At Tuesday night’s Davis City Council meeting, the council unanimously voted to begin the process of examining an ordinance that would place limitations on underage drinking. The Minor Alcohol Preclusion Act Ordinance would make it illegal for anyone under 21 years old to have a blood alcohol content equal to or greater than .01 percent […]

Allen Banez graduated from the University of California system in 1988. After seeing the recent lambasting of UC Davis students by the gauzy orange burn of pepper spray, he was inspired to create Evil Boss, a weekly comic making light of the social slavery surrounding the populace. “I was totally disgusted with the UC Davis […]

THEATER Cyrano Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., $8 for students Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th St. Acme Theatre Company in Davis presents Cyrano, a story about heroism with a slight twist of comedy and adventure. The story is about a poet and swordsman named Cyrano who pines for his cousin […]

UC Davis campus police officer Ralph Nuno, along with another unidentified officer, locked the doors of U.S. Bank during a teach-in Wednesday afternoon. English professor Joshua Clover gave a talk on the history of private banks on college campuses. Students sat on the floor of the U.S. Bank office in the Memorial Union for about […]

Following the Nov. 19, 2011 press conference held in response to UC Davis police officers’ pepper spraying of students, Reverend Kristin Stoneking was called to mediate between protesters and UC Davis administration. Stoneking is a United Methodist minister who has served as director of the Cal Aggie Christian Association (CA House) for 13 years. Her […]

Momentum shouldn’t be a problem for the UC Davis gymnastics program in 2012. The Aggies are entering the season coming off of two consecutive Mountain Pacific Sports Federation titles, and a successful 2012 season could result in their fourth championship in five years. “We really hope to maintain our position in the conference and win […]

The University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) recently announced a $1.5 million scholarship initiative that will affect all participating campuses, as the program enters its 50  year anniversary. Funds for scholarships dedicated to the UCEAP will increase from $300,000 to $500,000 a year consecutively for the next three years. An intense growth in student […]

The David and Goliath story of last week’s Iowa Caucus continues to frazzle political analysts, most of whom wrote off Rick Santorum’s chances early in his running. That he could come within eight votes of the Mitt Romney election-industrial complex is, in reflection of his core constituency among social conservatives, nothing short of a miracle. […]

Too many of us are under the comforting illusion that we, humans, are the be-all-end-all of nature’s evolutionary process. We are the smartest, we build the biggest, we fly the highest and are the most creative of anything else out there. Among the numerous fields of study we seem to have mastered, cryptography (code making […]

The UC Davis School of Law is hosting speaker Rebecca MacKinnon today.  MacKinnon, who is a TED Talks speaker and an expert on Chinese internet censorship, will be talking about internet freedom and censorship. The talk takes place at King Hall from 4 to 5 p.m. and is free to the public. — Hannah Strumwasser

Many Asian American students are not identifying themselves as such on their college applications, believing that doing so would hurt their chances of being accepted to top universities, according to recent studies including one at Princeton University. According to these studies, Asian students believe themselves to be evaluated at a higher standard than students of […]

If you’ve been reading political news headlines from websites as diverse as Fox News, MSNBC and the Huffington Post, you are probably under the impression that the U.S. Congress has recently reaffirmed that pizza is indeed a vegetable. Skimming those headlines, it’s easy to scoff at such a ridiculous notion, and easier still to believe […]