Low voter turnout for ASUCD elections has been a conversation topic among student government types for a long time.It gets talked about each election season and is the reason nearly every senatorial candidate feels obligated to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about outreach.

TODAY Campus Judicial Board recruitment 2 to 3 p.m. Garrison Room, MU Check out this informational session for all students wishing to join the 2009-2010 Campus Judicial Board.

The Davis City Council will meet Tuesday at6:30p.m.in the Community Chambers at23Russell Blvd. The following are descriptions of selected agenda items the council will discuss at the meeting.To view the entire agenda and associated staff reports,visit cityofdavis.org.

I’ve always been jealous of those who rant.It may seem a strange thing to envy,but people who get passionate about a topic and then get annoyed,angry,and just lay into someoneseem so emotionally free.Granted,they may also be criminally unbalanced,but that’s a topic for another day.There’ve been times in my life I wish I had yelled or screamed; sometimes I wish I could be a royal bitch who just calls it like I see it.Alas,that’s not me.But as I began to work on this week’s column,I was determined that I too could be an effective ranter.

J.R.Best had a great idea. He would move to Japan,and start a sports camp for Japanese youth.It would be a cultural exchange– U.S.students could come and intern as camp counselors,while Japanese youth would have the opportunity to learn from Americans. In2005,Best,a UC Davis1979alumnus,turned that idea into a pilot project in Kiyosato,Japan,a small town in the mountains three hours west ofTokyo.

As some of you may have noticed by venturing totheaggie.orgthis past weekend,K.C.Cody now has two columns; his tried and true Informed Dissent,and a spiffy new advice column called Ask a Super-Senior. So,if you happen to find yourself in a social,moral or academic dilemma,or if you just want some general advice from a battle tested source,please send your intractable scenarios to eitherkccody@ucdavis.edu oreditor@theaggie.org and K.C.will be happy to make up a fake name for you and respond the following week.

UC Davis hit a record high for the number of applications from high school seniors and transfer students for fall 2009, with a 5.4 percent increase compared to fall 2008.

I’m nearing the end of my time here at UC Davis, and I realized this weekend while playing sloshball in Slide Hill Park that no one ever told me what to expect of this humble township when I first began this four five year adventure.

Anyone who has been in Davis during the summer knows it gets hot here. “The middle of summer in Davis isn’t the best time to stand out in the sun,” said Ruth Williams, president of Tree Davis, a nonprofit organization that planted 424 trees in Davis last year. And no right-minded UCD student takes a tree for granted as they race from one shaded sanctuary to the next on a sweltering August afternoon.

The stimulus package laboriously working its way through Congress has huge implications, both politically and economically, for our generation and for students especially.

Toastmasters group forms in South Davis Toastmasters International is looking for members to join its new chapter in South Davis, called the Davis Daytime Toastmasters. The new group is mostly beginning speakers who are eager to learn and help each other improve their speaking, said Ty Tadano in a press release. The group also includes […]

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