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October 2008 Archives

Men’s soccer preview

SportsOctober 3, 2008
Teams:No.16UC Davis vs.Cal Poly Records:Aggies,8-1-1 (0-0-1); Mustangs,6-2-2 (1-0-0) Where:Aggie Soccer Stadium When:Saturday at1p.m.

Men’s and women’s cross country preview

SportsOctober 3, 2008
Event:Doc Adams Open Where:Putah Creek Reserve When:Saturday at9a.m.

High unemployment rate impacts students too

City NewsOctober 3, 2008
California’s job market is in its roughest patch in 12 years, and students may be affected. The unemployment rate in California for the month of August was 7.7 percent, the highest since 1996.

Football preview

SportsOctober 3, 2008
Teams:UC Davis vs.Northern Colorado Records:Aggies,1-4; Bears,0-3 Where:Aggie Stadium When:Saturday at6p.m. Radio:KHTK (1140AM)

Dixon corn maze bigger than ever

City NewsOctober 3, 2008
The 2007 Guinness Book of World Record’s “Largest Corn Maze in the World” has grown. Cool Patch Pumpkins, located in Dixon, has grown three acres since last year to a size of 43 acres. It is also the site of a complex consisting of a pumpkin patch boasting over 2,000 pumpkins of 30 varieties, a food area with tri-tip sandwiches and hot dogs and a children’s play area complete with a mountain of straw.

Discussions continue on admissions policy change

Campus NewsOctober 3, 2008
University of California President Mark Yudof expressed tentative support for a faculty-originated plan to restructure the freshman admissions process at the regents‘ September meeting at UC Irvine. The plan,which would take effect in fall2012,aims to expand the number of applications entitled to review by eliminating the SAT II subject test scores requirement.Supporters say this would allow a pool of otherwise qualified applicants who failed to take the test to be visible to UC.

Daily Calendar

FeaturesOctober 3, 2008
TODAY Cooking Club fall welcome meeting 5to6p.m. Garrison Room,MU All are welcome to the Cooking Club’s meeting,where you can learn all about the club.Attendees can also expect a Jeopardy-style game with prizes!

Business school dean to step down in July

Campus NewsOctober 3, 2008
Graduate School of Management Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart has announced her intention to resign from her post in July and return to full time teaching and research in the fall of 2010 after a year-long sabbatical. “I had several projects that I wanted to see put in place,” Biggart said in an e-mail interview. “When I saw that these were all coming to fruition I thought it was a good time to step down and to attract my successor.”

Arboretum plant faire to be held in new teaching nursery

Campus NewsOctober 3, 2008
The Friends of the Arboretum will celebrate the grand opening of the new teaching nursery this Saturday by holding its 34th annual Plant Faire. The sale features over 10,000 plants – mostly “All-Star plants” – Californian natives that have been hand selected by horticulturists on staff that will prosper in Davis’ Mediterranean-type climate.

UC Davis alumnus makes an artistic return

Arts & CultureOctober 2, 2008
While most of the attention in the Nelson Gallery is currently attributed to the main show taking place in the Art building, a small collection of photo collages by Jimmy Jalapeeno are on display at the entryway gallery. Unlike the other three artists on exhibit at the main gallery, Jalapeeno is a graduate of the UC Davis department of art during the “legendary ’70s.” He learned under the tutelage of the famous faculty that included Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley and Robert Arneson, professors he said he holds in esteem.

Three-putts sink Aggies at Huskies Invitational

SportsOctober 2, 2008
If Cy Williams were a professor and not a head coach, the UC Davis men’s golfers may want to come see him in office hours. They didn’t grade out so well in their most recent performance.

Small Chat with Michael Cera and Kat Dennings

Arts & CultureOctober 2, 2008
Editor’s Note:MUSE recently had the opportunity to talk to Michael Cera and Kat Dennings,the stars of the film “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” in a roundtable interview with other college publications.The Q&A below contains excerpts from that interview.