Teams:UC Davis vs.No.15CalStateFullerton Records:Aggies,25-13 (6-3); Titans,24-14 (9-3) Where:Goodwin Field – Fullerton,Calif. When:Today at7p.m.; Saturday at6p.m.; Sunday at1p.m. Who to watch:Senior right-hander Eddie Gamboa’s second complete game of the season last Friday earned him Easton Big WestConferenceCo-Pitcher of the Week honors.The Aggies will look to their ace for another qualityperformance to get an early leg-up in the crucial weekend series.

Wednesday night’s “Unwrap this:Rollin Rollin Rollin“ at the Memorial Unionwas the perfect place to learn how tocorrectly roll sushi,kimbap and spring rolls.Otherfoods demonstratedwere Spam musubi and a dessertcalled halo halo. This event was one of many for this week’s Asian Pacific Culture Week.Thehistory of certain Asian Pacific countries and their foodswas presented by Jonathan Chee,a sophomoremicrobiology majorandco-organizer of the event along withseniorJulienne Cruz,Campus Unions student programmer. “How many [people] like to eat Ramen? Well inKorea they believe that if you eat it late at night or before an important event,your face will swell up,“ said Chee in his presentation.

The UC Davis Arboretum is hosting a series of events for the public to enjoy throughout May. All events are intended to showcase the features of what many residents call the most beautiful place in Davis. Birds of Song and Clay Possibly the only event ever to combine folk music and clay bird making, Birds of Song and Clay will give participants the opportunity to make California birds out of clay while listening to the acoustic trio, MudLark. Professor and co-director of the Art-Science Fusion Program Diane Ullman will lead the clay bird making workshop. Participants will model their birds after those native to California, and contribute the birds to a large clay mural for Congressman Mike Thompson, who will display it in his office in Washington D.C.

The sad thing is that I really used to like Ben Stein. I grew up watching him banter with Jimmy Kimmel while defending his cash from all comers, and I was invariably impressed with the breadth of his knowledge. Thus, when I heard about his new flickExpelled: No Intelligence Allowed, I felt a bit betrayed. Since I’m going to go ahead and assume anyone sage enough to read my column has more sense than to toss $10 at this monumental waste of film, I’ll explain the basic premise. In a lot of ways, Expelled is a lot like An Inconvenient Truth with some of the nouns changed Mad Libs style. The movie (Truth / Expelled) is a documentary about (global warming / Intelligent Design) narrated by (an incredibly dry and humorless man / essentially the same dude) and backed up with (a pretty sobering array of science / more or less

Editor’s note:This series will allow you to experience“a day in the life“ with various individuals throughout the UC Davis community.After spending timewith theDavis Motorsports Club last time,we‘ll give you a taste of life as a teacher‘s assistant today. Second-year French graduate student Kristen Kennedypower walksinto her classroom.The clock strikesnoonand she transforms into Madam Kennedy,instructor of beginning French. “Qui [est] super bon,“ said Kennedy,asking if her students felt good.

Are you one of those people who gets a thrill out of spouting random trivia facts to amaze and impress your audience of choice? The upcoming Undergraduate Research Conference is a great opportunity to learn about everything from the relationship between social economic status and academic achievement to shell mounds in the Bay Area – not to mention a way to add to your mental bank of intelligent pick-up lines. The Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Conference began in 1990, said Tammy Hoyer, chair of the conference committee. She explained that UC Davis is one of the top research institutions in the country, and the idea behind the conference was to give undergraduates an opportunity to present and publish their individual research.

n an effort to protect mental health services from state budget cuts, ASUCD is urging administrators to retract cuts made to units other than Counseling and Psychological Services that provide counseling services. University administrators proposed a 7 percentbudget decrease for all units,with some losing as much as $140,000 for next year’s budget.The cuts will facilitate a university-wide cut of$1.4million. ASUCD considersunits such as theCross Cultural Center (CCC),Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual,Transgender ResourceCenter (LGBTRC) and Women’s Research and Resources Center (WRRC) crucialto university funding,as many utilize these services for mental health. “These units do very important work and have a close connection to many students on this campus,” said Paul Harms,ASUCD controller andjuniormanagerial economics major. “They shouldn’t have to cut any of their funding.“

Students with a deep interest in filmmaking as well as those who just like fooling around with their camera for class projects may have found a rewarding avenue for their efforts. The UC Davis department of theatre and dance Annual Film Festival, in association with the department of technocultural studies, is announcing a call for submissions due this month for the 8th annual screening in June. For first time, the film festival will give students the opportunity to project their movies on a big screen at Varsity Theatre in downtown Davis, said festival founder, judge and UC Davis theatre and dance professor John Iacovelli.

Above the desk in my room is a very large picture,“Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains,“ painted by Albert Bierstadt in1868.Bierstadt is perhaps my favorite artist,known for his treatment of the mountainous landscapes of the American West.Sunlight streaming through the clouds often takes center stage in his paintings,which always seemed to me a credible depiction of God coming down to earth.The beauty of Bierstadt‘s nature can almost put me in a trance. “Wait a minute,Rob,” you might interrupt. “Shouldn’t you have a painting of oil wells surrounded by dead Iraqi children over your desk,or maybe a rich man tap dancing on the backs of the poor with an IRS refund in one hand and a bag of money in the other? It can’t be anything natural.We all know conservatives hate nature.“

When the postseason awards were announced on Tuesday after the final round of the Big West Conference Championships, freshman Chelsea Stelzmiller wasn’t expecting it. But one by one, all the awards seemed to go to her. Stelzmiller earned Player of the Year honors, Freshman of the Year and a spot on the First Team All-Conference roster in her standout inaugural season with the UC Davis women’s golf team. She tied for first at the conference championships with a 222, helping lead the Aggies to a second-place finish behind UC Irvine. “I was standing there, listening to them announce all of the awards and I wasn’t really expecting anything,” Stelzmiller said. “Then they say, ‘Player of the Year, from UC Davis…’ and still, I’m not expecting anything – I think it’s someone else. But they called my name and it was pretty cool.”

Interesting fact:Davis-based band Buildings Breeding was never meant to be a real band.According to the band’s biography,guitarist and vocalist Christapher Larsen began with song lyrics that were originally sent as love letters to girlfriend andfuture fellow band member Melanie Glover while she was overseas. When the band finally did materialize as more than just a façade with its own MySpace profile,it wasgreeted with a warm reception,first locally and eventually nationally.After signing withDavis-grown record label Mushpot Records,the band performed at last year’s South by Southwest Festival and had a song featured on the MTV show “Human Giant.“

Out ofPortland‘s jazz scene comes Blue Cranes‘ sophomoreall-instrumentalalbum.Composed of almost entirely live recordings,Homing Patterns successfully offers a downbeat eclectic set of thoughtful compositionsfor any jazz listener. Made up of Reed Wallsmith on alto sax,Sly Pig (Joe Cunningham) on tenor sax,Rebecca Sanborn on keyboards,Keith Brush on acoustic bass and Ji Tanzer on drums,Blue Cranes puts forth a powerful and whole jazz feeling.This robust sound can be heard throughout much of the album,giving it a slightly similar feel to John Coltrane or evenOregon. The fullness of the album can be most attributed to Blue Cranes‘ saxophone-oriented style of instrumentation.Wallsmith‘s alto and Cunningham‘s tenor work well together,whether they are presenting a solid melody or an abstract idea.The two continually play off each other,forming the core of their style.