Last Wednesday, UC Davis students joined UC Berkeley students in Sacramento to lobby legislators in a press conference and rally regarding the UC budget cuts and tuition hikes. About 100 students, approximately 50 from UC Davis and 50 from UC Berkeley, bused to the state capital early Wednesday morning and congregated on the steps of […]

There could not have been a more fitting ending. Senior Betsy Sedlak recorded the block to give UC Davis a 3-0 win over Pacific, drawing cheers from the crowd as the Aggies finished their season with a victory. It was the final game in the career of both Sedlak, who leads UC Davis in career […]

Cross Country This afternoon the fastest collegiate runners from across the nation will assemble for the NCAA Division I Championship. For the second consecutive year, senior Jonathan Peterson will represent the Aggies as the sole runner for UC Davis. Peterson is one of 38 collegiate athletes from across the country that will be running the […]

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Nov. 17 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m. Adam Thongsavat, ASUCD president, present Bree Rombi, ASUCD vice […]

On Friday, UC Davis campus police used pepper spray to break up student protesters sitting and linking arms on the Quad. This travesty came at the end of a week of peaceful student protests in defense of public education. This was completely unacceptable, uncalled for and inappropriate. Police should not have used pepper spray or […]

I feel insulted, I feel betrayed, I feel horrified and, quite frankly, I feel more unsafe on campus than I have ever felt. Yet, after being part of the protest outside the press conference Saturday, I feel impressed by the eloquence of my fellow students. Like so many others, I’d assumed that violence toward protesters […]

It’s hard for me to imagine just exactly how bad it is to get a face-full of pepper spray. What’s even more difficult for me to understand is how it might have felt to sit on the ground with my arms entwined in a show of peaceful solidarity and be subjected to what has become […]

The atmosphere in the Pavilion was electric. Nearly 4,500 fans filled the arena as Stanford came to Davis to revisit the site of the Aggies 64-58 upset over the Cardinal in 2005. No such drama would ensue this time, however, as UC Davis fell 70-49. The Aggies got off to a slow start, as the […]

The last of four town hall meetings to discuss the hiring of a new athletics director was held on Wednesday. Like the three previous meetings, the talk centered on the Dempsey Report, which proposes paths for UC Davis athletics to make a transition from the current “educational model” to a “business model.” The change could […]

The California Aggie would like to express thanks to all of the students and community members who commented on and directly addressed disappointment and upset over the column “Jungle Fever,” which ran in The California Aggie last Tuesday. It is important that newspapers be considered a place for self-expression and a catalyst for facilitating discussion […]

UC Davis students could receive free preventative care services ranging from diet counseling to vaccines to lab testing at the on-campus Student Health and Wellness Center (SHWC). But they are paying. Since Sept. 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has mandated that all health insurance plans cover clinical preventative services without patient co-pay. Effective […]

No one should take anything away from the UC Davis football team’s win in the Causeway Classic on Saturday. The Aggies fought hard, ran the ball well and ultimately came away victorious in what most fans would consider their most important game of this season. Yet as I watched the final seconds tick off the […]