Yearly Archives - 2008
2008 Archives
Longtime owner of Armadillo Music passes away
Arts & CultureJuly 3, 2008
Music lovers in Davis know where in town to finger
through a treasure trove of classic records. Offering a place to find
music almost every day of the year is Armadillo Music at 205 F St.
Farmers adjust to dry season
City NewsJuly 3, 2008
WhenGovernor Arnold Schwarzeneggerannounced a drought in June,Californians were told to take shorter showers and use less water on their lawns.But for farms inCalifornia andYoloCounty,the challenge of dealing with less water is even greater.
Dining in Davis: Farmer’s Kitchen Café
FeaturesJuly 3, 2008
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you have terrible eating habits like me, coming up with excuses to eat
junk is an all-too-easy task. Some justifications I always fall back on
include class, work, certain television shows, extreme weather
conditions… Providing
me with one less place to nourish my unhealthy lifestyle is Farmer’s
Kitchen Café. Situated at 624 Fourth St., it turned out that I’ve
passed this restaurant many times without ever having gone inside, only
referring to it as “the place with the plastic floral tablecloths.”
Co/Lab concludes at Olipom
Arts & CultureJuly 3, 2008
Last week marked the conclusion of this year’s Co/Lab art and design collective,held at thenow-closed Olipom Vintage Clothing Store inSacramento.Founded in2006by graduate student Milan Phan and headed this year by UC Davis alumnus Cory Keller,the Co/Lab group explores the creative advantages of workingand creatingin coordination withothers within and outside the art department.
Call of the wild
FeaturesJuly 3, 2008
Vocal repertoires, song notation, sound recordings and acoustic signals. From the sound of his academic vocabulary, one could easily mistake
Peter Marler for a professor of music. While he is not one in the
conventional sense, many consider him to be the pioneering professor of
nature’s music.
ASUCD Coffee House raises prices
Campus NewsJuly 3, 2008
Junior chemistry major Gary Arevalo noticed last week that he received
less change from the $2 he paid for a slice of cheese pizza at the
ASUCD Coffee House. “A slice of cheese pizza is usually $1.75 but it’s gone up since school ended,” said Arevalo.
ARTSWEEK
Arts & CultureJuly 3, 2008
Extreme Animals, Fortress of Amplitude, Driphouse, Pregnant Today, 9 p.m. The Witchdome in Sacramento What
do you get when you put rap and trance together? A frantic (and
frankly, slightly frightening) combination from duo Extreme Animals –
who, surprisingly, both performed in the same barbershop quartet back
when they were in high school.
10 questions with…
FeaturesJuly 3, 2008
Editor’snote:For this edition of10questions,The Aggie interviewedDavisCity Councilmember Don Saylor.Councilmember Saylor was recently elected to his second term on the council and was named Mayor Pro Tempore on Tuesday.Look for him as he holds his office hours next weekonJuly8,from11a.m.to12:30p.m.at the tables by the Memorial Union patio.
UCD Pavillion hosts memorial service
City NewsJune 30, 2008
Family,
friends and law enforcement from all over Northern California gathered
at the ARC Pavilion on Friday morning to say goodbye to Sheriff’s
Deputy Tony Diaz, who was shot and killed in the line of duty on
Father’s Day. “Officer down,” said Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto. “This is the call
every member of the law enforcement community dreads and hopes never to
hear. These are the words broadcast by Yolo County Sheriff’s Deputy
Tony Diaz on Sunday, June 15 at 9:30 p.m.”
UC Davis receives $2.67 million grant for pediatric emergency care
Campus NewsJune 30, 2008
Emergency Medical Services for Children awarded the UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine a$2.67million grant to fund three more years of participation in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.PECARN,thefirst federally funded pediatric emergency medicine research network in thecountry,servesmore than900,000acutely ill and injured children every year and conducts large-scale research projects.
UC Davis Med School’s conflict of interest policies among best
Campus NewsJune 30, 2008
The UC Davis School of Medicine,an institution renowned for its education and research,can now add a different kind of recognition to its long list of achievements. The
American Medical Student Association recently conducted a ranking of
medical schools based on their policies regarding free gifts from
pharmaceutical companies.
To Mount Everest and back
FeaturesJune 30, 2008
Battling frostbite,exhaustion and a frozen oxygen mask,UC Davis senior Tanner Bixlerrelentlessly made his way to the summit ofMount Everest on May24. Climbing the29,035-footMt.Everest had been a childhood dream for Bixler.The economics major is no novice when itcomes to trekkingmountains– he started hiking at the age of3with his father and eventually worked his way up to serious climbing.

