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.

And the Italian food critic is back,but not with a vengeance.Caffé Italia is a classic Davis joint with a great atmosphere,nestled next to I-80and across the street from the beloved In-N-Out.If you haven’t been here yet,you are in for a good time.

Photos,videos,contacts,banking informationand other information are oftenkept online in this day and age,butwhat happens to all of this when you pass away? This may be a morbid question,but new online sites claim to have a solution to this problem with their new services.

It looks like there will be one less mutant in Davis come the end of the month. The contest to determine which city “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” will premiere in came out negative for Davis, in favor of Tempe, Ariz. Though spokesperson for Twenty-first Century Fox Melinda Wood could not reveal the exact numbers, the race was very close, and the contest was “down to the wire.”

TODAY Business development fellows program info session Noon to1p.m. 245AOB IV Stop by to learn more about the UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship Business Development Fellows Program.This program is for UC Davis science and engineering graduate and post-doctoral students.