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UC Davis may often be associated with wine, but unique opportunities also await aspiring brewers. The Master Brewers Program (MBP) through the UC Davis Extension is the only institution in the United States that offers a university-level qualification in brewery engineering and brewing science. On an international level, MBP is only one of only three programs of this kind in the world.

WEDNESDAY: IAESTE Leadership Opportunity Meeting; Afghanistan: The Crossroads of Asia.

Those students bored of the typical athletic teams now have the opportunity to join a sport most Americans have never heard of.

TODAY: Project Compost; Southeast Asian Graduation Meeting.

Thousands of tie-dyed, barefoot and nature-loving visitors descended upon Davis for the 41st annual Whole Earth Festival last weekend.

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.