You know that city-mouse/country-mouse story? Well, I feel like country-mouse right now. I’ve been interning this quarter in Washington, D.C. – a bustling city 2,388 miles from dear old Davis. Traveling across this city has made me realize that I take a huge part of modern life for granted. There’s a great invention that makes it possible for me to travel underground on the subway and take an elevator 20 floors above street-level. This technology is concrete. It’s the gray, coarse, wonderful material we build our lives on.

So a week ago, I had the fortune and misfortune of going to the Passion Pit concert at Freeborn Hall. You’re probably wondering how it’s possible for something to be fortunate and unfortunate at the same time. To sum it up: The music was great, but I got stuck in front of the biggest asshole in all of UC Davis.

Fifteen pages of plagiarism A first-year international student from Korea was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for obvious plagiarism on a major paper. The student admitted to plagiarizing every word, sentence and idea in the 15-page political science paper. She stated that because this was her first quarter at UC Davis, she wasn’t ready to write such a lengthy paper because English isn’t her primary language. The student accepted the sanctions of Disciplinary Probation for one year, 15 hours of community service, and completion of an online plagiarism exercise.

Campus Copies, an on-campus copy shop, has recently received a lot of attention from ASUCD. Members of ASUCD are trying to promote business in order to get clients such as professors and students to move from other places to Campus Copies. “We offer better quality and cheaper services that are more accessible to students and professors,” said Chelsea Tabke, Campus Copies director and senior sociology and psychology double major. Campus Copies, which offers usual services including printing, FedEx, binding and lamination, has a budget of $160,000 funded by ASUCD.

TODAY ASUCD Paint-A-Pot and Sustainable Eating 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Quad Paint a pot with the EPPC Commission for Earth Week. Free Movie Screening: A Matter of Size 7 p.m. 205 Olson Join Hillel of Davis and Sacramento as they present a screening of A Matter of Size. Free Movie Screening: For the Bible Tells Me So 8 p.m. 194 Chemistry Watch a progressive documentary on Christian families who have gay children and reinterpretations of biblical scripture used to marginalize the gay community. Brought to you by Belfry.