The United States Postal Service (USPS) is considering closing the Downtown Davis Post Office along with approximately 3,600 other post offices across the nation. To compensate their struggles with decreasing revenue, the USPS also decided to increase postage stamp fees from 44 to 45 cents beginning Jan. 22. A public meeting was held on Dec. […]

UC Davis recently received a donation of $10 million to go toward the construction of a new art museum. Named after donors Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Farrow, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Farrow Museum of Art is slated for completion in 2015. The museum is part of the plan for the university’s new […]

As a student suffering the quarter system, it is likely you or a friend has turned into a pot-hugging coffee addict. You are not alone. Among coffee consumers — myself included — the average American has 3.1 cups per day. But before you decide to cut back or drink more, read on. You may finish […]

Vivian Zhao, second year graduate student in linguistics. The Aggie: What are you wearing? Zhao: “My pants are Urban Outfitters. Actually everything I’m wearing is from Urban Outfitters. My boots are Nine West and my bag is from Bakers.” Where do you find inspiration? “Online, mostly. I like Stockholm Street Style.” How did you decide […]

Beer, party, overslept, studying, finals, houseboats, Picnic Day (Picnic Day, Picnic Day), poor and starving. What do all of those words have in common, you might be wondering? Well, odds are if you go to Davis (which, seeing as you are currently holding the Davis paper in your hands, is a good bet), you’ve probably […]

Imagine waking up every day, getting ready to go to class and fearing for your life as you walk to campus. That is the experience that I, along with my neighbors on Russell Boulevard face daily. Crossing Russell at California Avenue to get to campus is like playing a twisted, real-life version of Frogger. It’s […]

At around 8:30 a.m. Monday the Yolo County Superior Court received a bomb threat, according to a press release from the Court. Court officials, along with the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department and Woodland Police Departments, evacuated all court facilities. Members of the California Highway Patrol and West Sacramento Police Department also joined in a bomb […]

If there’s one thing we can say about Chancellor Katehi since the pepper spray incident of Nov. 18, 2011, it’s that her public relations campaign has been extremely effective at quelling calls for her resignation. Excessive pandering to student concerns with town hall forums reached absurd, almost pathetic levels before winter break, not to mention […]

He’s majoring in exercise biology and economics, minoring in management and technology. He’s at the CoHo cash registers taking your ticket slips. But most importantly, he’s at almost all UC Davis sporting event. His name is Akshar Gopal and his official title is “marketing and promotions intern,” but he’s best known as the “Aggie Pack […]

Welcome to 2012, a year wrought with the promise of anguish and disappointment. Hell, add fear to that list as well. The President has just further secured his legal ability to detain you without trial through the National Defense Authorization Act For The Fiscal Year 2012, and though the legislation was passed in 2011, this […]

THURSDAY More money, more problems Someone gave a transient money but the transient was asking for more, on Mace Boulevard. FRIDAY Field of Screams A man was in a baseball field yelling and banging on random objects on B Street. No ifs or ands allowed either Someone threw a cigarette butt onto the road on 11th Street. […]

Students following the UC budget battles would do well to remember Sun Tzu’s well-worn maxim: “All war is deception.” With the latest round of budget cuts prompting the usual protestations from UC administrators, one might be excused for believing that the UC system has been, in the words of budget VP Patrick Lenz, “cut to […]