080411_sp_baseball.CHeadline: Dempsey’s RBI single in 12th downs No. 10 StanfordLayercake: Aggies open road conference play today in Santa BarbaraBy RAY LINAggie Staff Writer In last season’s “farm vs. farm” battle between the UC Davis and Stanford baseball teams, a little bunt single by outfielder Sean Ratliff helped the Cardinal walk off in 13 innings over […]

TODAY Raptor Center field trip 8:30 a.m. California Raptor Center Join the CRC for a wildlife hike highlighting the raptors of Yolo County! Call 752-9994 to reserve a spot by telephone message. California Indian basket weaving Noon to 1 p.m. 3201 Hart Learn about basket weaving at this Native American Culture Days presentation by Kathy Wallace.

In the Apr. 10 issue of The California Aggie, the article “Decline in African American and Hispanic graduation rates” incorrectly states that the number of graduating African Americans in 2004 dropped 33 percent. In reality, the rate dropped to 33 percent from 38 percent between 1975 and 2004, a difference of 5 percentage points. Similarly, […]

It wasn’t until the tail end of 12th grade that we realized how little our actions mattered. I’d already been accepted to Davis, and nothing outside of my getting arrested for treason was going to dissuade the campus from assimilating me. Cal Poly and Santa Cruz had similar designs on my buddies, leaving us coasting through our last classes – an impressive feat of laziness considering how ably we’d underperformed even beforehand. Once we’d impressed our revelations on our less scholastically-inclined friends, we were home free. To get a mental image, picture the Almighty reaching down and handing us a celestial get-out-of-jail-free card; that’s about what it felt like.