Davis is a wonderful community with a vibrant downtown scene and diverse residents. As fall approaches, our green town is covered by dry leaves of all colors and sorts.

For a community that puts a large emphasis on doing its part in reducing carbon emissions and furthering a green lifestyle, Davis will host an environmentally-conscious event that hopes to raise funds for ecological conservation.

Who to watch: The Aggie coaching staff always knew Dre Allen and Jonathan Perkins were going to be good football players.

Who to watch: Sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Sawvelle has been instrumental in the Aggies’ success this season.

During a recent trip to Spain, Chancellor Linda Katehi examined the possibilities of putting a UC Davis satellite campus in the Spanish capital.

Proposition 23 is an attempt to shut down California’s landmark climate change legislation.

This past summer, UC Davis took another step toward promoting environmental sustainability by implementing an edible garden.

Generally speaking, my parents and I get along. My political existence is admittedly the crossroads at which their respective ideologies meet. I find it difficult to find gaping chasms in life perspective with the people who taught me to tie my shoes (by shopping Velcro). Our ideologically symbiotic activity aside, however, there is one issue that comprises the meat of the debate between the walls of the Rottman household. We disagree fervently on the role of student activism and protest in modern American politics.

From the beginning, Mark “Stew” Stewart’s musical career was destined to be anything but typical.

A very prominent feature of the California gubernatorial race has been money, and not in the usual sense of campaign fundraising and expenditures. As in, who has it – lots of it.

Krystal Ball, a 28-year-old democratic congressional candidate in Virginia, has made headlines this past week because photos of her at age 22 were released on a blog (a completely unbiased and respectable one I’m sure). In these photos she is dressed as a kinky, pirate, Santa Claus leading around her then-husband on a leash with a dildo strapped to his nose. In some pictures she mimes rubbing the dildo-nose, and in others she pretends to fellate the dildo-nose. Even one of her girlfriends got some dildo-nose action in another photo (this last point is not as relevant I guess but I’m having too much fun with the phrase \

Though he is known for having a folk sound carried by guitars and gentle vocals, Sufjan Stevens mixes electronic into his 10th album. His use of synths and drum machines makes certain tracks sound more “artificial” than what many of his loyal listeners may be accustomed to. In addition, his former whisper has evolved to louder singing in order to keep pace with more frenetic instrumentals. Still, with song names like “Impossible Soul” and “Futile Devices,” the Detroit native’s latest album adheres to his gold standard of lyrical impeccability.