The decision by UC Davis to secure housing for future transfer students shows a positive shift by the university toward caring for the entire student body. By securing housing agreements with Primero Grove,The Lexington and The Arbors,the university has guaranteed that it will be able to provide housing to incoming transfer students.Previously,UC Davis was the only UC campus that could not guarantee housing to this group.

For months you tried to plant the seeds of romance by being a genuine and thoughtful friend,often consoling her and listening to her complain about how Stage3douchebags (if you’re confused about the stages,I encourage you to check out last week’s column) seem to be a dime a dozen in this shanty town. And all the while you wondered if she was blind.

The UC Davis baseball team managed22runs on40hits against one of the nation’s best teams over the weekend. Aside from that,the club had its share of struggles. Pitching woes and defensive miscues plagued the Aggies as No.15Cal Poly pieced together a three-game sweep of UC Davis at Baggett Stadium.

Being a student at one of the world’s largest public universities makes avoiding passionate debaters practically impossible. Most of the time such debate appears to be intelligent.You’ll simply overhear a few of your peerscalmlytossing out points and counter-points,secretly nod your head at the validity of their claims,and decide to get moving to your next class.

Rarely has a student earned more than a scolding or detention for making paper airplanes.UC Davis undergraduate,Ryan Naccarato,however,created a paper plane design that scored him an all-expenses paid trip to Salzburg,Austria to compete in the Red Bull Paper Wings finals.

I want to murder my toilet.Lately,it has decided to go rogue and do everything it’s not supposed to do.One day,I’ll open the lid in hopes of (ahem) “dropping the kids off at the pool,” and see that there is absolutely no water in it.

Every year,a new student appointee takes charge of the workings of the ASUCD$10.5million budget. Eli Yani,a sophomore political science major and Latin minor,was recently appointed as the new ASUCD Controller for the current term.

Dear editor, The recent opinion piece by Jan Weeks, “Animal Welfare at UCD,“ makes a number of inaccurate statements about the animal research at UC Davis and at the California National Primate Research Center.

Dear Editor, I was deeply troubled by the guest opinion article by Jan Weeks, entitled “Animal Welfare at UCD.” I am also a UCD alumna and I currently work in a research lab at the UC Davis Medical Center. My research on liver fibrosis requires animals be sacrificed frequently for experiments.

After putting10runs on the board to win the first half of its Saturday doubleheader,the UC Davis softball team was held scoreless in its next two games en route to1-2series defeat at UC Riverside.

Don’t be alarmed if you receive a warning voicemail or text message on your cell phone tomorrow – it’s just a test. UC Davis WarnMe Emergency Alert system will be conducting what will be a yearly test this Wednesday at approximately 11:50 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. to all registered e-mail accounts and phones.

University officials are considering a change to add a Middle Eastern category on the University of California application. Currently,students who self-identify as Middle Eastern are typically expected to categorize themselves as white on the UC application,although some opt to choose African,Asian or other.