In a season marred by injuries, the men’s basketball team had to adapt to new lineups throughout the season. One thing that never changed was center Dominic Calegari.

Junior wrestler Barrett Abel had a strong junior season on the mat as he finished No. 14 in the country and won the Aggies’ first individual Pac-10 title since 2007 at the 149-pound slot. This feat cashed Abel’s ticket to his second straight national championship tournament.

Not only is Katie Yamamura the first UC Davis freshman to break the 39-point barrier in the all-around, she is also the first Aggie to pass that mark more than once. After winning the floor exercise (9.750) and placing second both on balance beam (9.600) and in the all-around (38.575) in her college debut, Yamamura was named the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Gymnast of the Week for the first time. She received the same accolades three more times throughout the season – Feb. 9, Mar. 16 and 23.

There’s dominance and then there’s Paige Mintun. The junior out of Valley Center, Calif. was rewarded for her stellar performance when she was named to the All-Big West Conference first team for the second consecutive year. “People might not know how difficult it is to win that award once, let alone twice in two years,” said coach Sandy Simpson.

So I was standing in line at SaveMart, buying my usual DiGiorno pizza, when I saw a Cosmopolitan magazine. Of course, there was some half-naked woman on the cover looking at me like I was a DiGiorno pizza. What made it even more uncomfortable was the fact it was Lady Gaga. (I think I’m the only person on the face of the Earth that hasn’t gone gaga over Gaga. Her outfits are stupid and her songs bug me. What the hell is a disco stick? Why don’t you just turn off your phone when you’re at a club? What if I just dance and things aren’t okay?)

Everyone is going green. We’re buying hybrid cars and using canvas grocery bags to decrease our carbon footprint. We’re eating more locally grown food and installing energy efficient light bulbs. Go us! While many of us have changed the way we go about our daily lives, I bet you didn’t know you could green-ify your sex life, too. Yes, that’s right people. You can go green between the sheets.

Early ecologists thought plants were wimps. Sure, some plants have toxins or thorns, but most just sit there like wild salad bars. Plant passivity is the dark side of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. In a conflict between plant and herbivore, the caterpillar gets fat and the plant gets dead. Researchers at UC Davis, however, are studying plant responses to enemies like viruses and insects. It turns out plants are far from defenseless. They can fight off disease and even call in reinforcements. In the struggle for survival, every leaf is a battlefield.

False move A student was recently referred to Student Judicial Affairs for providing false information to a professor in an upper-division economics course. The sophomore told his professor that he had not submitted any work for the course and asked to be given a “No Work Submitted” grade for the class. The professor told the student that as long as he had not submitted any work, the NWS grade would be given. The professor then received an e-mail from a teaching assistant stating that the student had frantically e-mailed the TA and asked him to throw away a homework assignment that was submitted earlier in the quarter. The student admitted to providing false information during his informal meeting with an SJA officer and agreed to probation until winter 2011 and 15 hours of community service. Although this student was in an upper-division course and lied to a professor, his forthrightness and lack of prior offenses were taken into account when a sanction was decided upon.

TODAY UCD Women’s Rowing Erg Rally 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mrak Hall Courtyard ICA team eliminations due to budget cuts are in the making and your fellow students need your help! Help the women’s rowing team survive! Lambda Phi Epsilon Rush: Football and BBQ 4 to 7 p.m. Oxford Park Play football and eat some BBQ with the brothers. Dive: Living Off America’s Waste 5:10 p.m. 179 Chemistry Watch Jeremy Seifert’s documentary about the ugly truth of waste in America.