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TODAY: Challah for Hunger: Baking a Difference; Meat Lab Sale; Dead Arts Society Creators Meeting.

January has begun, which means it is time for new classes, a new quarter and a fresh start. In Davis, this month also marks the beginning of the hunt for next year’s housing.

Here’s a scenario: it’s finals week and you’re in a jam. You desperately need to go grocery shopping, but you’re up to your ears in studying, it’s raining and you don’t have a car. Gosh, you think, I really wish someone could go shopping for me. I could definitely return the favor someday…

WEDNESDAY: Poetry Night Reading Series: Francisco X. Alarcón

Senior nutrition science major Molly McDermott remembers the first time she observed the disparities of wealth in the United States. As a young girl, she and her family went on a trip to Chicago where she saw a Ritz Carlton hotel across the street from the projects.

Energy Institute Winter 2011 Seminar Series; Poetry Night Reading Series: Francisco X. Alarcón; Meat Lab Sale.

TODAY: Student Services and Fees Administrative Advisory Meeting; American Red Cross Club Meeting; Celebrate Hanukkah with JSUCD: Day 2.

TODAY: AMSA’s “Cupcakes for a Cause” Bake Sale; Botany and Environmental Horticulture Club; FilGrad 2011 Info Meeting.

With finals fast approaching, professors and teaching assistants (TAs) are seeing an influx of students attending their office hours. However, not all students understand that there is a wrong and a right way of approaching office hours.

“Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” said Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. “Lions and tigers and bears, oh yes!” says anyone working in the diverse, occasionally disgusting and usually rewarding world of animal careers.

Delta Epsilon Mu: Toys for Joy; Relay For Life Team Captains Meeting; Botany and Environmental Horticulture Club; Poetry Night Reading Series: Sharon Doubiago.

I was walking my bike to the Bike Barn to fill the tires with air when I noticed an old road bike leaning up against the air pump. I framed this shot in my head before grabbing my camera and snapping the photo. I was particularly drawn to the texture of the walls – the shapes created by the lines and the contrasting colors. When I chose the exposure settings, I wasn’t concerned with using a creative combination to garner a certain lighting effect. Instead, I used an ISO of 250 with an aperture of f/4.5 and a shutter speed of 1/3200. What makes this photo interesting is the composition rather than the use of an interesting combination of exposure settings. This illustrates one of the golden photographic truths – a good eye for composition is often more important than a knowledge of technical settings.