United Auto Works 2865, the union representing over 12,000 Academic Student Employees (ASE) including teaching assistants, tutors and readers throughout the UC system, met with the UC’s bargaining committee in Los Angeles on Oct. 14 and 15 to exchange contract proposals.

For students considering studying abroad, participation in a summer abroad program is a way to avoid falling behind in studies or missing out on employment, while still being able to experience a foreign country.

With the Nov. 2 election less than two weeks away, campaigns are working to inform students about their causes and encouraging everyone to vote.

When most people think of pigs, they may think of the movie Babe, just a cute little animal or a barbecue, but when scientists and undergraduate students at UC Davis get involved, they think of nematodes.

A possible scene from 500 million years ago: The ocean floor crawls with roving packs of arthropods called trilobites. Instead of sticking to its normal diet of plankton or algae, one hungry trilobite looks around at its trilobite friends and sees dinner. Welcome to cannibalism in the deep.

Students can seek out potential jobs at the Internship and Career Center’s (ICC) annual fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the ARC Pavilion.

Students, faculty and staff that have not upgraded their eight character passwords to passphrases will experience difficulties accessing their accounts starting Nov. 1.

Mother and daughter dentist duo Jeanne and Kelly Brewer remember the first time they ever worked together. One of Jeanne’s patients needed to have a root canal over a weekend, and with no dental assistants available to help with the procedure, Jeanne offered the job to her daughter, Kelly.

Who to watch: Freshman goalkeeper Omar Zeenni has been a brick wall in the net for the Aggies ever since taking over the starting keeper position.

Residents of Yolo County can now take advantage of household hazardous waste (HHW) drop-off days at the Yolo County Central Landfill free of charge.

Given the average man’s stoicism concerning his own health, it’s no surprise that men suffer from higher disease rates and a shorter life span than women. Luckily, a new program in the UC Davis Health System aims to raise men’s awareness of health problems early on and hopefully close the longevity gap between men and women.

Urban Dictionary defines “spitting game” as “when a person tries to pimp someone of the female persuasion. Many times it involves one male macking on many other females.”