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 as their names are on it. Due to the severity of copying, the student agreed to a sanction of 15 hours 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 violation for an 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 the 2009-2010 school year by the construction of the new ASUCD Coffee 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 over 336,000 acres 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.