There will be a free community-wide festival organized by the Davis Chamber of Commerce from 4:30 to 9 p.m. at the Community Park located at 1405 F Street. Celebrate Davis! is part picnic, part music festival and part business expo. Businesses and organizations will have booths. Davis City Council candidates Lucas Frerichs, Sue Greenwald and […]

For years, students at UC Davis have used the Class Schedule and Registration Guide (CSRG) to plan out their schedules. However, starting in Fall 2012, the CSRG will no longer be printed, and a new Class Search Tool will take its place. The primary reasoning behind the discontinuation of the CSRG was obsolescence. As class […]

The University of California (UC) has announced that it will be consolidating shared services, including routine payroll, benefits, leave management and workforce administration, at UC Riverside as part of its Working Smarter Initiative. Each campus currently operates these functions independently. This new center called UCPath (Payroll, Academic, Personnel, Timekeeping and HR), will begin by serving […]

If you’ve noticed the number of sniffles and sneezes increase exponentially over the past few weeks, do not panic. Avian flu hasn’t reached UC Davis and a new super-cold hasn’t started within the bodies of us college students. The culprit of the extra classroom sounds is allergies. Davis lies in the fertile Central Valley of […]

Applying for Grad School Thinking about applying for graduate school? Whatever your interests are, the decision to go to graduate school is a very serious one, so be sure to think long and hard before committing yourself to a program. Nationally, at least half of all students who begin graduate degree programs fail to finish. […]

Family and graduate student housing apartment complexes Orchard and Solano Parks will be closing in 2014 and 2016, respectively. This separation of closure is to facilitate a transition for existing graduate students living on campus. These complexes are managed by UC Davis Student Housing and will be redeveloped. This means that properties will be closed, […]

In a few years, it will seem almost quaint that anyone ever worked in a video rental store, a record store or even a bookshop. Now that we can transmit movies, songs and books at megabytes per second, getting paid to stand in a room and sell physical storage media suddenly looks as strange and […]

Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and Vice Chancellor Fred Wood announced yesterday the names of the final four candidates for UC Davis Director of Athletics. The announcement is the latest step in a selection process that began in September and has included town hall meetings, third party reports and the advisement of the Recruitment Advisory Committee. […]

Event: NCAA West Regional Where: Stanford Golf Course — Palo Alto, Calif. When: Thursday through Saturday, all day Who to Watch: Matt Hansen competed in the NCAA West Regional last year and showed no signs of first-year jitters. The Los Osos, Calif. native made quite an impression at last year’s regionals hosted by Arizona, where he […]

Rating: 2.5 The Avengers is the fruit of perhaps the greatest marketing gimmick of all time. Make no mistake, this film is so far from any sort of progressive artistic endeavor that we should all hesitate to grant it the rank beyond fan fiction. Fan fiction being the rehash, the ode to, the celebratioTHn of […]

This will come as no surprise to anyone who spent more than three minutes with me this weekend, but “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen may just be the crowning achievement of the human race. Because I could write 8,000 words on the violin composition alone I think it’ll be best to break this […]

This weekend, the UC Davis campus will take advantage of its ability to be used as a forum for groups to celebrate their interests, skills and cultures. The 42nd annual Black Family Day will be hosted on the Quad on Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. The event will include food, a children’s fair, student […]