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Don't be surprised - little munchkins dressed in green are taking over the UC Davis campus, at least for the summer. At the Activities and Recreation Center, kids in face paint are as prominent as weightlifters pumping iron.

In 2007, only 18.1 percent of students in the United States who received a bachelor's degree in engineering were female. Surprised by the disproportionate number of males and females? Don't be.

With fuel and food prices on the rise, University of California cooperative extension adviser and historian Rose Hayden-Smith recommends a home-grown solution - the Victory Garden.

Although the name may evoke a sense of World War II-era nostalgia, Hayden-Smith believes the Victory Garden needs to make a comeback but in a different context.

WEDNESDAY

Arboretum tour: walk with Warren

Noon to 1 p.m.

Arboretum Gazebo on Garrod Drive

Arboretum Superintendent Warren Roberts will offer a tour of the arboretum and offer information about the plant collections.

The neon lights flickering the words SUSHI BUFFET stopped me in my tracks. I passed it by on a hazy night of bar-hopping. Could this be? Could Davis really have another all-you-can-eat sushi joint? The next morning, to make sure that I hadn't imagined it in the midst of a little dancing and a lot of drinking, I did some research on Google to find that the restaurant really does exist!

f you have terrible eating habits like me, coming up with excuses to eat junk is an all-too-easy task. Some justifications I always fall back on include class, work, certain television shows, extreme weather conditions…

Providing me with one less place to nourish my unhealthy lifestyle is Farmer's Kitchen Café. Situated at 624 Fourth St., it turned out that I've passed this restaurant many times without ever having gone inside, only referring to it as "the place with the plastic floral tablecloths."

Editor's note: For this edition of 10 questions, The Aggie interviewed Davis City Councilmember Don Saylor. Councilmember Saylor was recently elected to his second term on the council and was named Mayor Pro Tempore on Tuesday. Look for him as he holds his office hours next week on July 8, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the tables by the Memorial Union patio.

Why not join the city of Davis in celebrating the independence of our nation with pancakes, parades and parachutes? Davis is offering a plethora of activities that everyone from children to college students can enjoy.

Vocal repertoires, song notation, sound recordings and acoustic signals.

From the sound of his academic vocabulary, one could easily mistake Peter Marler for a professor of music. While he is not one in the conventional sense, many consider him to be the pioneering professor of nature's music.

Battling frostbite, exhaustion and a frozen oxygen mask, UC Davis senior Tanner Bixler relentlessly made his way to the summit of Mount Everest on May 24.

Climbing the 29,035-foot Mt. Everest had been a childhood dream for Bixler. The economics major is no novice when it comes to trekking mountains - he started hiking at the age of 3 with his father and eventually worked his way up to serious climbing.

WEDNESDAY

Davis Farmers Market

4:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Central Park

At this week's Picnic in the Park event, the free concert will feature Lisa Phoenix and Steve Wall playing folk Americana music. New seasonal produce at the Davis Farmers Market should include tomatoes and nectarines!

Laura Dickson, a UC Davis 2008 alumna and a Fulbright Grant recipient, is going to Kenya in August to study the possible correlation of infection of the AIDS virus with the spread of malaria.

Dickson, who graduated this month from UC Davis with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and molecular biology and a minor in global and international studies, will spend 10 months in the town of Kisimu in Western Kenya, located near Lake Victoria.

Whether it's 60 degrees outside or 100, staying healthy and fit is both important and a challenge.

For those rising up to it as the mercury does the same in Davis this summer, a wide range of opportunities await.

TODAY

Fitness & Wellness Center

Noon to 2 p.m.

The ARC, past lobby entrance

Get a free five minute massage, a great way to relax before finals!

"We came out and spanked them. We made them look so horrible - we outplayed them. It just shows that if we give 100 percent and stay focused, things will go our way." - Men's soccer co-captain Sule Anibaba after his team beat IPFW and Oakland 6-0 and 4-2, respectively, at the Oregon State Diadora Classic.