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NEWS BRIEFS: Take a virtual walking tour of the campus

• by Dave Jones
• August 17, 2012

We see tour groups all the time on campus, led by students walking backwards! Starting today (Aug. 17), UC Davis offers a virtual walking tour .

“We are very excited to bring the beauty and ‘wow’ factor of UC Davis to all prospective students who have Internet access, regardless of their ability to physically visit us before applying and making their college selection,” said Kristin Burns, marketing and communication manager for Undergraduate Admissions, which produced the tour.

A "live" tour guide accompanies you, popping up on still photos of buildings and other features as you click on green arrows to go from photo to photo, making your way around the campus. Additional photos, 360-degree views and videos are available for many stops on the tour.

The virtual tour website also includes buttons to apply online — and to schedule in-person visits.

Dining Commons chefs on the fire lines

Normally they feed hungry students. But this week, four chefs from UC Davis Dining Services are cooking for the men and women who are battling forest fires in southwest Oregon.

Chef Mike Baldocchi, reached this morning (Aug. 17) by cell phone, did not hesitate when asked who eats more, students or firefighters: “Firefighters! They get roughly a pound and a half per plate!”

The UC Davis cooks — Baldocchi and Darwin Gross of the Segundo Dining Commons, and Emily Cornejo and Mark Rivera of the Tercero Dining Commons — left for Oregon on three hours’ notice Aug. 13. The chefs are employees of Sodexo, the international company that runs Dining Services, and Sodexo has federal contracts for all kinds of food service — including fire camps.

The UC Davis chefs are working the dinner shift at the Fort Complex base camp; the name refers to three fires in close proximity to one another. According to today’s command report, 664 firefighters are fighting the Fort Complex, which had burned 4,140 acres of brush and timber. Officials reported 35 percent containment, and estimated the fires would not be fully contained until Aug. 30.

The UC Davis chefs are scheduled to be on duty at the Oregon fires through Tuesday of next week.

Preorders being taken for campus poster calendar

As your UC Davis poster calendar comes to the end of its useful life Aug. 31, rest assured the new one is on its way, designed by University Communications and sold by UC Davis Stores.

Preorders are being taken now for folded and rolled calendars. They cost 90 cents each and are eligible for the 10 percent departmental discount.

Folded calendars will be delivered for free. If you order rolled calendars, you can pay to have them delivered for $2.50 (shipping materials fee, per order), or you can pick them up.

Sarah Brodberg at UC Davis Stores is taking orders by email: [email protected] . Orders should include department name, contact name, phone number, delivery location (room number and building), quantity or quantities (folded and rolled), and DaFIS account or billing ID.

Bookstore purchase orders also are acceptable, with the same information, via fax (530) 752-4791.

The calendars are due from the printer by the end of August. Folded copies will be available for purchase at all stores, on the Davis and Sacramento campuses, while supplies last. Rolled calendars will be available for sale and pickup at the main store (Memorial Union) or the medical center store in Sacramento.

Blood drive Aug. 28-29 on the Quad

The second ASUCD Blood and Marrow Drive of the summer will bring a traditional summertime treat (ice cream) and a new treat (MyBloodSource, including a rewards program).

The blood drive is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 28 and 29.

“Summer is still one of the hardest times for blood banks,” said Brie Leon of the Sacramento-based BloodSource, which will park its bloodmobiles on the west side of the Quad. “If you can encourage your friends, co-workers and fellow students to attend, we would greatly appreciate it. The need for blood is constant and we always need to be prepared.”

She said each participant will receive a coupon for a free pint of Baskin-Robbins ice cream.

Also, she said, donors are invited to sign up for MyBloodSource , a new addition to the BloodSource website . With a MyBloodSource account, a donor can review his or her donations and physical data (temperature, pulse, blood pressure and the like on donation days), schedule appointments for donations, and track rewards points that can be redeemed for such gifts as movie tickets, T-shirts and e-readers.

“Those who come out to the blood drive will get points and the Baskin-Robbins coupon — a double win,” Leon said.

Prospective donors are advised to bring photo ID, and to drink plenty of fluids and to eat before donating.

For more information or to volunteer, contact Leon at (916) 416-9459 or [email protected] .

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Hattiesburg native Davis Riley cruises to victory at Charles Schwab Challenge

FORT WORTH, Texas — Two years ago, then-PGA Tour rookie Davis Riley was emerging as a player who could challenge for multiple titles in a season as the Hattiesburg native put together a stretch of six straight top-15 finishes, including a tie for fourth at the 2022 Charles Schwab Challenge.

Riley’s ball-striking was precisely where he wanted it, but he felt a little short-game improvement could put him over the top, especially as he sat just outside the top 60 in the Official World Golf Ranking. He finished his debut season with six top-10 finishes, second to only Cameron Young’s seven, and ranked eighth in total driving.

But golf is a finicky sport, one that seems to take as much as it gives. While Riley’s short game improved, his ball-striking slipped and after a difficult stretch in which he missed the cut in six of eight tournaments earlier this year, the former Alabama star plummeted in the rankings. He entered this week’s tournament at No. 250, right behind the likes of Asian Tour golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar and Ricky Castillo of the Korn Ferry Tour. Davis’ odds at at Colonial Country Club were 350-1 in one casino, meaning his chances to win on the recently renovated course were less than two-tenths of a single percent.

Riley had an ace up his sleeve, however. He’d recently reunited with swing coach Jeff Smith and a few tweaks had him hitting the ball just like he did two years ago. With Smith back in his corner — who has also mentored the likes of Viktor Hovland, Patrick Rodgers, Aaron Wise and Brandon Wu — the magic seemed to return to Riley’s driver.

“I feel like I’m starting to get some of the better golf I played, certainly pro golf, and, yeah, just trying to get back to that a little bit,” he said after Saturday’s round, as he finished the day with a four-stroke lead. “Not saying I need to entirely be the player I am two years ago, I feel like I progressed in a lot of areas of the game, but just some of that ball-striking form, some of that consistency and some of that just freedom of mind that goes along with that, so that’s all really I’m trying to get to.”

But while Riley’s 54-hole lead was commanding, one cause for trepidation was the man closest in the rearview mirror — world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. Playing less than 50 miles from his childhood home in Highland Park, Scheffler came storming back into the picture in the third round with a 63. And the two were certainly familiar competitors: In 2013, when Riley was making his second straight appearance at the U.S. Junior Amateur, he lost to Scheffler after he called a one-stroke penalty on himself at Martis Camp Golf Course. He also lost to Scheffler in the WGC-Dell Match Play.

On Sunday, though, Riley didn’t falter, nor did he need to call any self-imposing infractions.

In fact, the 27-year-old increased his lead to seven midway through the final round, watched as Scheffler struggled, and Riley coasted to a comfortable five-shot victory for his first individual PGA Tour title. He did share the crown at the 2022 Zurich Classic with teammate Nick Hardy.

On Sunday, he finished at 14 under and five in front of Scheffler and Keegan Bradley.

On a day when the winds were howling at Colonial, keeping scores high, Riley mixed and matched birdies and bogeys to run away from the field. He had a pair of bogeys on the front, but added birdies on Nos. 4 and 9. He did the same thing on the back (two birdies and two bogeys) en route to a solid round of 70 that produced a payday of $1.628 million.

Scheffler, meanwhile, had come into Colonial by winning four of his previous six starts and with a final-round scoring average of around 66, it seemed the world’s top player would mount a challenge. Instead, he had a number of putts lip out and made bogey on three of his first 10 holes, to fall out of contention.

“I had that tough first round, but I battled back very nicely on Friday and Saturday,” Scheffler said. “As far as today goes, I just wasn’t able to put as much pressure as I would have hoped to put on Davis early in the round and he just kind of cruised all day. He played great golf. He made that bogey on 2 and answered it really quick with a birdie on 4 and didn’t really give us much of an opening today, just continued to cruise and play great golf. So it was a well-earned win for him.”

Who is Davis Riley? All you need to know about the American golfer

D avis Riley is currently leading the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge with a score of 9 under, with his second round not yet completed. Riley has one PGA Tour victory under his belt, and his golf career has been on the rise over the last few years.

Riley was born in 1996 in Mississippi, and he was introduced to golf at an early age. He had already emerged as the state's best player in the category by the time he entered high school. In fact, he won the state title four years in a row.

Riley qualified for the US Junior Amateur finals two years in a row (2014 and 2015). Only Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth had previously made it to the final in consecutive years. However, Davis Riley was unable to win either edition, as he was first defeated by Scottie Scheffler and then by his friend Will Zalatoris . Nevertheless, he was named the All-USA Boys Golf Player of the Year by USA Today in 2015 and won a scholarship to join the Alabama Crimson Tide in American collegiate golf.

Later, he was the nation's best collegiate player for his junior year as a sophomore. Riley turned pro at the start of 2019.

A look at Davis Riley's professional career

In 2019, Davis Riley joined the Korn Ferry Tour despite having no status, thanks to sponsor exemptions and Monday qualifiers. His achievements allowed him to receive his Special Temporary Membership after first qualifying for additional competitions.

With that status, he began the 2020 season on the Korn Ferry Tour. Riley achieved his first professional victory during his third tournament of the year, which was the Panama Championship. His win pavedthe way for him to procure a full membership. Unfortunately, his season was interrupted due to COVID-19.

The season resumed after a few months, restructuring his schedule for the rest of the year. Riley earned his second tour victory in July 2020 (TPC San Antonio Championship) and reported five other Top 10s in the 36 tournaments that he played in.

With these performances, Riley earned his PGA Tour card for the 2022–2023 season, although he had already played several tournaments at the highest level. After winning the Zurich Classic in New Orleans in 2023, Riley and his partner, Nick Hardy, were given tour membership until the end of the 2025 campaign. Riley finished the 2022–2023 season with 20 cuts made in 35 tournaments and a T8 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational as his best result (in addition to his win).

In 2024, he has played 14 events with seven cuts made and a top 25 finish at the Texas Children's Houston Open as his best result.

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MISS DAVIS HAILS SOVIET'S POLICIES

MOSCOW, Sept. 9—Angela Davis, the American black militant and Communist, has been given the keys to the ancient city of Samarkand and been made an honorary professor of Moscow University on a triumphal tour of the Soviet Union since her arrival here two weeks ago.

Soviet ideologists raised Miss Davis to the status of virtual folk heroine during her California trial on murder‐conspiracy charges before she was found not guilty earlier this year.

On her visit, which has taken her to Leningrad, Central Asia and Lenin's hometown of. Ulyanovsk, in addition to Moscow, she has been given all the honors normally reserved for highlevel foreign delegations.

Miss Davis has been addressing worker‐meetings in Soviet factories, she has been received at the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist party, the seat of power in this country, and she has been making the usual rounds of schools and museums.

Today she visited Lumumba University, where young people from Asia, Africa and Latin American are being trained, and Moscow's Pioneer Palace, a huge, modern children's hobby center and a standard showpiece on foreigners’ tours.

In her public appearances, which have received ample coverage in the Soviet press, Miss Davis has been praising Soviet policies and the Soviet system with such enthusiasm as to arouse skepticism even among loyal Russians more familiar with the realities of life.

Soviet Praised on Minorities

Referring to Soviet policy of fostering minority cultures within the Communist system, Miss Davis was quoted as having told an audience in the Uzbek Republic of Central Asia:

“The possibility of seeing with my own eyes the practical realization of Lenin's ethnic policy will be of tremendous help in our own struggle of resolving the ethnic problem in the United States.

“The United States authorities don't want Americans to know the truth about life in the Soviet republics because the ruling circles of the United States, which also has many ethnic groups, are making every effort to divide people along ethnic and racial lines.”

Alluding to some of Miss Davis's more sweeping statements, as reported in the press, an avowed dissident recently said:

“Is she a fool or is she dishonest? It seems to me she is doing a disservice to her own countrymen by her statements here.”

American newsmen in Moscow have not been given an opportunity to cover Miss Davis's activities first‐hand and have had to rely on official accounts of her comments.

At an event in the Central Journalists Club of Moscow yesterday, she was quoted as having said: “Everything we have seen in the Soviet Union will inspire us in our own struggle. Our devotion to Marxism‐Leninism and Communism and our own ideological convictions have been greatly strengthened.”

Newsmen from the United States were barred from the kturnalists Club on the ground, according to officials, that Miss Davis was meeting with Soviet and East European newsmen and was not giving an “ordinary news conference.”

When informed of the exclusion of Americans on her arrival outside the club, Miss Davis said that the arrangements had not been up to her. Ordinary Russians have had little contact with American blacks and with Africans and, despite the official Soviet line of support, have not been able to muster much sympathy on their behalf.

Some Soviet women, in particular, appear to be put off by the Afro‐style hairdos of Miss Davis and other black visitors from the United States. Russians appear puzzled when told that the style represents an affirmation of ethnic identity.

With sister battling tumor, Davis Riley breaks through at Charles Schwab Challenge

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FORT WORTH, Texas – A week ago, Davis Riley wasn’t sure he could concentrate on a swing thought, let alone play winning golf.

His older sister, Caroline, had suffered a seizure at work. Doctors found a tumor and recommended surgery right away. That happened Wednesday in New York.

Riley feared the worst, of course. The wait was unbearable. His eyes glistened Sunday afternoon as he discussed Caroline in – of all places – the champion’s press conference at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club. Pathology tests revealed a benign growth, the winner said.

The story of how Riley went from doubting his appearance at Colonial to winning it has many subplots. There was the disappointing season of seven missed cuts in 14 starts, with only one top 25. There was the reunion with a former swing coach, who helped Riley focus on what he could control: his comportment and attitude in competition. There was the cautious assurance that his sister would recover.

It all ended Sunday with a tartan jacket and a trophy.

Riley won his first individual tournament in 89 starts on the PGA TOUR with a gutty, gritty 14-under-par score (266) at historic Colonial. He shot 66-64-66-70.

He played the final round with a sense of acceptance and calm, surprising perhaps given the weight of his sister’s well-being on his mind. He never lost control.

Davis Riley’s Round 4 winning highlights from Charles Schwab

A feisty wind waved the ancient pecans on old Colonial. The greens firmed. The sun was boiling. The Bermudagrass rough taunted players who missed the narrow corridors of fairway. The course played Sunday to an average score of more than 72 strokes, by far the highest of the week.

Only Collin Morikawa (68-69-67-68, solo fourth) played all four rounds under par.

Only Riley kept damage to a minimum. He made just seven bogeys through four rounds. He led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green at 11.4, ranked second in Approach the Green (7.9) and fourth in Putting, with 5.9. It was even, steady golf for the 27-year-old from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who starred at Alabama with fellow TOUR players Lee Hodges and Robby Shelton.

“I just tried to wear out the fairways and greens and try to get a couple opportunities and roll some good putts and if they went in, great,” said Riley, who now lives in the Dallas area and plays out of Maridoe Golf Club. “If not, I knew pars were good coming in.”

Scottie Scheffler, who started four shots behind in second place, could never make the move many expected of the No. 1 player in the world. An opening-round 72 included two balls in the pond on the par-3 13th – the first his wind-flattened tee shot, the second one thrown in disgust after he putted out for a triple-bogey 6. After coasting through the next 44 holes without a score-harming error and firing a thrilling 63 in the third round, Scheffler made bogey on the fourth and the fifth, missing both greens.

“As far as today goes, I just wasn't able to put as much pressure as I would have hoped to put on Davis early in the round and he just kind of cruised all day,” Scheffler said.

Keegan Bradley rallied briefly. He finished with a 3-under 67 and tied for second with Scheffler at 9-under. Morikawa took fourth alone at 8-under.

“Just a grind,” Morikawa said of the week.

Riley leaned on his efforts last week with his swing coach in Tennessee. The two of them got together again after a brief annulment and tightened Riley’s concentration on targets. They established a better routine for holding images through the swing and created novel ways to deal with the stress of being in contention. The work … worked.

Davis Riley’s interview after winning Charles Schwab

“So proud,” texted Jay Seawell, his former head coach at Alabama. “He has been through so much lately but never lost his belief.”

His exquisite feel on and near the green Saturday saved his lead – and even his tournament. Riley found only six fairways. He hit 11 greens. But he was a nifty 5-of-7 in scrambling in the third round and took only 26 putts. It was a round that could’ve gotten away from him. Instead, he shot 66.

“It says a lot about his short game, to be honest,” said Hodges, who played two years at Alabama with Riley.

What was less visible was the work Riley started the week of THE PLAYERS Championship with his coach, Jeff Smith. Riley was moving the club too far inside on the takeaway, shutting the face early. Smith has been helping Riley to “get the starting lines tighter and very little curve on the ball,” Smith wrote in a text Sunday.

They also spent a lot of time last week on the mental approach, wrote Smith, the director of instruction at Spring Creek Ranch in the Memphis suburb of Collierville, Tennessee. They sharpened Riley’s focus on his target. They developed routines they called “neuro-hacks” to slow down Riley under pressure.

“Almost like hitting the reset button after a poor outcome,” Smith wrote. “He put on a clinic doing this (Saturday) in some tough spots.”

The clinic continued Sunday from more tough spots. It was a hot, gusty afternoon on the Trinity River. Riley failed to birdie the par-5 first, playing a half-stroke under par as the easiest hole on the course. He then made bogey on the short par-4 second, the third-easiest. Playing alongside, Scheffler made par.

“I tried to treat today as if we both started tied and I just tried to win the day,” Riley said.

He did. Riley steadied the round with a birdie on the par-3 fourth. Scheffler bogeyed. Riley played even-par golf until the 15th, when he drove into a deep fairway bunker and wedged from 37 yards through the green. He made bogey there, by which time Scheffler was too far back to contend and Bradley was on the last hole, three shots behind at 10 under. Riley had a seven-shot lead after his birdie on the par-5 11th. Now it was three with three holes to play.

Bradley bogeyed the 18th. A short while later, Riley stuffed his 161-yard approach on the par-4 17th to less than 4 feet – a closing statement. He holed the birdie.

“It's been a slower start to the year than I've been wanting and obviously this helps a lot, catapulting me in the right direction,” Riley said.

The first player to greet him was Nick Hardy, his partner in the team-format Zurich Classic of New Orleans. They won the tournament last year – the first PGA TOUR titles for both players, an indelible moment in their young careers. Hardy saw the birdie on 17 on a television in the Colonial clubhouse. He went outside, watched the winning putt and gave his longtime friend – their competitive history dates to the AJGA – a quick, tight hug.

“Davis’ game has clearly been trending to me for a while,” Hardy said. “It’s just fun to see it pay off.”

The fun is just beginning. With his win, Riley captured 500 FedExCup points, moving him to 55th in the rankings. He can slow down with the confidence of a champion. He can continue to sharpen his imagery without the pressure of winning his first individual event. He can refine the neuro-hacks.

“I feel like physically I've had it going for a little bit and I feel like kind of just staying in my own lane and kind of controlling what's going on upstairs has been a huge help,” Riley said.

Everything was thrown at him. A profound health scare. A firm course with wind. A pairing with the best player in the world. A chance to win his first stroke-play TOUR title.

Riley controlled what he could.

He said he told his caddie: “I want to get lost in the process of it. I want to just be so focused on what I'm doing, the process I'm going through, picking targets, being really detail-oriented. I just wanted to get lost in that and then show up on 16 and 17 and be right where I wanted to be.”

The birdie on 17 put him five ahead. A closing par from the greenside bunker made him a champion. His wife Alexandra was there to see it all.

She can tell Caroline and his parents what it was like to see Riley right where he wanted to be.

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