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2011 Archives

News-in-brief: Regents meeting scheduled for today

Campus NewsNovember 28, 2011
The UC Regents meeting is scheduled to take place today at 8:30 a.m. Public comment will start at 9 a.m. and has been extended from 20 minutes to a full hour. Some of the regents will be on campus in the ARC and the meeting will be teleconferenced from UCSF, UCLA, UC Davis and UC […]

News-in-brief: Katehi to hold faculty and staff open forum

Campus NewsNovember 28, 2011
Chancellor Katehi will be holding a town hall for UC Davis faculty and staff Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Freeborn Hall. Faculty and staff will have a chance to discuss the pepper spray incident with Chancellor Katehi, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter and interim UC Davis Police Chief Matt Carmichael.

Column: Road trippin’

OpinionNovember 28, 2011
I’m a firm believer that college is the perfect time to make all of life’s really bad decisions. I suggest that before graduation, everyone should drink too much, eat too much, party too much and do some really dangerous stuff, like playing tennis with a ball that’s been set on fire. Well, maybe not the […]

Column: It’s all mental

OpinionNovember 28, 2011
It is amazing that two teams can be so similar, and yet at the same time so different. UC Davis men’s and women’s basketball both started this year with a new head coach, and without a pair of last season’s stars. Both teams even employ zone defenses and preach a strategy that emphasizes holding opponents […]

Students’ rights come into question after pepper-spraying incident

City NewsNovember 28, 2011
On Nov. 18, the police pepper sprayed non-violent UC Davis student protesters — and they spurred a worldwide debate about free speech, peaceable assembly and police brutality. The incident has brought up such questions as: were first amendment rights to free speech and peaceable assembly confiscated from students? Were police using excessive force? Will Creeley, […]

In Review: Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Arts & CultureNovember 28, 2011
The UC Davis Theater Department’s fall season production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a worthy rendition of the original, written by Tom Stoppard. Absurdest in nature, the two and a half hour long play sees to it that the secondary characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (originally from Hamlet) get their share of existential reasoning. […]

General Strike workshops: An abridged schedule

Campus NewsNovember 28, 2011
8 a.m. Yoga Amanda Hodson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources Sacred Space: (Blue Dome on the Quad) 10 a.m. Reflecting on the Now: Where is Occupy in the Future of Protest Professor Robyn Waxman, Professor of Design, Sacramento City College & Founder of Future Action Reclamation Mob (FARM) […]

Column: Small talk

OpinionNovember 23, 2011
I know it’s “like freezing cold” outside, that autumn leaves are cute, that there are just a few days ‘til Thanksgiving. I know homework and testing is the hellish bane of your existence … but small talk is the bane of mine. Why won’t anyone tell me something new? Most importantly, why must everyone interminably […]

Letter to the editor: Aggie pride

OpinionNovember 23, 2011
I cannot begin to express my overwhelming pride in our community that I felt at Monday’s rally. At the same time, I am deeply, deeply humbled by the solidarity and commitment displayed and felt at the event. I am writing today as a person who never really participated in any protest, and even less so […]

Davis business picks up and delivers laundry

City NewsNovember 23, 2011
For students who find themselves too busy to do their laundry, Davis’ own The Laundry Lounge can take care of that for them. After scheduling of an appointment, a Laundry Lounge van will pick up dirty laundry from a given location, take it to be washed and then return it for free. Owners, siblings Max […]

Scientists search for answers to the universe’s questions

Science & TechnologyNovember 23, 2011
Every night our sky is lit up with pinpricks of light constituting the billions of stars and galaxies that fill our universe. And every night, although imperceptible to the human eye, those pinpricks of light are farther and farther away. Our universe is expanding, but contrary to logic, gravity is not slowing down the expansion. […]

So close

Men's Water PoloNovember 23, 2011
For the third time in five years and second straight season, the UC Davis men’s water polo team advanced to the Western Water Polo Association championship game. Unfortunately, the Aggies lost to UC San Diego by one goal, with an inspiring comeback falling just short. UC Davis ended its season with a record of 22-12, […]