Campus News

Using unauthorized material during an exam

Two students reported a fellow classmate to Student Judicial Affairs for using unauthorized material during an exam. When questioned by a SJA officer, the classmate admitted to using his notes, but claimed he was simply using them to check the spelling of some words. Because this was not the student's first offense, the student agreed to delayed graduation, deferred dismissal and community service. Deferred dismissal means that if the student is again found in violation of any kind of academic misconduct, he would likely be dismissed from the university.

A recent report by UC Berkeley researchers delves inside the Law School Admissions Test, examining its effectiveness and possible new testing methods. The LSAT is currently used to predict a student's academic success in their first year of law school, but does not predict future success in the profession as an attorney. The study aims to find tools to design a test that would assess professional effectiveness more comprehensively.

You can hardly recall what life was like before the Internet, you text-message at a fervent pace and you probably remember exactly where you were the moment the World Trade Center towers fell.

Professor Jay Mechling of the American studies department will give a lecture on the generation that fits this description - the Millennials, born between 1982 and 2000.

UC Board of Regents to meet in San Francisco

UC San Francisco's Mission Bay campus will host the UC Regents' three-day set of meetings beginning today. The regents will meet in closed session to receive updates on the university's legal issues followed by an open session meeting to consider budget, environmental and design approvals.

The Panhellenic Council sponsored a self-defense seminar last week in Freeborn Hall for hundreds of sorority sisters with an instructor who turned out to be a con artist.

David Portnoy, also known as Dave Parker, contacted the Panhellenic Council and offered to put on a free safety seminar for women. Last Monday, 80 percent of all eight Panhellenic sororities were required to attend the seminar.

The ASUCD Elections Committee announced on Friday afternoon that Danny Garrett, Mo Torres, Justin Patrizio, Laura Pulido, Jack Zwald and Erin Lebe have been chosen as ASUCD's newest senators, representing the student body from fall 2008-2009.

Dan Barker, a former preacher who has become an outspoken atheist, told his story to over 300 members of the campus community on Friday night.

Scholars gathered in a forum at UC Davis on Thursday evening to discuss Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and its relevance to the present-day economic crisis.

Eric Rauchway, director of the Center for History, Society and Culture and UC Davis professor, said the discussion was inspired by the media's sudden interest in the New Deal.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Nov. 13 meeting location, the Memorial Union's Mee Room.

The Community Outreach Club (COC) and sorority Lambda Omicron Xi (LOXi) are hosting a dance party tonight at the Silo known simply as GLOW - "Give Life to Our World."

GLOW is a charity event aimed at spreading awareness about the environment and renewable energy to local and global communities.

The UC Davis Agnostic and Atheist Student Association (AgASA) will host well-known atheist activist and speaker Dan Barker at 6 p.m. today in 123 Science Lecture.

A former evangelical preacher of 19 years, Barker will discuss his recent book Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists. His lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer session with audience members as well as a book-signing.

UC Davis' California Raptor Center will hold its free open house Saturday between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., featuring a "Hawk Walk," special presentations, museum tour and self-guided tours of the center.

"The open house is a method to bring the people from the outside who would not likely go the Raptor Center," said Jo Cowen, head of the education department for the center.

Eight cattle paraded across the highway near Antioch this May causing a traffic jam that lasted close to four and a half hours.

When the fire department arrived, the lights and sounds spooked the cattle into scattering and running for their lives into Interstate 680. Four out of the eight cattle were shot multiple times by the highway patrol officers and the sheriff's department.

Submitting another student's work as one's own

A plant sciences professor referred a student for submitting her friend's essay as her own. In a prior administration of the class, the friend earned very high marks for a paper on sugarcane growth. Knowing that this year's essay prompt was identical, the referred student asked to see her friend's essay for reference, and then copied the essay verbatim, submitting it as her own work. She admitted to wrongdoing and agreed to a one-quarter suspension, counseling with CAPS and a time management workshop with the Learning Skills Center. Because the student had prior violations on file, she was also sanctioned to Deferred Dismissal, meaning a subsequent academic violation would lead to dismissal from the university.

It's time to say a little prayer for the Bike Church, parishioners.

The non-profit bicycle co-op has offered do-it-yourself training workshops and used bike parts for the Davis community for nearly five years. However, due to several breaches in university regulations, Student Housing has evicted the church from its location next to the domes sustainable living area.