Former Aggie Derek Moore gave UC Davis national attention two years ago by becoming national champion of his weight class. Now,the Aggies are doing it as a team.

In the last match of their season,the Aggies didn’t have much of an answer for Pacific. The Tigers packed quite a punch on Friday night as Gibson and Anderson slammed down12kills each en route to a three-set victory. But at the end of the match,there was an obvious air of excitement and promise that seemed to fill the Pavilion.

Event:NCAA Division I National Championships Where:LaVern Gibson Course – Terre Haute,Ind. When:Mondayat9:08a.m.

For the second straight week,the UC Davis women’s basketball team had to fly across a time zone to play a Friday night game. This time,the outcome wasn’t as favorable. A week after defeating Southern Utah,UC Davis fell victim to a15-1scoring run by Denver over the final three and ahalf minutes of play to give the Pioneers their first victory of the season,64-50.

Cruz Reynoso, professor emeritus of law at UC Davis, will be assisting in President-elect Barack Obama’s transition to the White House. Reynoso was appointed as a member of the administration’s agency review team, one of several leaders in a justice and civil rights sub-team. He and other experts from across the country will review the current departments, agencies and commissions and advise the president-elect on future policy decisions.

In the midst of a devastating budget crisis, the regents decided that freshmen enrollments could be curtailed by 10,000 students next fall if the state does not provide sufficient funding. During their Nov. 20 meeting in San Francisco, the regents approved a 2009-2010 budget proposal for UC. While the university is facing a large pitfall for the 2009-2010 academic year if the state does not meet its needs, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed an additional $65.5 million mid-year funding cut to UC for 2008-2009.

The UC Davis theatre and dance department’s#5The Angry Red Drum offers a unique look into writer/director Philip Kan Gotanda’s inventive mind.Set in bizarre circumstances and moving in an undefined direction,the play can best be described in one word:abstract.

The annual UC Davis study of California business leaders reported disappointing results – women are significantly underrepresented in the top levels of the state’s largest firms. The UC Davis Graduate School of Management and the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives publish the study annually, which reports the numbers of women in director and executive officer positions in the top 400 corporations in California.

Kingsley Grafft, a UC Davis sorority member, developed a sexual assault prevention and awareness curriculum that’s being taught on campus and emulated at other universities nationwide. The course, Greeks Against Sexual Assault (GASA), aims to eliminate sexual and dating violence by raising awareness and prevention. It is a pass/no pass class offered as a seminar through the UC Davis education department.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Nov. 20 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.

Since the entire country has boarded the midnight train to Doom-and-Gloomville, it should come as no surprise that magazines are rocking the Troubled Industry look. As I’ve said before in this column and as you are no doubt tired of hearing, print media in general seems to bedying a slow and painful death at the hands of the Internet and a poor economy. Magazines are no exception.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently upheld a lower court’s ruling against a group of academics that had challenged restrictions affecting academic travel to Cuba. The approximately 200 study abroad programs in Cuba before the restrictions were put in place have since decreased to only a handful.