PEACENIKS ... The university ranked 23rd on the Peace Corps' 2005 list of "top producing" colleges and universities. "Throughout the years, your institution has made a tremendous contribution to this agency's global legacy of public service," wrote Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez in a Jan. 31 letter to Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef. The University of Wisconsin, Madison, was ranked number one, followed by the University of Washington and then UC Berkeley ...

LIFESAVERS ... Campus employees saved a Carmichael man from a heart attack Feb. 5. The 66-year-old man, whose name was not released, suffered the heart attack in a parking lot near the Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital, where he had just dropped off his pet dog for treatment. Jennifer Boyle, Shannon Riggs and Janelle Wierenga, all employees of the veterinary teaching hospital, gave the man assistance until Fire Capt. Dave Stiles, engineer Gina Updegraff and firefighter Nicole Vlahos responded to the scene. They used a defibrillator to revive him ...

STADIUM ... Athletics Director Greg Warzecka says "the campus is trying, everyone is working hard" to finish building the multiuse stadium in time for the 2006 football season. He said the $29.75 million project is complicated. "It's like building a house: You never know when you're going to finish it and close escrow." He took issue with a Sacramento Bee article and headline that emphasized him saying "it's 50-50 at this point" whether the stadium would be ready this season. The article appeared Feb. 15. The next day, he told Dateline that the stadium has "a good chance of being ready for the 2006 season." He said his statement to The Bee was intended to note the uncertainties that could delay the stadium. They include rain and the delivery schedule for materials in ways we can't anticipate. "It can throw our construction schedule off." The football schedule, not yet final as of late last week, could help ensure that the Aggies are playing in the new stadium this year. Tentatively, the Aggies would not play their first home game until Week 7, against Central Arkansas, on Oct. 14. That would give the builders as many as seven extra weeks. Under the tentative schedule, the Aggies would open with five road games and a bye, then play five of their final six games at home — either in the new stadium or at Toomey Field ...

BERKELEY? ... Mike Robles, assistant athletics director, said Davis has been negotiating for a game against the Golden Bears of UC Berkeley, but such a matchup had not been announced as of press time. The game would be played at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. For the record, the Aggies are 0-8 against the Bears, with the last game played in 1939 ...

PLAYWRIGHT ... An advance screening of a new documentary film on playwright Eugene O'Neill will take place March 4. Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns (the brother of Ken Burns), which features performances by Al Pacino, Liam Neeson and others, will be shown in its entirety, with a question-and-answer session with Burns and O'Neill biographers Arthur and Barbara Gelb to follow. The event, which is free, begins at 8 p.m. at Mondavi Center.

— Clifton B. Parker, Dave Jones