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ver seen a dachshund race or been to a bonfire rally? Well, now you can. Welcome to UC Davis. With 100 years of history, UC Davis holds many traditions passed down from student to student over the decades. Many survive. Others don’t.

The first year of college brings new friends, new classes – and the worry of upgrading to a larger pant size. This dramatic increase in weight during freshman year, commonly referred to as the “Freshman 15,” has been proven to be an exaggeration, but the idea mirrors a real trend.

Editor’s note: Here are some of the people who keep the wheels turning at UC Davis and around town.

Bike Registration Today and Friday 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hutchison IM Field (in front of TAPS building) Bikes on campus must be registered with a California Bicycle License. New licenses cost $8 and renewals cost $4. Both are valid through Dec. 31, 2010.

UCD doesn’t stop making news after the dorms are packed and most students return home for the summer. Here’s a sampling of what you missed while you were gone.

Few towns qualify as quirky, cute, charming, boring and elitist. But walk around town, or go anywhere in Northern California, and these are the words people use to describe the city of Davis.

If you’ve ever watched a movie or television show about a fraternity or sorority, you’re probably familiar with the popular images of wild parties and drunken debauchery. While that picture of Greek life may hold true on some campuses, UC Davis students pride themselves on having a system that is known for more than just the parties.

Bringing more than high temperatures, summertime in Davis also marked the end of some ongoing construction projects on campus. Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science A brand new building with state-of-the-art facilities was one of Robert Mondavi’s last gifts to UC Davis.

No doubt many of you were aggrieved yesterday when you looked for your copy of The California Aggie and couldn’t find it. Due to technical difficulties, we were unable to go to press Wednesday night.

Editor’s note: For this edition of 10 questions, The California Aggie sat down with Don Gibson, the president of Davis College Democrats who was a delegate at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Editor’snote: For this edition of10questions,The California Aggiespoke with ASUCD Controller Paul Harms to get a feel for the day-to-day operations involved in handling the association’s budget. Harms,of Fremont,Calif.,will start his fourth year at UC Davis in the fall,and is currently in his second term ascontroller– only the second person to hold the appointed position twice in theassociation’s history.

In one afternoon,you can dive into the Lake Tahoe basin,study earthquakes in New Zealand,and travel into the core of the earth – all from the safety of a single lab on campus. This lab,established in2005,is known as the W.M.Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES).Demonstrations of the lab’s technology are included as part of the UC Davis Centennial Exhibit at the California State Fair.