When the economy gets tough,students apply to graduate school. In the midst of this year’s recession,Educational Testing Services (ETS) has reported an8percent increase in students taking the Graduate Record Examination,or GRE,compared to2008figures. Historically,students opt for graduate school after graduation in recession years,said ETS spokesperson Mark McNutt.

Ernesto Sandoval knows his plants.From theAmorphophallus titanium to the CucumberTree,the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory is a plethora of plants for Sandoval to study. What is your occupation? I am director of the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory.Kind of like the head librarian at a library of living plants. What do you do at the conservatory? I supervise and manage a cadre of interns,student employees,volunteersand part-time staff.I make a lot of the decisions of what to transplant,propagateand otherwise manipulate as well as when,how and how many.

TODAY Campus Judicial Board Sno-Cones 10a.m.to2p.m. MU Patio CJB and Student Judicial Affairs will be giving out free sno-cones in front of the MU for all who attend.Chill out before finals,and don’t cheat! East Quad Farmers Market 10a.m.to2:30p.m. East Quad Support local farmers and buy some fresh produce,nuts,flowers and more! Pick up some tasty treats for a fun springtime dinner or a nice afternoon snack. Take the real food taste test 11a.m.to1p.m. ASUCD Coffee House Stop by and taste some real food!

090527_fe_stratton.cNotes:Make headline italicsHeadline: Channeling the chancellorLayercake: Maril Stratton to play critical role in acquainting new chancellorBy LAUREN STEUSSYAggie Staff Writer The pens on Maril Revette Stratton’s desk are parallel and the pencils are sharpened. Stratton is ready for work. She walks to her file cabinet, where folders are no doubt labeled alphabetically and chronologically and […]

Barry Bonds.Shawne Merriman.Alex Rodriguez.Marion Jones.The list goes on,and so too does the ethical debate that surrounds athletes and their use of performance enhancing drugs.In the shadows of this ever-evolving controversy,though,lies an ethically similar but contextually different issue:“brain doping.“ Last year,as an April Fools‘ joke,a faux-press release by The National Institutes of Health (NIH) circulated the Internet.It stated that there were new initiatives to combat the use of brain enhancing drugs.The World Anti-Brain Doping Authority (WABDA) was to enforce the set of regulations among scientists.

In case you guys haven’t figured it out yet,classes are over in eight days.For those of you who aren’t graduating,you still have at least one more wonderful year to experience the greatness that is Davis and absorb everything college has to offer.For those of you who are graduating,thank goodness we’re almost out of here.I mean,Davis was great and all,but I’m so tired of school right now,I can barely make myself sit through the rest of my classes. In any case,I learned a lot here.I’m not just talking about what I got out of my classes.Although,if we’re being honest,a lot of what I spent the last four years learning and writing papers about really isn’t useful in real world situations.At least I have some interesting cocktail conversation.

UC Davis standout Alice Kim,who capped her impressive season with an eighth-place finish at this week’s NCAA Division I Championship,has been named an All-America honorable mention by the National Golf Coaches Association. In addition to her All-America honor,Kim was named to the All-West Region team as the UC Davis sophomore established her name among collegiate golf’s elite players.The awards announcements were made during the awards banquet following the championship at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills,Md.

If you’ve ever wondered how much any UC Davis employee makes, it’s your right to know. The California Public Records Act mandates it. To view compensation information, one must go to Shields Library and go to the reserves desk. The data is available in three bound books as well as on CD. Books for each campus are available in one library on that campus.

UC Davis senior Shanna Wagner has Type I diabetes.Rather than accept her situation,she decided to do something about it. Wagner decided to help in the battle against diabetes by leading the Diabetes Dash at UC Davis,a two mile run/walk set to take place at the Arboretum on Sunday,May31at10a.m.The money raised will be donated to the UC Davis Medical Center for endocrinology research.

UC Davis student Joshua Rottman and roughly15,000other students nationwide have recently filed a class-action lawsuit after paying for a special presidential inauguration travel package and allegedly not receiving what they were promised.The Virginia-based company,Envision EMI,organized a Congressional Youth Leadership Council program that promised opportunities for students to “bear witness as thepresidentof the United States is sworn into office,” “meet White House officials,congressional staff,political experts,and more,” and “experience the sights and sounds of a jubilant nation during the Inaugural Parade and a Black Tie Gala Inaugural Ball,” according to advertising materials from Envision.

Every day we are bombarded with ambition-probing questions forcing us to think about our future lives in the “real” world.These questions are usually intended to be facilitators of harmless conversation,but they often cause us to develop misconceived notions of success. Well,these questions can come in a variety of forms.

People take the ability to read and write for granted,assuming everyone can,but the evidence suggests that it shouldn’t be. Twenty percent of Yolo County is considered functionally illiterate,according to theYolo County Library Servicesand Facilities Master Plan2002to2006.