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Located in the barn next to the Silo, Outdoor Adventures has been guiding trips and renting outdoor equipment to the UC Davis community since 1972. Offerings range from rafting and sea kayaking to backpacking and rock climbing.

"We're one of the country's largest student-run outdoor education programs," said Danny Milks, the outreach coordinator of Outdoor Adventures.

A participant recites a poem during A March for Peace Justice and Equality at the Memorial Union last Thursday. The event was part of the week-long La Raza Cultural Days, put on by the Student Programs & Acivities Center to educate the public about social, cultural, and political issues facing the Chicano/Latino community.

A UC Davisresearchreported that pigs fed goat's milk modified with a human enzyme were better able to fend off E.coli bacteria than pigs fed unmodified goats' milk.

While theongoingresearch began in the 1990s, it has just been recently published in the May issue of Journal of Nutrition.

This Saturday, Transportation and Parking Services will be hosting their bi-annual bicycle auction at the West Entry Parking Structure starting at 8a.m.

Viewing of the 450-plus bikes will be from 8 to 9 a.m., and will be followed by bidding at 9a.m.,which generally ends around1p.m., said David Takemoto-Weerts, TAPS bicycle program coordinator.

Mark Woods, the first-year student accused of possessing explosives, pled not guiltyto two felony charges in Yolo County Superior Court on Apr.25.

Woods faces charges of possession of materials to make a destructive device without first obtaining a permit and possession of a destructive device on public property,said assistant district attorney Steve Mount.

The A.D. 1600 eruption ofthe Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina may have had a global environmental impact, according to the recent findings of UC Davis geology professor Kenneth Verosub and senior geology major Jake Lippman.

The day when hospital patients can wake up to a morning breakfast of juicy blueberries, sweet cantaloupe and sun-kissed oranges has arrived for several Bay Area hospitals. UC Davis researchers are encouraging public institutions to add fresh produce from local farms and food markets to their menus.

Man's best friend can now be dog's best friend with the rising popularity and support for dog blood transfusions.

The UC Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital is looking for up to 12,000 eligible canines to donate their blood and save the lives dogs in need.The procedure is highly beneficial to dogs that have experienced complications during surgery or a life threatening injury and is now being offered free of charge to pet-owners.

The Charles P.Nash Prize,which recognizes exceptional achievement in promoting shared governance and advocacy for faculty in both the Academic Senate and the Academic Federation,was awarded to adjunct professor Catherine VandeVoort on Monday.

VandeVoort is the very first recipient of the prize,which was created to honor the legacy of Charlie P.Nash andtorecognize those who follow in his footsteps,according to Barbara Goldman,chair of the Nash Prize Committee.The prize will be awarded annually to a member of the UC Davis Academic Senate.

When a woman says,"It's getting late," why do some men interpret that as a sign to speed things up and cut to the chase?

A recent UCD study explains that college men often misinterpretindirect messages from women due to faulty male introspection.

Introspection is whenpeople hearan indirect message and then think about what they would have meant given those circumstances,said Michael Motley, professor ofcommunicationwho conducted the research.

wo Mixtec migrant activists fromOaxaca,Mexico,Bernardo Ramírez Bautista and Centolia Maldonado Vázquez,captivated the room Tuesday afternoon with their knowledge and experience of the indigenous migrant worker situation.

The event was held fromnoonto2p.m.in the HIA Conference Room in5211Social Science and Humanities.

Theft

A first-year student was referred to Student Judicial Affairs for stealing a CD player from the bookstore. The student displayed suspicious activity while shopping in the bookstore, which alerted the attention of the security monitors. After purchasing a textbook from the bookstore, the student was asked to show his receipt and refused to do so. The student and his accomplice proceeded to make threatening remarks and then discarded the electronic device in a nearby restroom. The student agreed to pay for the damaged device and will be on deferred dismissal status until fall quarter 2008.

Freshman applications were on the rise for fall 2008, which means more competition for admission to UC Davis for the upcoming school year.

Out of the 40,568students who applied this fall, 21,256, or 52.4percent were admitted to the university. About 5,000 of the admitted students are expected to enroll as freshman in the fall, said Pamela Burnett, director of undergraduate admissions at UC Davis in an e-mail interview.

The number is an increase from the 34,854studentsthat applied for admission last year.Of the fall 2008 applicants, 20,473 - or 58.4percent - were accepted.

The mean grade point average of UC Davis applicants has also increased from last year's 3.89 to this year's 3.94,according to a UC Davis press release.

This week Hillel, the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, and other organizations along with other UC Davis students will remember the Holocaust and raise awareness against genocide.

Two events will be occurring this week including collaboration from the UC Davis Jewish community, Student Anti-Genocide Coalition (STAND), and the Baha'i communities. STAND and members of the Jewish community will be tabling in from of the Memorial Union today and handing out pamphlets.

"We thought that this might be a good opportunity to approach random people walking past the Quad and tell them information on different cases of genocide," said Mahrad Enayati, senior sociology major and intern for Hillel who helped organize this event.

In an abandoned gold mine inSouth Dakota,physicists are building a way to test for dark matter- invisible particles that affect theexpansion of the universe.

The Large Underground Xenon Apparatus (LUX) is a collaboration of seven universities,including UC Davis.Physics professors Mani Tripathi and Robert Svoboda are designing part of the experiment that will be transported fromDavis toSouth Dakota.

"Our role is that we are helping to build part of the instrument itself," Svobodasaid.

Dark matter got its name because though it has a gravitational force,it is not visible to humans.The name is also a pun,because the particles are a mystery to physicists,said Hitoshi Murayama,professor of physics at the Lawrence National Laboratory at UC Berkeley.