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This was not your average beer pong party. After a night of celebrating the recent release of LAADS, a new Davis-based arts and culture quarterly magazine, I took this photograph of a girl practicing poi — a performance art originating with the Maori people in New Zealand.

Veggie Bed Prep Workshop; French Club Meeting; Third Street Improvements Final Community Workshop; Delta Epsilon Mu Games Night; The Spokes Auditions; Bistro 33 Poetry Night Reading Series.

Many UC Davis students bike miles every week to get to class, work or wherever they are going. This May, hundreds will ride to change the lives of thousands of Americans with a rare disease known as Freidreich’s Ataxia (FA).

TODAY: Salad Bowl Lunch; Public Health Week Symposium; Campus Rotaract Club of Davis Meeting

Paying $374 per quarter for the Undergraduate Student Health Insurance Plan may seem expensive, but its benefits may outweigh the costs.

Lambda Delta Lambda Picnic on the Quad; Energy Institute Winter 2011 Seminar Series; Cooking Club Meeting; Astronomy Club Meeting; Sigma Nu Rush: Sigma Nu Bar and Grill.

The future Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg may have been at UC Davis last Friday.

It used to go like this: high school. Try to contain happiness while moving to college. Relish freedom of college. Graduate. Move to apartment or house and celebrate the official start to adulthood.

TODAY: Shinkoskey Noon Concert; Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series; The Social Utility of Religion in Muslim Thought

East Quad Farmer’s Market; Food, Justice and You; Relay For Life Meeting; American Red Cross Club Meeting; Vet Aide Club Meeting; The Sonnet Project.

“Picnic Day. It’ll be my last time going since I’m a senior.”

After a long quarter in Davis and the week of finals, I was able to take a break from it all and travel to New York, where I took this photo. It shows 34th Street from the corner of Broadway with the Empire State Building in the background. I like this photo because the iconic building makes it look very “New York.” The skyline with buildings growing from small to large also has a nice effect. I took this photo with an aperture of f13 and shutter speed of 1/125. At f13 the depth of field – meaning the focal length is very long – I was able to get everything in the frame in focus despite my distance from the buildings themselves.