At the end of the match, it wasn’t about the win.

The UC Board of Regents approved an 8 percent tuition hike in a 15-5 vote Thursday. Student fees will be, starting in Fall 2011, $11,124 per year – an $822 increase.

Two taxi rides in St. Petersburg, Russia, turned out to be the kryptonite that eliminated Michael and Kevin Wu from The Amazing Race 17.

Due to a recent survey conducted by UC Davis’ Fleet Services, the Davis-Berkeley afternoon shuttle will depart from Davis at a later time than the current 2:15 p.m. departure.

Do you enjoy stargazing, watching the occasional meteor shower or wondering what galaxies lay beyond the Milky Way? If so, the Astronomy Club at UC Davis might be the place for you.

If you said that UC Davis football would go 6-5, beating San Jose State, Cal Poly and Sacramento State, you would have been considered crazy, said quarterback Randy Wright.

The California Supreme Court ruled in favor of Assembly Bill 540, known as the DREAM act, which allows those who attend a California high school for at least three years to pay in-state tuition. This means a savings of $20,000 in tuition for qualified UC students and $11,000 for CSU students.

Despite the troubled economic times and the rise in public tuition, more students from other countries are making their way to the U.S. – and UC Davis – for an undergraduate degree.

Event: NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships

Fall quarter is nearing its long-awaited end, and as I push to give out valuable information about marijuana before my last column comes up, I’m brainstorming what should be shared with my college constituents.

Think of the best college football rivalry.

UC Berkeley was the site of the famous Free Speech Movement in the 1960s – a movement that was triggered by the administration’s refusal to allow political advocacy on campus. As a “daughter institution” of UC Berkeley, we here at UC Davis should feel an especially close kinship to those historic events. Indeed, many of us are regular participants in the current ongoing protests at the “mother campus,” and this brings a greater sense of unity to the broader movement.