THURSDAY Too cool to stand Someone refused to get up and move their car because their legs were cold on Vista Way. FRIDAY Knock on wood Someone uprooted a tree and put it in across a door on B Street. Mow them down Several landscapers were up on the roof of a house on Waxwing […]

Senior Tom Briner pitched his second straight complete game and the bats stayed hot to help lead UC Davis to its third straight Big West Conference series win. Senior first baseman Eric Johnson went 8-10 in the two victories, scoring four times with two RBI. The Aggies’ season-high four-game win streak was snapped in the […]

As a fellow Davis student and reader of The Aggie, I would just like to thank you for your column published last Wednesday on “the crowning achievement of the human race.” As a heterosexual, 6’5”, well-built male, I agree with Mr. Verderosa 100 percent on the musicality and overall brilliance of Carly Rae Jepsen’s breakout […]

A brawny mechanic in an oil-stained suit flings open the door of his boss’ trailer office. As one of the 58 UC Davis Grounds Maintenance employees, Enrique Garcia identifies himself with Dixon, Calif. rather than his home country, Mexico. Immigrants often work physical jobs such as groundskeeper or custodian. Thirty percent of the grounds laborers […]

While several Davis teachers turned their back on a meeting with the Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) to show their outrage at a proposal to cut their salaries by 5 percent, other community members voted in Measure C. Others still discussed the potential of the Davis Schools Foundation launching a campaign to raise $500,000. […]

Last week, ASUCD held its annual budget hearings, which ran for a total of 33 hours. The $10.7 million budget is up for contention and debate on where money should be allocated. However, only 20 percent of the budget is really maneuverable, as the other 80 percent is locked into Unitrans, Cal Aggie Camp and the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP). Unfortunately, […]

It was a sad day for Aggie employees when Woodstock’s Pizza announced it would be segregating Thursday trivia night. Like many regular participants of the trivia night, we developed a routine of showing up early and quickly pooling our knowledge of possible trivia categories. Some of us bought soda, some of us bought beer. But […]

The percentage of California high school graduates entering the state’s public higher education has fallen 20 percent in the last five years, shows a recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). The report examined the impact of state disinvestment in higher education on the percentage of high school graduates enrolling in University […]

Dear Professor Celestia: Today, I learned that, despite the depictions of academics as introverts who labor alone in the lab or library, real research is a team sport. For a grad student to succeed, they must make use of the many mentors available to them. From the advisor who signs your papers and keeps you […]

Everyone knows that politics is an ugly business. Vicious barbs, blatant distortions and character attacks are almost expected, part of the game in the same way that taxes are a part of life. Civil, cooperative politics is an ideal from another era, a golden age that may or may not have existed but is held […]

May is the worst time of the year. School’s ending, so that means more finals and parties and less studying and sleep than there should be. Season finales do terrible things like kill off my favorite characters (Lexie!) and keep me emotionally unhinged for three months. For as long as I can remember, my life […]

With rising tuition costs, students are facing tough financial decisions in order to maintain a UC education. For some students, the rising cost of tuition can even mean forgoing housing and daily meals in order to study at UC Davis. While a majority of the student population can afford to pay student fees, rent and […]