Serialshoplifting The UC Davis Bookstore referred an underclassman to Student Judicial Affairs for stealing.When confronted,the student admitted that he shoplifts when under stress.Because he has ahistory of theftfrom the Bookstore,the student agreed to Deferred Separation until graduation and counseling.Deferred Separation means that if the student were to get caught shoplifting again,he would probably be suspended or dismissed from theuniversity and would not have a right to take the matter to a formal hearing.In addition,the student paid over$400in fines for stealing over20items.

On the night of World AIDS Day,1,280people gathered in the Jackson Hall of theMondavi Center for the Performing Artsto listen to a talk by author Tracy Kidder. Mountains Beyond Mountains:The Quest of Dr.Paul Farmer,A Man Who Would Cure the Worldwas this year’s featured work for the Campus Community Book Project.

A missing UC Davis professor was found dead Monday after an apparent suicide in Sonoma County,police said. The body of Richard Walker,Jr.washed up at a campsite on Salmon Creek State Beach in Bodega Bay on Monday evening,said Davis policeSergeant Scott Smith.

After hearing the word “terrorism“ leave the mouths of presidential hopefuls exclusively and plentifully for a goodfew months,it looks like that “change“ thing inherent to our system is steering us toward a new period of terror in the headlines,atleast for the business quarter.