Watch out Aggies,there’s a new sheriff… well,officer in town. Officer Ralph Nuno of the UC Davis Police Department began patrolling campus grounds for all bicycle related offenses this Monday.

Facebook.Don’t even pretend that you’re not into it.Several hours of your week are probably dedicated to wasting time on this ridiculous,yet somehow simultaneously amazing,networking system.And it’s not just stalking friends or reading updates about how “Jen is currently eating homemade coleslaw while wearing her new underwear.“

Football Former UC Davis defensive tackle John Faletoese has agreed to a free-agent contract with the Buffalo Bills while offensive guard Jonathan Compas has done the same with the Oakland Raiders. Both players earned All-America and All-Great West Conference honors for the Aggies during the2008season while also serving as team captains.

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.