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Volume 18
Number 2
Winter 2001
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End Notes

By Barbara Anderson

JOB HUNTING 101

Illustration: sweating job seeker The "Top Ten Worst Things about On-Campus Interviewing," according to the King Hall Advocate, the newspaper published by the students at UC Davis' School of Law:

  1. Realizing your interviewer is younger than you are.
  2. Being asked, "Why do you want to work at this firm?" and realizing "Because your is the only one that gave me an interview" is not an acceptable answer.
  3. Having to wear a suit on a 105-degree day.
    3a.  Having to wear nylons on a 105-degree day.
  4. Having to walk from a parking space in Siberia in a suit on a 105-degree day.
  5. Having to sit in a tiny room that has no air circulation in a suit on a 105-degree day.
  6. Having an interviewer find it necessary to use both nasal spray and eye drops during your interview.
  7. Having your cheap dry-cleaning wire hanger stolen off the suit rack.
  8. Sitting in class next to some bastard who won't stop whining about his six consecutive interviews when you don't have any.
  9. Changing into your suit while trying not to touch any part of the bathroom stall.
  10. Missing three weeks of class to interview, spending $300 on a suit, yet knowing you are going to be spending your next summer asking, "Would you like fries with that?"

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TAKE TWO GREEN ONES . . .

. . . and call me in the morning

Chocolate instead of aspirin? Probably not, but in a small study done here at UC Davis, 20 subjects ate varying portions of M&M's Semisweet Chocolate Mini Baking Bits. Two hours later, their blood indicated an increase in the level of epicatechins, a flavonoid in chocolate that may reduce cholesterol levels and artery-damaging plaque buildup. Nutrition professor Carl Keen, one of the study's co-authors, said this effect is what doctors are hoping for when they suggest that a patient take a baby aspirin once a day, but that he and other researchers don't recommend that people switch from a daily aspirin to a daily chocolate bar.

But putting chocolate in one of those child-resistant containers could be the solution for those of us trying to resist the stuff.

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DUELING SKILLETS

Illustration: dueling skillets In a scene guaranteed to send Julia Child into a swoon, eight teams of graduate and undergraduate students recently participated in an Aggie version of cable television's Iron Chef, a Japanese cooking show featuring cooks who compete against one another to concoct a dish using pre-selected ingredients. The UC Davis version, sponsored by the Food Science Graduate Student Organization, gave each team two hours to create up to three dishes using only the 14 ingredients provided: tomato, eggplant, ground beef, green onions, rice, lemongrass, sugar, salt, pepper, flour, cider vinegar, eggs, apple and butter (tofu could be substituted for the ground beef). Teams were allowed to bring only a set of knives and a skillet; gas stoves, ovens and cookware were provided.

When the cooking was complete, each dish was sampled by the panel of judges--food science faculty members, graduate students and alumni--and judged equally on creativity, taste and presentation, with "Marriott Dining Hall" at the bottom, "Martha Stewart" in the middle and "Mama's Cooking" near the top. A team calling itself the "Deep Fry Daddies" took first place with an omelette-like concoction that featured fried and sugared apples. The second-place team, the "Spice Girls," created a theme meal based on the television show The Survivors: a baked eggplant boat rowing onto an apple tart island from a sea of rice. Even the also-rans enjoyed themselves. According to a story in the California Aggie, Atsushi Maekawa, whose team "Who Let the Chefs Out?" came in eighth out of eight teams, said he definitely wanted to participate in the next "Iron Chef" competition.

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FROM THE LAND OF DUCK-FILLED WATERS

TeamAGGIE has begun distributing Aggie Agua, "100 percent natural spring water" that features the new mustang mascot on the label and is "bottled at the source," which happens to be Oregon.

At least it's not from Putah Creek.

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AGGIE FACT

The Dining Commons dishes up 30 gallons of peanut butter every two weeks.

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PASSING TIME

75 YEARS AGO

"Members of the Blue and Gold Dairy Club are busy preparing to entertain the dairy short course men who will be here February 8 to 18 inclusive. The main event will be a program at the Varsity Theatre, Monday, February 8. . . The first number of the program presented by the club men will be the "Dairy Maids" chorus. Students should attend for the purpose of identifying their friends in the costumes of milkmaids."

The California Aggie
— Feb 8, 1926

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