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ForecastJanuary Gloom will stick around for the next week or so as fog and

cool weather settles down in the Sacramento Delta. Most Tahoe-area resorts received about 2-5 feet of new snow last weekend. Get

excited!Kenneth Doss, atmospheric science major

Aggie Forecasting Team

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Last night, I felt the full effect of Megaupload’s downfall. Even now, I still haven’t watched the

latest episode of Gossip Girl.

Mimi Vo

2020 Initiative begins work in committees

Sacramento City College Center opens on campus Center to change the transition from community college to UC Davis

UC Davis community members help shape proposalBy MAX GARRITY RUSSER

Aggie News Writer

The 2020 Initiative, a propos-al to increase overall student enrollment within the coming years, began work this month in the form of task forces to out-

line an implementation pro-cess. The proposal was intro-duced by Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi in Fall quarter. If the proposal is enacted, an additional 5,000 students will be enrolled and 300 fac-ulty hired by the target date.

California, out-of-state and international students would together make up the in-creased student body. “The main goal of 2020 is to sustain and enhance excel-lence at UC Davis by build-ing on existing strengths and

resources to become a more active partner with the state in supporting higher educa-tion,” said Yena Bae, ASUCD senator and member of the enrollment management

By RICHARD CHANGAggie News Writer

The transition for commu-nity college students to UC Davis may soon become a lot smoother.

“It’s a shock when stu-dents transfer from commu-nity college to the universi-ty,” said Don Palm, dean of the Sacramento City College Davis Center.

That is precisely what edu-cators from both the UC and community college systems hoped to mitigate when they gathered in 2006 to sign a landmark agreement to place the first ever community col-lege center on a University of California campus.

The Sacramento City College Davis Center, located on the western part of cam-pus in West Village, opened

its doors last week to over 2,000 students in what sup-porters hailed as a unique collaboration between two of California’s higher education systems.

“It will make the journey between community college and UC Davis more seamless, and represents real progress in expanding educational opportunities for California students,” said UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi at the opening ceremony for the center.

Supporters of the project believe the location of the center on campus will pro-vide community college stu-dents with a new opportunity to become a part of the wider UC Davis community.

“Our students will have much easier access to things part of UC Davis, whether it’s

eating at the Silo or check-ing out a book from Shields Library,” Palm said.

Funded entirely by the Los Rios Community College District through Sacramento voter-approved Measure A bonds, the new 20,000 square foot, $7.5 million dollar state-of-the-art Davis Center is sil-ver LEED certified, which means it is more environ-mentally sustainable than, say, traditional buildings. According to Palm, the center is planning two more phases, with the final phase of con-struction contingent on state government funding.

The construction was made possible by a land-lease agree-ment between UC Davis and Los Rios. Under the terms of the 65 year ground-lease, Los

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Aggies at The Pub event tonight

Aggie ReStore grand opening today

City environmental nominations due in

February

White car suspected in fatal hit-and-run

Tonight is the Aggies at The Pub: Beat the Clock event at Gunrock Pub on campus. The event, hosted by Gunrock Pub and ASUCD, begins at 5 p.m. The price of beer increases as the night goes on and there will be a spe-cial food and drink menu. Aggies at the Pub events take place on select Wednesdays this quarter.

The grand opening of the ASUCD Aggie ReStore is today at 11 a.m. Located in the M.U., the Aggie ReStore aims to reuse things that would normally go to the land-fill. The Aggie ReStore is selling items such as accessories, CDs and different student-made items.

— Hannah Strumwasser

Nominations for the Davis Environmental Recognition Award are due Feb. 10. Recipients will be chosen at the February Davis Natural Resources Commission meeting and Davis City Council will dis-tribute the awards in April. Individuals, groups, businesses and non-profit organizations are all eligible for the award. The city encourages those nominat-ed to have gone above and beyond to im-prove the environmental quality of life in and around Davis.

According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP), a white vehicle – possibly a sports car – struck and killed a UC Berkeley student on Highway 113 on Jan. 21. A car with a front end a little bit low to the ground hit 21-year-old Vladimir Debabov before fleeing the scene, Woodland CHP Officer Bryan Konvalin told the Sacramento Bee. Konvalin said the car will have moder-ate to major damage to the front with pos-sible roof damage. The suspect’s vehicle de-scription is based on the injuries to the vic-tim’s body. Debabov was reportedly walking in the traffic lanes of Highway 113 north of County Road 29 when he was hit by the ve-hicle around 3:50 a.m. Those with information on the inci-dent can call the Woodland CHP office at (530) 662-4685 or the CHP’s Sacramento Communication Center at (916) 861-1300.

–– Angela Swartz

Jasna Hodzic / Aggie

sacramento City College students can now take classes on the UC Davis campus. see COLLeGe, page 2

I took this photo on Tuesday morning. The quote trans-lates as “alienation begins here.” It was painted at the en-

trance of the Sarbonne during the ‘68 student insurrection in France. The students fought against neo-fascist auster-ity measures on higher education imposed by President Charles de Gaulle. History repeats itself to say the least.

––Enosh Baker, UC Davis alumnus

Alumnus Snapshot

Courtesy of Enosh Baker

see iNiTiATiVe, page 2

A group of protesters held a rally on the Quad yesterday, and then marched around campus, ending at the building that used to house the Cross Cultural Center. The students said that they plan to sleep in the building and continue occupying it. While many protesters did not want to speak for the group as a whole, the Occupy

UC Davis movement released a communique Wednesday, which gave some explanation for the occupation. “High tuition increases have been made necessary not by shrinking savings, but by a perpetually expanding bond market, organized by the UC Regents, enforced through increasing tuition and growing student loan

debt. Growth has become a caricature of itself, as the future is sold on baseless expanding credit from capitalist to capitalist,” stated the release. “Our future is broken. We are the crisis. Our occupations are the expressions of that crisis.”

— Text by Hannah Strumwasser — Photo by Brian Nguyen

Student protesters occupy old Cross Cultural Center building

I have a hard time trusting technology companies. That doesn’t

mean, mind you, that I trust Congress. It’s just that we’re conditioned to distrust the people we inevitably elect. Tech firms, by contrast, are more often the objects of our praise and wonder. They’re supposed to be on our side. But the difference between the rhetoric of tech giants and its supporters as both protest SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, has introduced a nuance that calls that praise into question.

Big internet is concerned that the bill’s creators don’t understand the “architecture of the internet” enough to anticipate the implications of the legislation. People like you and me, who use Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and so on, have begun to paint SOPA in the image of young versus old. Between us of the Internet Generation, and them, the other who cannot, for the life of them figure out how to “get on the Facebook.” It’s our generation that re-framed SOPA as the Stupid Old People Act.

That discursive split between tech giants and the Internet Generation is not so much about corporate politeness as it is indicative of an ominous dichotomy between the two. Tech giants aren’t really against the aged — they’re opposed to those who don’t understand their craft getting in the way of it.

It is we (who put the “us” in “users”) who are including ourselves among those in league with tech giants. Some of us are accomplishing this by way of explicit technopeagentry, whereupon we brand ourselves with gadgets. Some of us are trying to learn the levers of the platforms we adore. In this latter group, over 300,000 people in the first seven days of the New Year signed up for the start-up CodeAcademy’s computer programming lessons. If these companies are the architects of the internet,

I’m afraid there’s a cult of exclusivity growing among those who hold the blueprints.

Take Google. While they’ve done their part to index and open the internet as a searchable reference, the company is famous for a strong insider-outsider culture. Ex-Google engineer Douwe Osinga wrote last year that internally, most information is open-access. When you leave, though, it’s a bit like leaving a “walled garden.”

Another undercovered story in the tech world this week peered into the elusive world of Apple through the eyes of Fortune Magazine editor Adam Lashinsky. He compares the company to a terrorist cell for the way it operates on a need-to-know basis. Among other leaks, he writes that Apple holds secret

meetings, locks are frequently changed, windows are painted over in

black and undercover company spies stake out in nearby bars to sniff out loose lips.

I’m as opposed to SOPA and PIPA as the next Facebook worm or Twitter twit, but I think there’s reason to pause when any powerful group begins to cloister itself. Tech giants are on our side today because we’re a mobile base of political support. The trouble here is that I don’t know what to do to push back when their interests and our interests are no longer the same.

For example, Google’s secrecy takes a turn for the awkward when you learn that Google and the CIA jointly funded a firm that believes it can predict the future, or that Google has built and sold to the national intelligence agencies the infrastructure they use for indexing information. This makes you wonder who Google’s “don’t be evil” motto is directed toward.

Since the beginning of the new year, Facebook has been demoing a new development that brings advertising into the main newsfeed section as “Sponsored Stories” — as if the advertisements were coming from our friends. As with all previous changes, Zuckerberg and Co. got a lot of heat for the implement. But just like all other the other changes Facebook makes, it’s probably here to stay.

What do you do when the user becomes the used?

You can electronically mail your correspondence to RAJIV NARAYAN at rrnarayan@ucdavis.edu.

If your student wallet is like mine, it is probably full of wishful thinking

instead of money. And if you love to eat, an obvious shortcoming is not being able to afford pricey foods. Yet in an effort to stay healthy, many students continue to overspend on nutrition. In an effort to save money, many others turn to fast food for a solution. In truth, both are expensive.

While one makes you overpay immediately, the other is filled with external costs. Weight gain aside, a fast food diet low in nutrients will likely result in poor health, costing you more through supplements, doctor visits, fitness trainers and over the counter drugs. Even to save money, we obviously need good nutrition. The problem is that many students don’t know how to buy cheap and healthy at the same time.

Luckily, a nutritious diet does not have to poke your paycheck with a fork. Or stab it with a knife. A few simple grocery rules will do. Not only will these tips lower your expenses, they will also save you hidden costs by leaving you with an optimal brain, body and immune system.

First off, simply cutting your meat consumption in half will do wonders to your bill and self. For one, this is typically the most expensive food group in your shopping cart. Second, leaning toward plant proteins like mushrooms, peas, soybeans, tempeh, beans, nuts and oats can lower your risk for heart disease because their healthy oils and fibers lower cholesterol. Wheat gluten, low fat dairy and eggs can also be cheaper and great sources of protein.

What’s more? Doing this probably won’t deprive your body of protein, as the average adult already eats about 55 percent more protein than he or she needs. So consider adding the above foods to your diet. It may be tempting to instead buy a protein bar but, unless it is

your way of avoiding even more expensive takeout, remember that pre-made and over-packaged anything will up your bill.

Speaking of which, your next solution is to go as raw and simple as possible. Do this, and the better off you and your wallet will be. You can pay for the wrapping and time spent putting ingredients together, or you can do it yourself. You can also buy food that is no longer recognizable, or you can buy un-tampered foods that are cheaper and healthier. Vitamins are often added to processed foods, but no matter how fortified they are, the starting ingredients are likely way more nutritious than the end products. Even the process of canning, for example, zaps out up to 90 percent of vitamin C in canned fruit.

If you want natural foods that are higher in vitamins and

minerals, an easy solution is to first look down at your grocery cart to see what you have. Examples of over-processed and over-packaged foods include energy bars, canned soups, pre-made and frozen entrees, shakes and snacks in to-go cups. Hopefully, you will instead see most of your foods as close to their natural element as possible. I say, 15 ingredients or less is a good goal to shoot for.

Foods in their natural element, of course, will easily spoil and be thrown out when bought in bulk, which many of us do. Not only do Americans love buying in large amounts, but the average household also wastes 14 percent of its groceries –– money simply lost in the trash. While I still encourage buying in bulk, your budget is solved with this: only buy dry foods in bulk, not fresh.

Purchasing fresh foods in reasonable amounts will make them eaten, not thrown away. Super-sizing on dry foods, though, will give you better deals. Even organic foods, such as cereal, in bulk, will likely fit your budget. But is organic worth it?

When it comes to organic, higher price tags often convince us that organic products are superior. It turns out that some organic foods can boost your longevity, but there are many times when buying it won’t make sense. Next Wednesday, find out why and when to go organic.

THERESA RICHARDSON is bringing you the latest research to keep your college waistline and health in check. For questions or comments contact her at terichardson@ucdavis.edu.

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This makes you wonder who Google’s “don’t be evil” motto is

directed toward

First off, simply cutting your meat consumption in half will do

wonders to your bill and self

today

the House peer counseling info Session10 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 3 p.m.Moss Room, MU Third FloorGet information about becoming a peer counselor at The House and pick up an application.

orientation leader info SessionNoon to 12:45 p.m.1150 HartInterested in being an Orientation Leader for Summer 2012? Applications are due Monday. Attend the info session to learn more about hiring opportunities in Student Housing.

Summer abroad info Session, “italian culture and institutions” NoonEducation Abroad Center, Third and A StreetsLearn how you can study Italian in Rome. Meet the instructor and ask questions.

Summer abroad info Session, “latino youth gangs in a global perspective”1 p.m.Education Abroad Center, Third and A Streets Learn how you can study Chicano studies in Barcelona. Meet the instructor and ask questions.

Summer abroad info Session, “a taste of china”4 p.m.Education Abroad Center, Third and A Streets Learn how you can study food science in Wuxi. Meet the instructor and ask questions.

circle K international Meeting6 p.m.6 OlsonCheck out Circle K to help make a difference and meet new friends at the same time.

relay For life team Meetings featuring the Spokes7 to 8 p.m.202 WellmanLearn how to get involved with UC Davis Relay For Life and enjoy a special guest performance from the lovely ladies of

The Spokes. Another meeting will be held Thursday.

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yoga/Meditation class2 to 3 p.m.TB-16, across from Regan HallThe House Peer Counseling Center offers a free class on yoga and meditation.

BMe distinguished Seminar Series: dr. cato laurencin4:10 p.m. Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility AuditoriumCato Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., University of Connecticut. Dr. Laurencin will discuss regenerative engineering of hard and soft musculoskeletal tissues.

green team Meeting 6 p.m.Memorial Union 43 (Campus Center for the Environment office)Green Team Volunteer Group, part of the Campus Center for the Environment, is active in Davis with events surrounding environmental awareness and protection. At the meeting, discuss the upcoming opportunities to help the environment and meet other students who are passionate about the environment.

Botany and environmental Horticulture club6:15 to 7 p.m.3090 Science Laboratory BuildingEnjoy free pizza and hear Botanical Conservatory director Ernesto Sandoval speak about garden projects.

Uc Haiti initiative: rebuilding Haiti 7 to 9 p.m. Memorial Union, Griffin LoungeDr. Holly Cooper from UC Davis School of Law, Dr. Gross from UC Davis School of Medicine, and UC Davis Haiti Humphrey’s Fellow will be speaking about Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Learn how you can get involved to rebuild higher education in Haiti.

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Rios pays UC Davis a nom-inal $1 annually for rights to the land. Though the $7.5 million building proj-ect was funded by Los Rios, the university allo-cated $17 million to bring infrastructure and utili-ties to the West Village site, which was previously un-developed land.

Gary Sandy, director of local government relations at UC Davis, said the uni-versity will recoup the costs from the project by placing a surcharge on West Village residents’ utility bills.

Some residents of West

Village welcomed their new neighbor, but with a few reservations.

“It’s great to have more people to interact with, but traffic congestion has got-ten worse and bus seats are now sparse,” said Sharon Zhu, a first-year manage-rial economics major who lives opposite the Davis Center.

Nevertheless, educators like Palm remain upbeat about what the center will hold for its students.

“They will be able to plan better and make their university experience more successful,” he said.

RICHARD CHANG can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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committee. “The initiative also aims to improve diversity of the student body by bringing in more interna-tional and out of state students, fi-nancial stability and creating new revenues for the university and high-er education.” Three separate committees – the Academic Resources Committee, the Enrollment Management Committee and the Facilities Planning Committee – have been designated to help in the planning process of the initiative. Committees will meet twice monthly from January through June. “The task forces are one set of groups that will be providing input and advice regarding the many issues raised in the 2020 proposal,” said Ken Burtis, pro-fessor of genetics, faculty advisor to the chancellor and provost and chair of the enrollment management com-

mittee. “They are comprised of mem-bers from a diverse group of campus constituencies, including undergrad-uate and graduate students, staff, fac-ulty and administration. Input will also be sought from other groups, for ex-ample the standing committees of the Academic Senate, ASUCD, community members, etc. , through events such as town hall meetings and other venues.” The initiative comes in response to campus budgetary problems from a lack of sufficient funding. “The chancellor, as well as other members of the faculty and admin-istration of UC Davis, have all been challenged recently to envision ways in which the campus can maintain its traditions of access and excellence in the face of rapidly declining state sup-port,” said Burtis. “The growth pro-posal envisioned in the 2020 Initiative was one of the several ideas that arose out of the challenges that we face, and was recognized by the chancellor as a possible way in which we could begin

to reverse some of the deleterious im-pacts of the decline in state funding.” Although only in the planning stag-es, challenges in the application of the 2020 Initiative can be seen by some committee members. “Again, I want to emphasize the fact that this is a proposal, not a set plan,” Bae said . “But if this initiative was to be enacted, then the biggest issue it might bring to the campus is the lack of resources that the university will be capable of providing to enhance not just academic life but the overall stu-dent life.” In Chancellor Katehi’s Fall Convocation Address she outlined the objective of the proposal as creating “a university that can sustain its rising trajectory through its own best efforts, leveraging support from the state but rising above the fiscal limitations we now face.”

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By ZANDER WOLDAggie News Writer

For many Davis residents, the wars of recent years are a foreign issue not affecting their daily lives. For those with close relatives serving in the military, there is a support group helping to comfort them.

The Yolo Military Families group met Monday night at Black Bear Diner. The group was founded almost 10 years ago by Cindy Schulze, whose son was in the Marines at the time.

Bob Glynn, a former Marine, and whose son Matt flew a fighter pilot in the war in Iraq, was one of the first participants of the group.

“The group started to form as a casual meeting of people,” Glynn said. “There were a couple of support the troop rallies, which helped meet other military families.”

The group meets about six times a year, and have a yearly fundraiser in the fall to raise money to send troops packages.

Linda Smith, who joined the group in 2006, now acts as the coordinator. Her son was deployed to Iraq twice, and she feels the war is completely different from the perspective of a family member.

“There is emotional sacrifice you have to deal with day to day when they are gone,” Smith said. “You carry a stress daily about

if they will come home.”The intention of the group is not just to

provide comfort though.“[It is] a place to come and brag about

our kids,” Smith said.Joni Klein is in a similar situation. Her

son Matthew works in intelligence and helps train Iraqis, which made him realize Americans and Iraqis are similar. She feels the group helps support her a great deal too.

“It’s been wonderful to have people in the same situation you are in,” Klein said. “They are almost like family.”

While members of the group have close connections to troops serving in the military, for many Americans it is a foreign issue. Members of the group believe there are a few things many people do not realize about members of the military.

“They teach them a lot of respect for each other,” Klein said. “[Also], they come back as a hero.”

For Glynn, there is a different issue he feels is important that is going unnoticed.

“[People] realize they are in harms way, but they don’t realize these kids are coming back and can’t find jobs,” he said. “Some have medical problems and have families; they need jobs.”

Glynn believes that as more troops are withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan, the unemployment rate is going to keep increasing because of the veterans looking

for jobs.He is grateful however, that no one

within the group has lost a family member while serving in the recent wars.

The group is appreciative of the community’s support, including Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) who lends them a classroom to help pack boxes and The Grad where the group’s annual fundraiser is usually held.

Even though it started as a Davis

exclusive group, it is now open to anyone within Yolo County.

Smith highly recommends anyone who has a sibling, child or other close relative serving in the military to join the group. The meetings usually take place at Black Bear Diner.

“Support the troops,” Smith said. “To show [them] the people at home care.”

ZANDER WOLD can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

Yolo Military Families group meets at Black Bear Diner

Group meant to serve as comfort for military families

Evan Davis / Aggie

The Yolo Military Families group meets about six times a year at Black Bear Diner and acts as a support group to locals with family members in the military.

they do not actually interact as the clusters pass through each oth-er. However, the hot gas is the one component that does collide, re-maining in the center of the col-lision as momentum carries the clusters away from each other. “The main purpose of studying merging clusters is to understand about dark matter,” said Perry Gee, a research specialist at UC Davis, who discovered the system. Researchers are particularly in-terested in how the dark matter in-teracts in the system — or more to the point, how it does not. The dark matter of both galaxy clusters has not interacted with each other and remains surrounding their respec-tive galaxies post-collision. By study-

ing the Musket Ball Cluster system, William Dawson, a fifth-year Ph.D. student and head of the project, hopes to contribute to the develop-ing understanding of dark matter. Studying dark matter may seem abstract to some, but as one stud-ies science, the future applications are not always clear. “The hope is that it will be like Einstein’s [theory of] General Relativity, which one hundred years ago, when he came up with it, there was no application for,” theorizes Dawson, “But now, we’re complete-ly dependent upon his theoretical work — our GPS systems would not work without these corrections.” Scientists don’t yet know how knowing about dark matter could affect the future, but as Dawson said, “Maybe our grandchildren’s grandchildren will figure out some use for this dark matter, which

makes up roughly 25 percent of the entire universe.” Besides constraining the ideas of dark matter, there are several other important applications of studying the Musket Ball Cluster. Observing this system could help us to un-derstand the evolution of galaxies based on changes to their environ-ment, cluster systems as accelera-tors of high energy cosmic rays and whether the universe is composed of only matter (or perhaps matter and antimatter). “If one [cluster] was composed of matter and the other antimatter, we would see lots of gamma rays as the matter and antimatter par-ticles annihilate,” David Wittman, the project supervisor said. “The fact that we do not ... lends support to the idea that the entire universe is made of matter.” Actual discovery of this system

began in 1999 when Wittman used the Deep Lens Survey to scan the sky along with Tony Tyson of UC Davis and Ian Dell’Antonio of Brown University. It was not un-til 2006 that UC Davis research-er Gee discovered the system, which was first unrecognized by the less advanced cluster finding equipment. In 2007, Gee passed the project on to Dawson who had more time to devote to the research. A total of six telescopes were used to discover and map the sys-tem: the Hubble Space Telescope, the Subaru 8m Telescope, the KPNO 4m Mayall Telescope, the Keck 10m Telescope, the Chandra Space Telescope and the Sunyaev-Zel’Dolvich Array.

ALEX STANTON can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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contexts.“It’s like a big street map,”

Fiehn said. “If I want more traffic to go to San Francisco and less to Sacramento, then close Interstate 5, what happens?”

Fiehn explained that the Japanese funders are more focused on the possible technological fruits of the project, while the National Science Foundation, which is providing funding for the US side, is focused at this point more on the basic research angle.

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

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By Mary PosaniThe Lantern (Ohio State

University)

Apple, Inc. announced Thursday that it is tapping into the textbook industry with the new iBooks 2 ap-plication, with which users can download interactive textbooks to their iPad.

The iBooks 2 app, the second generation app to Apple’s iBook, which allows users to download electron-ic books to their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, edu-cates students through in-teractive textbooks on the iPad. Students will be able to read textbooks, make notes and turn them into flash-cards, zoom in on detailed pictures or define unknown words immediately.

Apple also announced iBooks Author, which al-lows users to create their own iBook and iTunes U, an app that allows those with iOS-capable devices to take high school and col-lege-level courses for free.

“Without question, this is the direction (textbooks are) moving.” said Ken Petri, Ohio State U.’s direc-tor of web access.

Onlineeducation.net, a database for students to ex-plore educational opportu-nities, reported in its latest blog post that on average, electronic textbooks are 53 percent cheaper than the hard copy.

As of Thursday, students can download the app and buy textbooks through iTunes at $14.99 or lower.

“Digital textbooks will dominate following a life-long-learning subscription model; in essence an up-datable ‘editionless’ text-

book,” Steve Acker, OSU research director on Ohio Digital Bookshelf, said in a press release. “The ‘net cost of use’ of digital should be 15 to 20 percent below costs available to students who purchase books.”

Some OSU students said they would use the new app if it becomes accessible to college students.

Edin Hadzic, a fifth-year in political science, said he would use the new app.

“I think going toward more computer-based stuff, ebooks, stuff like (that) will be beneficial be-cause more and more stu-dents are using it, especial-ly if it is cheaper and more accessible,” Hadzic said. “Hopefully (textbook com-panies) will consider drop-ping their prices a little bit because textbooks are ex-pensive, as everybody knows.”

Yet it might be a while before OSU will be able to adapt to this form of ebook.

Apple is targeting high school students and has partnered with high school textbook publish-ers McGraw-Hill, Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Some Ohio high schools have been using tablets for education. Columbus School for Girls, a K-12 pri-vate school, have used tab-let PCs in the classroom for high school students since 2006, said Ben Liu, the IT Director at CSG.

Liu said students use a stylus, which is an elec-tronic pen, on the tablet’s screen for PC involvement during class.

“(About) 70 to 80 percent

of students utilize the sty-lus for notes and projects,” Liu said.

However, Liu had no sta-tistics stating the success rate of students using the tablet PC versus students who do not use tablets.

Petri said the new app can be adapted to college-level education.

“McGraw-Hill and Pearson have tons of books in college editions,” Petri said. “If you look on the store now, there is an alge-bra book, there is a biology textbook, there’s a chem-istry book, and there is no reason at all that these can’t be more advanced text-books available at a college level.”

Larry Rogers, a fifth-year in computer science and engineering, said this is an-other step toward the end of traditional publications.

“Everything is so digi-tized now-a-days anyway,” Rogers said. “I feel like there isn’t going to be any more type of publishing in the next five to 10 years. No newspapers, no textbooks, nothing. I feel like every-thing is going to be digital.”

Maggie Otto, a third-year psychology and internation-al studies, said she would not use a digital textbook.

“Personally, I like books so I don’t want to get a Kindle because I like holding books in my hand. I think I focus bet-ter,” Otto said. “I just like having the textbooks and it makes me feel better to carry around and have to do this.”

The iBook 2 app can be downloaded from iBook-store, which can be found in the iTunes store.

Apple takes bigger bite out of textbook industry with iBooks 2 During that time he became interested

in research and decided to return to UC Davis to obtain his Ph.D.

“Besides the great professors and friends that I had the pleasure to meet and stay in touch with after graduating from UC Davis, I have to say the best memory I have at UC Davis was participating in the body building show during Picnic Day in 1998,” Chi said. “It took a lot of discipline and hard work to compare myself to get on stage for a three-minute posing routine.”

Evan Ng, a Partner at Dorsey and Whitney LLP, met Chi five years ago through OtisMed Corporation. He said that Chi’s attitude, confidence, integrity and strong moral character will position him for further success.

“I head our emerging companies practice and I see entrepreneurs coming through our offices every day. I haven’t seen an individual who is as well-rounded as [Chi]. He combines his talents as an innovator, a leader, and a motivator and applies them brilliantly in business. He grew a company from a concept on a napkin, got it financed with a top tier VC firm, and led the business to a successful sale to an industry giant,” said Ng in an

e-mail interview.Bill Daniels, chair of the Board of

Directors for Vitalwear, Inc, met Chi six months ago when Chi became the CEO and board member. The company has faced many challenges over the last year and Daniels said that without Chi’s insight and engineering acumen the company would not have any hope of emerging from its economic setbacks.

“He has shown poise and leadership in the face of adversity. As an investor one of the nicest things I can say about someone is that I hope to work with them again, and I can say enthusiastically that I hope to work with Charlie on many projects in the future,” said Daniels in an e-mail interview.

In the future, Chi plans to continue to seek opportunities to address challenges and unmet needs in orthopedics and to do more traveling to countries like China, Vietnam and Japan.

“In today’s challenging environment, we have to be more creative to come up with new ways to address a particular problem. The education I received from UC Davis helped me think outside the box. My advice is: don’t be afraid to try something new or different just because it’s not the norm,” Chi said.

PRISCILLA WONG can be reached at features@aggie.org.

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By Jasmine cannonThe Crimson White (University of Alabama)

Some students may find that their so-cial life doesn’t end when they turn out the lights and their head hits the pillow each night.

There has been growing conversation about sleep-texting, which includes re-sponding or sending a text message from a cellular device in the middle of one’s sleep.

“[Sleep texting] would be some vari-ation of sleep walking, where people engage in behaviors while asleep,” U. Alabama psychology professor Kenneth Lichstein said.

While texting in the middle of your sleep may not be an ideal situation, Lichstein said there is probably no harm psycho-logically to the individual. While the theo-ry may not be known in every household, it is clear it does occur – especially among teenagers and college students.

“Sleep texting definitely can occur es-pecially during the first two stages of sleep because you’re actually very alert, and you don’t actually fall into a deep sleep until right before you’re about to wake,” said FabryeAnne Robinson, a UA senior ma-joring in psychology.

Some students who are aware of the sleep texting phenomenon agree on its harmful side effects, such as disturbing both a good night’s sleep and social relationships.

“Even though you’re sleep texting and don’t know you’re doing it, your body is

still moving and still doing something, so you’re not completely at rest,” said D’Amber Chambers, a UA senior major-ing in general health studies. “It might feel like a wear on your body. You might wake up tired and try to figure out why you’re still so tired, and it’s because while you’re asleep you’re still texting and mov-ing around.”

“It does have some type of effect on who you’re actually texting,” Robinson said. “Sometimes you could be dreaming, and it could actually be happening, so it can have an effect on your relationships.”

Many believe we are in an age where everyone, especially young adults, is too attached to their cell phones. So, why can’t students let go of their cell phones for the sake of getting a good night’s sleep?

“It goes to show how much we rely on technology and texting now,” Chambers said. “It shows that we [text] too much to the point where we do it in our sleep.”

A study completed in November found a connection between stress and sleep tex-ting. Dr. David Cunnington of Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia con-cluded sleep texting is a result of people having too many responsibilities in their everyday lives, according to the British newspaper The Daily Mail.

Cunnington advised those struggling with the task to remove their cell phones from their bedrooms when hitting the hay. Texting less during the day can also help to prevent unwanted messaging.

Sleep texting a growing problem

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Teams: UC Davis vs. UC Santa Barbara; vs. Cal PolyRecords: Aggies, 1-17 (0-6); Gauchos, 9-7 (4-2); Mustangs, 12-8 (3-4)Where: The PavilionWhen: Thursday at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 7 p.m.Who to watch: This isn’t the senior season Eddie Miller would have hoped for. One of only two seniors on the Aggie roster, Miller finished the 2010-11 sea-son averaging 12.5 points per game — third most on a team that included Joe Harden and Mark Payne, who both rank in the top-10 of UC Davis career scoring records. Unfortunately for Miller, a leg injury hampered much of his preseason work this fall and allowed him to play just 14 min-utes through the first seven games of the season. In his first game back from injury on Dec. 3 Miller played 19 minutes against

Idaho and scored 22 points, a season high. He followed it up with a team-high 16 points at Hawaii the next week. Miller has struggled to get back to his best during Big West Conference play this year and had not scored in double digits since the game against Hawaii un-til this past weekend when he scored a team-high 12 points at Pacific. “He was active defen-sively [against Pacific],” head coach Jim Les said. “We talk about not focus-ing on offense but on the little things. Make a hustle play, rebound, that always seems to gets the offense going. “We want Eddie to be ag-gressive offensively, do it within the framework of the offense and if he does he’s going to get good op-portunities to make plays.”Did you know? UC Santa Barbara head coach Bob

Williams was in charge of the UC Davis Aggies from 1990-98. Williams and the Aggies won the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championship in 1998, and within days Williams left UC Davis to coach at UC Santa Barbara. It is the only national championship in UC Davis men’s basketball history.Preview: Thursday’s Big West match-up against UCSB is only the third men’s game in the Pavilion since Dec. 3, as the Aggies return from their third three-game road trip of the season. With another conference game on Saturday against Cal Poly as well, it won’t be an easy weekend at home for UC Davis, which is still winless against Division I opponents this year. Both games of this week-end’s home stand will pro-vide a stiff test for the strug-gling Aggies. Against USSB, the young

UC Davis team must deal with Orlando Johnson, a 6’5” guard who last week was named to the Midseason Top 25 list of the John R. Wooden Award, giv-en to the best player in the nation at the end of the season. Still, the Aggies insist one player won’t change the way they game plan. “We’ve faced great players all season long,” junior Paolo Mancasola said. “It’s not going to be one guy that stops him, it’s go-ing to be all five of us work-ing together.” The Aggies also must deal with the Gauchos’ stiff defense, which has held Big West opponents to just 38 percent shoot-ing on the year — the low-est percentage allowed in

the conference. UCSB also leads the Big West with an average of six blocked shots per-game, two thirds or them coming from Alan Williams and Greg Somogyi, centers

who stand 6’7” and 7’3”, respectively. S a t u r d a y against Cal Poly, the Aggies will face an opponent that is first in the Big West in de-fensive rebound-ing and second in offensive re-bounding, behind UCSB. For UC Davis

it will be important that big men Alex Tiffin, Josh Ritchart and J.T. Adenrele stay out of foul trouble. In particular, Tiffin was called for three moving screens in the last contest; a similar performance this weekend would be detri-

mental to the Aggies re-bounding strength and of-fensive production. Les doesn’t consider rebounding solely the post players’ job though, insisting it is a team responsibility. “We have to be a gang re-bounding team,” he said. “The onus is on everybody to be physical and chase down the ball.” With the team struggling this year, Les is anxious to see his players consistently outworking his opponents on the court. “We’ve got to start es-tablishing the fact that were going to be a tough out here at home,” Les said. “Guys have to bring an energy and enthusiasm to the Pavilion on game night and make sure we’re the team that works the hardest and hustles the most. “Then good things will happen.”

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It was three in the morn-ing, and once again I couldn’t sleep. As I usu-

ally do when I can’t sleep, I turned on the TV and flipped to the most boring program I could find. Since it was three in the morning, I ended up watching infomercials. “Are you ready for the INSANITY challenge?!?” “I took the challenge and lost 40 pounds!” “You’ll be in the best shape of your life!” Ah, the fitness in-fomercial. I wouldn’t normally want to cov-er a product like this in a science column, but some-times a useful way of figur-ing out the good science is comparing it to the bad. This one is particular-ly bad. Essentially, the “Insanity” work out con-sists of two months of high-intensity exercise six days per week, with short pe-riods of moderate exer-cise between work outs as a rest. This sort of plan may work if you’re already fairly in shape, but the infomer-cial and the before-and-af-ter pictures on their web-site show that they’re tar-geting people who don’t normally exercise (the be-fore-and-after pics also showed that they apparent-ly offered free tanning ser-vices to one of the clients, but that’s beside the point). Obviously, they didn’t talk much to fitness sci-entists before develop-ing their plan; when there’s money to be made from people’s insecurities, who would? According to a 2007 study from the University of Guelph, the most effec-tive way to become more fit and lose fat is interval training, a method in which short bursts of intense ac-tivity is interspersed with longer stretches of moder-ate exercise. In the study, both inexperienced people and athletes were able to benefit from interval train-ing over intensive training, especially in cardiovascular health. They also increased the amount of fat burned during the work out com-pared to constant intense exercise. So, add interval train-ing to that New Year’s res-olution you made a month ago, avoid late-night fitness DVD scams and the pounds will start coming off, right? Well, as usual, it’s a lit-tle more complicated than that (I should just make

that phrase the tagline of this column). The fact is, it’s uncom-mon to lose very much weight when a person first starts a fitness regimen un-less they have a great deal of weight to lose. Exercise alone doesn’t do much for weight loss; you may im-prove how capable you are of losing weight, but if you’re eating too many cal-ories, the weight will stay on. That’s not to say you won’t receive any benefit from exercise alone. Even if you never lose a pound, the benefit to your heart health is well worth the effort. The problem is that improved heart health doesn’t exactly have the same boost to the ego as weight loss and isn’t as easily visibly apparent. There’s another prob-lem that advocates of long, intensive exercise have to deal with, especially in peo-ple who weren’t particular-ly fit at the start — injury.

On a bio-mechani-cal level, an injury hap-pens when the load ap-plied to a tissue, such

as a muscle, exceeds its fail-ure tolerance. If the fail-ure tolerance of a mus-cle is low (especially if you haven’t tried a regular exer-cise regimen before), then it’s far easier to surpass that breaking point. Even interval training can cause injury if you aren’t careful. It’s even easier to reach the point of injuring yourself if you purposely try to get close to your breaking point, as the Insanity work out advocates. A mistake in a work out is more likely than peo-ple think. Yes, persever-ing through mild discom-fort is important to fit-ness. When the body is doing something com-pletely new that requires effort, it takes practice to make exercise normal. Muscle soreness is a com-mon side effect. However, “just push through the pain” is how you go from mild discomfort to an in-jury that delays your work out goals more than pac-ing yourself could have delayed you. It’s easy to see where the logic is coming from in this fitness plan. It makes sense on the surface to say, “Well, a moderate work out is good, but I’m not losing much weight. If I work out even harder, I should lose more weight!” Unfortunately, becoming fit is a slow, frustrating pro-cess that probably won’t be solved by $145 in DVDs of a ripped guy yelling at you to “push it.” It will take the discipline to change your diet, the patience to real-ize you’ll probably only lose about two pounds per week and the realization that the benefit to your health extends beyond simple weight loss.

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

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By ERIC C. LIPSKYAggie Science Writer

In 2007, the San Francisco Bay area fell victim to an event called the Cosco Busan oil spill. While the amount of oil spilled was relatively small, the effects on the marine life were anything but mi-nor. Researchers from UC Davis and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) conducted experiments to see the effects that the oil spill had on the marine life in the area, and found that herring embryos showed severe abnormalities. “We did careful assess-ments to see whether ab-normalities were present,” said Gary Cherr, professor of environmental toxicolo-gy at UC Davis. “We found swollen hearts and irregu-lar heart rhythms in the ar-eas affected by the oil.” Cherr said that the oil spill of about 54,000 gal-lons was about the size of a backyard swimming pool. “We had a range of very different locations for sam-pling; some were urban and some were not,” Cherr said. “Surprisingly, the em-bryos naturally spawned in intertidal zones were dead; they were dissolving, al-most unrecognizable as embryos.” Cherr said that the em-bryos in the unaffected water were fine; mean-while, the embryos that spawned in the oiled wa-ters were victim to the worst effects. He said

they placed embryos near more urban areas, such as the I-580 Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, as a refer-ence point to see if pollu-tion was a factor in the ab-normalities. The embryos by the bridge did not show the severe abnormalities, suggesting that the oil was the culprit. He said that the cause of the severe abnormalities found in the herring can be attributed to phototoxicity, which is when a chemical leaves an organism much more sensitive to light. “Oil compounds can be much more toxic in the presence of sunlight,” Cherr said. “This was a sit-uation where you had the embryos in very shallow water and sunlight, so it was a classic example of phototoxicity.” Cherr said that the her-ring still showed some very significant developmental abnormalities in 2009 and 2010. “Concentrations of oil that weren’t lethal became lethal as a result of sun-light,” Cherr said. John Incardona, super-visory research toxicolo-gist at NOAA, said he was dumbfounded several weeks later, when seeing the results of the natural spawning in oiled sites. “We were trying to un-derstand what was hap-pening, we were expecting to see subtle differences in their hearts,” Incardona said. “It took a lot of think-ing to figure out what could be causing the abnormali-

ties we were seeing.” Bunker oil is thought to be the contributor to the effects observed in the herring. “Bunker oil is more chemically complicated than crude oil. Crude oil goes to the refinery, where the lighter products are taken off; the concentrated part goes into bunker oil,” Incardona said. Incardona said that they weren’t really thinking of phototoxicity as a fac-tor because they had nev-er seen effects like these. He said that phototoxici-ty had mainly been talk-ed about in lab settings, but that this was the first time where they had seen it demonstrated. “It’s similar to how some-body takes a drug and be-comes sensitive to sun-light. There is something in bunker oil that causes more damage to the tis-sues,” Incardona said. “All we know is that bunker oil has more of it.” Carol Vines, assistant project scientist at the

UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, also said the results were surprising. “There were huge mor-tality rates in the embry-os in the oil-affected area. The mortality rate was al-most 100 percent; it was shocking,” Vines said. Vines said that in addi-tion to swollen hearts and irregular heartbeats, they also found that the herring had bent spines, abnormal jaws and some opacity in the embryos — caused by restricted blood flow. She said that this oil spill was similar to the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Alaska, in terms of how the herring population was se-verely impacted. “There needs to better categorization of crude oil,” Vines said. “However, we have to keep in mind that this is an isolated inci-dent, and that it is not just oil spills that affect these populations.”

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

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By ALEX STANTONAggie Science Writer

The UC Davis cosmological physics de-partment discovered post-collision galaxy clusters 5 million light years away which may hold the potential to illuminate many mysteries of the universe. The Musket Ball Cluster, so named because it is older and slower moving than the Bullet Cluster, represents the aftermath of two gal-axy clusters which moved through each other, pulled by gravity. This particular system is im-portant largely because it is one of few known collisions and, of those known, it is the far-thest along its collision path. Galaxy clusters are made up of three compo-nents: hundreds of galaxies, gas a thousand times hotter than the surface of the sun and dark mat-ter. Due to the large distance between galaxies,

Galaxy cluster collisions could help us understand dark matter

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UC Davis graduate student William Dawson recently led research into how and why galaxy clusters like the Musket Ball and Bullet collide.

By BRIAN RILEYAggie Science Writer

UC Davis colleagues are in-volved in a new joint project with an agency in Japan to explore new ways of creating biofuels for regu-lar use, especially for use by auto-mobiles, trucks and jets.

“Oil reserves won’t last forev-er,” said Oliver Fiehn, the direc-tor of the Metabolomics Research and Core Laboratories in the UC Davis Genome Center and re-search leader of the new project.

The goal of the joint project is to combine “perfect science and perfect application,” Fiehn said.

Biofuel technology involves the science of growing organisms and then extracting molecules that can be changed into a com-bustible form for fuel use, accord-ing to John Labavitch, a professor in the UC Davis Plant Sciences Department.

Using algae as biofuel in an in-dustrial setting is a relatively new area of study. The problem of de-veloping an industrial process of growing algae as a biofuel source is a long-term goal that cannot be

accomplished by any one specif-ic research project at the present time.

“There are some obvious dif-ficult points that must be ad-dressed,” in order to create a workable process, Labavitch said.

One of the biggest engineer-ing obstacles to be overcome is finding an appropriate place to grow algae that does not com-pete with regular food produc-tion. Jean VanderGheynst, a pro-fessor in the UC Davis Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, who is also work-ing on the project, says that the ocean would be an ideal place to grow algae to be used for biofuels, since the ocean would provide for a steady temperature.

“Think of enormous bags filled with algae where you have the algae being pumped through chambers in the surface,” VanderGheynst said.

VanderGheynst and Labavitch have also been working togeth-er for the past three years, using funding from Chevron, to study the most effective ways to grow

algae and use their component molecules as biofuel sources.

Another option would be grow-ing algae in special pools in the desert, explains Labavitch.

“Algae grow very fast — in a week or two. You can harvest them and start again,” Labavitch said, thus creating a quick and ef-ficient turnaround time.

Ethanol made from corn was the first biofuel developed for use on an industrial scale. Many scientists, though, are dissatis-fied with ethanol due to its many drawbacks.

“Ethanol corrodes motors, pipelines and it’s not a high-density fuel,” Fiehn said. “We need to get better and bolder than that.”

The low energy density of eth-anol makes it unsuitable for use as a jet fuel, Fiehn emphasized. Also, corn grown for ethanol pro-duction is grown on land, com-peting with food production.

“Algae don’t compete with agri-cultural land use,” Fiehn said.

VanderGheynst is hopeful about finding a way to more eas-ily extract molecules from algae

that can be converted to combus-tible form.

“Certain algae will secrete lip-id, so that you don’t need to break the cell wall open, and that would be a tremendous savings to the process,” she said.

The new joint project involves a strong orientation toward re-search in basic science, as ev-

idenced by the large chemical pathway chart on the wall of the conference room in Fiehn’s lab — a chart that is packed with intri-cately connected lines and sym-bols denoting various types of molecules and the chemical reac-tions that they undergo in various

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Putting Davis on the mapDrake, Steve Aoki, The Shins, Florence and the Machine and many more scheduled to perform in DavisBy UYEN CAOAggie Arts Editor

On Monday night, just six hours after posting a flyer announcing prominent hip hop, rap and R&B artists Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s arrival to Davis, ASUCD Entertainment Council’s link buzzed with 556 likes and 238 shares on Facebook — a record for the site.

Along with Drake and Kendrick Lamar, Entertainment Council has Steve Aoki, Datsik and The Shins (in association with the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center of the Performing Arts) lined up for, arguably, the most anticipated winter and spring season line-up for quite some time. Conceivably, this might just be the time for Davis to officially shake off its once-seemingly permanent reputation of being an exclusively small town with few outlets for entertainment.

“The university boasts of its diverse community and we want to do our best to provide something that everyone will like,” said Timothy Chin, assistant director at Entertainment Council and senior technocultural studies major. “We know we have a long

way to go in that regard and we are always looking for feedback, artist suggestions and student involvement.”

From The Shins’ American indie rock sound, to Steve Aoki and Datsik electro-house Deadmeat tour, to Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s hip hop style, Chin hopes that Entertainment council will begin attracting students with varying taste in music genres with an eclectic programming selection.

Drake and Kendrick Lamar are scheduled to perform at the UC Davis Pavilion, which has a capacity of nearly 8,000. Tickets go on sale Thursday and are sure to attract a large-encompassing demographic all over the region of Sacramento and Davis.

“I’m definitely going to the concert, as long as the tickets don’t sell out before I can get my hands on them,” said Elizabeth Vieyra, a first-year international relations major.

Additionally, tickets for indie pop band Florence and the Machine will go on sale Friday. The concert is presented by the Mondavi Center.

As concerts in the past, like Tiësto or 30 Seconds to Mars,

Drake’s appearance is presented through collaborations between Entertainment Council and live-event promoters like Live Nation or JMax Productions.

According to Henry Chatfield, Entertainment Council’s director, these collaborations have made it easier to access and attract large names in the industry to come perform in Davis.

“This year we took that one step further and I think our winter and spring programming really reflects that,” Chatfield said. “We want to be an efficient and reliable connection between the students and promoters, which

really benefits everyone.”In the case of The Shins, Wilco

and Florence and the Machine, Another Planet Entertainment teamed up with the Mondavi’s Aggie Arts (and Entertainment Council for The Shins) to present the scheduled live performances.

Entertainment Council and the Mondavi Center will continue expanding their events and bookings. Visit ec.ucdavis.edu (Entertainment Council) and mondaviarts.org (Mondavi Center) for updates and details on potential and scheduled performers.

UYEN CAO can be reached at arts@theaggie.org

Concerts scheduled to date (in order of

appearance):WilcoFeb. 1, 8 p.m.Jackson Hall (Mondavi Center)Sold OutMondavi Aggie Arts is giving away two tickets to the sold out show. Visit their Aggie Arts Facebook page for details on how to enter the competition and win tickets.

DrakeMarch 7UC Davis Pavilion$49.75 upper level student pre-sale discount (limited) | $79.75 Lower level general admission | $59.75 upper level general admission Tickets are available for purchase starting Thursday from Freeborn Box office (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). One ticket per student ID (maximum of 2 tickets with proof of second ID). Cash only.

Steve Aoki/DatsikMarch 14, 6:30 p.m.Freeborn Hall$20 limited student presale tickets | $25 general admissionTickets are available at Freeborn Box office and deadmeattour.com/tour-dates.

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By PRISCILLA WONGAggie Features Writer

A brand-new resident of the United States and unable to attend school without a green card, UC Davis alumnus and Taiwan native Charlie Chi, Ph.D., learned English by watching cartoons.

Yet, in 2005, Chi became the co-founder and CEO of OtisMed Corporation, a company dedicated to creating and distributing orthopedic technology and hardware.

Chi, who double majored in electrical engineering and computer science

engineering at UC Davis, served as the company’s president and CEO from 2005 to 2009. OtisMed Corporation seeks to address unmet clinical problems in orthopedics, and Chi’s goal in developing new technology is to assist surgeons in achieving more accurate alignment and positioning and increasing patient outcome.

Every year, thousands of people have orthopedic surgeries, such as knee and hip replacements. OtisMed’s technology combines imaging, such as MRI or CT scans, software algorithms and rapid manufacturing to provide surgeons with a very precise patient-specific instrument that is made using the patient’s own anatomy.

Recently he started and founded another medical device company called RDI Medical Inc, which focuses on the same goals as OtisMed. His vision for RDI Medical is to be the leader in providing products and services that enhance or support already existing software medical devices.

“Our mission is to be the leading value provider in the orthopedic industry by reducing costs for

patients, hospitals and health care providers, and increasing convenience and confidence for patients and physicians with better accuracy, outcomes and longevity of existing medical devices,” said Chi in an e-mail interview. “And, increasing compensation for hospitals and physicians with the highest quality products at the lowest costs.”

Born and raised for the first five years of his life in Taipei, Taiwan, Chi and his family immigrated to Bolivia in the mid 1970s, where they lived for two years. He moved to Washington D.C. with his family for six months before moving to Virginia.

Once his parents learned that California offered free education to immigrants, he and his family once again moved to San Jose, California.

Chi graduated from Independence High School in San Jose, and after attending UC Davis for his undergraduate years, pursued a master’s degree at Santa Clara University again majoring in electrical engineering.

Alumnus innovates breakthroughs in

orthopedicsCharlie Chi founds medical device companies

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Dr. Charlie Chi founded OtisMed Corporation and RDI Medical Inc after graduating from UC Davis.

By STEPHANIE B. NGUYENAggie News Writer

Finlay Pilcher, senior civil engineering major

The Aggie: What are you wearing? Pilcher: “A Forever 21 sweater, Zara skirt, Topshop over-the-knee socks and Frye shoes. My necklace is J. Crew.”

How did you decide what to wear today? “I’m pretty inspired by how people dress in the UK since I studied abroad there for a year last year. I really like pleated skirts. I try to wear high heels as much as possible even though no one does in Davis.”

Where do you find inspiration?“I look at a few blogs. The Sartorialist is really good.”

What’s your advice for staying chic during the winter?“I guess patterned tights and colorblocking, especially with scarves. That’s the easiest way, I think.”

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

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