After winning a grueling game against rival Sacramento State to close the season, coach Bob Biggs and quarterback Randy Wright talked at the press conference about how senior linebacker Jordan Glass was the most valuable player on the team this year. The senior communications major from Elk Grove, Calif. transferred to Davis after playing two […]

Artist: Big Dipper Title: Crashes on the Platinum Planet Rating: 3/5 I didn’t want to like Big Dipper’s Crashes on the Platinum Planet. I procured the album from a culling of the KDVS latest “top albums” list and sunk my teeth into it with the usual guarded interest. There were points when I despised the […]

Artist: Captain Murphy Album: Duality Rating: 3/5 If you like your hip-hop with a good dose of sci-fi and downtempo breaks wrapped in a crackled and smoky cocoon of unmastered mix-tape sound quality, then you’re invited to take a trip through Duality. The style is reminiscent of other sonic explorers in the genre, such as […]

This Sunday evening at 8 p.m., the good boys and girls of UC Davis are cordially invited to come down to the TCS building to kick off the X-Mas season with one of the most crap-tacular holiday specials ever conceived. The evening’s festivities will revolve around an ingeniously edited video collage of the most abominable […]

The UC Davis men’s cross country team graduated a couple of key racers and were in need of a front-runner for the squad. They found it in sophomore Trevor Halsted. The young racer stepped up in a big way for the Aggies, after a very quiet freshman campaign. Halsted was the top UC Davis finisher […]

Getting a cow for Christmas might be bizarre, and it also might not be a very good gift. But don’t worry — there are other more useful non-mooing things or perhaps knick-knacks that say, “This gift is from Davis.” Christmas is fast approaching, and yet, so are finals. There is really no time to think […]

During Summer Session II, I took ENL 178 with Professor Stephen Magagnini. The class description was dry, but it ended up being the most enjoyable, enlightening class I’ve taken at Davis. This speaks volumes, because I generally do not like things. On the last day, our class met at the professor’s house, where we took […]

Kendrick Lamar once said, “Life is a traffic jam.” Pedaling through the Davis Quad, as just one of over 32,000 students on this campus, I see traffic. But raised from the concrete of Los Angeles, whose cracks swallow life every day, I know a jam bigger than a busy intersection. Here’s how. In a country […]

The celebration over the passage of Proposition 30 has died down, and now many students are left with burning questions about what happens next. In Griffin Lounge this past Tuesday, Kelly Ratliff, the UC Davis vice chancellor for Budget and Institutional Analysis, answered these questions. Organized by the Student Assistants to the Chancellor (SAC), the […]

After claiming their third Mountain Pacific Sports Federation women’s gymnastics championship in a row last year, the Aggie gymnasts are seeking to extend their title streak to four years straight. The team, coached by MPSF coach of the year John Lavallee along with MPSF assistant coach of the year Tamara Ross, will be led by […]

In a matter of days, young adults everywhere will be free from torturous finals and projects only to be released into the open arms of overbearing family members. Although winter break is only three weeks, it definitely feels like a lifetime. We all leave school wanting to be home and realize within a few hours […]

POETRY Joshua McKinney Today, 8 p.m., free John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. Dr. Andy Jones, host and organizer of the Poetry Night Reading Series, is bringing Joshua McKinney to perform his work at the Natsoulas Gallery. A multidimensional man, McKinney not only has three award-winning books and hundreds of journalistic publications, he also holds […]