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Chemistry Club meeting

5 to 7 p.m.

179 Chemistry

Get involved with this club's popular Picnic Day magic show! To participate in the show, you must attend the meeting or e-mail the president at snavarro@ucdavis.edu.

Wildlife Society meeting

6 p.m.

1227 Haring

Geography graduate student Megan Wyman will give a talk on her research of bison communication.

Acquiring clean water is not something that requires much effort for most of us. We can turn on the faucet and drink directly from the tap. Or we can easily purchase a high-tech filtering system, or pick up a fancy Evian bottle at the grocery store.

For communities in the Rukwa region of Tanzania, Africa, obtaining clean water is much more difficult. But thanks to a generous donation from the Winters Rotary Club and the hard work of two UC Davis professors, this process will be improved and simplified for many Tanzanian villagers.

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, an anthropology professor at UC Davis, and her husband Tim Caro, a professor of wildlife, fish and conservation biology, recently received a $6,000 donation from the Winters Rotary Club to help Tanzanian villagers build drinking wells.

A lack of funding and resources in America's public education system has made a large impact on public schools in low-income areas. The absence of properly trained teachers is one reason why children in those areas receive poor levels of education.

Teach For America seeks to eliminate this problem. In an effort to close the country's achievement gap, the nationwide TFA program recruits and trains highly motivated individuals to teach in these disadvantaged regions.

"By the time children in low-income levels are nine, they are back three grade levels. I had fourth graders who couldn't read [the] Harry Potter [series]," said Amber Saloner, Pacific Coastal Senior Recruitment Director for TFA.

"We want to equip them. We want you to empower the students," she said.

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Sunrise ceremony

6:15 a.m.

Putah Creek fire pit

This early morning ceremony opens Native American Culture Days. Refreshments will be provided.

Math Café

5 to 7 p.m.

104 North Hall

Get a good serving of mathematics at this weekly tutoring session with the Women's Resources and Research Center. Women and men are both welcome.

Native American film festival

5 to 8:30 p.m.

Silo Café and Pub

When do you ever get to go to a triple feature for free? There will also be a two-spirit program and a presentation on D-Q University. Free refreshments provided at this Native American Culture Days event!

Biotech talk

5:30 to 7 p.m.

2005 Plant and Environmental Sciences

Join the Biotech Club for a guest lecture on vegetable oils and commercialization!

The American Cancer Society says "cancer never sleeps," and for 24 hours, neither did the participants of Relay for Life.

Approximately 1,700 participants took part in the American Cancer Society's 24-hour relay-style marathon and fundraiser Saturday at Toomey Field, organized by the UC Davis Colleges Against Cancer chapter.

By press time, Relay for Life had raised at least $123,685 for the ACS for cancer research and advocacy, though Ashley Stark, Relay for Life co-chair, anticipates the number will be higher after final counts have been made.

UC Davis' Relay for Life has been the top college relay in California for three years, Stark said.

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Try Before You Buy week

6 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Activities and Recreation Center

Want to shake it up with belly dance or spin class? See what the ARC has to offer by taking its recreation classes for free this week.

Folk music session

Noon to 1 p.m.

UC Davis Arboretum Wyatt Deck

Settle in for lunchtime folk, blues and old time music, or bring your banjo and join in.

Fancy capes, tight spandex and weird sidekicks are optional for the UC Davis Human Corps' annual Week of Service. Instead, altruism, selflessness and a willingness to get a little dirty for the community will suffice for anyone who wants to be a hero.

Community service is an act of heroism, said Courtney Millhoff, Human Corps student manager. [Volunteer and] be a community service hero.

Located in South Hall, Human Corps strives to establish volunteer opportunities between the campus community and organizations in the Davis and Sacramento areas.

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Try Before You Buy week

6 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Activities and Recreation Center

Want to shake it up with belly dance or spin class? See what the ARC has to offer by taking its recreation classes for free this week.

Free concert

12:05 p.m.

115 Music

This concert features Bharati Soman, soprano, with Margaret Kapasi, pianoand Rachel Howerton, horn. Works by Rachmaninoff, Scarlatti, Reger, Brahms and Schubert.

TODAY

Try Before You Buy week

6 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Activities and Recreation Center

Want to shake it up with a belly dance or spin class? See what the ARC has to offer by taking its recreation classes for free this week.

Farmers Market

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

East Quad

Get fresh fruits, veggies and snacks at this convenient farmers market.

In a town full of bicycles and environmental friendliness, it's refreshing to remember that there are still red-blooded, meat-eating, beer-drinking, sports-loving Americans out there.

For people suffering from this nostalgia, the recently inaugurated Davis Motorsports Club is proof that not everything has been lost to this organic-solar-powered-renewable-new-age California nonsense.

DMC's official mission statement is to maintain motorsport enthusiasm in the Davis community. How do these patriots carry out their stated goal? Try waking up at 6 a.m. on weekends to attend autocross rallies - autox for short - all over the state of California.

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Math Café

5 to 7 p.m.

104 North Hall

Get a good serving of mathematics at this weekly tutoring session with the Women's Resources and Research Center. Women and men are both welcome.

Linux Users' Group of Davis meeting

6:30 to 9 p.m.

Blanchard Room, Davis Branch Public Library, 315 E. 14th St.

Celebrate LUGOD's birthday and learn about the Open Source Security Information Management project at this meeting.