Campus News

The festivities for Black Family week ended Sunday with Stomp Fest, an annual stepping competition at UC Davis.

“Ladies and Gentlemen! Introducing, Fast, Furious and Foaming at the mouth, Bold, Blue and Bitchin’, it’s the Pride of the Regents of the University of California, the Spirit of the Davis campus, the California Aggie Marching Band-uh!”

The ASUCD budget hearings took place this weekend, starting Friday evening and concluding late Sunday night. The budget hearings allow for the ASUCD Senate to approve or make modifications to the over $10 million ASUCD budget. A wide variety of campus institutions, from the ASUCD Coffee House to the post office, receive funding in this way.

If you’ve ever dreamed of riding a bike by bouncing up and down on a seat, you’re in for a treat Tuesday.

California wine patriarch Robert Mondavi, one of the great modern-day benefactors of UC Davis, died Friday at his Napa Valley home. He was 94.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the May 15 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.

The more than 20,000 patient care technicians and service workers throughout the 10 campuses of the University of California system are prepared to take a strike vote after a 10-month impasse. The vote began Saturday and runs through Thursday concluding with a press conference the next day to announce the results.

UC Davis students are still feeling the aftershocks of Monday’s 7.9magnitude earthquake inChina’sSichuan province,but some have jumped into action to aid the relief efforts.

Same sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage, according to a Thursday ruling by theCalifornia State Supreme Court. Thecourt’s4-3decision strikes down previous laws defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

The 28thannualOutstanding Faculty and Staff Advisor Awards were given Wednesday to David Grenke,professor in thetheater and dancedepartment,and My Diem Nguyen,student affairs officer in the Asian Americanstudiesdepartment.

After three years of enrollment growth,the UC Davis Graduate School of Managementwill move its Bay AreaMaster of Business Administrationprogram for working professionals to a more permanent facility inBishopRanchBusinessPark inSan Ramon,Calif.onAug.1.

Health care and international relations will be the themes of next year’s campus and community book project. Tracy Kidder’s non-fiction work Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World was chosen by a panel on campus as the book that will be woven into courses across the disciplines at UC Davis.