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acrobatics and explores themes of identity and exile.
Comparative Aspects of Obesity in Cats
FRIDAY
Noon to 1 p.m. 110 Gladys Valley Join Dr. Margarethe Hoenig, professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for a presentation on the comparative aspects of obesity in our feline friends.
WEDNESDAY Beyond the Bush Pump: Microworlds of Humanitarian Design Noon to 1:30 p.m. 1246 Social Sciences and Humanities Join us for a talk by Peter Redfield, associate professor of anthropology and STS scholar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Richard III 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wyatt Pavilion Theater Come down for this free performance of Richard III, written by William Shakespeare, presented by ShakespeareOn-a-Shoestring. For more information, go to theatredance.ucdavis.edu.
SATURDAY Richard III 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wyatt Pavilion Theater Come down for this free performance of Richard III, written by William Shakespeare, presented by ShakespeareOn-a-Shoestring. For more information, go to theatredance.ucdavis.edu.
THURSDAY FLASH: A New Choreography 8 to 10 p.m. Wright Main Theater Come see a new work devised and choreographed by Granada artist-inresidence Qudus Onikeku, whose Yoruba culture-based work often fuses hiphop, capoeira and Nigerian dance with
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POLICE BRIEFS TUESDAY
Be wary of dairy
Clearly the right number There was a hang-up call to the Davis Police Department; in the background were male subjects talking about drinking, driving and smoking weed on Hanover Drive.
THURSDAY
A group of juveniles took several milk cartons from Whole Foods on First Street and smashed them on the floor.
SUNDAY Maybe he was hungry A male subject brandished a knife at a customer at Woodstock’s Pizza on G Street.
Smooth Criminal A juvenile wearing a green baseball cap, green shorts and purple shoes used scissors to open and steal $100 headphones on Second Street.
Doggone it A subject kept dropping off his pitbull at someone’s house on College Park, and the person wanted the subject to quit it.
FRIDAY
ZENROW
Water you doing?! Somebody was arguing with their roommate, so the roommate threw water on the person and their laptop on Ninth Street.
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is fourth-year managerial economics major Sean Newell. “They’re just starting to spread on campuses across the nation and are solving big pain points for college students,” Newell said in an email. “The average group of roommates calculates who owes what for bills and rent in Excel or on paper, then reminds each other of the owed amounts by different modes of communication [such as] in person, text [or] email because nobody ever has their checkbook on them, and then finally writes and exchanges multiple checks between each other.” James Sherrer, a fifthyear managerial economics and political science major, has been using Zenrow for a while now. He said Zenrow has solved many money issues between him and his roommates. Individuals can sign up for Zenrow at zenrow. com.
Cont. from front page that is a good idea.” Langon launched the website along with his two friends, Matt Holt and Eric Bailey. It’s been over two months since they started the website, and Langon said they have seen it spread to many more people by word of mouth. “We’ve received feedback that Zenrow is particularly useful for college roommates because they tend to keep a tighter schedule of settling up on shared bills soon after receiving them,” Langon said. Third-year biochemistry major Kevin Tran said that the website seems like a cool way to organize apartment tasks and funds online. However, he thinks that using existing modes of online communication, like Facebook groups, works just as well. Zenrow has started to reach out to various college campuses. Their rep- PAAYAL ZAVERI can be reached at resentative at UC Davis city@theaggie.org.
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I’m considering getting my master’s. The grad school route would just lead to more debt, but I won’t be as competitive to employers without obAndrew taining a higher degree. Poh You need to go above and beyond to demonstrate your worth. In economics, this is called signaling. It’s a method in which one party tries to give information to another party to try to alter the outs this quarter sets come of a situation. It’s upon the horizon, like going to a fight with a many of my fellow loaded gun and showing columnists will be crankit to your opponent to try ing out goodbye columns, to scare them off. trying to get their final In the case of getting say in edgewise about a master’s degree, you’re their opinions on drugs, showing the employsex, politics or what have er that you have a ceryou. tain skill set that comes I, unfortunately, do not with the addition of exhave this option, as I altra money and time spent ready wrote my goodat a university. You may bye column last quarter, know that you’re a hardfoolishly thinking that it working, clever, resourcewas going to be my last ful person, but your emas a columnist. A lot of ployer will not know that you are probably thinking upon your initial interthat last quarter should view. Sure, listing those have been my last as a traits on your resume columnist. I can’t say that may help, but it won’t I disagree. nail the point home, seeBut that’s neither here ing as how anyone can nor there, and I’ve manjust lie and write down aged to stumble, blunpositive, glowing attrider and grope my way butes about themselves. through another quarter’s I’m not saying worth of that getting columns, a master’s One big issue that many only to is necesfind myof us will be facing in the sary for evself at post-college years will be eryone, but the preciit’s certainly student loan debt pice once an appealagain. ing option, This time, the curtain will especially for those that definitely fall, as I will be are unsure of what exactgraduating next week. ly they want to do out of So I’ve been racking my undergrad and would feel mind about what I should more comfortable in an write about in the sparse academic environment. I amount of print that I mean, after all, learning have left in my possesis pretty much all we’ve sion. Since I’m graduatbeen doing for the last 20 ing soon, and I figure that or so years of our lives. most reading this will On the other hand, that’s also one day be bound all the same reason to for what lies beyond the want to stop the academacademic world, I may as ic pursuit as well. well focus this column on Graduating is a little the future. bit of a scary thing. For One big issue that now, I don’t know what’s many of us will be facing on the horizon for me. in the post-college years All’s I know is that I’ll be will be student loan debt. flying home and will have In a recent article by The to get my wisdom teeth New York Times, a study pulled out and attend was conducted by the jury duty. Then, I’ll probNew York Federal Reserve ably start working and bank that found that stustudying for the CPA test. dent debt had nearly triMy only hope for all of pled since 2004 and is ap- you out there is that your proaching the $1 trillion post-graduation plans are mark. more exciting than mine. That’s pretty disheartAlright, that’s a wrap. ening news to hear, esThis will be the last time I’ll pecially since our econbe published in print until omy is finally beginning I decide to write my autoto pull itself out of the re- biography after becoming cession. How will this an accomplished astronaut generation of 20-somecowboy accountant. things be able to shoulIt was most definiteder such a tremendous ly a pleasure and I thank debt burden? How will we you all for even taking a afford to buy homes, start glance at any one of my businesses and save for columns. the future? It’s definitely a scary thing for me, especially since I don’t really have ANDREW POH is pretty glad to be any tangible prospects graduating, but in the unlikely case that upon graduation. I’m you’ll miss him, he can still be reached at apoh@ucdavis.edu. searching for jobs and
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