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Tawn–The Cat Man.

Tawns story is a very interesting one. I ran into a homeless man on the streets of Davis over the summer and we began to talk. He was overjoyed to see that someone took the time to stand and talk to him for ten minutes. I took that as a sign. We talked bout this and about that and he notices I have a UC Davis Journalism T-shirt on. I throw out an idea about doing a story on the homeless and asked for his help. He was more than willing, which made me ecstatic. We talked some more and he told me to go to The Grace House which give out free lunch and other homeless services on Mondays and Wednesdays. I end up going with a friend of mine and introduce ourselves to everyone there (about 25 homeless) and start talking. I could say we were there for easily 5 hours as people were dying to be heard. After the second day of talking with people, I meet Tawn. A shy, quiet guy who didnt seem to go out of his way to talk to me. I took that as a sign. We talk and I just become intrigued by his story and more importantly, his personality. He is very comfortable with himself, does not blame anyone or anything, and is very questionable of authority…whether it be police, religion or the Grace House Caretaker (in a polite way with the latter of course) I was not able to spend much time with because as soon as I met him, he graduated from a probationary program which took 3 years long and I nor Cindy (the caretaker) have really seen him since.

Here are the photos:

Tawn–The Cat Man.
Tawns story is a very interesting one. I ran into a homeless man on the streets of Davis over the summer and we began to talk. He was overjoyed to see that someone took the time to stand and talk to him for ten minutes. I took that as a sign. We talked bout this and about that and he notices I have a UC Davis Journalism T-shirt on. I throw out an idea about doing a story on the homeless and asked for his help. He was more than willing, which made me ecstatic. We talked some more and he told me to go to The Grace House which give out free lunch and other homeless services on Mondays and Wednesdays. I end up going with a friend of mine and introduce ourselves to everyone there (about 25 homeless) and start talking. I could say we were there for easily 5 hours as people were dying to be heard. After the second day of talking with people, I meet Tawn. A shy, quiet guy who didnt seem to go out of his way to talk to me. I took that as a sign. We talk and I just become intrigued by his story and more importantly, his personality. He is very comfortable with himself, does not blame anyone or anything, and is very questionable of authority…whether it be police, religion or the Grace House Caretaker (in a polite way with the latter of course) I was not able to spend much time with because as soon as I met him, he graduated from a probationary program which took 3 years long and I nor Cindy (the caretaker) have really seen him since.

Here are the photos:

As you all probably know by know, the fee hike issue is a heated one on University campuses. Student tuition fees were approved to increase 32% from roughly $6,000 to roughly $10,000. Many UC campuses are resisting and protesting, UC Davis included. I got a call from my editor saying there might be “a small and probably unorganized protest” at around 11:00am. I say OK and head over there with a few minutes to spare. I ran into 2 other girls who seemed frustrated that there was no protests to be seen. After about an hour of looking and asking, we see a hoard to students charge through our Quad. And so it began. The protest began to grow exponentially. From 10 to 20. 20 to 40. 40 to 80 and so on. At its peak, there was about 400 students. From noon on they walked around campus, into buildings, into lecture halls and anywhere they knew their voices could be heard. “JOIN OUR STRIKE” they chanted. They soon went to Mrak Hall, the building that houses Chancellor Linda Katehi’s office. The fourth floor where she works was locked, so they went to the lobby and stayed there. A sit in was organized that went from 1pm on until 10pm…with 52 arrests not to mention. Even the ASUCD Senate decided to administer their senate meeting at the site of the protests, effectively voting on a Act of No Confidence in Mark Yudof, being periodically interrupted by fellow students being escorted out by police.

I stayed there from 11:00am up until 10:00pm, after thinking this would only be a short 30min assignmentBetter yet (or worse so depending on your perspective) me and another fellow AgTV reporter were the ONLY media that decided to stay in the hall given the threat for arrest. We both agreed that this kind of work defines our jobs and leaving would be a total mistake. There were many times when i knew that I was going to be arrested and even planned an escape route for my memory cards just in case the police wanted to harass me. It never got to that point as me and my fellow media reporter decided to leave about a minute or two before the arrests were made. We wanted to stay in as long as possible, and did.

All in all, it was a powerful night, and one i dont think I will be forgetting for a long while.

Sadly, this will be my last football game to shoot since it was the last game of the season and I will be graduating soon. How sad :'( I seriously remember my first football game and just how much ive learned shooting every weekend in the fall months since. Man did I have some good times and some great memories.

Here are some of my last photos from football today against Sacramento State. Aggies ended up losing in the last minute of the game.

Yet another loss by the Aggies, this time to Montana. Interestingly, the lights blew out with 51 seconds left in the game, and the Aggies just had made a 25yard run to potentially tie the game. After the lights went out, they lost all of their momentum and threw an interception (last photo) to lose the game.

First game of the season, Aggies played Washington.  They lost 1-2 in second overtime