Event:NorCal Cup Teams:No.9UC Davis vs.Pacific; No.4Hawaii; No.10San JoseState; No.5California Where:SullivanAquaticCenter– Santa Clara,Calif. When:Saturday at11:45a.m.,4:45p.m.; Sunday at10:30a.m.,3:30p.m. Who to watch:After losing the team‘s top two scorers,the burden of putting the ball in the cage will be placed mostly on senior sprinter Lindsay Kiyama.

Event:UW Invitational Where:Dempsey Indoors – Seattle,Wash. When:Saturday at8a.m. Who to watch:Her name isLorin Scott. Aggie fans should already be familiar with the senior middle distance standout.And after this season,athletics fans around the country may very well be,too.

Who:UC Davis vs.Santa Clara; UC Santa Cruz Records:Aggies,2-2; Broncos,1-1; Banana Slugs,0-1 Where:Marya Welch Tennis Center When:Friday at1:30p.m.; Saturday at11a.m. Who to watch:Jessica Harris has been playing tough early on this season at theNo.5singles spot.The senior from Pasadena,Calif.started out the season going2-0in singles play to go along with a7-4overall mark.

Teams:UC Davis at Pacific Records:Aggies,7-11 (3-4); Tigers,10-9 (4-3) Where:Alex G.Spanos Center – Stockton,Calif. When:Saturday at7p.m. Who to watch:After dropping two games this past weekend,the Aggies look to get back on track with help from leading scorer Paige Mintun as the midway point of the Big West Conference season approaches.

Throughout my time in Davis I have encountered many things that grind my gears i.e. things that annoy me (for example: naggers). Hence, I decided to make a top 10 list of things that grinded my gears throughout my stay here. I hope I don’t end up sounding like a grandpa complaining about his retirement center; I just want to share my gear-grinding list with people who may be able to relate.

President Obama has begun our first sustained effort to rescue our automobile industry. As The New York Times reported, his recent signature of a law that allows certain states to “begin producing and selling cars and trucks that get higher mileage than the national standard” is a step to reshape the contour of our national automobile industry.

Amongstmy list of innocently bad habits (i.e.constantly cracking my knuckles,biting on straws),my worst vice has to be a combination of two others:the Internet and going on random tangents. So when you’re leading an Internet-less lifestyle at home like I’ve been doing for the past month,it’s easy to devote an awful amount of time normally spent on web browsing (read:Facebook and online shopping) thinking instead about useless things,such as which ofmy friends would make the best “Chain Reaction“ teammates or what country I would visit if I were Anthony Bourdain.

By this summer,California Supreme Court judges willdetermine the fate ofsame-sex marriages performed before Proposition8passed last November.UCDavis law professor Courtney Joslinco-authored and submitted a friend-of-the-court briefthis monththat argues that Prop8should in no way affect the validity ofthose marriages.

Thank goodness it’s voting season. The Green Initiative Fund will likely appear on this quarter’s ASUCD ballot,giving students the option of funding undergraduate sustainability programs. Should the ballot measure pass in next month’s ASUCD elections,TGIF will net approximately$124,000in grant money from student tuition fees.Each student will automatically contribute$4to the fund every quarter,starting fall2009.

Teams:UC Davis vs.Cal State Bakersfield Where:Schaal Aquatics Center When:Saturday at1p.m. Who to watch:Hailing from nearby Lodi,Calif.,freshman Alex Daneke enters his first home meet as an Aggie as one of the top freestyle and backstroke swimmers on the team.

Advertisements on billboards,text in album sleeves and letterforms on book covers – the art of typography may be taken for granted,but artist and designer Simon Johnston has made quite a name for himself in the field. In the exhibit “subject/verb/object,” which is currently on display at the Design Museum in Everson Hall,Johnston explores the nature of visual language and the relationship between visual aids and their semantic roles.An artist talk and reception featuring Johnston will be held tonight at6:30in Everson Hall.

Teams:UC Davis vs.Oregon State; Cal State Fullerton Where:The Pavilion; Titan Gym – Fullerton,Calif. When:Friday at7p.m.; Sunday at noon Who to watch:Sophomore Barrett Abel has been perfect for the Aggies this year,posting a10-0record at the149-pound weight-class.