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Monthly Archives - May 2011

May 2011 Archives

News in Brief: Graduate student union ballot counting to resume

Campus NewsMay 5, 2011
The United Auto Workers Local 2865 (UAW) election committee voted to continue counting ballots from the union’s election after counting was halted Saturday.

Letters to the Editor: Whole Earth Festival

OpinionMay 5, 2011
It is unfortunate that anyone who reads Lena’s opinion piece [in Monday’s issue titled “Mayday”], without any prior knowledge of the Whole Earth Festival, might assume it is an event that is centered around vapid drug use.

Letters to the Editor: Destruction of the Domes

OpinionMay 5, 2011
It is hard to not get really cynical about the true workings that go on in the higher echelons of the UC administration. It is well documented that UC Regents use their position to gain filthy lucre at the expense of the students and the UC’s reputation as one of the best public education organizations in the world. The corruption runs deep.

Letters to the Editor: Article misrepresentation

OpinionMay 5, 2011
I am writing to request my objection to misquoting and misrepresentation in Jason Alpert’s “Peaceful Rally” piece from Tuesday.

For the love of the game

SportsMay 5, 2011
It’s almost midnight and former Aggie Andy Suiter has already spent a day on the job. He’s leaving work and has a six and a half hour bus ride looming in the near future before he arrives in a new city and gets ready for tomorrow. Suiter doesn’t have a normal nine to five job – he’s a professional baseball player.

Fire Department enforces maximum occupancy levels

City NewsMay 5, 2011
Maximum occupancy levels have become a hot topic after the City of Davis Fire Department began enforcing codes more strictly on Picnic Day.

Editorial: Respect TA rights

OpinionMay 5, 2011
The University of California and the union that represents teaching assistants and readers recently came to an agreement on a new contract. Despite this, some of the 12,000 graduate students represented by United Auto Workers 2865 claim they are consistently overworked by professors.

Editorial: Denials on the path to privatization

OpinionMay 5, 2011
The University of California is headed toward privatization. UC officials deny it, but recent data out of the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) reveal a different plan.

Davis Art Center’s Classical Guitar series wraps with Trio 7

Arts & CultureMay 5, 2011
Though rock guitarists like Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix are known all over the world, classical guitar is a bit more obscure.

Column: Your mom rules.

OpinionMay 5, 2011
It’s almost that time of year again: Mother’s Day. You nearly forgot, didn’t you?

Column: Somewhere only nerds know

OpinionMay 5, 2011
Every summer, 130,000 nerds flock to San Diego for the event of a lifetime. With tickets that continue to sell out as quickly as *NSYNC seats in 2001, Comic-Con is the fourth-largest convention in the world. Contrary to popular belief, Comic-Con isn’t just about your Spidermen and your Green Hornets/Lanterns. In the last decade or so, the convention has become the ultimate place to be for all things pop culture.

Column: Osama-jectivity

OpinionMay 5, 2011
This week has been a veritable smorgasbord of media coverage on the death of Osama bin Laden, and for once, such a banquet is justified. Unlike Donald Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the circumstances surrounding President Obama’s birth, this story is a swift reminder that whether our President was born in America or not, his executive heart is with the families who lost their loved ones in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and there is simply nothing more American than that.