Imagine this scenario: You’re hungry and you wish you had a burger, sandwich or a hot dog to eat. To spice up your story, you’re in the middle of nowhere, you’re dying of starvation and you’re a moron. Let me add that only a moron would be starving and unprepared in the middle of nowhere (like the moron from Into the Wild).

Watch your language!; A case of mistaken “identification”; Wrong form.

TODAY: East Quad Farmers Market; Camp Adventure Information Session; Flu Vaccination Clinic.

Studio 301 is throwing a party, and everyone is invited.

The weather has gotten colder, classes are getting busier and it’s the time of year when it feels like every other person is sneezing and coughing all over you. Cold season is upon Davis once again, and with a few preventative measures, it’s possible to make it through without a single sneeze.

UC Davis alumnus Harris Lewin is returning to campus as the new Vice Chancellor of Research. Lewin finished his doctorate at UC Davis in 1984 and went on to become a researcher and faculty member at the University of Illinois for the past 26 years. Lewin’s annual base salary will be $370,000, compared to previous Vice Chancellor Barry Klein’s salary of $237,400.

UC Davis’ WarnMe emergency alerting service will be put to the test on Thursday just before noon.

UC officials announced yesterday that they’ve reached an agreement with the University Professional and Technical Employees union (UPTE) on a new labor contract.

Representatives with United Auto Workers 285 were scheduled to meet with the UC bargaining committee on Oct. 27 in Los Angeles. However, UC representatives did not attend in any official capacity, said Molly Ball, UAW representative at UC Davis.

In recent weeks, college students across California have been inundated with TV, radio, and Internet ads in the governor’s race. Young people have come to understand how their votes on Nov. 2 will influence higher education funding and whether California will properly prepare their generation for the new global economy. But what they might not realize is the significance of one ballot proposition that may very well have a larger impact on education than the result of the governor’s race: Proposition 25 is actually the most important vote for students.

They say big things come in small packages.

Animal testing is often justified through utilitarianism, which states that the suffering of the few is worth the gain of the many. This is the stance taken by the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), and it is ethically unjustified.