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UCD grad’s a new ‘Survivor’
By Sharon Stello/Enterprise staff writer

UC Davis alumnus James “Chad” Crittenden, a teacher and amputee athlete from Oakland, is among the latest contestants on reality-television show “Survivor.”

Filming is already completed for the show’s ninth season, “Survivor: Vanuatu – Islands of Fire,” which premieres at 8 p.m. Sept. 16 on KOVR-Channel 13.

This season is set “in the remote waters of the South Pacific near the tumultuous ‘Ring Of Fire,’ a land of volcanoes and rituals where sorcery and black magic are a part of tribal life and the spirits of the dead are believed to have power over the living,” according to the CBS network Web site.

More than 80 islands are home to more than 100 languages and a diverse group of tribes and clans whose history includes cannibalism. Here, 18 new castaways will compete for the million-dollar prize.

Crittenden, 35, is one of those castaways. He graduated from UC Davis in 1994, earning a degree in international relations with an emphasis on world resources, the environment and Spanish.

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Source: The Davis Enterprise