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.

Thao with The Get Down Stay DownWe Brave Bee Stings and All Kill Rock Stars Rating: 4

Ladyhawk is one of those bands you heard at the bars and in a moment of drunken conviction bought their album.

The premise sounded promising: A successful single woman has everything, aches for the chance to be a mother and thanks to her sketchy uterus, cannot.

When seniors Matthew Cool and Saraswathi Subbaraman came together to form Mistlefinger, their musical union was more coincidental than anything else.

Search Party winner Lacey Macri isn’t inDavis to make it big in music.