This week Hillel, the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, and other organizations along with other UC Davis students will remember the Holocaust and raise awareness against genocide. Two events will be occurring this week including collaboration from the UC Davis Jewish community, Student Anti-Genocide Coalition (STAND), and the Baha’i communities. STAND and members of the Jewish community will be tabling in from of the Memorial Union today and handing out pamphlets. “We thought that this might be a good opportunity to approach random people walking past the Quad and tell them information on different cases of genocide,” said Mahrad Enayati, senior sociology major and intern for Hillel who helped organize this event.

Theft A first-year student was referred to Student Judicial Affairs for stealing a CD player from the bookstore. The student displayed suspicious activity while shopping in the bookstore, which alerted the attention of the security monitors. After purchasing a textbook from the bookstore, the student was asked to show his receipt and refused to do so. The student and his accomplice proceeded to make threatening remarks and then discarded the electronic device in a nearby restroom. The student agreed to pay for the damaged device and will be on deferred dismissal status until fall quarter 2008.

The Davis bike paths are a hazardous place. With high traffic density between classes and frequently messy roundabouts, divine intervention on the road sounds like a good idea. The Davis Bike Church offered the next-best thing Saturday with a bike blessing. It was the Bike Church’s first blessing with more to potentially follow in the future, said Chris Congleton, who helped organize and officiate the event. The event was based on the annual bike blessing at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York.

Name: Gordon Ng Major: Biological Sciences Year: Senior What got you interested in your major? I took a general education course, SAS 20 – Genetics and Society, in my freshman year and that triggered my interest in the sciences. From there on I took more science classes and developed a curiosity for molecular biology and how the human body functions.

Schools and cities across the country are closing athletic fields in response to reports of a lead threat in artificial turf, but turf manufacturers say there is no health risk. The wave of field closures began two weeks ago when health officials in New Jersey discovered elevated lead levels in two synthetic turf fields. This prompted the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to begin a national investigation. “We are in the very, very initial stages of our investigation,” said commission spokesman Scott Wolfson. “The key point for all parents and school administrators is that there is not a cause for alarm and panic at this time. It is not an issue where fields need to be shut down immediately.”