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
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.
Since cancer never sleeps, neither did over 2,000 UC Davis students this Saturday for 24 hours at the annual Relay for Life. Held at Aggie Stadium for the first time, UC Davis holds its own with the biggest college campus with participant and fundraising turnout.
TODAY Davis Community Church Service 7 to 8 p.m. Davis Community Church, Fifth and C streets Listen to a Christian service in the style of Taize monastery with a simple chant and silence to bring the community together.
Although the stories behind those that participate in this event are endless, The California Aggie sat down with some members of Colleges Against Cancer - and those who helped organize it - at UC Davis to see why they relay for life.
For many UC Davis students, starting a business may seem like an impossible task. But for one group of student entrepreneurs, not only is creating a business possible, it's something they can do even before they get their diplomas. Members of the Junior Entrepreneurs and Investors Club recently formed a club dedicated to selling Clean Cart Systems - a sort of dishwasher for shopping carts. Executives of the six-year-old business gave Davis students the rights to sell the systems in Yolo County.
TODAY UCD Women's Rowing Erg Rally 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mrak Hall Courtyard ICA team eliminations due to budget cuts are in the making and your fellow students need your help! Help the women's rowing team survive! Lambda Phi Epsilon Rush: Football and BBQ 4 to 7 p.m. Oxford Park Play football and eat some BBQ with the brothers. Dive: Living Off America's Waste 5:10 p.m. 179 Chemistry Watch Jeremy Seifert's documentary about the ugly truth of waste in America.
MONDAY Native American Culture days On-campus Look for posters throughout Davis and the Cross Cultural Center for events from today through Saturday. Public Health Week Symposium 5 to 7:45 p.m. Genome Building Auditorium Check out the start of Public Health Week, with guest speakers who will address topics such as "Promoting Health through Healthy Communties," "International and Community Nutrition" and much more. 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 a campus. Sigma Nu Rush: Game Night 6 p.m. 525 Oxford Circle Head on over to Sigma Nu and watch the championship game with the brothers. Loxi Rush: Sit-in Meeting and Speed Dating 8 p.m. Wellman 216 Go check out how the lovely ladies of Lambda Omicron Xi - a community service sorority - operate during a meeting! "Speed Dating" will follow to get to know the sisters better! Visit Davisloxi.net for more info. Delta Lambda Phi Rush: Pizza Night 7 p.m. Woodstock's, 219 G St. Get to know the brothers of Delta Lambda Phi - fraternity for gay, bisexual or progressive men - over slices of pizza.