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ForecastTemperatures will range in the low to mid 70s for the next couple of days. There will also be a light breeze today, but the clear skies

will make for the viewing of Jupiter at its opposition on Friday night absolutely stellar!

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On Interstate 94 near Ann Arbor, an 87-year old man was caught with 228 pounds of cocaine

on Monday. Someone should have told him that although cocaine does make you feel invincible,

it does NOT reverse aging.

Mimi Vo

Fall Weekend of Service on the horizon

Party smart

Local lawyer submits referendum against water rate hikes

Causeway Classic crimson competition continues

UC Davis partners with Davis for fall enforcement

Students encouraged to get involved and help communityBy MAX RUSSER

Aggie News Writer

The Fall Weekend of Service, hosted by the UC Davis Community Service Resource Center (CSRC), gives students an oppor-tunity to volunteer a small amount of time to large lo-cal causes. The CSRC, a branch of the Internship and Career Center (ICC), hosts a week-end of service every quar-ter for students and faculty alike to lend a helping hand

in the Davis, Woodland and Sacramento areas. Those in-terested in getting involved can sign up on the ICC web-site. The Weekend of Service starts on Nov. 5 and ends on Nov. 6. Online registration for the event closes on Nov. 2. “The students and staff of UC Davis are very good at volunteering with commu-nity service, so they need an outlet to get better in-volved,” said ICC program Coordinator Ken Barnes. “Students can really get into

a solid project for one or two days without it affecting their studying.” There are numerous or-ganizations involved with the Fall Weekend of Service. Online registration gives the choice of volunteering for any event that is still in need of helpers. Some of the events have already filled beyond capacity. Community service op-portunities for the weekend range from disposing of

By DANIELLE HUDDLESTUNAggie News Writer

As of October 15, there have been 18 DUI arrests, 168 noise complaints, 15 drunk in public arrests and 12 Student Judicial Affairs referrals. After a comprehensive five-year study on 14 California college campuses, UC Davis, along with six other uni-versities, was asked to develop a program called the Safe Party Initiative to address high-risk drinking and related prob-lems. This includes a fall en-forcement program during the first six weeks of school. “The Safe Party Initiative is a collaboration between the UC Davis and City of Davis police departments to deal with high-risk alcohol is-sues. Fall enforce-ment is for the first 6 weeks of school. UC Davis and the City of Davis police departments con-duct joint patrols to handle alcohol-re-lated problems,” said Mandy Ming Li, al-cohol, tobacco, & other drug risk reduc-tion coordinator. During fall enforcement, the UC Davis and Davis police departments share the responsibility of patrolling Davis. “One police [officer] walks down-town on foot, one vehicle is dedicated to downtown to assist patrolling and there is a party car to respond to noise party complaints,” said Glenn Glaslow, lieu-tenant, patrol division commander of

the City of Davis Police Department. This collaboration between UC Davis and the city of Davis has been in place since 2003. It encourages safe partying by providing tips for hosts along with party-goers. Letters have been sent to greek life coordinators, apartments and first-year student in order to educate about the risks of alcohol.

“Fall enforcement is an effort to en-gage students to party safely, along with police efforts to ensure safer par-tying. Students who make good deci-

sions in the beginning can plan safely for the rest of the year,” Li said. The Safe Party Initiative en-courages Davis students to be educated by distributing re-

sources for students such as mag-nets, brochures and book-

marks that address alco-hol poisoning, Davis laws

and policies and blood al-cohol concentration.

“The goal is to educate students of the dangers of alco-

hol, move to further enforcement and use that as a deterrent for those who are underage,” Glaslow said. Coordinators hope that the Safe Party Initiative will be the proactive piece nec-essary to keep information about al-cohol risk reduction accessible for stu-dents, and to keep the community safe. The police send in weekly statistics to Li in order to monitor progress. “Safe Party deals with the City of Davis

By EINAT GILBOAAggie News Writer

On Monday, City Clerk Zoe S. Mirabile acknowledged that Davis lawyer Michael Harrington submitted to her office peti-tions for a referendum against Ordinance No. 2381, a motion that would have in-creased the base and metered water rates in the City of Davis. Five thousand one hundred twenty four signatures were obtained, stated the peti-tion receipt. Three thousand seven hundred were needed to overturn the ordinance. Ordinance No. 2381 decreed that the City of Davis could increase water rates up to 14 percent per year for the next five years, stated the City of Davis website. “Simply by qualifying, the referendum halts the council’s decision to raise water fees until an election month,” said Davis City Councilmember Dan Wolk. The city’s website stated rate increases were purported to “(1) fund current and projected increases in the costs of opera-tions and maintenance of the water and sanitary sewer infrastructure; (2) fund util-ity repair, replacement, and upgrade costs; (3) enable the City to comply with state and federal regulatory requirements; (4) assure

a reliable long-term supply of drinking wa-ter; and (5) manage groundwater supplies to avoid land subsidence.” The website also stated the rate hikes would help fund the surface water project, which would “provide surface water from the Sacramento River to use in conjunc-tion with groundwater supplies, currently the City’s only source of water.” At the Davis Water Forum on Sept. 21, Diana Jensen, principal civil engineer for the city, said Davis is currently in com-pliance with regulations, but regulations change. “We found that surface water is the least costly solution to meet future regulations,” Jensen said. The rate hikes could potentially increase expenses for UC Davis students. In re-sponse to a question at the water forum by a UC Davis student, Robert Clarke, inter-im public works director for the city, said, “We’re not unaware that price increases will affect a lot of people. It makes for some tough choices. Eventually we need to make some significant investments in our infra-structure and we recognize that this may be a challenge. We still think it’s the right choice for the community at this time.” “As a City Council, our fiduciary duty is

to find the lowest rates over time to pro-vide quality water into perpetuity to our constituents. The referendum works on the assumption that we can maintain the status quo which is not accurate,” said Councilmember Stephen Souza in an e-mail. “As a city we are required to meet state and federal environmental standards by 2017. In order to meet these standards we must begin the development of new water sources and infrastructure now. Any delay will increase our costs.” Now that the referendum has been sub-mitted, for it to progress further it will have to be certified by the county. “Then it will come back to the council. The council will have to make a decision to either put the issue on a ballot or do some-thing else,” Wolk said.“I appreciate every person who signed the referendum in concern and public engage-ment,” Souza said in an e-mail. “We now have a tremendous opportunity to come together and find that responsible solu-tion and move this important surface wa-ter project forward as a community.” Harrington, the petition’s author, could not be reached for comment.

Einat Gilboa can be reached city@theaggie.org.

By CHARLOTTE YOUNGAggie News Writer

It’s the time of year again, when UC Davis and CSU Sacramento face off against one another in the annual Causeway Classic, including the fourth annual ASUCD Blood and Marrow Drive, where students from their respective schools compete to see who can donate more blood and marrow. On Nov. 1 and 2, students at Davis can donate to help the school keep its current three-year reign over Sac State. “We’re continuing the healthy compe-tition between campus clubs and organi-zations with the most participants, as do-

nors or volunteers,” said Lisa Teixeira, student co-director of the drive. “For ev-ery donor or volunteer, the organization gets one entry into a drawing for $500.” Through the blood drive, UC Davis stu-dents have a chance to help save the lives of those in need of blood, said Brie Leon, an account manager for Blood Source, the blood drive company that puts on the UC Davis blood drives. “One pint of blood can save up to three lives and every two-and-a-half seconds someone in the U.S. needs a blood trans-fusion. Blood donation is a simple way that someone can make an impact,” Leon said. “We service 40 hospitals in the area, in-cluding UC Davis Medical Center, and the

UC Davis blood drives make a huge differ-ence in the lives of patients each and every year.” If incentives of saving lives and beating Sac State again aren’t enough of a draw, the drive is also offering free giveaways and drawings for donors. “They’ll receive the new t-shirt, a cou-pon for a chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A at Arden Fair in Sacramento and will be entered into drawings to win an iPod Touch, IKEA gift cards and more,” Teixeira said. In last year’s competition, Davis won by a whopping 112 pints of blood, beating Sac State for the third year in a row. In order to donate blood and earn points for your

school, donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, and be in general good health in order to donate. Donors are also encouraged to drink water and eat before donating, and must be will-ing to dedicate about an hour to the whole process. Steven Lee, a leukemia patient who re-cently relapsed, said he believes that UC Davis and Sac State can have a huge im-pact this year. Lee has been a familiar face at university blood drives, hoping to pro-mote the donation of blood and bone marrow to help cancer patients such as himself.

CHARLOTTE YOUNG can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

ask katehiEditor’s Note: Ask Katehi is a weekly col-umn where students get a chance to ask Chancellor Katehi questions.

How do you feel about being the first fe-male chancellor at UC Davis, as well as one of the few women leading a university at all? What advice do you have for young women who want to pur-sue careers that are traditionally performed by men? What adver-sity did you have to overcome? I am very honored and proud to be the first female chancellor of UC Davis. As an undergraduate student in Greece, I didn’t even know that universities had chan-cellors, let alone that a woman could be one. Today, I am one of only 16 female chancellors or presidents of universities in the prestigious 61-member Association of American Universities, or AAU. The num-ber of women leaders has grown since my undergrad days, but clearly, there is room for improvement. I grew up on a small island in Greece and had dreams of becoming an electrical en-gineer — a field dominated by men. In my hometown, we had no library and no oth-

er woman had ever gone to college. When I graduated from high school, I was deter-mined to pursue my dream. I never imag-ined the obstacles I would have to over-come because I was a woman. At the National Technical University of Athens, I was one of only two women in a

class of 190. As an engineering stu-dent at NTUA and as a graduate student at UCLA, I didn’t have fe-male mentors to look to for sup-port because there were few wom-en in my field at the time. But each time someone told me I couldn’t do something, I vowed to prove him or her wrong — and I always did. I encourage more students — particularly women and those from underrepresented groups — to pur-sue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics be-

cause by doing so, you are helping to improve quality of life. Young women need to know they are capable of pursuing any career, even those dominated by men. And I believe it is critical that these women have female men-tors to help guide them along the way.

Do you have a question for the chancellor? E-mail campus@theaggie.org.

Linda katehiChancellor

News iN BrieFSecond town hall meeting tonight

The second town hall meeting to discuss changes in the UC Davis Athletics Department will be held to-night at 6 p.m. in Ballrooms A and B of the UC Davis Conference Center. The topics covered will include the change proposed by the Dempsey

Report and the search for a new Athletic Director. An ASUCD-sponsored forum has also been scheduled for Nov. 2, and a third town hall meeting will be held Nov. 16.

— Trevor Cramer

Petition pushes increases further down the road

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a petition by a local lawyer has delayed possible water rate increases in the City of Davis.

Blood Source to host annual competition between Sac State and Davis

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Since nice guys finish last, why don’t they up-grade to rascal? It’s only

a matter of time before nat-ural selection disposes of them completely. The world of romance would be a per-fectly peachy paradise if there were a one-to-one ra-tio of girls and jerks. That way everyone gets what they want! Here’s why: Girls are all self-pro-claimed psychologists and statisticians of love. We have an inher-ent need to snatch mun-dane de-tails and jab at them be-neath the lens of pocket magnify-ing glasses for sharp-eyed scrutiny. Rather than col-lecting data, we hoard ev-ery morsel of evidence and plot the happenstance of our love lives on timelines and graphs, which we com-pulsively organize in the endless file-cabinets of our minds. Once we amass enough information to thrice over-flow the Earth’s oceans, we use confidential algorithms to analyze the results. That’s right. We don’t daydream — we do unfathomable ap-plied math. By incorporat-ing the data we have stock-piled through years of ob-servation and experimen-tation with our profession-al knowledge of psych, stats, sociology, astrology and rocket science, we predict the future (and you thought your computer games were cool!). We read minds. We take pride in being 99.9 percent right. We also have clandes-tine meetings in Area 52, (wherein we have attempted and failed to make most de-vious plans for a matriarchal universe). But we bore of being so consistently correct. Our inner psychologists begin yearning for the strange and even extreme. After all, if boys are mysteries, we’re far too sophisticated to waste our time on the simple and straightforward nice guys. Jerks are much more fascinating. They know our lives are miserable without problems to dis-entangle, so they gracious-ly provide us the mental exercise we need by forc-ing us to puzzle them out like mind-boggling Rubik’s cubes that your prankster friends took apart and re-aligned in your absence. Now that’s excitement!

What girl would go for bland perfection when she could instead have a taste of trouble that is mouth-wa-teringly delicious? Thus, we are enraptured with the depressed, the tor-tured, the combustible and sometimes all of the above. These warped womaniz-ers stretch and redefine the limits of our imaginations like silly putty. And so we become the putty in their hands. But there’s more. We have a secret ... Despite the indis-putable, unsurprisingly ob-vious fact that women are better than men, we’re still afflicted by chronically low self-esteem. It’s too weird for us to have nice boys hovering around, serenading us with songs of praise, or drooling fountains as they gape at us open-mouthed while simul-taneously scribbling tear-

smudged poetry in-spired by our inter-minable beauty. It’s only

flattering to be pursued by a whiny, weepy, love-struck Romeo for that dazed half-hour before slamming my head into my desk seems a brilliant idea. But how can a guy be-come the jerk that girls crave? By simply investing a few hours a week watching episodes of “Yu-Gi-Oh” and “Dragon Ball Z” and taking copious notes on the man-nerisms of Seto Kaiba and Vegeta. I think all guys could benefit from spiky hair that changes color, super-powers, possession of ho-lographic technology and nicely-fitting blue trench coats … not to mention the nonchalant, “couldn’t care less” attitude. Selflessness is cute but selfishness is sexy! So, men, quit trying so hard. Being nice is a waste of time and energy; it will get you nowhere in love. Don’t share what you’re thinking. Don’t tell us what you like about us. Don’t re-mind us you care about us or respect us. Don’t remem-ber anniversaries or birth-days. Don’t ever apologize for hurting our feelings. And don’t ever open doors or pull out chairs for us. Girls love to be treated terribly. It lets us pretend we live in a society where males and females are equal. We’re sick of being considered fragile. But maybe what we sometimes want is not what we truly deserve … Maybe there’s a reason nice guys have not been weed-ed out of the world. Maybe we just need a slap of reality to knock any delusions we might have about romance out of our brains. This is it!

Send ZENITA SINGH your life’s woes at zensingh@ucdavis.edu!

Sex, drugs and alco-hol are things that we’ve been told, from

a very early age, to steer clear of. If you do them, you’ll die. And like all oth-er bad deeds, they share a common denominator — one that gives birth to all things malevolent: peer pressure. Peer pressure is the root of all evil, we learned. That is why our par-ents made it their moral duty to incessantly remind us to “be ourselves” and to “never let anyone define us.” They foresaw all the drunken escapades and drug-ridden revelries that would ensnarl us during our teenage years, so they made certain that when the time comes, we’d know how to say “no.” It is understandable, then, that our concerned parents did everything they could to veer us away from the herd mentali-ty. No one wants his or her kid to turn into some push-over who simply can’t stand his ground in the face of persuasion. But little did our parents know, the lessons we learned about peer pressure could bring about detrimental effects in the long run. College campuses are breeding grounds for peer pressure. Take, for in-stance, those of us who swore we would never drink alcohol. You inno-cently agree to accompany your friend to a party with no intention of drinking, but once you get there you wind up taking one sip — or six sips too many. Back in grade school, being the only kid who didn’t collect Pokémon cards was tough, and our parents made our lives easier by making us be-lieve we were “unique” and that we didn’t have to conform in order to fit in. But kids who grew up believing they are “spe-cial” no matter what any-one else says about them turn out to be one of the following three: arrogant pricks, rebels or hermits. The arrogant prick who lives life assuming every-one else is wrong used to be that kid who could nev-er play softball correctly.

He was either physical-ly inept or mentally in-capable of comprehend-ing the rules. But instead of learning, he picked up the ball and walked off. Why? Because his mom most likely said, “Honey, you don’t have to play by their rules.” This guy never learned how to adapt because he was told it was okay to do whatever he pleased with no regard for others. This is the guy that will not hold the door open for you or yield to pedestri-ans because, quite frank-ly, he just doesn’t give a damn. Next, we have the rebel. While all the others girls were collecting Beanie Babies, she most likely collected dead bugs. And when everyone was wear-ing Sketchers, she decid-ed not to wear shoes at all.

She proba-bly grew up to be that hipster girl sitting next to you in class, the

one who thinks she’s bet-ter than everyone else be-cause she’s not a mindless follower. Ironically, she’s con-forming to the “non-con-formist” crowd. Suddenly, wearing holes in your shirt is no longer being different; rather, it’s fit-ting in with the rest of the rebels who wear holes in their shirts. This goes to show peer pressure can-not be avoided, unless you’re a hermit. Kids who were told to “just say no” when sit-uations got uncomfort-able grew up to be reclus-es of society. Back in third grade when the class went on a camping trip to the lake and everyone pres-sured little John to jump in, he said “no” and was then eventually pushed in anyways. Now, at the age of 20, social gatherings give him heart attacks and he dis-tances himself from soci-ety in an attempt to avoid all instances of peer pres-sure. He lives an unhealthy life cooped up in solitude because he never learned how to deal with confron-tation. He was told to “just say no” and walk away. Hence, as ideal as “be-ing yourself” sounds, it would be much more pragmatic to adapt and get along with others. Kids who don’t learn how to accommodate and make compromises when confronted with pressure grow up to be less confi-dent and less successful than their counterparts. So perhaps caving to a little peer pressure isn’t so bad. After all, everyone’s doing it.

MICHELLE NGUYEN can be reached at michellen1990@yahoo.com.

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october Book Faire10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Women’s Resources and Research Center, First floor North HallEach quarter the Joy Fergoda Library at the WRRC hosts a book fair where books can be purchased for under $3. Proceeds will be used to buy new books for the library. Nonfiction, fiction, poetry and more! The faire will be open until Friday.

asexual Spectrum 1015 to 6 p.m.LGBT Resource Center, University House AnnexLearn about asexuality, demisexuality, grey-asexuality, and the ace community.

prized writing awards reception5:30 to 7:30 p.m.AGR Room, Buehler Alumni and Visitor’s CenterThe 22 published authors, 10 honorable mentions and the cover artist for the 22nd annual volume of Prized Writing will be recognized at an awards ceremony. A catered reception will be provided in the AGR room of the Buehler Alumni and Visitor’s Center for invited guests from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and the awards program will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Food addicts in recovery anonymous 7 to 8:30 p.m.Davis United Methodist Church, 1620 Anderson Rd.Having trouble controlling the way you eat? Free yourself from excess weight and obsessive thoughts about food and body image. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is a 12-step fellowship based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous.

whiskey dawn concert9 p.m.The Davis Graduate, 905 Russell Blvd.After taking Nashville by storm, rising California “new country” buzz band Whiskey Dawn returns to their home state to perform in concert at The Graduate. Tickets are $9.

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Biomedical engineering Seminar Series4 p.m.1005 Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility BuildingDr. Frits Thorsen of the University of Bergen, Norway, will discuss the development of novel animal models to study melanoma brain metastases.

School of law First amendment lecture Series4 p.m.Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom, King HallChief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will discuss the First Amendment in the age of information overload. RSVP at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011centralvalleyfoundationlecture.

art Studio program lecture Series4:30 to 6 p.m.Technocultural Studies BuildingNew York-based painter Joanne Greenbaum is primarily concerned with the formalism of plastic arts. Her canvases don’t follow formulas of conventional painting, but rather, continuously test and expand the possibilities by which painting can evolve.

american red cross club Meeting6:15 to 7:30 p.m.118 OlsonMissed the first general meeting? No worries! Just come to the third general meeting of the year and learn about all the volunteer opportunities around Davis and the Yolo community.

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and is directed towards par-ties,” said Barry Swartwood, lieutenant of the UC Davis Police Department. The program has been promoted through a letter sent to Chancellor Katehi, Facebook advertisements and e-mails. It allows stu-dents to plan ahead to host safe parties, while reduc-ing violence, noise, injuries and other risks related to underage drinking. At least twice a year, stu-

dents and permanent res-idents hold meetings to keep the Davis community safe. When specific areas are found to be at a high-er risk than others, further patrolling is conducted. It allows the entire commu-nity to create a partying standard. The program works well due to support from the community and UC Davis. “We have a really good partnership between the city and campus,” Li said.

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

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and werewolfism. Again, confessions for highly public and shocking crimes should be taken with a huge grain of salt. Psychological studies on false confessions in particular note that they are more likely to occur to highly suggestible or mentally unstable people. It had already been highly publicized that the culprit was a werewolf, the

authorities told Garnier that villagers recognized him and he was already known for his odd manner. The conditions were ripe for Garnier to believe himself to be a werewolf, and thus, give a false confession. This Halloween, have some sympathy for the token skeptics in your horror movie marathon. If you were in his shoes, you would probably act the same way.

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

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winter break?All my roommates are Niner fans and I’m a huge Steelers fan, so we’re go-ing to go to the Monday Night Football game at Candlestick.

You played wide receiver in high school. Do you ever miss playing on offense?Dude, I love offense. Every

time I get a chance I’ll try to go on scout offense. I always remember my freshman year. I told Randy Wright ev-ery time, I’m just like, “Dude, I don’t care where I’m at, just throw me the ball.”

You think Coach Biggs will ever let you get in there, maybe on Senior Day? No, not at all.

For all football news and updates, you can follow CAELUM SHOVE on twitter @CaAggieFootball. He can be reached at sports@theaggie.org

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&Science Technology wedneSdAY, ocTober 26, 2011 3The cAliforniA Aggie

As a horror movie junkie, Halloween is my favorite holiday.

What’s not to love about watching scary movies with friends dressed in a huge variety of costumes? Horror movies have the rare quality that no mat-ter if the movie is good or bad, it can be equally en-joyable. Truly good hor-ror movies, such as The Exorcist, can scare audi-ences even 40 years lat-er. Even bad horror movies like Jennifer’s Body can be fun if you’re drinking with friends and making fun of the terrible acting. However, because I’ve seen so many horror movies (especially mon-ster movies), I also know that I would be one of the first to die. The token skeptic/scientist is one of the first to go, along with the slut and the comic re-lief. The skeptic denies that monsters exist; he or she may insist that sci-ence disproved any such creatures, and if the di-rector wants an ironic scene, the skeptic is killed seconds after making that proclamation. Just such a scene is in last year’s terrible remake of The Wolfman, where the werewolf Lawrence Talbot is strapped to a chair as a doctor pomp-ously explains how in-sane Talbot is. Talbot screams, “I will kill you all!” The audience laughs, the doctor scoffs and wolf-Talbot promptly kills them all. The skeptic is depicted as foolish, cowardly and close-minded. What’s sel-dom mentioned in these movies is that history is almost always on the skeptic’s side. Take werewolves, one of the major classic mon-sters of the horror movie industry. Stories of were-wolves (most recognizably in Europe) go back cen-turies. Along with witch-es, accused werewolves would be brutally tortured until they confessed to horrible crimes. In 1589, German wid-

ower Peter Stumpp was placed on the rack and threatened with torture until he confessed to kill-ing and eating 14 chil-dren and two pregnant women and their fetus-es. He said that the Devil had given him “a magi-cal girdle” which would turn him into a devour-ing wolf. He was later ex-ecuted, having his skin burned off by red-hot pokers and his limbs bro-ken to prevent him from returning from the grave. This particular con-fession of werewolfism is most likely due to the psychology of a torture situation, rather than mental illness. Many psy-chological studies have found that even in situa-tions where the threat of torture is not involved, people will give false con-fessions if pressured by an authority figure, let alone when “coerced” with violence. It’s difficult

to tell cen-turies lat-er wheth-er Stumpp even com-mit-ted these crimes, let

alone whether he actual-ly believed in his own su-pernatural confession. A great deal of the Stumpp story would be suitable for a gory mon-ster movie: a quiet vil-lager transforming into a huge wolf and devouring women and children. A close look at the psychol-ogy and history of the sit-uation, however, means that at best it was a sen-sationalism of a serial killer and at worst a tragic miscarriage of justice. The case of Gilles Garnier in France in 1573 is even more muddied. Over the course of about a year, several children went missing or were found dead, and the au-thorities of the province issued an edict that the werewolf responsible be captured. Late one night, a group of villagers came upon what appeared to be a wolf with the body of a dead child in the dim light. The fact that the child had been savaged was beyond dispute, but where some saw a wolf others saw Gilles Garnier. Garnier himself, a re-clusive hermit, testi-fied that he went hunt-ing in the woods and a spectre gave him a mag-ical salve that would al-low him to hunt as a wolf. He confessed that he had strangled and eaten at least four children during this period and was lat-er burned at the stake for the crimes of witchcraft

Amy Stewart

Monster mash

Stories of werewolves (most recognizably in Europe) go back

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By CHELSEA MEHRAAggie Science Writer

A recent study found that white children are far more likely to re-ceive CT scans than are African American or Hispanic children. Led by JoAnne Natale, medical di-rector of the UC Davis Children’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and associate professor of pediatric critical care medicine at UC Davis School of Medicine, this study is an analysis of previous re-search, which found a prediction rule for CT scan use. Natale analyzed a group of 40,000 children by looking primar-ily at the effects of race and eth-nicity, though not the costs, of ob-taining perhaps unnecessary CT scans. The initial impetus for pursuing research in CT scanning of chil-dren younger than 18 years old is two-fold, according to Nathan Kuppermann, chair of the UC Davis department of emergency medicine and lead author of the previous research. “[Because] CT use in this coun-try is increasing at a very high rate and clinicians are using CT scans without good evidence, the pur-pose of this study was to generate evidence around CT use for chil-dren with head trauma, particular-ly because radiation is a real risk for children,” Kuppermann said. Natale’s most recent study found that for children with more severe head trauma, there was no signifi-cant difference in the CT rate be-tween the three race categories of children. However, in the low-risk group — that is, the children who probably are not in need of a CT scan — there was a greater differ-ence with white children receiving CT scans more frequently. Reasons for a disparity in CT scan usage among white, African American and Hispanic chil-dren are admittedly compli-cated, according to Natale and Kuppermann. However, the study’s findings seem to indicate that an “impor-tant driver of inappropriate CT

use” in low-risk children is paren-tal requests made more by white parents than either of the other two races, Kuppermann said. Emergency department physicians were more likely to report “paren-tal requests” when asked to list the major influences on their decision to obtain a CT scan in a child with minor head trauma. Although a very useful tool when injury is indicated, CT scans can be especially detrimental to chil-dren when injury is not indicated, given their high dosage of radia-tion and false positives. The risk of CT scanning is “po-tentially higher for children, whose brains are still undergoing various forms of maturation, and are thus more vulnerable to the ef-fects,” said Susan Rivera, professor of mind and psychology at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. Statistically speaking, Kuppermann estimates that for ev-ery 1,000 to 5,000 children that get a CT scan, depending on the age of the child, one might die from a le-thal malignancy [or deadly cancer] and another couple might devel-op a malignancy they will survive from. The emotional and economic costs of these decisions — to scan or not to scan — are an addition-

al factor not explicitly addressed in Natale’s study, but certainly a topic for further research. Peter Lindert, distinguished re-search professor of economics, ar-gues there are three major reasons for a continued upward trend in the share of national income spent on health care costs — personal in-come, effect of aging and technol-ogy improvements in health care. “For those demand and supply reasons, health care costs would go on rising even if the govern-ment were able to control prices,” Lindert said. Natale’s study was keen on imple-menting the qualitative measure-ments suggested by Kuppermann by noting “the importance of strong, evidence-based guidelines to assure equal and optimal care.” Embedding the evidence of their prediction rules in electron-ic health records, Kuppermann and his colleague at Columbia University won a $3.5 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Kuppermann and Natale hope that their research will decrease the rate of inappropriate CT scan use among emergency clinicians.

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

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electronics using e-waste recycling with the Albert Einstein Residence Center to arranging material for li-brary programs at the Sacramento Public Library. Tree Davis, a Davis organization dedicated to “enhancing the urban forest,” has worked with the CSRC Weekend of Service for every quar-ter since last fall. Since 1992 it has worked with over 2,000 volunteers to plant 7,000 trees in the Davis community. “Our programs usually fill up very quickly, but this quarter we are in need of recruiting thirty more vol-

unteers,” said Keren Costanza, ex-ecutive director of Tree Davis, in an e-mail interview. “We may need to recruit from beyond the UC Davis community in order to accomplish our project.” The CSRC hosts this quarterly af-fair to bring student awareness to the many other service opportuni-ties it has to offer. “It’s a weekend where we’re ad-vocating philanthropy, but also let-ting students know that there is a community service center on cam-pus that they can go to,” said stu-dent advisor and sophomore genet-ics major Amrit Sahota. A community service database on the CSRC website allows the user to search by location, keyword and

area of interest for the ideal service project. Student advisors in their of-fice, South Hall Room 225, can also be of great help for finding that per-fect way to get involved. A volunteer can also benefit in the process of assisting another, Sahota said. “Not everyone can always get an internship, and this is a great way to put something on your resume and get a letter of recommendation,” she said. More information on the Fall Weekend of Service and the CSRC is available on their website, iccweb.ucdavis.edu/cs.

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Teams: UC Davis vs. UC Santa BarbaraRecords: Aggies 7-6-2 (5-2-0); Gauchos 9-5-1 (2-4-0)Where: Meredith Field at Harder Stadium, Santa Barbara — Calif.When: Wednesday at 7 p.m.Who to watch: Alex Aguiar scored his second goal of the season in the Aggies’ victory over Cal Poly on a penalty kick. The sophomore mid-fielder has started ev-ery game and is tied on the team for most shots taken. Aguiar took three shots last time UC Davis played the Gauchos and four shots in the Aggies’ most recent game against Cal Poly.Did you know? Some teams enjoy home field advantage, but UC Santa Barbara is in a league of its own. For the past four years, UCSB has led the na-tion in average attendance. Last year, they totaled 70,471 fans over the season, giv-ing them an aver-age of 5,873 fans per game. A full game at UC Davis consists of about 1,200 fans. The perennial soccer powerhouse offers give-aways like the pros. Their last offer on Saturday — megaphones — brought in over 4,900 fans. It is also tradition for the Gaucho fans to toss celebratory tortillas on the field after their team wins.Preview: Having won its past three games, and five of its last six, UC Davis holds a winning record for the first time since it opened the 2009 season 2-0. The Aggies stand atop the Big West Conference at 7-6-2 with a 5-2 league re-cord and are now the team

to beat. UC Davis has really got-ten the ball rolling, sweep-ing the conference awards for the second consecutive week. For the second time in a row, sophomore goalkeep-er Omar Zeenni was named the Big West Defensive Player of the Week for be-ing essentially impervious as goalie. Sophomore Kevin Schulte followed freshman Matt Sheldon as the Offensive Player of the Week after providing the two goals that stunned the No. 4 UC Irvine. UCSB has not played up to expectations and cur-rently stands in sixth place in conference, but is in no way a walkover. They are

2-4 in league, but one of those vic-tories was over UC Davis. Head coach Dwayne Shaffer knows not to un-derestimate the Gauchos, but is also excited about playing in Santa Barbara. “That is the great-est place to play men’s college soc-cer…When you go

down there, it gets you jacked up to play,” he said. Shaffer, as he has said the whole season, believes his team’s performance has im-proved every game and will give the Gauchos a good fight. “They’re so mentally tough now because each game has been close. You can’t train that kind of fight in practice, you just have to experience it,” he said. This experience is a guar-antee for the upcoming game, as the Aggies hope to continue their winning ways in front of the tough-est crowd in college soccer.

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By Caelum ShoveAggie Sports Writer

For junior linebacker Byron Gruendl, the years are flying by. Since arriving on campus in 2009, the Danville, Calif. native has played in every UC Davis football game, and has done so with tremendous success. Last year Gruendl was All-Great West Conference Honorable Mention on de-fense and won the Palmer Moody Award, given to the Aggies’ most outstanding sophomore. In this 2011 campaign he is currently second on the team with 37 tackles and one sack. Gruendl took time to sit down with California Aggie sports writer Caelum Shove to discuss the sea-son thus far, his career as a UC Davis football player and life away from the field.

I think it’s fair to say this season hasn’t gone the way you guys would have wanted. What’s your attitude at this point with four games re-maining? This season’s been really different than other seasons I’ve been here, just the fact that our team‘s been way closer. When I first came in here the offense and defense were basically separated into two teams. This summer we really made an ef-fort to come close and bond togeth-er. When we hit those first couple weeks, somewhere along there we got into a funk. We had no confi-dence as a team; we weren’t clicking on all cylinders. In all aspects of the game we were struggling. Four games left in the season and they’re all really winnable games and we have a lot of talent on this team. I think we’re going to win. I think we’re going to go 6-5 on the season.

If you go 6-5, you win against Cal Poly and you win against Sacramento State. Do you consid-er this season a success? I would never think of the season as

a success until we make the play-offs. I think its something we can al-ways build on going into next year. You come in with two goals ev-ery year — it’s to make the playoffs and to win conference. It’s all about just taking responsibility for our ac-tions and seeing if we can do some-thing about it. I think if we win con-ference if we win out, then it’s just

something to build on for next year.

You came onto campus as a freshman in 2009; you’ve played in every game since you got here. What’s it been like to be entrenched in the foot-ball program for three full years now?Time has flown by. You put so much work into this thing. And you put so much time and effort. You

don’t realize that the years and the practices and all those workouts all fly by. You don’t realize the seniors that are on this team, you proba-bly won’t see them that much af-ter this season. It’s just weird how life is, and it’s how the season is. I’ve been extremely fortunate to be part of the program for this long.

What’s the most important thing you’ve learned through three years of Division I football?Division I football has shaped me all around as the person I am today. My work ethic, my time manage-ment skills, where my priorities are, the things I value in life. My position coach [defensive coordinator Mark Johnson] always says, “Football is life within 100 yards,” and I always look at it like that. Football is just life, it’s shaped who I am today.

You came into the program at the same time as Johnson. What’s that been like and how has it affected your relationship? Johnson has been the best coach I’ve ever had — easily, hands down. He’s taught me all I’ve known about football. The guy is perfect for this program. He’s a father figure. He’s a guy that every guy on this team looks up to and respects with all of

our hearts. He’s really changed the program, at least the defensive side of the ball.

How have you matured as a foot-ball player in your three years here, besides getting bigger?Besides getting bigger? [Laughs] Just confidence. That’s the thing I look at. I understand the scheme way better. I understand the whole defense and the concepts of our blitzes and our coverages. When you finally get that understanding you can go out there and play with confidence; you don’t have to worry about making mistakes.

Is there a moment you can point to when on the football field you thought, “This is exactly where I want to be, this is exactly what I want to be doing right now?”Cal Poly last year was so sweet. We were down 21-3 going at halftime and coach Johnson brings up the defense and says, “There’s no pixie dust, there’s no magic potion, you guys gotta go out and want it.” Next thing you know we go out the sec-ond half, we create three turnovers, score 22 unanswered points and we win with about 30 seconds left in the game. That’s what football is all about. That’s when I knew I loved the guys I’m around and the coach-es I’m with. That was probably the pivotal moment in my career.

What are you studying?Econ.

How’s that going?It’s going well. When I first came here I had no idea what I wanted to do. Then the last couple years I did a few econ classes and decided — besides the fact that they forced me to declare a major — that econ is something I’m really interested in.

And then, post college plans. Nothing yet?Graduate, get a job, and make lots of money. [Laughs]

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By LANI CHAN Aggie Features Writer

Skiers and snowboarders can see one upside to the upcoming sea-son of chilly, rainy days — howev-er dreary it is on campus, it means it must be snowing somewhere. Luckily for Davis students, Lake Tahoe is roughly only a two-hour drive away, and with it, thousands of square miles of fluffy terrain to ski and ride. The only problem fac-ing Tahoe addicts is deciding where to invest a few hundred dollars in a lift pass for the season. Keeping in mind that students will likely want to coordinate with others when purchasing their pass-es, here are current season pass prices at some of Tahoe’s most pop-ular resorts. Vail Resorts, after purchasing Northstar-At-Tahoe last year, is of-fering a Tahoe Value pass that will al-low college students restricted ac-cess — meaning passholders will pay an additional fee on certain “black-out” days — to both Northstar and Heavenly Lake Tahoe for $299. Unlike last season, Sierra-At-Tahoe will not be included in the deal, but offers un-restricted access to students for $279. Alpine Meadows Resort, under the new ownership of KSL Capitol Partners, has partnered up with Squaw Valley U.S.A. to offer a com-bined student pass for $349. Alpine is also grouped with Homewood Mountain and Kirkwood resorts for the Unlimited Tripl3Threat pass, which allows unrestricted access for $329. “There’s so much to do and see here. We’ve been selling passes pret-ty consistently,” said Megan Maracle, a resort associate at Northstar. “We have a wonderful, laid-back environ-ment. The variety of trails lets the ad-vanced people come to shred or do the terrain park, or just slide down the mountain like me.” Northstar has been a local favorite in past seasons, but its blacked-out Saturdays for college students this year have been a slight deterrent to some. “I didn’t know that Northstar had no Saturdays this year. That’s too bad,” said Jessie Adams, senior art histo-ry and international relations double major. “I’ve always loved Northstar for their trails and their terrain park. I can go off on the side on the jumps without getting intimidated.” Maracle did note that Northstar pairs well with Heavenly because it tends to be less crowded at Heavenly on Saturdays, when the college pass is blacked out at Northstar.

Other resorts, such as Squaw Valley, have elected to allow access on Saturdays after seeing the reaction to Northstar’s restriction on their peak day of business. “We know college students can often only head to the snow on Saturdays,” said Julie Maurer, vice president of marketing and sales at Squaw Valley. “Our college pass has only 10 blackout days.” Maurer said that Alpine was right next door to Squaw Valley, making it a logical choice to partner with for a season pass deal. It offers two dif-ferent but equally great resorts for a competitive price. “It’s an incredible value to have access to that amount of acreage,” Maurer said. “Squaw and Alpine combined gives you 6,000 acres, 270 runs and 44 lifts, which is a re-ally compelling ski offer. Also, both resorts have a great après-ski scene that I think will be very attractive to college students.” On the other hand, the Tripl3Threat college pass gets students into three resorts: Kirkwood, Alpine and Homewood. Normally $329, but $255 if purchased through the Ski or Snowboard Club at UC Davis, stu-dents find that the Tripl3Threat pass offers them the best opportunities for riding even on the busiest days of the season. “Options are always necessary with how crowded Tahoe can get,” said Allie van Dorn, a fifth-year senior community and regional develop-ment major. “$255 for three of the top resorts in Tahoe is virtually unheard of. Not to mention that Kirkwood doesn’t have any blackout dates. This pass will ensure that any day you want to ride, you will.” Even after looking at the season pass deals at each resort and consid-ering what they offer, there are still a myriad of things to take into account when making the decision. “It definitely matters where my friends get their passes,” Adams said. “I’m most likely going to coordinate with my roommates.” Also to consider is distance from Davis, where accommodations for the night will often be, and where the clutch friend with 4-wheel-drive wants to go. Additionally, many of the special college deals will expire in November, and most resorts are opening in less than a month. Choosing where to ski and snow-board this winter will be different for everybody, but in any case, there will surely be sufficient Davis representa-tion on Tahoe’s slopes.

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

‘Tis the season for snow sportsCompare season pass prices at Lake Tahoe resorts

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Squaw Valley offers a swimming pool and a hot tub heated to 102 degrees.Courtesy of Nathan Kendall

Squaw Valley is partnered with Alpine Meadows in college season pass deals this year.

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College students can visit both Heavenly Resort and Northstar with the Tahoe Value Pass.

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Kirkwood Mountain Resort is just one of three resorts that are included in the Tripl3Threat college pass.

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Northstar-at-Tahoe offers a variety of winter sports, including a 9,000 square foot ice skating rink.

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