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Borders Books liquidates; Investigation shows Picnic Day death resulted from neck injury; City proposes new downtown parking structure; Housing group works on reopening Domes; Bill could fine bikers for cell phone use; Water rate hikes concern community.

UC Regents vote for 9.6 percent fee increase; Judge finds UC Davis not guilty of sex discrimination; UC Davis approves sustainable agriculture major; Budget cuts cause reduced mail delivery on campus; UC announces faculty pay raises; UC Davis ranked in top 50 best colleges.

Eh?; Free car wash; No Service; People in glass houses; Drive ‘n dash; What phone did she call on?.

How did I spend my summer 2011? I taught swimming lessons by day and explored Japan by night. My summer was filled with beautiful beaches, hot sun, and enticing new cultures and customs – all thanks to a program run through UC Davis called Camp Adventure Youth Services.

Water gun fights, food truck Fridays, parties with chimpanzees, celebrity sightings and a lot of time spent with a certain talking sponge. This summer, I had the opportunity to intern at Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, CA as an animation development intern.

For me, these past few summer vacations have been almost too much of a break from the stress of the academic year. The amount of idle time I’m left with typically leaves me to sit, pondering my life, thinking about what I’m doing with it and where it could go in the next year. By the time fall comes around, I’m always bordering on neurotic and more than happy to start classes and have something to occupy my mind again.

UC Davis class of 2015 ? dump your high school girlfriend. If there is one thing that I have learned about the world in my two years at a top university, it’s that committed relationships are bad. If there is one thing I have learned about myself, it’s that I will work very hard to de-commit any monogamous soul whose fate has crossed with my own.

There’s a first for everything, and today is not quite one of them. Sure it’s my first fifth Fall quarter as an Aggie which means I usually don’t get lost trying to find my classes at this point.

Once college students leave the dorms, they become modern versions of hunter-gatherers. Whether they are content with keeping their kitchen cupboards full of easy, boxed meals of the instant variety, or prefer to have them stocked with essentials to create Food Network-worthy creations, every meal starts at the grocery store.

The days of paperback writers may soon give way to e-book writers. Culpepper Books and the Davis branch of Borders Books, Music and Cafe closed up shop this summer. Local bookstore owners said the closures seem to be on par with the trend away from reading paper versions of books to online or computer based reading.

Typical sources for greeting and grubbing on a budget include fraternity parties for alcohol and pizza at club meetings. Read on to discover more unique Davis institutions that provide both food and fun your wallet will thank you for later.

While textbooks are a necessary – albeit expensive – cost of attending college, students at UC Davis have many choices for prices, book conditions and booksellers.