The quarter-life crisis is something adults don’t know about or shrug off as nonexistent. Thanks to our craptastic economy, job market and tuition, we twenty-somethings won’t make more money in our lifetime on average than our parents did, the first time since the young adults of the Great Depression. We owe more money, have shittier jobs and start families later. It’s pretty bleak. I want to skip to 40, when I’ve earned a steady amount of wealth. I want success. I don’t want to worry about rent every month. And I want a damn puppy already!
Let’s be real: I love spending money as much as anyone else. I blame GQ and Details for giving me my disgustingly expensive taste and admiration for designer clothes and electronics. At the same time, it was the guys in those magazines I aspired to be. Not just because of the slick suits, but the idea of becoming a man who’s achieved his life’s goals and made a respectable living.
Here are the ways we’re told to be better off financially: never miss a car payment, check our accounts twice a week, eat less fast food, establish good credit, stick to a budget, invest in Facebook. All true. Do them.
A good money-saving trick? Cut out your social life. “NO! I don’t have to go to school ever again! All I want to be is social right now!” Of course we do. But we’ll never be as “social” as we were in college. Sometime between age 22 and 95, we’ll become those people whose highlight of their week is the latest episode of CSI: Bakersfield.
Going out means money on gas, dinner, cover, drinks, fourthmeal. Doing that two or more nights a week? Dumb. For now, limit yourself to two nights or one long weekend a month when you go out or have reunions/three-day benders with your friends. These are the times to have a dinner and a movie or dance our faces off. Plus, it’s better to let out some steam once every two weeks than becoming the regular at the local bar. You don’t want to be those people. No one likes those people.
The rest of the time, you should be clocking as many hours as possible at your job(s). Always let your boss know your availability for more shifts or hours. Instead of being addicted to Euro-dance music on a Friday night, learn to fall in love with your work. For a few more years, we possess the energy to work 70-hour weeks. It’s the head start we’ll need to be the successful 30-year-olds our parents were.
Choose the times to live like a rich person and a poor person. If we can afford it, buy a round of shots every once in a while. On the flipside, at our job, act as if we’re constantly on the cusp of being fired. These days, we pretty much are. We’ll be doing a better job than our co-workers and making more moola. Who do you think will be granted extra hours or get the promotion at the end of the year? Two rounds of shots!
That safety net our parents yap at us to keep will come in handy. From here on out, take 10 percent of your paychecks and put them into your savings account. Don’t cry — I know it’s tough. Seeing money you can’t use? Torturous! But you’ll be less stressed out knowing you can get yourself out of a random bind.
At the same time, we can’t be scared of investing in our future. A reliable car and comfortable bed are necessary purchases we can’t shy away from. A decorated apartment feels more like a home. The more we accumulate for ourselves now, the less we’ll have to spend when we’re in committed relationships or have kids that take all of our hard-earned money away from us like selfish monsters. Sound familiar? Better enjoy it now while you can.
My favorite tip: It’s great to splurge on ourselves once in a while! We’re too old to get gifts as often as kids so we have to buy them ourselves. If you indulge, make sure it’s on things that will last long or that will be used every day. Can’t afford it now, put it on mental layaway. If we set a date and stick to the plans we’ve made, it’ll feel a lot more rewarding when we finally get that TV or puppy (it’s totally mine this Christmas).
E-mail, tweet me if you wanna reach me. If you wanna page me, it’s 2012. Stop. jazztrice526@gmail.com or twitter.com/Jazz_Trice.
Head coach Drew Wartenburg had hoped to succeed in all aspects of this weekend’s meet.
UC Davis certainly achieved that goal.
The Aggie men capitalized on the performance of senior Ethan Ostrum, who won the men’s pole vault after clearing 5.0m.
Sophomore Nathan Strum and freshman Trevor Ehlenbach earned a 1-2 finish in the 1,500m run and the men’s 4X400m relay team brought home the final win of the day for UC Davis’ men with a season-best time of 3:15.21.
Junior Michael Petersen added another six points to the Aggie total after vaulting 4.85m.
Sophomore Hosea Tate and freshman Jason Chandler, two members of the winning 4X400m relay team, also captured points for the Aggies after placing fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 200m.
Their other relay mate, sophomore Karl Moran, finished fifth in the 500m with a season-best time of 49.85.
Senior Robert Neely also added points to UC Davis’ card by placing fourth in the 110 hurdles with a time of 15.02.
On the field side of the meet, sophomore Brandon Greenberg rode his hot streak to another season-best performance in shot put. He placed second after jettisoning his shot 16.40m, placing him eighth overall on the list of Aggie shot putters.
Not to be outdone, UC Davis’ women also claimed several top-five event placings.
Sophomore Alycia Cridebring brought home the only event win of the day for the women after finishing the 1,500m run in 4:28.11. She was followed by three fellow sophomores: Kristine Loyoza, Shannon Harcus and Courtney Costa, who finished third, sixth and eighth respectively.
Junior sprinter Melanie Chapman blitzed to a second-place finish in the 100m with a time of 11.79. She then collected a third-place finish in the 200m with a time of 24.51. Fellow junior Leslie Reed joined Chapman in the top five after placing fifth in the 200m with a time of 24.65.
Chapman and Reed joined freshmen Cekarri Nixon and Janay Pierce in the 4X100m relay. The four posted a collective time of 46.62, the fifth-best time in UC Davis history.
Senior Tonie Williams brought home another third-place finish for the Aggies after running a season-best 56.27 in the 400m.
Freshman Katie Fry impressed again this season after placing fourth in the 800m with a time of 2:11.61.
Sprinters Chapman and Nixon joined sophomore Kellie Grigg and senior Alana Babers to post a season-best time of 3:48.55 and take third place in the 4X400m relay.
The Aggie women also excelled in the field events thanks to senior Lauren Radke’s 3.85m pole vault, which took second overall. Radke was joined by junior Emily Bush who took fifth overall after clearing 3.55m.
Senior Ashley Hearn rounded out the top five placings for UC Davis after claiming fourth overall in the hammer throw. She gave her second-best distance of the season, an impressive 54.44m.
Wartenburg applauded his team’s performance and he looks forward to the upcoming weeks.
“Several event wins … and a number of season and lifetime bests give us some solid building blocks for the weeks to come,” he said.
KIM CARR can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.
Last Friday, students took part in a “Kiss-in Against Capital” at the Memorial Union (MU). Participants gathered at noon to make out and bring awareness to student debt and issues concerning the UC Regents.
The event took place in solidarity with similar events around the world.
— HANNAH STRUMWASSER
The last few weeks have seen significant turnover in UC Davis men’s basketball.
Head coach Jim Les’ announcement of the departures of sophomores Harrison Dupont, Alex Tiffin and Mike Kurtz was followed just a week later by the announcement that freshman Tyrell Corbin would be leaving the Aggies at the end of the academic year.
To many UC Davis basketball fans, this seems all too similar to the dreaded Gary Stewart years.
Aggie fans can still remember the 2010 departures of players like Jelani Floyd (now at Florida Atlantic) and 2009-10 Big West Conference Freshman of the Year Julian Welch (who averaged nearly 10 points per-game this season for Minnesota).
But with that sad history in mind, a closer examination indicates that this time will most likely be different.
Let’s taking the departures one by one.
With all due respect to Kurtz (and he has been the butt of many jokes from The Aggie over the past two years) it never really seemed like he had a place in Les’ system.
The Roseville, Calif. native didn’t see the floor all season, and it is hard to imagine that he would have seen much playing time with UC Davis any time in the future.
For Harrison Dupont, the situation is similar.
The transfer from The Citadel did not seem to fit in to Les’ system, which requires perimeter players to pass and shoot the ball well.
Dupont made just one three-pointer in 10 attempts last season, and tallied 24 more turnovers than assists. With seniors Ryan Howley and Ryan Sypkens returning from injury, sophomores Tyler Les and Josh Ritchart showing great improvement last year and a solid group of recruits prepped to make plays to get into the starting lineup, Dupont probably would not have played a big role for the Aggies over the next several seasons.
As far as Tiffin is concerned, he began the year as an everyday starter, but began to lose playing time to freshman JT Adenrele as the season progressed.
With Adenrele looking like a player who will only get better over the next few years, and the official announcement of new recruits 6-10 Spencer Clayton and 6-7 Clint Bozner — who will both be looking to break into the 2012-13 starting lineup — Tiffin looks like an expendable piece for the upcoming season.
Possibly the most surprising departure of the group was Corbin.
While the other three players were brought in by the disaster known as Stewart, Corbin was a member of Les’ first UC Davis recruiting class and started at point guard for the majority of the season.
Like Dupont, however, Corbin was not an ideal fit.
The freshman from Utah shot under 20 percent from long distance last season, and though he led the team with 91 assists, he also topped the Aggies with 96 turnovers.
Junior Paolo Mancasola began to take minutes away from Corbin as the season progressed, and Mancasola started the final two games of the season for the Aggies, including UC Davis’ Big West Tournament game.
In addition, three of the Aggies’ four Division I wins came with Mancasola in the starting lineup (although in one of those games both Mancasola and Corbin started in tandem).
It is also important to note that next season will see the introduction of Corey Hawkins, who missed the 2011-12 season due to transfer rules following his move to UC Davis from Arizona State.
The 6-3 guard still has sophomore eligibility and rumor has it he has been a standout performer in practice.
With Hawkins looking to make a move for a spot in the 2012-13 starting lineup and Mancasola already entrenched as a reliable option, Corbin probably would have a seen a reduced role next season.
Nobody likes to see players transfer out of their program, but in this case it is not nearly as bad as it seems.
As similar as it seems, these latest departures are not the same type we witness under Stewart’s reign, and moving forward they might actually be the best moves for Les and the UC Davis basketball team.
TREVOR CRAMER can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.
At the ASUCD Senate meeting last Thursday, a bill that would increase the amount of funds granted to community-specific ceremonies was passed unanimously.
The bill (SB 89), which was revised from a previous version (SB 67), will distribute money to six graduation groups through the reallocation of unused reserves, as opposed to unused grants.
The previous bill attempted to allocate half of the loans from the Club Finance Council (CFC) and half from senate reserves.
The CFC provides about $80,000 in grants and loans to eligible and registered undergraduate campus organizations, but due to restrictions enforced last year by Student Affairs, department-sponsored student clubs and organizations are no longer able to receive ASUCD funding through CFC for events, according to the bill.
The bill expressed that due to recent incidents of hate targeting underrepresented communities on campus, the inviting environment of the university has been compromised.
“This has greatly affected the perception UC Davis has among underrepresented communities, and is a problem which must be rectified through re-establishing a safe atmosphere for these communities on our campus,” the bill stated.
The bill proposed that $1,457 from the REACH Retreat that did not take place, $5,543 from Senate Reserves and $4,989.46 from the dissolved ASUCD unit AS Papers be transferred to community-specific graduation ceremonies.
According to the author of the bill, Senator Jared Crisologo-Smith, the amount that was allocated is set at $10,000 (a $7,000 increase) for all six celebrations, which is about the same amount they had to lobby to receive from ASUCD in previous years.
“The money was literally sitting there serving no purpose,” he said. “I spent weeks making sure this bill was ironclad against any and all arguments anyone might have … With events like these, it seems as though some people search for any excuse not to grant funding. ”
Before voting, a number of senators had concerns that the bill was a spending bill, rather than a policy bill. A policy bill would make changes to the budget or the way ASUCD conducts itself, while a spending bill allocates funds to groups to spend or is spent by ASUCD on goods. This bill would usually require a detailed breakdown of cost and quotes.
According to Senator Patrick Sheehan, the type of bill would not have mattered.
“I try to refrain from basing important decisions on nuances in perspective. There were legitimate arguments brought up (and not effectively countered) that showed quotes (spending breakdown of each event) to be unnecessary,” he said in an e-mail interview. “This is also ironic because the original ethnic grads bill(s) set the precedent for our current spending quote requirements, a point made by Internal Affairs Commission Chair [Sergio] Cano.”
Senator Justin Goss said the bill rearranged the ASUCD budget internally by moving more funds to an existing line item. It also defined ASUCD’s priorities rather than an initial bill allocating funds for a specific purchase.
“In essence, the bill was the senate expressing their belief that ethnic graduations should be a higher budgetary priority, and the Association should be run accordingly,” Goss said in an email interview.
Goss explained why it was policy bill.
“This bill was unique because it involved both money and policy, and thus it was easy to confuse the two. The main reason it was a policy bill is because there was already a small budget line item created for ethnic graduations last year; that was a spending bill,” he said.
Goss said the reason he believes the bill passed the second time was because it took money from less contentious sources and was infrastructurally stronger and also because members of the table who voted “no” the first time used the interim to learn the significance of cultural graduations.
Crisologo-Smith, Goss and Sheehan agree that Student Affairs most likely will not grant money toward ethnic gradations during the budget shortfalls.
“In this current budget crisis, everyone is looking for places to cut costs rather than give additional funding,” Crisologo-Smith said in an e-mail interview.
Because the bill was relevant to many students of minority backgrounds, Thursday’s meeting included many students who chose to participate to ensure the bill’s passage. During the meeting Goss argued that senators are elected by the student body and they must listen to their concerns.
“Because many students are apathetic towards the Association, it normally doesn’t play out that way and we’re left to vote with a vague idea of what the student body wants. Thursday night was different, communities that cared about cultural graduations showed up to Senate and reminded us we were elected in part to serve and represent them,” he said.
Crisologo-Smith said he was ecstatic to see the bill passed unanimously, after he saw that the first attempt to assess the opinion of the senators only received six votes of support.
“After hours of arguing it became apparent that all arguments against this bill held no weight, and it eventually became useless for opponents to even try,” he said.
MUNA SADEK can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.
So, you probably heard: Facebook bought Instagram for one billion dollars. Yes, as in nine zeros. I guess Silicon Valley is somehow immune to the concept of economic downturn.
Note to self: spend two years developing a popular mobile app, then sell company – and soul – to Mark Zuckerberg.
The tech world let out a collective gasp when the news broke last Monday, but not because it’s an absurd amount of money. It’s just an absurd amount of money for Instagram. One billion is a hell of a lot for a company that a) has, like, thirteen employees, b) makes no revenue and c) is worth half of that amount. Instagram was valued at $500 million just a month ago — still a hefty chunk of change, but nothing like the cool billion Facebook forked over.
The photo-sharing network may not be worth what Facebook paid, but it’s clear that Instagram is no ordinary app. Over 33 million iOS users (and counting) have downloaded the mobile application — that’s one in every ten iPhones, according to the company’s press center. And since Instagram hit the Android market two weeks ago, the company has added another five million users.
I’ve written about the makings of a mobile-centric, post-PC era before, but nothing validates that trend more than the Instagram acquisition. Instagram is mobile, mobile is the future and Facebook would like very much to be a part of that future. Hence, one billion dollars.
I don’t think I need to explain how much Facebook’s mobile application sucks. It freezes, crashes and fails to load more often than not. It’s an app that suffers from every software-related issue known to mankind, short of self-destruction. The Facebook app, as it stands, is not the way to engage 800 million or so users. Duh.
The mobile space is another animal entirely. When somebody uses a smartphone, their patience is cut in half. People just don’t want to have to stare at a blank, four-by-two-inch screen for too long, and most won’t even wait a full minute before moving onto something else. Standing on a bus hanging onto the overhead railing with one hand and clutching your smartphone with the other, puts your mind in a place that’s very different from sitting at a desk. Such is the reality of mobile phone use.
These revelations have been long realized by Instagram, who could potentially serve to dramatically raise the Facebook’s mobile app’s caliber. Users edit and share photos seamlessly, thanks to Instagram’s careful engineering and dedication to speed and simplicity. With not much more than your fingertips at your disposal (quite literally), less is certainly more when it comes to apps.
The app has few editing functions — filters, frames that correspond with those filters, blur, brighten and rotate. The edited images are then uploaded to Instagram’s servers, enabling users to share their pictures with their Instagram followers or cross-post the uploads to other social media accounts.
Instagram is a well-oiled machine indeed, which is why the Facebook acquisition sparked so much user rebellion from its community. What will become of Instagram with Facebook as its commander?
Mark Zuckerberg and company still have a lot to learn from a little company like Instagram. Hopefully this means that Big Brother will intervene very little, and commit to “growing and building Instagram independently,” which he promised in his press release.
But I see increasing collaboration between the two, a sentiment best illustrated by the Washington Post’s Dan Zak: “Just as Instagram makes bad photos look good and good photos look great, Facebook makes you look happy and loved if you’re not, and joyous and adored if you are. Self-brand and share. Filter and share. Share the edited stuff, the varnished stuff, the stuff with the halo around it. Take a step away from truth for the sake of beauty.”
We may not get to reap that one-billion dollar reward, but we will see a growing number of people, equipped with Instagram and their smartphones, oversharing moments from an alternative radiant, sun-drenched world.
How lucky for us.
This Monday is particularly brutal for NICOLE NGUYEN, who just drove eight hours through the night from Coachella. Send your condolences to niknguyen@ucdavis.edu.
Hey, what are dreams? I mean, I know they’re the sounds/images/sensations that flit through our heads when we’re sleeping, but what actually are they? And what do they do? And do we even need them?
Let’s go way back. Usually this is the part of an informational column about dreams where we’d go back to the Ancient Greeks and start there. But I don’t want to do that because I’m sick of everything starting with the Greeks just because we in the West were trained by some Enlightenment hot shots to think of them as our intellectual ancestors. It’s West-centric! I’m over it!
Nah, friends. I’d rather talk about the Upanishads. What are the Upanishads? I’m glad you asked, rhetorically useful voice in my head!
The Upanishads are a collection of philosophical writings from old-timey India on the nature of existence, the value of ritual and other such weighty what-not. The part about dreams is mostly in the Mandukya Upanishad. Say that out loud, it’s very enjoyable. The scholarship on this little guy can get weighty, but here’s my typically under-informed summary.
So you’ve got your dream life, and your waking life. And in both, you think you’re confronting ‘reality.’ Look down at this newspaper. It’s real, right? It’s tangible, the words printed on the page don’t wiggle around, everything seems…real.
Now think back to your last dream. When you were inside of it, fast asleep, dead to the waking world, didn’t it seem real? When that giant Ryan Gosling with snake hands was chasing you, wasn’t it scary? Didn’t your heart pound with the erotic terror that only snake-hand-Ryan-Gosling can evoke? So why do we think of one world as more real than the other?
Well, says the Mandukya Upanishad, we shouldn’t. One of the tasks of living is to be able to view these two perspectives – life and dream – from a third place. In this third place, our essential selves reflect both on our lived experiences and on our dreams with an equally critical eye, privileging neither as more real. When we can do that, then we will truly understand.
If that freaks you out, good. You know what else is freaky? The dream theories of Sigmund Freud. And before we get into this, he was undeniably a sex-obsessed, cocaine-addled narcissist. He was also a genius, and in the weirdest and most wonderful way.
Let’s see what creepy Uncle Sigmund has to say about our dreams. Well, first we should address the fact that Freud didn’t believe that any part of human behavior was random. For him, when weird things happen in dreams they’re just the thoughts and feelings you repress all day wiggling their way back into the foreground, your unconscious screaming out in the night. Dang, I should be a poet.
Do you know about the id/superego thing? Human existence, for Freud, is an epic, sword clang-y battle between the id and superego, with poor little ego stuck in the middle. The id is that naughty part of you that likes cake and sucking face with strangers, the unrestrained animal impulse. But pure id doesn’t work so well in a social setting.
So we have the superego, the schoolmarm part of the brain that says “oh no, no cake for you fatty! And you don’t even know that bar fly, she might have herpes!” Meanwhile, the poor ego, the conscious part of the brain that you think controls your actions, is all “what do I dooo?!?”
So in dreams, the rational ego goes away, and the id and superego, both of which don’t really manifest in daily life, run wild. But because these repressed parts of you could be damaging if they are expressed too clearly (and that part has never made sense to me), they translate themselves in to symbols. So your id might be wanting you to eat more gummy bears, but the resulting dream might show up as, say, a giant Joseph Gordon-Levitt with spider hands.
Or whatever. Hey, it’s your dream, interpret it however you want. I’m just here to make jokes.
If you want a dream interpreted, KATELYN HEMPSTEAD has no idea how to do that, but you can contact her anyway at khempstead@ucdavis.edu.
In September 2005, as part of the Safer California Universities study and newly formed Safe Party Initiative, a Safe Party website was created. This year, the website has been revamped and optimized for iOS and Android, allowing students easier access to the website on their phones.
“‘Party throwers’ and ‘party goers’ can find out how to keep the party going, help a friend in an emergency and make it home after a night out,” said Mandy Li, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) Risk Reduction Coordinator. “Students can call Tipsy Taxi, local taxi cab companies and Unitrans with one-touch dialing on mobile devices.”
After meeting with various focus groups, the designers of the website determined it to be outdated. The team in charge of the website included Li, several ATOD Student Assistants and Adam Napolitan, Student Health and Counseling Services Communications Director.
“Really, this is embracing the mobile web experience and allowing the site to be agile and adjust for the user’s browsing needs,” said Napolitan, who served as the lead programmer on the project. The website incorporates a number of new web design trends, including HTML5, CSS3 and optimization for touch screens.
An extensive advertising campaign is planned for the website, including using screens in the Memorial Union (MU) and housing areas and handing out fliers to apartment complexes to share with their tenants.
“We’re looking at a very broad advertising plan,” Li said.
Safe Party Initiative Partners will be present at Picnic Day to spread information.
“The Safe Party Initiative Partners and Picnic Day organizers will be delivering Safe Party packs with information to promote responsibility at parties,” said Sarah Hellesen, ATOD Student Assistant. “The latest message to students and community members this year is to keep their events in their home or backyard … to avoid unwanted guests from joining the event.”
For more information on Safe Party tips, visit safeparty.ucdavis.edu.
ROHIT RAVIKUMAR can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.
ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the April 12, 2012 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings.
Meeting called to order at 6:14 p.m.
Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, present, arrived late, left early
Yena Bae, ASUCD vice president, present
Kabir Kapur, ASUCD senator, present
Jared Crisologo-Smith, ASUCD senator, present
Bradley Bottoms, ASUCD senator, present
Justin Goss, ASUCD senator, present
Annamaria Kimball, ASUCD senator, pro tempore, present
Paul Min, ASUCD senator, present
Don Gilbert, ASUCD senator, present
Joyce Han, ASUCD senator, present
Erica Padgett, ASUCD senator, present, arrived late, left early
Beatriz Anguiano, ASUCD senator, present
Patrick Sheehan, ASUCD senator, present
Yara Zokaie, ASUCD senator, present
Consideration of old legislation
Senate Bill 98, authored by Alperin, co-authored by Bae, Barnett, Bottoms, Kapur, Kimball, Lipp, Padgett, Sterling and Stone, introduced by Kimball, to allocate $1,358 from Senate Reserves to TEDxUCDavis for the second annual TEDxUCDavis conference on May 19. Sheehan said he was hesitant about spending so much ASUCD money on what he was concerned would be a one-time expense. Kapur was concerned that since the senate didn’t have a letter from Club Finance Council (CFC), they would have to suspend the bylaws to see the bill as it was. Kimball and Padgett stated that the issues senators were concerned about should have been brought up during commission meetings so that the authors could have had sufficient time to amend the language. The bill passed unanimously after authors had amended the language to address the concerns the senators brought up.
Senate Bill 99, authored by McManus, co-authored by Cano and introduced by Kapur, to clarify the structure of the Special Committee on Student Health and Wellness, passed unanimously.
Senate Bill 87, authored and introduced by Kimball, co-authored by Donnelley, Sandstrom and Lu, to allocate $933.22 from Senate Reserves to fund the Davis Volunteer and Service Fair, passed unanimously.
Senate Bill 89, authored by Crisologo-Smith, co-authored by Alday, Anguiano, Atienza, Bonaparte, Borgonia, Brown, Bush, Cano, Crisologo, Espinoza, Diaz-Ordaz, Goss, Ilano, Joanino, King, Link, Lumban, Marquez, A. Martin, M. Martín, Montelongo, Oka, Rombi, Sagala, Sheehan, Soriano, Torres, Truong, Turkell and Wren, introduced by Crisologo-Smith, Link and Stone, to increase the amount of funds available in the “CCC/LGBTRC Community-Specific Ceremonies” line item in the 2011-2012 Grants Budget. Sheehan wanted to limit debate to 25 minutes but the motion failed. Senators Gilbert, Min, Han and Bottoms and Controller Maemura wanted a budget breakdown of how the money would be spent. Bottoms said that he would like to speak to Student Affairs and request even more money for the program but not until he received quotes from the various graduations about the budget breakdown. Goss asked what was stopping Bottoms from voting yes and that the table should vote yes in order to represent all the students who showed up to the meeting in support of this bill. A member of the public asked Gilbert to defend his no vote when they divided the house since he had stated as part of his platform that he wanted to support underrepresented students. He answered that he felt like he needed more information before he could decide. Mayra Martín also asked Gilbert to defend his position. Min stated that he viewed the bill as a spending bill while Crisologo-Smith stated that he viewed it as a policy bill. Min said that he was entitled to his viewpoint and that if Anguiano and Goss could convince him that it was a policy bill, he would change his no vote to a yes. Bottoms said that his goal and the reason for his no vote is because he wants to institutionalize the funding within Student Affairs. Link said that even if people are saying they’re not voting against ethnic grads because they want better ethnic grads, that by voting no, they are voting against ethnic grads. Former senator Tatiana Bush encouraged senators who wanted to work for better ethnic grads to work with her after passing the bill. She added that they had already spoken with Student Affairs and they couldn’t receive any more money. Cano clarified that this was a policy bill due to the way the bill was written. Zokaie said it was arrogant to think that they knew more than the experts since the Business and Finance Commission had unanimously voted yes. The bill passed unanimously.
Senate Bill 95, authored by Martin and introduced by Kimball, to renew the Special Committee on Aggie Bound Outreach for an additional year, passed unanimously.
Senate Bill 97, authored by Gopal, co-authored by Sterling and Padgett and introduced by Padgett, to allocate $5,000 for safety improvements of the UC Davis Athletics 1973 Crown Pumper Fire Engine. Sheehan suggested asking Unitrans to fix it instead of giving it to an outside source. Sterling said it would be too difficult under a time crunch to ask already hard-working students to work on this project. The bill passed with a 9-2-1. Anguiano abstained and Goss and Sheehan voted no.
Senate Bill 96, authored and introduced by Goss, co-authored by Kapur, Azari, Sheehan, Cano, Harms, Coronado-Moses, to institutionalize correspondence between ASUCD and the other University of California student governments, was tabled.
Senate Bill 94, authored and introduced by the Internal Affairs Commission, co-authored by Goss, to restructure Chapter Thirteen, Guidelines of Ethics, passed unanimously.
Meeting adjourned at 2:52 a.m.
Open positions within ASUCD can be found at vacancy.ucdavis.edu. AKSHAYA RAMANUJAM compiles the senate briefs. She can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.
UC Davis men’s basketball coach Jim Les announced Tuesday night that freshman guard Tyrell Corbin would not be returning for the Aggies next season and will be looking to transfer at the end of the academic year.
“We’re appreciative of Tyrell being part of our basketball program and we wish him well,” Les said.
The announcement came less than two weeks after Les announced that sophomores Harrison Dupont, Alex Tiffin and Mike Kurtz would not be returning in 2012-13.
Corbin was a member of Les’ first recruiting class and was a fixture of the starting lineup for the majority of the season.
Overall, Corbin started 23 games, averaged 6.3 points per game and led the team with 91 assists in his sole season with UC Davis. Corbin also turned the ball over a team-high of 97 times.
With the departure of Corbin, Dupont and Tiffin, the Aggies have lost their three team leaders in turnovers from the 2011-12 season.
— Trevor Cramer
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