Without beer,many would say college life would be different. Charles Bamforth,author of the new third edition ofBeer:Tap into the Art and Science of Brewingwould take it a step further and say that life itself would be incomplete without this popular drink.

For the second weekend in a row,the UC Davis baseball team faced off against nationally ranked Big West Conference competition. For the second weekend in a row,the Aggies left play on the wrong side of a three-game sweep.

I‘ve got beef with you,Internet.Everyone seems to be mighty impressed by your whole“heralding in the Information Age“ bull,but I can see right through the shenanigans.The truth is,you fail.Internet,here are10things I hate about you:

Who doesn’t love constant assessment? Despite the endless fits of whining you’ll likely hear from your ill-prepared peers during the next few weeks of midterms,the answer is nobody.Everyone has their own way of showing it,but deep down inside we all share that desire to grade,or be graded by,someone other than ourselves.

A combination of a lack of both hitting and clutch pitching was UC Davis‘ undoing this weekend,as it saw its opponent come back in four out of five games to hand the Aggies a0-5record over the weekend.

Being an English major, I’m familiar with drafts: rough drafts, first drafts, final drafts. People are like that too – we all start out a complete mess but through things like school, parents and friends, we learn. Other people can grow through us too, and now everyone’s just a clusterf*ck of self-betterment.

Wine making has a new home at UC Davis after twelve acres of vineyard were planted next to the Robert Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science on Wednesday. The teaching vineyard will be used by undergraduate and graduate students in the viticulture and enology department to help familiarize them with the process of grape harvesting from beginning to end and to workwith a vineyard in each season.

A UC Davis student could spend$25at the movie theater on a ticket,artery-clogging popcornand a jumbo soda.The same student could also send that$25as an overseas loan to help kick start a business in Tajikistan.Not only is the money eventually repaid,but there is zero risk of heart attack.

A plan to route a new set of power lines through Yolo County has sparked anger among a numberoffarmers and residents. The Transmission Agency of Northern California,or TANC,has proposed the construction of600miles of new power lines in Northern California.The TANC Transmission Project (TTP) would transmit energy from renewable sources in Lassen County throughout Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.

The animal rights activist group Stop Animal Exploitation Now recently purchased airtime on several TV stations in California in order to make a strong point about the California National Primate Research Center.The commercial contends that the research center,which is affiliated with several UC campuses including UC Davis,allegedly perpetuates practices that needlessly torture the primates being used at the center.

UC Davis officials trumpeted the news proudly the week before Picnic Day– “Safe Party Initiative cuts students‘ high-risk drinking,” read a story in the Sacramento Bee. “Report:Binge drinking declines,” read another in the Davis Enterprise. If you had only read the headlines,you might have thought UC Davis students had given up hard drinking altogether,trading in those ubiquitous red Solo cups for bluebooks and#2pencils.

In what appears to be a silver lining to the economic troubles facing the city,Davis is set to receive a big chunk of change from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,the federal stimulus bill passed earlier this year.