Besides pretending to be left-handed or drafting new versions of my signature,I’ve spent many boring lectures compiling a mental list of famous people that I’d like to meet.High on this list includes fascinating characters such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt,Jenny Lewis,Slug from Atmosphere and Ann Curry from“The Today Show.“

The UC Davis men’s golf team is used to being the underdog.It’s used to chasing the country’s top teams from behind. After the Aggies‘ most recent tournament,those daysmay be over. In a field that featured five of the nation’s top25teams and10of the top50,UC Davisbeat them all on Tuesday,shooting an871to finish in second place behind unranked TCU (861) at the Prestige at the PGA West in La Quinta,Calif.

Dear Americans, You have a tremendous stake in this election. Our nation has reached a pivotal moment, a time that should not and must not be ignored, in her history. We face an imminent choice, and we have to make a decision – soundly, carefully, deliberately and with haste.

Among many fiscally controversial measures on the California ballot in November is Proposition3,the children’s hospitalbond act. The proposition authorizes$980million in bonds,to be paid from the state’s General Fund,to fund the renovation and expansion of children’s hospitals throughout the state.

Note:This is the first in a series ofThe California Aggie’sendorsements for the Nov.4election.We will be stating our endorsements over the nexttwo and ahalfweeks,andsummarizingour opinions on Election Day.

I see the same picture over and over again – a horde of fake smiles all bunched together to make one shitty picture.

God, I love my parents for always trying to keep me safe. There’s really nothing that says “I love you, baby girl” like sending your daughter pepper spray in the mail (which I never curiously decided to play with and misfired) or forcing her to watch a “Too Smart for Strangers” video 238,947 times by the age of seven. I grew up next door to the elementary school I attended and was never allowed to walk home alone, even after I swore to take my little keychain harmonica to use as a whistle. But hey, I recognize that it was all for my own good.

It’s easy to put off the local music scene as a subculture of bands that nobody’s ever heard of. Call them indie – the all-inclusive local category that’s about as descriptive of its music as “domestic” is to cars.

The University of California is the best in the world but it is on a slow financial starvation diet. It’s a diet that forces those who are students to pay more and more and the general public to pay less and less for the university.

The Davis College Republicans have been posting a deceptive flyer aroundcampus,urging students to “Save UC Standards” by rallying against theelimination of the SAT II Subject tests as an acceptance requirement.

Bust out your old Freddie Krueger mask for the second annual Sacramento Horror Film Festival,held at the Colonial Theatre at3522Stockton Blvd.in Sacramento.The festivalwill be held tomorrow until Sunday,and will include over50film screenings,workshops and various horror-related festivities.

After two years of work to establish a new campus e-mail system, UC Davis is officially the first UC campus to switch to Gmail, Google’s email program. Students will keep their existing ucdavis.edu e-mail addresses, but will be able to utilize Gmail features and more than 7GB of storage.