Entering the second half of Big West Conference play, the Aggies wanted a big win to gain much needed momentum.

Big time conferences don’t scare the Aggies.

Last Friday Chancellor Linda Katehi publicly launched The Campaign for UC Davis at the Mondavi Center for performing arts, aiming to raise one billion dollars in philanthropic support from 100,000 donors by 2014.

Davis nightlife has a mix of new and familiar places for the after hours crowd. While well-known bars like Sudwerk and Little Prague continue their popular karaoke nights and dollar drink specials, recently opened venues infuse new energy into the city’s nightlife.

UC Davis has introduced the world’s most sustainable winery and brewery, meeting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 48 hours, the San Francisco Giants have won the National League Pennant.

UC Davis needed a goal-scorer.

Claudean Medlock, a 54-year-old woman of Carmichael, Calif., allegedly embezzled around $46,000 during her time as the executive director of Yolo County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). Medlock is being charged with grand theft.

South Alabama just doesn’t know how to lose.

With the October air ripe for all sorts of fun and mischief, one needs to look no further than Yolo County to get their fill.

The quest for Basisdemokratie, that is, democracy from the base or grassroots, lives on in Austria, as students celebrated the one-year anniversary of the “Uni brennt” protest this past weekend in Vienna. Inspired partly by our own University of California walkout in September 2009, students at the University of Vienna took over their largest lecture hall, called the “Audimax” (short for “Auditorium Maximum”), on Oct. 22, 2009 and stayed there for two months.

I’m doing a Google search on “Proposition 19 flawed” and I’m scrolling through 815,000 results of opinion columns and newspaper headlines. There are some impressive lines flying at my face.