On Oct. 7, 1955, at a student-run gallery in San Francisco called Six Gallery, a poet named Allen Ginsberg read a poem entitled “Howl” which ignited a series of stimulating shocks and ultimately, a movement known today as The Beat Generation.

Interesting fact: The name for this Irish trio came about when one of the band members mispronounced “Tudor Cinema,” the name of the local movie theater. This relatively lesser-known band has come out with a high-energy electropop/indie rock album that will keep you tuned in the whole way.

Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor is the mastermind behind the trippy, electronica-infused score of the geek-chic flick The Social Network. Fittingly, the harsh beats and seductive synths seem to have crawled right out of a computer. This score ain’t John Williams – though a few tracks feature typical piano themes, go ahead and break this baby out at your next dance party.

For all those people who still ache for the days when Maroon 5 had just released their brilliant first album, Songs About Jane, kiss those heartaches goodbye! Okay, well maybe not goodbye, but the sultry rock band’s new album, Hands All Over, is a definite improvement from their second album, even if nothing will ever compete with that first album’s unparalleled success. Hands All Over goes back to a more melodic, acoustic direction, much like their first album.

Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) received 1,053 cases – 549 involved alleged violations of the Code of Academic Conduct and 504 addressed alleged social misconduct. The primary source of referral for academic misconduct was cheating on an exam with 255 reports. There were 225 reports of plagiarism and 26 cases of unauthorized collaboration.

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS: Kero One; Donnie Darko: Free Screening; Los Lobos

TODAY: Disney Theme Parks and Resorts Internships Info Session; Meat Lab Sale; Student Services and Fees Administrative Advisory Committee Meeting; American Red Cross Club First General Meeting.

Could a bag of chicken scraps help protect an endangered species? The answer is yes.

In early September, Ryosuke Motani stood in Anhui Province, China at the foot of a cliff called Turtle Mountain, watching a backhoe scrape part of the mountain’s precious fossil record into dust. The cliff is part of a limestone mine that is the center of the local economy, but it also happens to house one of the world’s richest deposits of ichthyosaur fossils. Motani, a UC Davis professor of paleontology, visited the province last month on a twofold mission: to excavate fossils, and to petition local governments to conserve sites like this one.

Thirty-six million years ago, in the land of modern-day Peru, lived a five-foot tall penguin. Scientists announced on Friday the discovery of Inkayca paracacensis, a flightless seabird that makes today’s emperor penguins look shrimpy. Fossils of the giant penguin show that it had twice the body mass of an emperor penguin and a pointy beak about 23 centimeters long.

Who to watch: UC Davis has been looking for a second scoring threat to compliment the play of Lance Patterson. Freshman forward Nick Grigoriev might be poised to fill the role.

Davis’ reputation as the most bike friendly city in the United States can now tack world record on to its growing list of honorary bike-related titles.