Kyle Mihaylo is a hero. He doesn’t wear a cape or fight crime. He can’t fly or read minds. What he can do, however, is rake.

If Morgan Langille had his way, scientists could access the entire sequence of human DNA at the click of a mouse.

Davis, as both a civic community and a campus, is often thought of as a progressive area for those interested in making sure food is grown organically, humanely and justly.

THURSDAY: It’s like walking through the Quad; Must be the son of a preacher man; Blame Canada

Whether commencement is on the horizon or you’re on the lookout for a summer job, students should keep in mind that networking is a key ingredient in finding success during the hunt for employment. “Networking itself is a skill, like anything else,” said Lisa Sanders, an Internship and Career Center program coordinator. “80 percent of jobs are found through networking. By definition, networking equals job search.”

To the UC Davis Community: It has been a little over two weeks since our campus announced what has truly been one of the most difficult and painful decisions of my short tenure at UC Davis – discontinuing four of UC Davis’ 27 intercollegiate sports as the campus continues to struggle through an unprecedented financial crisis.

In the next few weeks, UC Davis students may have the chance to vote on two referendums declaring no confidence in both UC President Mark Yudof’s leadership and the management of the UC Regents. This vote will more accurately reflect student sentiment on the issues, and will effectively utilize ASUCD’s decision-making ability.

Life is the dancer, and you are the dance. You make it up as you go along. Every step, every jump and every chassé is of your doing. But you cannot define yourself by any one movement. To do so would box you into an existence that is limited by the parameters of your own self-definition.

Three supervisors in the county of Santa Clara have decided that food choices are too important to be left up to parents. Because average, adult citizens simply cannot see the insidious link between junk food, obesity and toys, a small group of enlightened supervisors have decided to protect and educate us by mandating the removal of toys from fast food meals.

I don’t really get what’s going on in Arizona. The New York Times referred to the new law passed less than two weeks ago as the “U.S.’s Toughest Immigration Law,” which would give police broad rights to detain anyone who looks, dresses or acts like an illegal immigrant and doesn’t have the papers to show otherwise. President Obama gave us a wonderfully unjust picture of detained housewives last week when saying in reference to the law, “suddenly, if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re going to be harassed.”

Davis City Council candidates expressed their views regarding environmental concerns in and around Davis at last week’s City Council Environmental Forum. The Sierra Club Yolano Group hosted the discussion.

A growing number of public universities graduates will owe over $35,000 in student loans. According to a College Board and Advocacy Center (CBAC) study released on April 26, 12 percent of students who received bachelor’s degrees from public schools during the 2007- 2008 school year left with a $35,000 burden. Seventeen percent of all graduates from private non-profit and for-profit schools incurred the largest amount of debt.