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When UC Davis professor Dr. Andy Jones showed up to give a poetry presentation at Marguerite Montgomery School Tuesday morning he was able to travel light - courtesy his iPad. The iPad could be an important aspect of the classroom in the near future, Jones said.

After a cold and rainy start to the week, UC Davis students can celebrate the return of warm weather at the annual opening of the Rec Pool this Saturday at noon. A Davis fixture for over 30 years, the Rec Pool attracts hundreds of students and community members on a typical weekday said Janna Tolla, aquatics assistant director for campus recreation.

You walk out the south exit of the CoHo after your second coffee of the day. You've had two classes, a bagel and an argument with your TA, and it's only 11:30. It's at this point when you realize the firestorm of youthful advocacy that is about to be unleashed upon you.

UC Davis and other University of California schools turned the heat on applicants as first-year student admissions have reached record lows this year. According to recently released data, UC Davis' first-year student admissions rate dipped to 44.5 percent this year, down from 52.4 percent two years ago. Other campuses, with the exception of UC Riverside and UC Merced, also witnessed admissions declines of 1 to 9 percent.

Fifteen pages of plagiarism A first-year international student from Korea was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for obvious plagiarism on a major paper. The student admitted to plagiarizing every word, sentence and idea in the 15-page political science paper. She stated that because this was her first quarter at UC Davis, she wasn't ready to write such a lengthy paper because English isn't her primary language. The student accepted the sanctions of Disciplinary Probation for one year, 15 hours of community service, and completion of an online plagiarism exercise.

Campus Copies, an on-campus copy shop, has recently received a lot of attention from ASUCD. Members of ASUCD are trying to promote business in order to get clients such as professors and students to move from other places to Campus Copies. "We offer better quality and cheaper services that are more accessible to students and professors," said Chelsea Tabke, Campus Copies director and senior sociology and psychology double major. Campus Copies, which offers usual services including printing, FedEx, binding and lamination, has a budget of $160,000 funded by ASUCD.

Local police have been attending ASUCD committee meetings since 2007 in order to communicate with students and residents about issues they may be having. But the real issue, committee members say, is getting students and residents to show up. Problems from the start

Older students might remember a time when they were freshmen and faculty still relied mainly on myucdavis.edu to make class materials available online.

The UC Davis Graduate School of Management is another step closer to breaking the glass ceiling.

Despite initial approval from ASUCD senate and a vote to override ASUCD President Jack Zwald's veto, an override to pass Senate Bill 53 - a bill now evoking controversy and dialogue - failed with a 7-5 vote.

One of UC's most influential officials will visit campus on Tuesday, giving staff and students an opportunity to air their grievances amidst recent cuts to athletics and other campus programs.

UC Davis decided to close four intercollegiate sports teams in trying to address an existing $1.4 million budget deficit and an additional $2.4 million fiscal hole for 2009 to 2010.

Presentations: Lee and members from the Outreach Assembly presented their strategies for involving first-year students in ASUCD.

Clear skies and warm weather graced Davis on Saturday as the community celebrated Picnic Day, a much-loved, 96-year-old campus tradition.

This weekend, five UC Davis students are choosing protesting over Picnic Day. Beginning today and concluding on Sunday, five UC Davis students will participate in the Farmworker Freedom March, a 22-mile march from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla. in protest against poor working conditions for farm laborers.