With the June 3 Davis City Council election just around the corner, candidates are ratcheting up efforts to get their names and messages out to voters. Taking the form of mailers, websites and lawn posters, campaign publicity deals primarily with increasing name recognition, even while the major candidates in the race assert their aim to engage in a more substantive discourse with voters.

California’s massive adult entertainment industry might be able to help the state out of its current budgetary woes. A bill working its way through the legislature aims to impose a 25 percent tax on income received from adult entertainment venues – colloquially referred to as strip clubs, adult bookstores and “peep shows.”

Event:NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament– Stanford Regional Teams:UC Davis vs.No.15Stanford vs.Pepperdine vs.Arkansas Records:Aggies,34-22; Cardinal,33-21-2; Waves,36-19; Razorbacks,34-22

If you’re the oldest in the family, you may be one of the unlucky ones in terms of allergies. According to a recent study from the University of South Carolina, first-born children are at a higher risk of developing allergies and asthma because they experience different conditions in the uterus from their younger siblings.

UC Davis staff and students are invited to“Get It Together“ today fromnoonto1p.m.at the Cabernet Roomin theSiloUnion.

Respected Russian literature professor Yuri Druzhnikov passed away May 14 after almost a year of illness.

Editor’s note: “The Senior Series” aims to give readers a comprehensive look at what senior students have achieved in their four years of instruction at UC Davis.

I‘ve been writing this column since April2006.Looking back,sometimes I enjoyed being a columnist,but equally often,I did not.

It’s been a few years since Aggie readers have gotten their horoscope readings, so as an almost-end-of-the-year gift, I will grace you with my mystical interpretation of this month’s solar movements.

The results are in– the winners of the2008Search Party are Lacey Macri,Unit Panic,Mistlefinger and A Class Act.

On Monday,the NCAA announced that UC Davis was one of three teams in the country to earn an at-large bid to the2008NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

Back when I was in10th grade,two very important things happened to me.First,System of a Down releasedToxicity.