This Sunday, be ready with a picnic blanket, some friends and a healthy appetite for music when the Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom music concert, sponsored by KDVS 90.3 FM, descends on Plainfield Station in rural Woodland.

The time it takes states to restore deep cuts has grown longer in the last 20 years, according to a study presented at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting at the beginning of May.

On Wednesday afternoon, we witnessed the rally that was held at the Vanderhoef Quad and Conference Center. And why not? With the recent, sudden and unannounced cutting of four lesser sports, the committee in charge failed miserably in every way – including the use of faulty guidelines, and an even more faulty interpretation of these guidelines.

In the wake of budget shortfalls on campus, UC Davis recently received the good news that the English as a Second Language program will not be outsourced to community colleges or a University Extension.

Last weekend’s ASUCD budget hearings allowed members of the student government to discuss and close the budgets of over 25 units and commissions.

I was maliciously tackled with a by-the-day graduation countdown recently. As you can imagine, this severely annihilated my ability to pretend this isn’t my antepenultimate. But it ain’t mourning time yet, so sit the hell down.

Integrity in sponsorship is a big deal. When the news of Tiger Woods’ lustful debauchery reached the public, sponsors like Tag Heuer and Gillette rightly dropped him from their billboards. And in the end, nobody really cared.

Watering holes fascinate me. They’d probably fascinate you too, if you ever found yourself out of your gourd at some odd hour of the morning listening to David Attenborough break down the balances of life on Earth. Funny that these delicate inter-species relationships often involve some reptilian colossus crushing and drowning the weakest animal it can find. That’s what it looks like to me, anyway. But I’m an English major, so what do I know.

It is beyond me why many conservative thinkers still give Arizona’s SB 1070 a free pass. The Republican Party is so terrified of the specter of brown immigrants, and so deluded as to the superiority of state power over federal, that its members are willing to support the legalization of racist and totalitarian measures.

Local city and county officials as well as staff have worked for nearly two years on a 10-year plan entitled, “One Piece at a Time: Ending and Preventing Homelessness in Yolo County.” The plan targets local resources to address the root causes of homelessness within the county.

A recent study by the UC Davis Medical Center has shown that boys and minority children are more likely to develop worse symptoms as a result of H1N1.

Who to watch: If there was one player that the Aggies relied on offensively, it would be David Popkins. The sophomore, who hails from San Diego, Calif., added to his impressive numbers on Tuesday as he went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a run scored against Nevada.