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It's noon at the Bargain Barn and a group of employees gather in the break room as Noor Ramy receives her plaque for Student Employee of the Year. Standing next to her co-workers and friends, Ramy, a senior English major, smiles and holds back tears as her supervisor, Katie Jaramillo, takes the floor. "We've never had a student employee like Noor … I just wish you could stay forever," Jaramillo said.

TODAY: ASUCD Sustainable Style Clothes Exchange; Israel Independence Day BBQ

Bikers and fast drivers dislike them, neighborhoods and parents of small children love them. Speed bumps can be found throughout the city and campus of Davis in order to slow down students and residents to a safe speed. Variations on these concrete speed reducers include the speed hump, speed cushion and the speed table.

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A crowd of roughly 1,000 people filled Freeborn Hall on Saturday as students of the Runway Designers Club presented Warped, the annual Picnic Day fashion show.

TODAY CALPIRG's Hunger Clean Up Bake Sale 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Quad Buy baked goods to help raise money for a youth homeless shelter in Sacramento! Charity Denim 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Regan Main Hall Shop for designer designs that will be 40 to 70 percent off! All proceeds go to Cal Aggie Camp. Arboretum Folk Music Jam Session

It is not your imagination - for much of spring quarter, there has literally been music in the air. Four times a week, to be exact. "Picnic Day season for us starts the first day of the quarter," said Arbel Bedak, the student director of the California Marching Band-Uh!. "We have our usual Monday night rehearsal, but now we have marching practice three days a week." Band-Uh! will be performing several times throughout Picnic Day, starting with the parade and ending with Battle of the Bands, a multi-school music competition held in the Arboretum.

TODAY CALPIRG's Hunger Clean Up Bake Sale 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Quad Buy baked goods to help raise money for a youth homeless shelter in Sacramento! ASUCD Student Police Relations Committee Event 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Memorial Union Patio Check out UC Davis and Davis Police Departments' police cars, new equipment and drunk goggles! Enter in a raffle for prizes including a $50 visa card. Pre-Picnic Day Entertainment Showcase Noon Quad Enjoy good food and music in the quad for Picnic Day. Summer Abroad Application Deadline 5 p.m. Education Abroad Center, Third and A streets Last day to submit an enrollment packet for UC Davis Summer Abroad! Red Cross Club Meeting 6:10 to 7 p.m. 146 Olson Stop by the first general meeting of the quarter and meet the new club officers. Learn how you can get involved in your community!

Editor's Note: The California Aggie sent reporter Vanna Le to take the Nugget Market Price Survey, which compares Nugget and competitors' prices in Davis. Because grocery store prices vary by store and produce prices change rapidly, it's always difficult to determine which grocery stores actually do maintain low prices. I recently visited the Nugget Market on East Covell Boulevard after hearing about the "Nugget Market Price Survey," hoping to gain some insight into the world of competitive grocery store pricing.

It takes a village to raise a child - or, according to UC Davis and Bustos Media, it is the "trabajo de todos."

TODAY: CALPIRG's Hunger Clean Up Bake Sale; Pre-Picnic Day Cow-Milking Contest; UC Davis Bookstore Presents Maceo Montoya; Public Health Club Meeting; CIAO Meeting

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It's a Friday night and you find yourself like many other college students on the weekend - slightly inebriated. With just two dollars you can avoid the long trek from the bars or a party to the various part of Davis you live in. All you need to do is call Tipsy Taxi.

Just over a month after returning to Earth, UC Davis alumnus and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Stephen Robinson visited his alma mater for last Friday's College of Engineering's Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series. The UC Davis astronaut graduated in 1978 with a dual Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical and mechanical engineering. He has flown on four missions and logged 19.8 million miles in space.

TODAY Project Compost 6 p.m. 43 Memorial Union Attend the Project Compost volunteer meetings and learn how you can help them divert organic waste around campus. Southeast Asian Graduation Meeting 6 to 7 p.m. South Hall Conference Room Join a passionate group of students working to celebrate the achievements of graduating Southeast Asian students through an intimate cultural ceremony for the Southeast Asian community.