This weekend marked the return of alumni to UC Davis and students were out in full force to welcome them back at the annual \

With a total base budget of $12.3 million dollars, the College of Engineering will have approximately $1.67 million in permanent reductions, or 14 percent.

For the 2009-2010 school year, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) has taken a 5.2 percent cut in funding, a $3.8 million decrease from an approximately $70 million budget. To compensate for this loss, the college plans to cut three departments, collapse faculty positions and reorganize departments.

The California state legislature did not reach an agreement regarding California’s water issues by the time they adjourned on Sept. 11, so Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a special session to continue discussions on water. The governor and the senate and assembly leaders have since been meeting in a series of closed-door talks.

The Graduate School of Management (GSM) is finding that it is having to cut back on certain operations and expenses for the current academic year.

If you had plans to visit the world’s largest corn maze for Halloween this year, think again.

It was homecoming in South Dakota. There were 9,884 people packed inside the DakotaDome. The UC Davis players were dressing out on the sidelines because the visiting locker room was too small.

Year after year, a new pool of wide-eyed freshmen flood campus in search of new experiences – or maybe just for where their next class is. Two years ago, I was one of them. Having memorized the campus map and outlined my class-to-class routes beforehand, I concentrated on these new experiences.

Who am I? The school tells me I’m a senior, but I’m a freshman at heart. I’m stuck in that phase of wide-eyed wonder as I discover the world is nothing like I thought it was. Fortunately for you readers, these discoveries are often the result of my extravagant and (to the third-party observer) hilarious screw-ups. As the demotivational poster says, “It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.” So gather round, kids, and learn from Grandma Beth’s haphazard stumble through this thing we call life.

In 2009, UC Davis’ College of Biological Sciences (CBS) dealt with its share of the recent cuts, having planned out $490,000 worth of reductions by August. Since then, the required cuts have been raised to roughly $770,000 for the College. It anticipates making over one million dollars in cuts.

Part-time working students are more likely to be on the Dean’s List as opposed to students working more than 20 hours each week, a recent study says.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Oct. 15 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.