There will be important decisions to make in Davis come June 8 when Davis residents vote on an item on the ballot called Measure R. Measure R extends an already existing law Measure J until 2020. The ordinance has a critical role in determining how private contractors and real estate companies conduct business in Davis. Measure J originally passed in 2000 with a 53.6 percent majority of voters behind it.

Since cancer never sleeps, neither did over 2,000 UC Davis students this Saturday for 24 hours at the annual Relay for Life. Held at Aggie Stadium for the first time, UC Davis holds its own with the biggest college campus with participant and fundraising turnout.

Four hundred people from approximately 20 tribes across the western United States gathered Saturday at the ARC Pavilion for the 38th annual UC Davis Powwow.

Just over a month after returning to Earth, UC Davis alumnus and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Stephen Robinson visited his alma mater for last Friday’s College of Engineering’s Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The UC Davis astronaut graduated in 1978 with a dual Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical and mechanical engineering. He has flown on four missions and logged 19.8 million miles in space.

The Aggies traveled to Colorado this weekend for a pair of games against Denver and Regis. One game was a little more favorable than the other. UC Davis fell to Mountain Pacific Sports Federation rival Denver 17-7 to open up the road trip. The Aggies followed up the loss by crushing Division II Regis 18-3.

The city of Davis Human Relations Commission is accepting nominations for the 2010 Thong Hy Huynh awards to showcase local human and civil rights activists’ successes. The award was established to commemorate the life of Davis Senior High School student Thong Hy Huynh, who was stabbed to death in a racially motivated dispute on the Davis Senior High School campus in 1983.

I love you. Yes, you – I love you. For many reasons, I fall more in love with this job every week. But I love it most when you – my precious readers – send me e-mails. Minus the occasional hate mail, every e-mail tugs at my heartstrings and makes me feel great knowing that you’re all enjoying and supporting what I have to say.

Justin Schafer can rest a little easier – for now. That’s because his UC Davis baseball team, which won a total of 13 games all of last year, has already surpassed that total with 14 this year – and we’re only midway through the season.

Sometimes we ask for really dumb things. A week-and-a-half ago, the beginning of baseball season was right around the corner – and so was the real beginning of the term. An avalanche of assignments, readings, band gigs and a million other obligations were thundering down Mount Quarter System. But all I wanted was to watch baseball.

If there were one word to sum up UC Davis baseball, it would be resilient. After being swept in a three-game series at Cal State Fullerton by a combined score of 46-13, the Aggies rebounded by taking two out of three from a tough Long Beach State squad. “We needed to get back on the right track and win this series,” coach Rex Peters said. “It turned out that we played well enough to get two wins. [The Dirtbags] have a pretty good program with a pretty good tradition so I’m happy with it after getting banged around last weekend.”

ASUCD Senate Meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the April 8 meeting location, the MU Mee Room. Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m Jack Zwald, ASUCD president, present, left early Previn Witana, ASUCD vice president, present

The Aggies experienced a little bit of everything this past weekend. They went through a tough loss, a dominant win and a rainout. The weekend began on Friday with UC San Diego. The contest was close from the beginning.