Teams:No.8UC Davis vs.Cal State Northridge Records:Aggies,11-2-2 (3-1-2); Matadors,6-4-3 (2-0-2) Where:Aggie Soccer Stadium When:Today at3p.m.

Leslie Lyons is no crazy cat lady,although cats are her main focus here at UC Davis.She researches everything feline– from their genes to the little pieces of fur they may leave behind at the scene of a crime. Recently,Lyons and other UC Davis veterinarians assisted in engineering a glow-in-the-dark cloned cat.If that’s not enough to make you purr,her interview withThe California Aggie just might.

TODAY Aggie Football ticket distribution 10a.m.to2:30p.m. Aggie Stadium Ticket Office Go pick up your free ticket to the Oct.25game against North Dakota.The last chance to pick up tickets isWednesday.

After over a year of contentious negotiations,the University of California and the American Federation of State,County and Municipal Employees labor union have tentatively reached an agreement on a new contract for the11,000patient care workers at UC hospitals around the state.

Cell phone use during an exam A professor referred a junior to Student Judicial Affairs for using a cell phone during an exam.The professor noticed the student looking at her cell phone and pushing buttons.The student claimed she was checking the time,but using a cell phone during an exam foranyreason is a violation of theCode of Academic Conduct.Because this was the student’s first offense,she was offered Disciplinary Probation until fall quarter2009,to which sheagreed.

Ah,box-checking day.Nov.4is lurking just around the bend and,as the leaves turn,American voters are preparing themselves to march to their polling places and take that final Pepsi challenge.Another four years are behind us and it’s time again to exercise our privilege aswhite landowning Christians free and equal citizens to make our voices heard in the selection of our representative government.Yessir,you can positivelysmell the Red,White and Blue® inthe air.

Senate debates endorsement A particularly contentious ASUCD Senate discussion last week on resolutions opposing Propositions4and8and endorsing Davis‘ Measure W,ended in a philosophical debate about the true mandate of the representative body of student government. Two of the resolutions aimed to express the senate’s opposition to California’sProp4,which would require parental notification of a minor’s abortion,andProp8,which would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.The third resolution supported Measure W,a parcel tax to help preserve programs at Davis schools,which passed with a9-2-1vote.

In case you forget to swing by the bookstore for last-minute testing supplies on your way to a midterm, a new vending machine in the basement of Olson Hall now sells bluebooks and Scantron. ASUCD Senator Chris Dietrich spearheaded the effort to install the $5,000 machine, paid for by the UC Davis Bookstore. If the […]

Most of us have been to Aggie Stadium.We’ve all wandered theDeath Starand trotted through theQuad on a sunny day,butvery few of us have witnessed all this from1,000feet in the air.

Blame it on the “war on drugs,” blameiton insufficient funding for rehabilitation programs,blame it on whatever you want – most Californians agree that the criminal justice system for drug offenders is broken. The problem is finding a solution.

THURSDAY Soccer moms revolt Two mini-vans were abandoned for several weeks onHanover Drive.

This summer while interning forSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s office in Washington,D.C.one of my main duties was answering the thousands of phone calls from people from all over the country.The phone calls ranged from a sweet-sounding old lady who assured me that global warming was just God’s way of hugging us closer to a manwhospent20minutes trying to convince me that the Soviet Union had not actually collapsed.