THURSDAY No more Ambien Someone was sleeping in the pharmacy section of CVS on East Covell Boulevard. FRIDAY Pancakes with a side of arson Someone was talking about setting things on fire at IHOP on Cowell Boulevard. SATURDAY The One per cent A driver in a Jaguar was throwing coins at cars on Richards Boulevard. […]

UC Davis representatives met with the Museum of Tolerance Jan. 18 in hopes of a collaboration to live in better accord with the campus’ principles of community. The Los Angeles-based multimedia museum, dedicated to the examination of racism and prejudice in the United States, was called upon by the university as a response to the […]

From diaper days to college dorm life, many students could not fathom a day in which they would become authority figures to their parents. For UC Davis senior sociology major Steven Zhang, this dynamic is a daily reality. Zhang turned the family business paradigm on its head in 2007 when he and his brother started […]

As Davis’ brief rainy season finally seems to be descending upon us Aggies, the health-conscious among us head to the ARC en masse, seeking a warm and dry place in which to perform our cardio. However, while in the gym searching for my six-pack abs, all I found was a bit of an environmental disaster: […]

The world is ending on Dec. 21, 2012. Well, at least that is what popular culture and the media say. The supposedly scientific facts circulating the upcoming cataclysmic event sound believable, but there are quite a few skeptics. “Generally, I think of it more academically, as an interesting cultural myth, rather than as a factual, […]

Over the past few weeks, a group of protesters have stationed themselves in front of the U.S. Bank in the Memorial Union, protesting its placement on a public university. While the protesters’ concerns are valid, banks, and any private entity for that matter, can have a functional place on a public college campus. A bank’s […]

When things go wrong it becomes only natural to point the finger. Over the past several months, the talk of the UC Davis athletics community has centered on the struggles of the men’s basketball team. With a team that has yet to defeat a Division I school and has been in and out of the […]

Dairy Field, located next to the University’s Dairy and across the street from Hutchison Field, will begin reconstruction into a multipurpose turf field in the spring. With 36 sports club teams and many Intramural (IM) sports teams from 27 activities, there was a need for an all-purpose, all-weather field, considering not all sports teams require […]

The notion behind the newly implemented Davis Flea Market sprung not from the small town in Northern California after which it is named but from across the Atlantic in Ireland. Lauren Norton arrived in Davis to begin her degree in the UC Davis Master’s Program in Creative Writing with a single suitcase. Norton left an […]

“Will you marry me?” [Beep, beep, pause.] “Let’s just be friends, OK?” ‘Atta girl, Siri. In October, Apple debuted the latest in artificial intelligence, their sharp-witted Siri, as a headlining feature of the iPhone 4S. The voice-recognition software was released in beta, of course, because technology meant to mimic human behavior is bound to fall […]

UC Davis returned to the Pavilion for a second time last week in a triangular meet on Friday that kept hometown fans on the edge of their seats. After leading through the first three rounds, UC Davis was narrowly defeated by California 191.750 to 191.600 in the fourth and final round of the meet. Mountain […]

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Jan. 26 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 6:13 p.m. Adam Thongsavat, ASUCD president, present Bree Rombi, ASUCD vice […]