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H.E.L.P. Club General Meeting
Winter Book Fair 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Women’s Resources and Research Center, first floor North Hall Each quarter the Joy Fergoda Library at the Women’s Resources and Research Center hosts a book fair where books can be purchased for under $3! Proceeds will be used to buy new books for the library. Nonfiction, fiction, poetry and more. Drop by and browse. The fair will continue through Thursday.
Bone Marrow Registry Drive 10 a.m. to 2 p.m Memorial Union and Silo Tables Sign up for the bone marrow registry and save a life. It only takes 10 minutes to register.
Summer Abroad Info Sessions Noon to 5 p.m. Education Abroad Center, Third and A Streets Learn about the program “Costan Rican Communities” at noon and “Sustainable Ecuador: From the Andes to the Amazon” at 4 p.m.
Eat Healthy, Live Well! Weight Management Series 12:10 to 1 p.m. Student Health and Wellness Center, third floor Learn how to eat well, live healthy and feel your best. This series covers cooking tips, physical activity, meal planning and more. Free to all UC Davis students. Must register to attend. Call the Appointment Desk at (530) 752-2349 or go to healthcenter. ucdavis.edu/services/nutrition.html.
Author Talk: Allison P. Coudert 1 to 2 p.m. Special Events Room, Memorial Union Bookstore UC Davis Religious Studies professor Allison P. Cudert will talk about her new book, Religion, Magic and Science in Early Modern Europe and America. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Workshop: How to Write an Abstract 3:10 to 4 p.m. Meeting Room D, Student Community Center The Undergraduate Research Center will be holding workshops on “How to Write an Abstract” in preparation for the upcoming Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Conference and President’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF) deadlines. The workshop will also be held on Thursday at 12:10 p.m.
Circle K International Meeting 6 p.m. 6 Olson Discover ways to participate in community
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6 to 7 p.m. 146 Olson Learn about H.E.L.P.’s community service programs and find out how to get involved in the community. Food will be provided.
Minor Alcohol Preclusion Forum 7:30 p.m. 194 Young Get your questions about the Minor Alcohol Preclusion answered in a forum with the Davis police.
Cancer Awareness Week: 50/50 Screening 8 p.m. 123 Sciences Lecture Hall Cancer Awareness Week is presented by Camp Kesem, Relay For Life and Colleges Against Cancer. The screening is free.
THURSDAY Bone Marrow Registry Drive 10 a.m. to 2 p.m Memorial Union and Silo Tables Sign up for the bone marrow registry and save a life. It only takes 10 minutes to register.
Cancer Awareness Week: Stuff the Bra 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Quad See some lovely gentlemen rock their finest bras for donations on the Quad!
Cal Aggie Band Lamppost Fundraiser 4 to 9 p.m. Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd. Help support the Aggie Band while eating pizza! Mention the band’s name and they will donate 30 percent of their pizza profits from that night. Check out www.facebook. com/events/260234464042936/ for more information.
Poetry Night Reading Series: Alan Williamson 8 p.m John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First Street One of the most important poet-critics of his generation, Alan Williamson has received a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship. Williamson has taught for the UC Davis English Department since 1983, having previously taught at the University of Virginia, Harvard University and Brandeis University. To receive placement in the AGGIE DAILY CALENDAR, e-mail dailycal@theaggie. org or stop by 25 Lower Freeborn by noon the day prior to your event. Due to space constraints, all event descriptions are subject to editing, and priority will be given to events that are free of charge and geared toward the campus community.
Apart from the benefits the company offers, at the end of the day, it’s the family values that employees said keep them coming back to work. According to the press release, the company has never had a layoff in its 85 years. “I am proud and honored to be ranked among the best of America’s top ‘100 Companies to Work For,’” says Eric Stille, CEO and President of Nugget Market, Inc. “I credit the achievements of our leadership team and all associates who work hard every day to uphold the core values that make this company what it is today.”
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Dorms Cont. from front page the next academic year. Due to the varying size of classes each year, Student Housing was not able to guarantee space for returning residents. Mike Sheehan, director of Facility Services at UC Davis Student Housing, said this will be important for those students who are not yet ready to move out into the City of Davis community. “It is a personal decision for each student and dependent on their needs and life situation,” Sheehan said. The UC Davis Student Housing Strategic Plan states the majority of students prefer living off-campus during their second year. Due to this reason, there has not been a demand from continuing students. In the 2004-05 UC Davis school year, a decrease in state funding pushed admissions to admit fewer applicants, which would have in
Animals Cont. from front page walks up to her cage. Leonardes also conceded that she has a favorite animal as well. “Everyone has one, even if they won’t admit it. My favorite is Lilo, who I showed in a livestock show my sophomore year. It’s also nice seeing calves you fed freshman year go through the whole process by the time you are a senior,” Leonardes said. Hines said by far her favorite part about working at the facility is having the privilege of being exposed to
means that just because a food does not say organic, doesn’t mean it isn’t. Your farmers market folk, for example, probably can’t afford certification, but may Theresa have organic standards. Richardson To find out, ask them in person. But when it comes to grocery stores, the only way to know is by calling the food producer. Luckily, there are easier ways to avoid these chemicals than asking around. The first is to know “the dirty dozen”: 12 foods f I were to give you ranked for the highest a food sprayed with pesticide content. These are poison, would you eat apples, celery, strawberries, it? Due to pesticide use, peaches, spinach, imported fruits and vegetables are nectarines and grapes, beginning to spark this very bell peppers, potatoes, question. Does that mean domestic blueberries, you should buy everything lettuce and kale. labeled organic? Not On a positive note, there necessarily. is also a list of foods known In truth, eating five as the “clean 15”. These or more include servings of onions, 40 percent of our most used sweet corn, fruits and vegetables pesticides are classified as likely pineapples, per day avocados, carcinogens ... greatly asparagus, lowers your sweet risk for major causes of peas, mangoes, eggplant, death including stroke, domestic cantaloupe, kiwi, diabetes and various cabbage, watermelon, cancers. Unfortunately, less sweet potatoes, grapefruit than one-third of American and mushrooms. college students consume Better yet, grow your the minimum servings. foods at home and you If you do, the last thing will know it’s organic. you want to hear is that Unless you’re like me –– I while fruits and vegetables like to water my apple tree prevent disease, the with laundry detergent. It pesticides used while they keeps the bugs away. grow may cause it, too. Of course, many students An agricultural pesticide don’t own a yard and most is any substance meant to of us still face this funny prevent, control or kill a problem where the grocery living organism, with the store is divided into the purpose of maximizing organic section, and what crop yield. The concern is we can afford. In this case, that, while the benefits of refrain from the dirty produce still far outweigh dozen, buy the clean 15 the cons of pesticide use, and consider these washing these chemicals are often tips. toxic and used in large It is true that pesticides quantities. 40 percent of can penetrate the peels of our most used pesticides many foods, but washing are classified as likely still helps. What you should carcinogens, many of which know is that most rinse can promote nervous off well with water and system and reproductive scrubbing. Don’t waste system damage, birth your money on antidefects and cancer. On top pesticide washes, a tiny bit of that, the U.S. accounts of detergent works just as for one-fourth of the well. And make sure the world’s weight in pesticides, detergent is gone! averaging 900 million Now, if you don’t grocery pounds used per year on shop, cook, go to the market crops. or garden, our very own As you are not a mold dining commons is a likely or rodent, these chemicals place to find produce with in trace amounts are safer farming practices and probably fine. On the other high in nutrients. In fact, hand, you also eat around with six sustainability interns 2,000 pounds of food each and another 10 for nutrition, year, increasing your total the dining commons may be exposure. a great stop for your health. One way to avoid Look out for next week’s these chemicals is to buy column, which will bust the organic foods, meaning freshman 15 myth and show those produced without you why the UC Davis food common pesticides. The programs can enhance your problem is that labeling nutrition, both on and off a food “organic”, whether campus. it is or not, is expensive. Certification alone for THERESA RICHARDSON posts all of her a grower can cost up to sources and articles on Facebook. Just google The Freshman Fifteen and her e-mail, $2,000 a year. terichardson@ucdavis.edu. To your benefit, this
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turn lead to higher residence hall fees. Student Housing elected to offer the opportunity to return to residence halls as a sophomore. Of the 4,300 students given the option, 150 students gave affirmative responses and deposits and only 77 returned to the dorms as sophomores. Currently, residence hall fees average at over $4,000 per quarter. Dana Park, a first-year international relations major who currently lives in the residence halls, said if given the option she would not return as a sophomore. “I can’t wait to have an apartment of my own with a kitchen, my own bathroom ... I’ll miss some things, like the proximity to campus and the convenience of the [dining commons], but I wouldn’t consider coming back to the dorms for another year just for that,” she said. No new construction will take place to house returning students. “Student Housing will accommodate [sophomores] with the existing
the research done on campus. For example, one study involves seeing whether birds can recognize each other via Skype. Another is testing to see whether particular types of birds can smell a compound found in bombs. “I love working with the researchers when they come and being able to see these experiments first hand,” Hines said. For Austin, a typical day working at the swine center includes feeding all the pigs, housing out their pens, and processing new litters — ear notching, tail docking, teeth clipping, giving an antibiotic and
resident halls and master leased apartment spaces off campus,” Hernandez said. Also available are the many oncampus apartment options open to students, which are attributed to the ground lease with Tandem Properties that was agreed upon in the early 1980s, giving UC Davis over 1,200 apartment units and multiple buildings for fraternity groups. The leases are set to continue from 2035 to 2065. It is uncertain whether Phase III of the Tercero dorms will house sophomores or remain primarily for first-year students. According to Hernandez, construction will begin in the summer to replace the Pierce Thille buildings in Tercero, but new residence hall beds will be installed only to replace existing beds and add a small number for projected firstyear enrollment increases. Tercero Phase III is scheduled to open in Fall 2014. MUNA SADEK can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.
iron injection and castrating. She also weighs and selects pigs for replacements in UC Davis’ herd or to be sent out to other facilities. Austin also said that being exposed to research projects is one of the best perks of the job. “I really enjoy getting to be a part of the various projects. I even got an internship at a lab through a professor who is doing research on the pigs at our facility,” Austin said. All agree that working at these facilities has exposed them to new and exciting experiences. Hines said she has even tried quail eggs for the first time this past
year. She said they are very small and round and taste a little different but actually have a little more protein than chicken eggs and are lower in cholesterol. Hines said if anyone wants to try them, they are sold on at the UC Davis Meat Lab every Friday. Leonardes encourages other students who are interested in caring for animals to take an animal science class and learn more about it. “Maybe they too can someday have this awesome job,” Leonardes said. CLAIRE MALDARELLI can be reached at features@theaggie.org.