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TODAY Peace Corps information session 4:15p.m. Felder Room,MU Speak with a returned Peace Corps volunteer to learn about how you can make a difference in your own life as well asin others‘ lives.

It will take a two-hour run for a student to burn off a three-cheeseburger party. These and other comparisons are part of the results fromthe E-Chug campaign, a quiz adopted by UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) aimed at educating students about their alcohol and tobacco use.

TODAY Davis Motorsports Club Round Table Pizza,2151Cowell Blvd. 5to8p.m. The club is having their bi-monthly meeting.If you like cars,this is the place to find other enthusiasts like you!

TODAY Centennial Quad celebration 10a.m.to2p.m. The Quad There will be prizes,over200booths for student groups and other organizations,as well as food and the East Quad Farmers Market.

For seemingly obvious reasons,college websites don’t tend to provide information on the hottest nightspots or where the cutest guys and girls congregate.However,that’s not to assume that a lot of us wouldn’t find this information helpful. UC Davis graduates Michael Kim and Dan Greenberg solved this problem withyollege.com.Both said that they like to think of the website as an insider’s guide to everything one needs to know about the college experience.

Editor’snote:For this edition of10Questions,The California Aggie sat down with Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Fred Wood.Student Affairs encompasses various campus units that pertain to student life. Wood is a veteran to UC Davis.In addition to being a vicechancellor,Wood attended UC Davis as an undergraduate and a graduate student.

TODAY LGBT Intersections of Identities 2to3p.m. Smith Room,MU The presentation,sponsored by CAPS and Multicultural Immersion Program,will focus onLGBT global identities.

Editor’s note: Although the clubbing scene in Davis isn’t very big, the club scene sure is. Throughout the school year, The California Aggie will give you a feel for student life at UC Davis by profiling various clubs and student organizations on campus. Next on the scene is the Autism Awareness Association.

TODAY Kickoff for Pride Week 2008 Noon to 1 p.m. East Quad Join the event organizers on the Quad and hang out while eating your lunch. Pumpkin decorating will also be available!

UC Davis is home to the first Native American studies doctoral program in the nation.

Desperate for an excuse to take an afternoon break from reviewing lecture slides for that first midterm? Well, Sunday’s Celebrate UC Davis may be the only opportunity you will ever have to see 100 birthday cakes in the same place. The Davis Chamber of Commerce has organized an array of festivities in celebration of the university’s centennial. The events, geared toward people of all ages, will take place from noon to 4 p.m. throughout the downtown area and the UC Davis campus.

A man’s curiosityledhim into the operating room to undergo a procedure that could restore his visionor take his life.After unwrapping the bandage,he could see the world again after43years of blindness.But was the world what he expected,or was it all just a big disappointment? Eight years after his surgery,Michael May spoke on Tuesday night at the Davis Musical Theatre Company about his experiences before and after regaining his eyesight.The lecture was hosted by Explorit Science Center.