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Photos from the 41st annual Whole Earth Festival

TODAY Exploring the Mind Lecture Series Noon to 1 p.m. Large Conference Room, UCD Center for Mind and Brain Find out more information about speech perception with this lecture by Dr. David Poeppel. Meat Lab Sale 1 to 5:30 p.m. Cole C Facility The UC Davis Meat Lab offers sales that are open to the public every Thursday and Friday afternoon. Only cash and checks are accepted. Production of Some Things Are Private 8 p.m. Main Theater, Wright See this surreal docu-drama addressing photographer Sally Mann’s controversial nude pictures of her young children taken in the early 1990s.

TODAY: Meat Lab Sale; Student California Teachers Association Meeting; Student Services and Fees Administrative Advisory Committee Meeting; Biomedical Engineering Seminar; Delta Sigma Pi’s Career Fair; Help and Education Leading to Prevention Meeting; Classical Guitar Show; Production of Some Things Are Private; Students for Nichiren Buddhism Meeting.

Call it today’s “top news:” UC Davis students say they are simply not as enthusiastic about Facebook as they used to be. But does this represent a trend among all users?

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“The hippies are coming,” said an older man as he walked past the Quad last Sunday afternoon.

TODAY: Free Screening of We Can Do Better: The Multiracial Family; Free Screening of The Blind Side; Reading by Whitey Erickson; Free Screening of Children in the Fields.

Whether commencement is on the horizon or you’re on the lookout for a summer job, students should keep in mind that networking is a key ingredient in finding success during the hunt for employment. “Networking itself is a skill, like anything else,” said Lisa Sanders, an Internship and Career Center program coordinator. “80 percent of jobs are found through networking. By definition, networking equals job search.”

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A wedding took place last week where all the guests were no taller than the average four or five-year-old. Probably because they were all four or five-year-olds.

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TODAY Biomedical Engineering Seminar 4 p.m. 1005 Genome and Biomedical Science Facility Attend the department of biomedical engineering’s lecture by Dr. Kent Leach on the development of instructive biomaterials for tissue repair. Red Cross Club General Meeting 6:10 to 7 p.m. 146 Olson Stop by to get a recap of last week’s events and get information on upcoming volunteer opportunities. Entertainment Council’s Free Prescreening of Countdown to Zero 8 p.m. 194 Chemistry Watch the recently premiered Sundance Film Festival movie for free! FRIDAY