Campus News

Watch out Aggies,there’s a new sheriff… well,officer in town. Officer Ralph Nuno of the UC Davis Police Department began patrolling campus grounds for all bicycle related offenses this Monday.

The early bird gets the worm – or rather,in the case of this Saturday’s worm composting workshop,an entire pound of worms. Project Compost will host their spring worm-composting workshop at11a.m.near the tri co-ops,where attendants will receive a free bin with live worms.The worms are in limited supply,so early or on-time arrival will ensure a bin,organizers said.

An estimated20to25percent of American college women experience attempted or complete rape during their college years,according to the U.S.Department of Justice.This year’s “Take Back the Night” aims to attract more awareness toward sexual violence.

Without beer,many would say college life would be different. Charles Bamforth,author of the new third edition ofBeer:Tap into the Art and Science of Brewingwould take it a step further and say that life itself would be incomplete without this popular drink.

In theApr.27issue of The California Aggie,the article “UCD signs agreement with state public health department,” was incorrectly attributed as being written by Alysoun Bonde when in fact Erica Lee was the reporter and author.The Aggie regrets the error.

The ASUCD Court unanimously dismisseda complaint questioning the fairness of winter quarter’s ASUCD elections during a pre-hearingon Wednesday. Case46,between plaintiff Chris Ambriz and the ASUCD Elections Committee,centered on a voting malfunction in which the website went down for three and half hours during the election.The Elections Committee extended the voting period by an equal amount of time on Feb.20,the last day of the election.

Wine making has a new home at UC Davis after twelve acres of vineyard were planted next to the Robert Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science on Wednesday. The teaching vineyard will be used by undergraduate and graduate students in the viticulture and enology department to help familiarize them with the process of grape harvesting from beginning to end and to workwith a vineyard in each season.

In theApr.21issue of The California Aggie,the article “Budget cuts affect Spanish grad students” stated that graduate students are facing an increased workload with less funding.This point should be clarified to explain that it refers to their scholastic workload and not their teaching workload.Graduate students have less time to complete their degrees,but have not seen an increase in their teaching duties.The Aggie regrets the error.

UC Davis is teaming up with the California Department of Public Health in an effort to better encourage public health practice and education within the state.The university signed a no-cost,four-yearagreement with state public health officials earlier this month in what they hope will be a mutually beneficial relationship.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at6:10p.m.Times listed are according to the clock at theApr.23meeting location,the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.

Tuesday marked the start of aweek-long airing of a graphic television commercial on CNN,FOXNews and Animal planet in California portraying images of primates being abused at the California National Primate Research Center affiliated with UC Davis. The commercial,funded by Stop Animal Abuse Now,aims to halt what the group considers to be violations of federal law regarding issues of animal rights at the government-funded research center as well as similar centers at UCLA and UCSF.

Members of the Jewish community marched through the Quad yesterdayfor a “Walk to Remember” in honor of those lost during the Holocaust forYom Hashoah,Hebrew for “day of remembrance.” Approximately20people walked single file in silence,wearing all black.Some had signs on their chests and backs that read “Never Forget.“