Campus News

The UC Davis dinning commons have recently introduced a new nutrition-labeling method. It’s called the Happy, Healthy Apple rating system and it’s intended to promote student health by encouraging sensible food choices. The system ranks food on a scale of apples – not real apples, but cartooned apples. The apples are fire-hydrant red, markedly squat and have black beady eyes that complement their unyielding, Hollywood-white smiles. A green leaf and a slender stem also sit atop their head-bodies.

Editor’s Note: Every week, The Aggie will ask Annette Spicuzza UCD Police Chief the burning, sometimes incriminating, questions students often wonder. Here is this week’s installment. Q: Is it illegal to bike without shoes?

Plagiarism A sophomore was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for plagiarism.The student’s paper contained material copied from multiple sources and little original work.The student claimed she had submitted the wrong copy of the paper to the professor by accident,but this claim seemed highly unlikely since copied portions of the paper were purposely altered.In any case,students at UC Davis are responsible for all work submitted,intentionally or not,as long astheir names are on it.Due to the severity of copying,the student agreed to a sanction of15hours of community service,a plagiarism writing assignment with the Learning Skills Center and deferred separation until graduation.Deferred separation means that if a student is found in violationforan act of misconduct in the future,he or she would almost certainly be suspended or dismissed.

Lower Freeborn is how it’s spelled.But it’s often pronounced with a question mark at the end – “Lower Freeborn?” – by students struggling to find Campus Copies after their move downstairs. Campus Copies is just one of the ASUCD units forced to relocate for the2009-2010school year by the construction of the newASUCDCoffee House.Others are Campus Copies‘ partner,Classical Notes,which joins them in the Lower Freeborn maze,and the Post Office,which now resides in the Smith room on the second floor of the MU.

Every year,universities around the country are required to release the numbers of nine different categories of crime as a result of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.

Following a wildfire-filled summer that covered over336,000acres of California,the UC Davis Fire Department is doing its part to keep fires from becoming a problem here on campus. Monday marked the beginning of Fire Prevention Week,a national event sponsored by the National Fire Protection Association,said Kim Stephens,the fire prevention assistant for the UCDFD.

David Plouffe,campaign manager for Barack Obama,examined how election principles and strategies he oversaw can now shape the president’s approach to policy goals in a speech at the Mondavi Center Monday night. Plouffe addressed the consistent message and strategy – the “two pillars” in politics – that provided the campaign with the stability necessary to overcome external difficulties.

Bike theft: It happens to the best of us, and brings with it the crushing realization that the thief is somewhere in Davis enjoying your bike while you are stuck walking all the way to class. Statistically, bike theft on campus is on the rise. As of Sept. 29, the UC Davis Police Department received 38 bike theft reports in two weeks, more than the total reported thefts in the month of August.

California’s troubles are never far from the news today,and the consequences of these issues have begun to affect classrooms at the highest levels of public education. UC Davis students and professors participated in a walkout on the first day of class to protest the state’s budget decisions; however,some believe that the problems stretch much farther than cuts to education.

The thump from the techno-rock competed against the clamor from the distinctive party chit-chat; cheap plastic ping-pong balls were protected like a costly commodity; used red cups inexplicably vanished; close quarters quickly created close friends; spilled beer layered the floor,leaving a sticky tack indicative of only a long evening’s work. This was just another typical Friday night party in Davis.

With paper deadlines inching closer and midterms on the horizon,a perfectly healthy student making a trip to the health center might seem a bit pointless– but Student Health Services says it may be time to reconsider. The Student Health Center will be administering flu vaccinations this weekat the Memorial Union on Oct.7,8,and9.The cost for vaccination is$20,regardless of SHIP enrollment.

Janet Keyzer,a former UC Davis research coordinator,believes she was fired after she reported violations in her research group’s practices.In response,she is suing the UC regents. The lawsuitcomes after a lengthy18-month investigation conducted by theUniversity,which concluded that bothherand her husband’s2007terminations from their positions at UCDwere unrelated to her reporting of research improprieties.