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.

Who to watch: Coming off singles and doubles wins last Wednesday, Herzyl Legaspi did not earn any marks against Portland.

From sixth-graders to high school seniors, many Davis students played for their own cause on March 27.

Who to watch: As a freshman, Michelle Espiritu started in 34 of the 45 games in which she played.

This Saturday and Sunday, over 200 relay teams will walk around a track for 24 hours straight, collectively staying awake and active throughout the Relay For Life walk to reflect the idea that “cancer never sleeps.”

Efforts to reform California’s primary election system have been resuscitated with Sen. Abel Maldonado’s (R-Santa Maria) Proposition 14, which will appear on the June 8 ballot.

THURSDAY: It’s a bird, a plane…

Teenagers may be night owls, but according to new research by a UC San Diego assistant professor, those hours out of bed each night may be turning more teens into weed users.

I’m sure that by now many of you have read or heard something about the gravity of the financial problems at UC Davis and the potential impact on the Intercollegiate Athletics program. In recent weeks, hundreds of students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends of the university have contacted me to express their heartfelt concern for particular sports programs or for the future of Intercollegiate Athletics overall. I’ve also had numerous meetings with internal constituent groups. I appreciate your interest and your concern, and I want everyone in the UC Davis community to understand that I feel and hear your worry and distress.