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Paid summer teaching opportunity info session

5:10 p.m.

114 South Hall

Partner with Breakthrough Collaborative to teach underprivileged youth this summer. Learn how to be a competitive applicant for this program, and have the possibility to work for eight weeks either in the U.S. or in Hong Kong!

According to the Thai Red Cross Society, an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 children are sold into the sex trade in Thailand. Half as many are estimated to be trafficked into the United States. Even in our very own country, children as young as two years old are exploited, and coerced into performing sex and oral sex acts well beyond their years. Now, the question remains - what can we do to stop it?

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Student Assistant to the Chancellor information meeting

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

East Conference Room

Check out this informational meeting with the current Student Assistants to the Chancellor, Traci Brown and Molly Sundstrom. The application deadline is Feb. 20; e-mail any questions to sac@ucdavis.edu.

It comes as no surprise that as a college town, Davis has its share of drunk drivers. But a new Health Education and Promotion (HEP) program is working to reduce the number and raise awareness about designated drivers.

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Argentina: Evita, Maradona, Che Guevara - Latin American Icons

Noon to 1 p.m.

EAC, 207 Third St.

Learn more about the South American gem this afternoon

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Hunger lunch

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Silo back patio

The lunch, sponsored by Nourish International, will be an all-you-can-eat meal of rice, beans and cornbread.

Imagine looking through a clear plastic glass, filled with water. Now replace that water with milk. This is the world through the eyes of someone with a cataract. But with a $50 surgical procedure, this blur can be restored to the clarity of water.

Jasdeep Manik, a junior neurobiology, physiology and behavior major, traveled to India in December to assist with these cataract operations. She went as a volunteer with Unite for Sight, a nonprofit aimed at promoting international eye care and assistance.

Fish are important to Peter Moyle, and he would argue they're important to you too.

The UC Davis professor of wildlife, fish and conservation biology has dedicated his entire adult life to studying the ecology of freshwater fish. A Minnesota native, Moyle is a nationally known conservation expert and prolific author of 106 peer-reviewed papers and five books. He also serves on numerous committees associated with managing the San Francisco Estuary.

Want to go to summer camp, ride horses or play on a playground and get paid to do it?

The City of Davis Community Services Department is holding its Recreational Job Fair on Wednesday, January 28 from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Multipurpose room in the Veterans Memorial Center on 203 East 14th St.

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Picnic Day booth lottery

Picnicday.ucdavis.edu

Student organizations that are interested in having a booth on Picnic Day need to sign up with SPAC by today. There will be a lottery for a limited number of booths tomorrow. Visit picnicday.ucdavis.edu for more information.

UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz are the only UC schools with their own fire departments.

For an escape from the typical café snobbery, Cloud Forest Café serves up a delightful blend of culinary freshness and friendly ambiance.

Expansive windows line the front of the café on D Street, and local artists' paintings and vintage coffee burlap sacks adorn the surrounding walls. The atmosphere is entirely unlike that of the dark, cave-like Mishka's, and with fewer future-prize-winning-poets-slash-antisocial-computer-junkies pecking away at their laptops.

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Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament

6 to 8 p.m.

Griffin Lounge, MU

Get there early; seats fill up quickly. Must be there by 6 p.m. If you're one of the top 30 players, you could end up in the tournament of champions!

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Australia: Urban to Outback

Noon to 1 p.m.

Conference Room, Education Abroad Center, 207 Third St.

Learn about a summer 2009 study abroad opportunity!

Most students in Davis hail from the San Francisco Bay Area or the Central Valley, while a sizable number come from the "distant lands" of Los Angeles and San Diego. But a large and growing number - 2,500 students, according to the Education Abroad Center - come from other countries.