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TODAY

World AIDS Day pledging

11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

In front of Griffin Lounge, MU

Visit the Health Education and Promotion tables this week to pledge to be an ally for HIV awareness.

The UC Davis campus was taken over as a training center by the United States Army Signal Corps in 1943. All instruction was halted until 1945.

Over 20 years ago, a woman knocked on the door of Davis Fire Station 31 and asked for assistance to make a Thanksgiving dinner for her children. The firefighters pooled funds and bought a turkey for her and began to think about expanding their contribution.

The firefighters' gift of a single turkey has since expanded into the annual Davis Firefighter's Union Thanksgiving Food Basket Program, which provides 630 full Thanksgiving meal baskets for Davis needy families.

Kingsley Grafft, a UC Davis sorority member, developed a sexual assault prevention and awareness curriculum that's being taught on campus and emulated at other universities nationwide.

The course, Greeks Against Sexual Assault (GASA), aims to eliminate sexual and dating violence by raising awareness and prevention. It is a pass/no pass class offered as a seminar through the UC Davis education department.

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NCAA Tournament ticket distribution

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Freeborn Hall Ticket Office

Men's soccer will host Denver in the first round of the national tournament at Aggie Soccer Stadium on Saturday at 1 p.m. Tickets cost $5 for UC Davis students, faculty and staff, and $7 for adults. Tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Moh-Moh is nervous.

This Saturday is UC Davis' Little International Stock Show, and Moh-Moh, a heifer, has never been around so many people and animals before.

But the student showing her likes his chances. "I think I will win. I really spend a lot of time with her, one on one," said Michael Chao, an entrant in this year's beef section.

I was exploring an unknown territory also known as West Davis. I'd heard there was a Chinese restaurant with rather tasty food. Whether it was fact or fiction, I did not know. But on a cold Wednesday night, I decided to venture out and see for myself.

In a dark area known as the Westlake Plaza, there's a restaurant called Shanghai Town. I say it was dark because the plaza had few lights or neon signs indicating that any business (or life) was in existence. I finally found Shanghai Town situated in an obscure location by a taqueria and a drycleaners.

TODAY

NCAA Tournament ticket distribution

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Freeborn Hall Ticket Office

Men's soccer will host Denver in the first round of the national tournament at Aggie Soccer Stadium on Saturday at 1 p.m. Tickets cost $5 for UC Davis students, faculty and staff, and $7 for adults. Tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The average age of a UC Davis undergraduate is 21. Four percent of undergrads are age 25 or older.

TODAY

East Quad Farmers Market

10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

East Quad

Check out a convenient iteration of the farmers market right on campus!

The Mexican Free-tailed bat is gray and brown, has massive, vein-lined ears, a pig-like snout and patchy hair under its tiny, wrinkled mouth. One would speculate that only this bat's mother could love him.

But that speculation - like many others about bats - is a myth. Corky Quirk, founder of NorCal Bats, happens to find the creatures quite adorable.

TODAY

Aggie Ambassadors from College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Noon to 1 p.m.

3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences

Learn about opportunities within the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Three years ago, Lawson Snipes was one of 125 homeless people living in Davis. During cold, rainy and windy winter nights, Snipes and up to a dozen other individuals would huddle inside "the cave," - an island of dry land under the overhang between two buildings at Davis Community Church.

TODAY

Anonymous HIV testing

5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

LGBT Resource Center

This rapid, oral, anonymous testing offers results in 30 minutes.

Yaakov Katz, Israel correspondent for USA Today and military correspondent and defense analyst for The Jerusalem Post, discussed portrayals of Israel in the media on Thursday evening.

In his talk, which took place at the Hillel House at 328 A St., Katz said that airtime and space are two of the biggest problems with media.