Few diabetic patients are aware of the difficulties that arise after the disposalof their home-generated sharps. Yolo Country and the California Product Stewardship Council recently received a$197,680grant from the California Integrated Waste Management Board to gotowardthe safe management of sharps.

Calling rowing an aquatic sport this weekend would have been an understatement. The Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships were held in the midst of the worst rain Sacramento has seen all winter.

It was another tough weekend for the UC Davis baseball team. The Aggies headed to Southern California to square off with the Dirtbags of Long Beach State in a three-game series at Blair Field. UC Davis dropped Friday’s series opener by13.It responded by keeping the final two games close,but couldn’t walk away from either of them with a win.

People often complain that no one in college dates and after donning my thinking cap and pondering the question,I have concluded it is simply because nobody knows how.But fear not,my romantically challenged compadres,because I am here to enlighten you. What is a “date“? Think about what the ultimate goal of a “date” is.And no,it’s not just to get laid.If that’s all you’re interested in,then this advice isn’t for you.

Illegally parking on campus has just become a more risky proposition. Effective the beginning of this month,Transportation and Parking Services increased fines for parking from$30to$40.TAPS officials say the33percent increase will bring campus parking fines into alignment with the expected increase in the City of Davis parking fines.

There’s something about the month of May that brings out the crazies.Take a second and look around,listen to what the people around you are talking about,and really think about it.It wouldn’t surprise me if after a while you started to think that all the pretty colors and pleasant aromas wafting off the freshly bloomed “May flowers” have forced them to repress the few rational thoughts their mind is capable of producing,and throw intelligence to the wind.

With only one Big West Conference series remaining for UC Davis,it has still yet to find an answer to its struggles. After falling to No.13California at home,the Aggies dropped three straight against the Gauchos over the weekend.They’ve lost11straight after a21-19start.

The ups and downs of President Barack Obama’s first100days in office are the focus of Larry Berman’s POL106class taught at the UC Washington D.C.Center.Berman,who has made appearances on C-Span’s Book TV and the History Channel’s Secrets of War,is a political science professor at UC Davis and the interim director of the UC Davis Washington program.

The“best greens in the valley” are now within reach for local Yolo County golfers. Wild Wings Golf Course in Woodland reopened for play on May1after being closed for four months. The course,which used to be privately owned,is now owned by Yolo County.The countyrequired a majority vote from homeowners in order to reopen and fund the course.

Now that May marks my last full month of writing forTheAggie,expect this column and perhaps one or two more to be filed under the “Sentimental Thoughts of an Impending Graduate/Retiring Columnist” folder.Although I know this might seem early because I have a couple of weeks to spare before the end is near,I figured I’d spread the nostalgia around and not subject you minions to three consecutive weeks of my sudden wistfulness for my undergraduate years.

As we grow up,it becomes clear that the world is not black and white.That is just what psychology graduate student Lauren Berger aims to prove with “Mixed Photo Project,” a photo exhibition that opened yesterday at the Memorial Union Art Lounge as part of Mixed Heritage Week.

The UC Davis McNair Scholars Program is designed toalleviate thegraduate schoolapplication process for18to20students who come from underprivileged backgrounds. The McNair Scholars Program is a two-year scholarly program funded by the U.S.Department of Education and TRIO.Henry Covarrubias,the director of the UC Davis McNair Scholars Program,described the different benefits of participating in the program.