Campus News

As UC Davis celebrates its centennial this week, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center will be conducting its own five days of events as it kicks off its annual Pride Week. As part of Pride Week, the LGBTRC and other affiliated groups will host a variety of events on campus geared toward promoting visibility, education and pride among both the LGBT and UC Davis communities.

Guests gathered at the brand new Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food ScienceonFriday morning to officially open the130,000square-foot center.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at6:10p.m.Times listed are according to the clock at the Oct.9meeting location,the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.

Acclaimed journalist and CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin visited the UC Davis campus on Oct. 10, giving two presentations. One was held in 126 Voorhies and the other was a public speech at Jackson Hall in the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

Transportation and Parking Services is holding its biannual bike auction Saturday morning at the new West Entry Parking Structure at the intersection of Hutchison and Dairy. Bicycles may be viewed from8to9a.m.The bidding will commence at9a.m.and last until each of the over425bikes are sold.

Chancellor LarryVanderhoef held his first quarterly brown bag chat for the2008-2009academic year on Wednesday in the Memorial Union to discuss the budget,the campus community book project and UC Davis‘ search for a new chancellor. “To say [the budget’s] sobering is probablyan understatement,” Vanderhoef said.

The iconic Budweiser Clydesdale team and wagon are on campus this week for an appearance at the grand opening of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Food and Wine Science today between10a.m.and12:30p.m.

UC Davis has always been known as a farm school,and now with faculty and staffworking towards establishing asustainable agriculture undergraduate major,it can further that reputation. “There is a big need to have a major that educates students broadly about agriculture,” said Mark Van Horn,director of Student Farm.“The major will combine the natural sciences and technology as well as the economic and social issues and how those combine to make the totality of agriculture.“

A severe lack of funding may soon render Shields Library obsolete, according to a recent report by the UC Davis Library Task Force. The library is currently on a flat budget – it receives the same funding on a yearly basis despite economic inflation and rising book costs.

The California Aggie Marching Band-uh! is on the defensive after details of a complaint filed by its faculty director were leaked to the media Monday. The Band-uh!’s faculty director, Thomas Slabaugh II, filed a sexual harassment complaint with the university in May after a series of “ridiculous, disturbing, and offensive” incidents, he wrote in a complaint published by The San Francisco Chronicle. Slabaugh, who is pursuing a doctorate in musical arts from the University of Washington, is on stress-leave from September through Nov. 8.

UC Davis formally broke ground on the $62 million Institute for Regenerative Cures on its Sacramento campus late September – the first such facility funded by the state in Northern California. The project is supported by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and will focus on team-oriented projects with the goal of discovering new methods to treat chronic diseases and injuries.

Robert Mondavi Institute Opening Friday Oct.10 10a.m.to12:30p.m. The formal grand opening of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science kicks off centennial week.The$73million complex near Interstate-80houses labs,classrooms and offices.Speakers at the event include members of the Mondavi family,Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi and Martin Yan ofYan Can Cook.