Opinion

A 2001 MIT study showed bone marrow transplant donors have only a one in 20,000 chance of being matched with a stranger.

I was in my manor enjoying a cigar while browsing my stock market, uh, numbers, when my butler announced that I had received an e-mail. It was from someone in dire need of assistance. After a trip through my secret, underground tunnel, I read the following:

Say that three times fast. That whacked-out, cracked-out acronym stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it’s on – along with No-Shave November.

I would like to personally thank Jarrett Stepman, on behalf of my former comrades-in-arms and all military personnel, for his column in Tuesday’s edition of The California Aggie. It’s rare to see such focused statements of support for veterans from members of the college population, and especially those expressed with the conviction and clarity of Stepman’s column.

By agreeing to collect from U.S. Bank only what amounts to a “finders fee” for each new customer in the recent corporate sponsorship deal, UC Davis officials gave away far too much.

As a former California Aggie staff writer, I found Sarah Kohgadai’s column on Tuesday to be particularly haphazard, irrelevant and distasteful.

ASUCD senate elections begin at 8 a.m. on the elections website (elections.ucdavis.edu).

The Undergraduate Studies office recently asked freshman seminar instructors if they would be willing to forgo or reduce their stipends.

When people get old, they automatically develop a new accent that I like to call Old Fartese. There’s no explanation for how it happens. Some say once you hit 60, your voice box turns into the shape of an all-you-can-eat buffet or a rice-pudding mold, but who can be sure?

Robert Byrd is a member of the United States senate. He’s pretty notable, and not just because he was born in 1917 and is still alive. Serving since 1953, Byrd is the longest serving senator in history. Byrd has also been Dean of the Senate since 2003. In 1942, he was part of the Ku Klux Klan.

Veterans Day only appears to have a special meaning this year, but it has a special meaning every year. The atrocity that occurred at Fort Hood last week, and the murders that took place there will be rightly first on the minds of Americans honoring this day. What must not be lost though, is our respect of all who have served this country in the armed services. Veteran’s Day has a special meaning every year.

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