said in an e-mail interview. “All of our values as a festival – being truly ze-ro-waste, cultivating cre-ativity and compassion – are only possible because volunteers give their time and energy to the fest.” Volunteers play a crucial role in the operation of the festival, and as such they

reap a number of non-mon-etary benefits from their participation in the Karma Patrol. Besides receiving free meals and a Whole Earth Festival T-shirt for volunteer-ing at any of the stations, vol-unteers learn valuable skills and improve social connec-tions. According to Roberts, the Karma Patrol meetings and non-violence workshops give volunteers an oppor-tunity to bond while learn-ing valuable lessons on how to effectively and peaceful-ly manage conflicts that may arise during the event. Nonviolence is one of the many core values that KP Supporters teach new vol-unteers during training. All core values share the goal of fulfilling the festival’s pri-mary purpose: using art and other educational outlets to make students more pas-sionate about activism and the environment. Often it winds up being the volunteers themselves who become more avid activists and environmentalists. “Volunteering last year was really cool,” said Tyicia Deloney, a junior psycholo-gy major. “The environment was nice, everyone was

friendly, you didn’t have to be drunk to have fun, and it was enjoyable for all ages. It was a great experience.” Deloney intends to vol-unteer again this May. In a school year that has seen much campus con-troversy, Roberts stressed the festival’s importance in showing students and cam-pus visitors that UC Davis peers are capable of working together toward a common goal — in this case, protect-ing the environment. “It’s good to celebrate our alternatives,” Roberts said. “We need to show that we’re not just pissed off about something but that we can also present solutions.” Anybody interested in volunteering can sign up on the Whole Earth Festival’s website at wef.ucdavis.edu. Information about the fes-tival, including programs, is available on the festival’s website. Karma Patrol meetings occur each Wednesday at 7 p.m.; locations vary and can be found on the Whole Earth Festival website.

DYLAN GALLAGHER can be reached at dylaaaaan@gmail.com.

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&Science Technology wedneSday, april 25, 2012 3The california aggie

Last week, the subject of my column was of scientists being hon-

est but wrong. This week, I want to talk about the oth-er part of being wrong: being dishonest. Entire books can and have been filled with stories of infamous hoax-es by people with a variety of reasons (often money, some-times fame, occasionally to prove a pet theory). Here are a few of the most infamous scientific hoax-es through-out histo-ry. I only in-cluded the ones where people have definitive proof of de-ception and that actual-ly took place (urban legends don’t count). Piltdown Man: The Piltdown Man’s fame began in 1912, when Charles Dawson said at a paleontological meet-ing that he was given several fossil fragments by a workman at the Piltdown gravel pit. He took the finds to Arthur Smith Woodward, who was the geo-logical keeper of the British Museum. Woodward assem-bled the fragments and de-clared that it was a skull of an evolutionary “missing link” be-tween humans and apes due to its human-like cranium and its ape-like jaw. The hoax was not proper-ly exposed until 1953, when Kenneth Page Oakley, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark and Joseph Weiner proved that the skull was actual-ly composed of three spe-cies: a medieval human, a Sarawak orangutan (the jaw) and a chimpanzee (the teeth). The fossils looked much old-er due to chromic acid and an iron solution, which proves deliberate deception rath-er than putting together the wrong fossils. Though no one ever confessed to the hoax and there are actually sev-eral suspects, my money’s on Dawson working togeth-er with someone else; archae-ologists looking at Dawson’s collection found that nearly 40 of them were forgeries. Chess-Playing Robot: Simply put, the “Mechanical Turk” was a chess-playing ro-bot who looked like a Turkish man in traditional sorcerer’s garb. The Mechanical Turk was constructed in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen, a

Hungarian inventor trying to impress the Empress Maria Theresa. The Turk won the majority of the games that it played against many people at the original exhibition for the Empress. People continued to play against the Turk until its destruction by fire in 1854. The cabinet beneath the Turkish man looked like it was filled with cogs and gears; in fact, that was just the exposed outside of the cabinet. The in-side of the cabinet actual-ly contained a human chess master operating the Turk’s arms with levers and a voice box to declare, “Check.” Rabbit Mother: Mary Toft was a woman from Surry, England who, starting in 1726, gave birth to more than a doz-en rabbits. Apparently, dur-ing her pregnancy she be-came fascinated by a rabbit, and her miscarriage soon af-ter contained several rabbit parts. Reports soon reached the community, and then doc-tors, that several days later she gave birth to additional whole,

live rabbits. Well, not re-ally. Hopefully you don’t need me to tell you that. She man-aged to fool a significant

number of surgeons, includ-ing the surgeon of the Royal House of King George I. She was taken to London and in-tensely studied. She produced no more rabbits, confessed to the hoax and was jailed for fraud. The method of her madness soon became dis-gustingly apparent: After her initial miscarriage, while her cervix was still wide enough to allow it, an accomplice insert-ed the body and claws of a cat and the head of a rabbit. Her motive was most likely money; she claimed that a “traveling woman” had told her that if she pretended to give birth to rabbits, she would never need more money. How this could possibly happen is lost to his-tory and was known only to Toft. Dihydrogen Monoxide: Did you know that dihydro-gen monoxide is a chemical that is a major component of acid rain, contributes to the greenhouse effect, is fatal if inhaled and has been found in the tumors of terminal can-cer patients? Despite this, it’s still commonly used as cool-ant in nuclear power plants, as a fire retardant, in pesti-cides and as food additives! Since this hoax has been around since the mid 1990s and was widely publicized, I’m guessing many of you reading this already get the joke: Dihydrogen monox-ide is water. The list of “dan-gers” of dihydrogen monox-ide came from a group of col-lege students as a joke and to show how gullible people can be.

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

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By BRIAN RILEYAggie Science Writer

Nobel laureate Martin L. Perl, a professor emeritus in physics at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif., will be making a public presentation this Thursday at UC Davis along with his son, art critic Jed Perl. They will speak on the topic of the similarities and differences of the creative pro-cess in art and science.

Martin Perl was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for discovering a subatomic particle called the tau lepton. Perl will ad-dress the issue of creativity in art as opposed to creativity in science and engineering.

“How similar are they?” Martin asks. “What do you need to become a highly creative person or more cre-ative person?”

Jed Perl has authored a num-ber of nonfiction books on art criti-cism, including Eyewitness: Reports From An Art World In Crisis and Trevor Winkfield’s Pageant, a book about a one-of-a-kind, living art-ist whose paintings have been com-pared to music. He was the art crit-ic for Vogue and currently writes for The New Republic.

“Creativity has something to do with how a person puts together two different elements — the emo-tional element and the intellectu-al element,” Jed said. “The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that you have very different pro-cesses going on in the arts and the sciences.”

Dean Keith Simonton, a distin-guished professor in the UC Davis psychology department, will be the moderator. Simonton has written ex-tensively on the topics of genius, cre-ativity, leadership and aesthetics.

“Historically, there has been no agreed-upon definition [of creativi-ty],” Simonton said.

Simonton pointed out that cre-ativity can be given a common defi-nition regardless of the domain.

“Creativity is what’s involved in generating ideas that are original, valuable and surprising,” Simonton said.

Martin will discuss the role of vi-sualization in creativity. His process involves asking important questions that break down a creative process into stages.

“What’s the start? How will you make progress? How will things go?” Martin asks.

Jed studies the artistic aspect of creativity. His conception of cre-ativity differs somewhat from his fa-ther’s process.

“Different people have to work out the equation of creativity in their own way,” Jed said.

Another important issue is the question of individual creativity as opposed to group creativity.

“One major distinction between scientific and artistic creativity is that the former is now more likely to be collective; the latter, individualis-tic,” Simonton said.

“It’s not completely separated,” Martin said. “The great painters [in France] knew others, but they worked as individuals.”

As an art critic, Jed has noticed common qualities among visual art-ists. Visual artists often live in cities in order to stay in contact with oth-er artists.

“But of course, any environment can become overwhelming. The pace of city life – or commercialism – can become too much for the artist,” Jed said. “Artists – all creative people – need to find the atmosphere that nourishes them.”

Both Martin and Jed Perl, as well as Simonton, stress that a level of skill and expertise in some particu-lar domain is important.

“I find it fascinating that nobody would think that they could be-come a world chess champion or win at a sports championship with-out having first acquired the neces-sary knowledge and skill,” Simonton said. “Yet there are amateurs who believe they have great ideas with-out expertise.”

Thursday’s event will be held at 8 p.m. at the UC Davis Conference Center and will feature a question-and-answer session.

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

By RACHEL KUBICAAggie Science Writer

Learning algebra too early in life could be more harmful than beneficial to some students, according to a new study conduct-ed by UC Davis School of Education professors Michal Kurlaender and Heather Rose, along with education programs con-sultant Don Taylor.

The study – which looks at low-performing eighth-grade students who are placed in algebra – holds negative implications for a policy that requires all eighth-grade students to take algebra.

“I think the main mes-sage is that a ‘one size fits all’ policy is not likely to be effective, and that we need much more evidence about how policies may impact students across the achievement distri-bution,” Kurlaender said. “In other words, from the most successful students, those that perform at the average and those that struggle.”

Current policies in ac-tion, as well as those pro-posed by the California Board of Education, sup-port a belief that students who complete algebra are more successful.

“Algebra is a criti-cal gatekeeper for col-lege and future academ-ic success and so it is crit-ical that everyone master it,” said Kurlaender. “The downside is that just be-

cause you make it univer-sal, doesn’t mean every-one will master it.”

Indeed, the findings of the study reinforce the need to reconsider this universal policy. In the study, Kurlaender, Rose and Taylor compared their test score outcomes and grades across subsequent years and found little pos-itive difference between students placed in alge-bra and similar peers who are not placed in algebra. In fact, there appeared to be a negative result com-pared to those not placed in algebra.

“On the student’s math-specific GPA, algebra course placement was re-lated to a reduction in their GPA by an average of 7 percent,” Taylor said. “In other words, it may be that placement in an eighth-grade algebra course ac-ademically harms a low-performing student.”

The researchers found that the hardest-hit group was low-income minori-ty students, who were dis-proportionately repre-sented in the low-perfor-mance group. According to Rose, these students ex-perienced a drop in GPA, possibly due to unfavor-able comparisons with high-performing students after standardized testing.

So what can educators do to help provide more support for these low-performing students? Taylor points to a sug-gestion made by other

researchers.“Such students may

need more diverse and thought-provoking in-structional methods than are typically offered in high school algebra,” Taylor said.

One local algebra teacher, Pat King of Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High School, notes her own methods of helping low-performing students.

“I plan ‘mastery’ quiz-zes of basic skills be-fore the chapter test to be sure they have entry-lev-el skills,” said King. “I also tutor every lunch and af-ter school.”

While Taylor’s and King’s solutions can help low-performing students at the level of the individ-ual classroom, the ques-tion remains how poli-cy makers can address this issue and recognize each student’s strengths. Taylor once again draws from other research on

the topic.“Education policy-

makers [can] closely ex-amine the deficiencies in student performance at lower grades and in-tervene early enough in students’ careers to min-imize these deficiencies,” Taylor said.

King recognized this need to acknowledge in-dividual students’ expe-riences with mathemat-ics and put herself in stu-dents’ shoes.

“People who have learned mathemat-ics forget what it is like when you don’t know. To think kids learn just by telling them to ‘solve’ and follow some reci-pe is shortsighted,” said King. “Sure, they can copy what I demonstrate today, but how will they apply it to a new situa-tion tomorrow?”

RACHEL KUBICA can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

“Algebra for all” policy flawed, according to study

Learning algebra too early may not be beneficial for some students

courtesySome eighth graders may find algebra more difficult than others.

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creative processDeveloping and nurturing creativity in the arts and sciences

courtesyPhysics Nobel Laureate Martin Perl.

By RACHEL KUBICAAggie Science Writer

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By DOMINICK COSTABILEAggie Features Writer

When commuting between UC Davis and Winters, there seems to be a lot of open land strictly designated for farming. But one particular establishment within this expanse may sometimes go unnoticed — though new developments could rees-tablish its presence in the region. DQ University, a two-year communi-ty college for Native American tribes in California, has been in a process of re-growth since the school was shut down

due to financial issues and loss of accredi-tation in 2005. This year may prove to be a momentous stride for DQ University in re-establishing courses, standard procedures and infrastructure. A pending partnership between DQ University and UC Davis’ Engineers Without Borders (EWB), an international nonprofit organization that offers sustain-able solutions to developing regions around the world, would establish a five-year com-mitment to improve DQ University’s facil-ities. Should the partnership be approved by DQ University leaders, EWB will assess, design, build and monitor the university’s

development. Assistance from civil, environmental, structural and water quality engineers would implement sustainable solutions for the upkeep of the property. “One of the great things about possi-bly linking with [EWB] is that it will give us a strong outside resource that has ca-pabilities to take our vision, or our needs, forward,” said Margaret Hoaglen, DQ University’s chair of the board of trustees. “They could demonstrate how to use alter-native energy, things that are sustainable, not costly to us.” A particular concern for DQ University’s board is the issue of waste management and plumbing that would damage the environment. “Any project we take on is sustainable in every meaning of the word,” said Amelia Holmes, director of EWB and junior spe-cialist in the civil and environmental en-gineering department. “Whether it’s en-vironmentally, structurally or financial-ly sustainable, it’s our goal to put this into effect.” One of the first things that EWB would work on after a finalized partnership is a sanitation project, setting up a system rather than bringing out higher-cost, less sustainable portable toilets. “EWB would provide ample opportu-nity for students to develop projects with hands-on experience without going across the globe,” Holmes said. In the meantime, The InterTribal Council of California, a nonprofit organization that serves to preserve and enhance the tradi-tions as well as many other social aspects of 35 native tribes of California, has pro-posed two educational programs to help DQ University with reopening the school. One program is the Tribal Emergency Response Training, which educates trib-

al leaders in preparing tribes for natu-ral disasters or emergencies. The sec-ond program is a Tribal Environmental Stewardship, which teaches the funda-mentals of environmental science and en-vironmental law. In the past two years, DQ University has been hosting small, under-the-radar work-shops for inter-tribal communities and many others. “Offering workshops has been the best option because there has just been no funding for a full teaching staff,” said Dunn Eggink, a DQ University board member. “There was one workshop last September that proved to be one of the largest out-comes with a hundred people studying permaculture on the land for two weeks.” Other workshops have offered lessons in the art of making Toolie Boats, a Pomo and Miwok tradition, as well as Language Immersion, a workshop in which everyone who signs up gets a list of vocabulary in an indigenous language of choice and builds tools for traditional games while using that language. The board has also discussed hold-ing cultural learning days, which will be held once a month starting the first week-end of June. Jim Brown, an expert in cen-tral California native history, has offered to teach these classes along with native in-structors who will hold drum practices for those interested in music. “Since 2005, we have been completely starting from scratch. What can we do on a minimal level while re-establishing a repu-tation as a university?” Eggink said. “We’ve come to a point where a lot of struggle con-cerning DQ University’s direction is behind us and we look forward to continuing this movement in reviving the university.”

DOMINICK COSTABILE can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

DQ University seeks to rebuildNew workshops, possible partnership with Engineers Without Borders in the works

Aaron Juarez / Aggie

Since shutting down in 2005, DQ University, a two-year community college for Native American tribes in California, has been attempting to rebuild itself.

ICC’S CoUNtDowN to SUmmer! Welcome to week four of the ICC’s Countdown to Summer! Each week the Internship and Career Center (ICC) will highlight a task that will help you be prepared to land a job or internship by summer. This week we discuss interviewing.

Interviewing An interview often seems daunting, but it signifies that you are one step closer to landing the job and gives you the opportunity to promote yourself. It is also a test. Employers are feel-ing you out to see if you would be a good fit. There are things you can and should do to prepare. Visit iccweb.uc-davis.edu/webshops/index.htm for a quick tutorial. Research the company and posi-tion description. When you confirm the interview, ask what the format will be to avoid being shocked when you sit down across from nine employ-ers. Researching the organization will help you anticipate the kinds of ques-tions you’ll be asked. For instance, if the company emphasizes the impor-tance of leadership and teamwork, then there is a good chance you will be asked about a time you exercised those qualities. Perfect your response to some of the generic but troubling questions such as: “Tell me about your-self.” In general, think about your past experiences and give examples using the S.T.A.R. (situation task action re-sult) method. Be sure to connect your responses to the position you are ap-plying for. The day before, gather your materials (references, resumes, business cards, etc.) and find something professional to carry them in — no backpacks. Next, solidify your outfit choice. Acceptable attire depends on where you are ap-plying, but when in doubt, err on the side of caution and shoot for “business-like.” Avoid anything wrinkly, reveal-ing, tight or flashy. Ask yourself: What would grandma think? When night

time rolls around, set an alarm and get a good night’s sleep. Dollar “pint” night at Sudwerk can wait. The day of, the regular rules of hy-giene apply. Shower, brush your teeth, shave, etc. Make sure you arrive at the interview about 20 minutes early. As soon as you step out of your door, put your game face on. You never know if that driver is the person interviewing you. You should treat everyone you en-counter – janitors, secretaries, park-ing attendants – respectfully. As soon as you enter the building, turn off your phone. No, vibrate mode does not count. At the beginning of the interview in-troduce yourself and shake hands with everyone. Take note of their names. You’ll then engage in some casual con-versation, but don’t get sidetracked. You are there for an interview, so get down to business. Keep your composure and speak clearly and not too quickly. Make eye contact and act engaged by taking notes and asking questions. At the end of the interview, shake hands with ev-eryone and thank them. After the interview, make notes for yourself. What kinds of questions did they ask you? What “went wrong” and what “went right”? This will undoubt-edly help you improve. These notes will also aid you when writing thank-you notes to each interviewer. Thank-you notes show professionalism and re-mind the employer of your interview. E-mail is perfectly acceptable if done professionally. If you don’t hear back within two or three weeks, follow up with a phone call. Regardless of outcome, give your-self a pat on the back. You survived! Interviewing is a skill, and if you prac-tice you’ll get better.

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By PATrICK SvITEKDaily Northwestern

(Northwestern University)

The Obama administration on Monday urged Congress to preserve low interest rates on student loans that are fund-ing tuition for almost one-third of Northwestern under-graduates.

Barring legislative action, interest rates on Stafford loans are set to double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent on July 1.

According to the White House, the impending hike would affect more than 7.4 million students nationwide and add $1,000 of debt to each of their loans.

More than 2,600 under-graduate students at NU this academic year are on Stafford loans, which allow needy students to borrow from the federal govern-ment without having to pay back any amount until they graduate.

“At a time when college is never more essential, it’s never been more expen-sive,” White House spokes-man Matt Lehrich told re-porters on a conference call Monday.

Lehrich was joined by Cecilia Munoz, director of the president’s Domestic Policy Council, who said the strength of the U.S. econ-omy is “inextricably linked with” the strength of the country’s education system.

The conference call kicks off a week-long push by the

Obama administration to hammer home what Lehrich called “Congress’ critical need” to protect the lower interest rate. The president will speak about student debt at swing-state colleges today and Wednesday, with an appearance on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” tonight.

In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama said the student loans issue “didn’t come out of nowhere,” blaming con-gressional Republicans for blocking college affordabili-ty measures over the years.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) has introduced legislation that would freeze the 3.4 percent interest rate, but it has yet to attract GOP support. As of Friday, the bill had 127 Democratic co-sponsors.

“Making it harder for our young people to afford high-er education and earn their degrees is nothing more than cutting our own futures off at the knees,” Obama said in Saturday’s address. “Congress needs to keep in-terest rates on student loans from doubling, and they need to do it now.”

Despite Obama’s rheto-ric, the low interest rate ex-tension found a prominent Republican ally Monday.

At a news conference with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) a day be-fore the Pennsylvania pri-mary, Romney unexpected-

ly walked back to the micro-phone, saying, “I fully sup-port the effort to extend the low interest rate on student loans.”

Brian Drabik, NU’s asso-ciate director of undergrad-uate financial aid, said he hopes the president’s new-est cause endures beyond Election Day and is not just a single-year solution.

However, Drabik called it even more “concerning” that federally subsidized loans will no longer be available for graduate students start-ing on the same date the in-terest rate could double. That less-publicized change resulted from last summer’s debt ceiling agreement.

“I wish they could find ways to subsidize the other aid programs without sub-sidizing one that so many students benefit from,” Drabik said. “It’s difficult to see them cut a program that helps so many people.”

Either way, McCormick junior Keegan Dunn ex-pressed little alarm that the interest rate on his Stafford loan could jump several per-centage points this summer. He said the rate doubling would add less than $200 to his senior-year loan.

“Three-point-four or 6.8 percent — those are both pretty low compared to what I’d be paying for a pri-vate loan,” Dunn added. “I wouldn’t say it would undu-ly affect me. It’s not going to make or break anything.”

Interest rate hike would affect one-third of undergraduates

By KAThErINE hAfNErDaily Bruin (University of California,

Los Angeles)

American graduate schools saw a steep rise in internation-al student applications for the upcoming academic year com-pared to recent years, according to a recent survey by an organiza-tion that predicts global trends in graduate education.

The survey, conducted by the Council of Graduate Schools, collected data from more than 200 graduate institutions. Its survey showed a 9 percent in-crease in applications in 2012 from countries outside the United States.

The survey only measured the number of applications submit-ted to institutions and does not refer to how many students have been accepted, or how many in-tend to enroll. Countries such as

Mexico and Brazil showed par-ticularly high increases since last year, but China saw the largest spike, with an 18 percent increase in applications since 2011.

The trend has also reached graduate programs at UCLA. Craig Hubbell, associate direc-tor of masters admissions at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, said the program’s biggest increase in graduate ap-plicants this year was from inter-national students.

“Applications are up around 20 percent overall since last year, and the percentage is even great-er among international appli-cants,” he said.

The UCLA School of Nursing has also seen a small boost in the number of international stu-dent applications, said Suzette Cardin, assistant dean of student affairs.

Janet Mentes, an associate pro-

fessor at the School of Nursing, said she has noticed an increase in students from mainland China, as well as other Asian and Middle Eastern countries.

“People feel more comfortable venturing out and studying in other countries,” Mentes said.

The School of Nursing is in the process of creating a program to help international students with the transition to the U.S., Mentes said.

Yunfei Zou a biophysics grad-uate student in the department of Physics and Astronomy, came to UCLA after completing his un-dergraduate education in China. He said the sentiment among his peers in China was that if they wanted to pursue a graduate edu-cation, the United States was the place to be academically.

“The economic level in China is rising, and parents in China are finding themselves able to send

their kids to the United States for school,” Zou said.

International applicants showed an interest in both pub-lic and private institutions across the United States, but the in-crease in international applicants was highest in western states, in-cluding California, according to the survey.

Tradition and the opportunity to make connections with profes-sors and academic advisors fac-tored into Zou’s decision to come to UCLA, he said.

Hubbell attributed the increase at Anderson this year partly to re-cruiting activities abroad. The management program recruits annually in more than 20 coun-tries, including China, by making presentations and attending job fairs, he said.

International students make up roughly one-third of the Anderson population, Hubbell

said.Seunggon Jeong, an interna-

tional graduate student from South Korea who is studying Korean linguistics in the depart-ment of Asian Languages and Cultures, said he has noticed about half the students in his de-partment are international.

While he was the only person he knew coming to the United States in his major from his un-dergraduate university in Korea, he said he has met people from Korea, China, Japan and oth-er Asian countries in particular since coming to UCLA.

Jeong said he thinks publish-ing his thesis paper in English will give him an edge in the job market.

“For Asian students, studying in the U.S. (for graduate school) is an investment to do better in the future and get a better job,” Jeong said.

U.S. graduate schools see a rise in international student applications in 2012

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Tuesday’s puzzle solved

RECYCLE THE AGGIE . . . by making a pressman’s hat . . .

Begin with one full news sheet. Fold top corners down to join at center line. Then fold bottom area of top sheet up to meet lower edge of folded corners. Fold up again to form the band.

Flip to the other side. Fold side edges in to meet at center. Fold up lower corners, then fold bottom up and tuck into the band.

Fold top point down into the band. Open the hat, by pulling on the band, and flatten into a square. Fold top point down, and bottom point up, into the band. Reopen and you’ve got

yourself a hat!

clAssifieds wednesday, april 25, 2012 5The california aggie

The california aggie6 wednesday, april 25, 2012

By STEPHANIE B. NGUYENAggie News Writer

Ethan Anderes, assistant professor of statistics

The Aggie: What are you wearing? Anderes: “Faded Levi’s, Urban Outfitters button-up, Banana Republic sweater and Calvin Klein boots.”

How did you decide what to wear today? “A balance between what’s clean and the weather.”

Where do you find inspiration?“I enjoy looking at some fashion blogs — The Sartorialist, in particular.”

What’s your favorite item in your closet?“My faded Levi’s.”

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

campus CHIC.

Stephanie Nguyen / Aggie Ethan Anderes

Teams: UC Davis vs. No. 19 Stanford; at UC Santa BarbaraRecords: Aggies, 18-25 (8-4); Cardinal 32-16; Gauchos 23-26 (8-4)Where: Smith Family Stadium — Stanford, Calif.; LaRue FieldWhen: Today at 6 p.m.; Saturday at noon and 2 p.m.; Sunday at noonWho to watch: Despite getting just one hit in the weekend series against Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, junior JJ Wagoner is providing solid offense for the Aggies this season. The outfielder from Napa, Calif. is hitting .275, has the second-highest batting average of all UC Davis start-ers and has a hit in eight of the last 10 games. Wagoner is also one of the most composed players at the plate as she has struck out just eight times this year — tied for the lowest amount by any starter. “She’s been working extremely hard,” said Head Coach Karen Yoder. “And it’s always nice to see when a player puts in the hard work and sees results.” Production from upperclassmen like Wagoner will be critical when the Aggies face the talented pitching staffs of Stanford and UC Santa Barbara. Did you know? After pitching two shutout victories against Cal Poly, freshman start-er Justine Vela has won her third Big West Conference Pitcher of the Week title. The freshman sensation, who leads the con-

ference in strikeouts with 201 and opponents’ batting average with .197, now has an incred-ible 0.40 ERA against Big West opponents. With a 7-1 conference record, Vela is a lead-ing force behind UC Davis’ Big West champi-onship run.Preview: The Aggies enter the most important week of their season when they face national-ly ranked Stanford, whom they upset 2-1 ear-lier this year, and fellow Big West leader UC Santa Barbara. In today’s game against Stanford, the

Aggies’ bats need to be ready in or-der to keep up with the high-pow-ered Cardinal offense. Averaging al-most six runs per game, Stanford also has seven batters with a batting average over .300. An exceptional team ef-fort by the pitching staff and the of-fense will be needed in order for the Aggies to pull off a second upset. The weekend series against UCSB the last regular-season series at home is a critical matchup for the conference championship picture. Like the Aggies, the Gauchos

rely on great pitching and timely hitting, as their team ERA against conference oppo-nents is 1.38. UC Davis will need to come out strong in order to maintain their first-place position in the conference. The 2012 Alumni game will follow Sunday’s game against UCSB.

— Doug Bonham

NEws iN BriEfsOfTBALL PrEViEw

Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative

Activities Conference this weekend

The Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference will be held on Friday and Saturday. The conference is an opportunity for students to present their work to the UC Davis community. Topics of research presented will range from the denial of genocide in Darfur to the effect of aspirin on cardiovascu-lar disease.

“We’ve always prepared and in-spired our students to discover solu-tions to some of society’s most press-ing problems,” said Patricia Turner, Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, in a press release. “The Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference gives our students a chance to exhibit

the fruits of their research along with a taste of the process of presenting it in a scholarly manner.”

This year, the event will also fea-ture an art exhibit, which will allow students interested in design and cre-ative studies to present their work.

The event is free to the public. Students will present posters with information about their research on Friday in Freeborn Hall from 3 to 5:30 p.m., the Art Exhibit will take place Friday in Memorial Union II from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and oral presentations will be on Saturday in Wellman Hall from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

For more information, go to urc.ucdavis.edu.

— Hannah Strumwasser

JJ wagonerjunior

By AlExIS GordoNThe Daily Free Press (Boston University)

Sweet dreams may no longer be wishful thinking with the iPhone app “Sigmund,” which influences users’ dreams by repeat-ing certain words throughout the night.

Sigmund is currently the number-one paid Lifestyle App in the United States and has a four-plus rating, according to iTunes.

Daniel Nadler, the Canadian native and Harvard U. graduate who developed the new app, said Harvard students who did not get much sleep inspired him.

“I would wake up to go running at six in the morning and many of them would be walking around the hallways, seemingly in a half-daze, still trying to finish papers,” Nadler said in an email interview.

From there he began do some research about sleep deprivation, where he learned from a NASA study that even a half-hour long nap can increase alertness and con-centration by more than a third, while brief naps can improve concentration on mem-

ory for longer periods, he said.From that information, Nadler said he

wanted to assimilate all of these studies and put them in one place, so he applied to the Harvard’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative for funding to create a research-directed reading group.

As he was conducting research, Nadler noticed there was significant evidence of information processing in the sleeping brain, which includes assimilation of ex-ternal sensory information such as scents and hearing during sleep.

“We all know this anecdotally – hear-ing a nearby conversation while we are dozing off, for example on a train, and having some of the subjects in the con-versation enter our dreams,” Nadler said.

Nadler said he also came across a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, in which researchers played recorded, spo-ken personal names to the sleeping sub-ject during the rapid eye movement stage of their sleep cycle.

The study suggested the spoken names

presented during REM sleep entered the dream sequences because subjects cor-rectly matched names with the correct dreams upon awakening.

Nadler said he noticed the study was hard to recreate outside of a lab because people generally did not have the time to record all the words they wanted to hear, space them apart correctly and start the recording while the person was asleep.

That is how he came up with the idea for the iPhone app, he said.

Nadler said he was introduced to Doug Feigelson, a computer science and engi-neering major from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who recent-ly won Facebook’s Brown-Harvard-MIT intercollegiate hackathon, to help him create the app.

“I asked all my friends in computer sci-ence about doing this on a smartphone and they said it was extremely technical-ly difficult,” Nadler said. “They said that to reproduce these kinds of sleep and dream studies on a smartphone, you would have to work with a library of thousands of dis-

tinct recorded words and allow users to select from very precise combinations of words.“

Nadler said Feigelson spent more than one year building the app, which allows users to choose from more than a thou-sand prerecorded words, such as “beach,” “tropical” and “tiger,” which the app softly plays during REM sleep.

“You can imagine the technical sophis-tication that goes into this – it was not like loading a few abstract ocean or bird sounds onto an iPhone,” Nadler said.

Despite Sigmund’s high ratings on iTunes, Boston U. students said the idea of having an app program dreams is odd.

“[The app] really freaks me out,” said BU sophomore Christina Gratton. “I don’t like that idea because I think that dreams are uncontrollable.”

BU junior Jayme Mask said she would not use it even if she did have an iPhone.

“The coolest thing about dreams is that you wake up and think ‘is that real?’” Mask said. “I want them to be a part of my imag-ination – not a part of my real life.”

New iPhone app designed to induce dreams

By KIrSTEN ClArKIndiana Daily Student (Indiana University)

After studying 120 million re-tweets in a year’s time, a team from the Indiana U. School of Informatics and Computing found that whether a tweet goes viral doesn’t necessarily depend on its message or the user who posted it.

Instead, the study shows it has more to do with the fact that Twitter users have limited attention to devote to a massive amount of in-formation transmitted dai-ly on the Twitter network.

The 2012 study behind the information, “Competition Among Memes in a World with Limited Attention,” was conducted by third-year doctoral student Lilian Weng, along with informat-ics professors Alessandro Flammini, Alessandro Vespignani and Filippo Menczer.

The study, Weng said, is the first to scientifically show how social network users’ attention spans af-fect popularity of posts.

Weng said a tweet’s sur-vival can be measured in the number of times the post is re-tweeted and does

not necessarily depend on the post’s message.

She said two hashtags grouping tweets about singer Justin Bieber illus-trate her point.

“#BieberFact and #Bieberthing — they both exist and are about the same object,” she said. “They try to represent the same thing, but one of them is extremely popular, and the other was re-tweet-ed less than 15 times.”

In fact, #BieberFact was re-tweeted 139,760 times dur-ing the course of the study, while #Bieberthing was re-tweeted only three times.

According to the report, factors like the tweet’s ex-posure to media and its re-lation to world events can affect the popularity and longevity of posts.

The reason for the dis-crepancy, Weng said, was because of the large number of tweets on Twitter compet-ing for users’ attention.

Competition in the Twitter world works in a similar way to competition in nature, she said, where memes are like species fighting for limited space in users’ memories.

“Imagine in an ecosys-tem, you have various spe-

cies, and they’re fighting with each other to get lim-ited resources,” she said.

“In order to get resources to survive and reproduce, they have to compete with each other. You can think of attention as a limited re-source in the system.”

In the grand scheme of things, Weng said, most tweets don’t go viral.

Instead, most stop cir-culating soon after they are posted.

Weng said the structure of the microblogging network, complete with hashtags and the ability to re-tweet, con-tributes to the distribution

of tweet popularity.Twitter users looking to

craft a viral tweet might not find the secret in the new study, however.

Weng said the research looked at aggregate val-ues and the larger context of tweet popularity as op-posed to individual cases.

“In our paper, we studied the heterogeneity of meme popularity at a very aggre-gated, average level,” she said.

“But if you look at indi-vidual cases, it’s very hard to predict whether it will be successful. Sometimes it’s just luck.”

Informatics study looks at why tweets go viral