The Roots Undun The Island Def Jam Music Group Rating: 5 The Roots 13th album, release in December 2011, doesn’t disappoint. It is a concept album about the fictional character Redford Stevens, from Sufjan Steven’s song “Redmond,” who lives his short life in urban poverty. The album expands on the sound of its 2010 release […]

On Jan. 15 and 16, the UC Regents held their first meeting of the year at UC Riverside. The regents meeting was once again interrupted by students protesting the increased cost of tuition. Protesters began a general assembly during the public comment session and the campus police cleared the room. This event makes it clear […]

Teams: UC Davis at UC Santa Barbara; at Cal Poly Records: Aggies, 12-6 (4-2); Gauchos 8-9 (3-3); Mustangs 6-12 (3-3) Where: Thunderdome — Santa Barbara, Calif.; Mott Gym — San Luis Obispo, Calif. When: Thursday at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 4 p.m. Who to Watch: It has been a season of milestones for UC Davis, […]

Sophia Chang is an artist from and living and working in New York City. As a recent graduate from Parson’s Design School, she’s young — very young. Certainly younger than one might expect when looking at the array of impressively high-profile clients accrued, and then shown off with artful style, on her website “esymai.com” — […]

The first and third Thursdays of every month are Poetry Nights at the John Natsoulas Gallery, located at 521 First St. Jan. 19’s poet of the moment was Rae Gouirand, whose first collection of poetry, titled “Open Winter,” was published in fall 2011. Gouirand has taught writing at UC Davis, UC Davis Extension and many […]

Teams: UC Davis vs. UC Santa Barbara; vs. Cal Poly Records: Aggies, 1-17 (0-6); Gauchos, 9-7 (4-2); Mustangs, 12-8 (3-4) Where: The Pavilion When: Thursday at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 7 p.m. Who to watch:  This isn’t the senior season Eddie Miller would have hoped for. One of only two seniors on the Aggie roster, […]

In 2007, the San Francisco Bay area fell victim to an event called the Cosco Busan oil spill. While the amount of oil spilled was relatively small, the effects on the marine life were anything but minor. Researchers from UC Davis and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) conducted experiments to see the effects that […]

It was three in the morning, and once again I couldn’t sleep. As I usually do when I can’t sleep, I turned on the TV and flipped to the most boring program I could find. Since it was three in the morning, I ended up watching infomercials. “Are you ready for the INSANITY challenge?!?” “I […]

Finlay Pilcher, senior civil engineering major The Aggie: What are you wearing? Pilcher: “A Forever 21 sweater, Zara skirt, Topshop over-the-knee socks and Frye shoes. My necklace is J. Crew.” How did you decide what to wear today? “I’m pretty inspired by how people dress in the UK since I studied abroad there for a […]

If your student wallet is like mine, it is probably full of wishful thinking instead of money. And if you love to eat, an obvious shortcoming is not being able to afford pricey foods. Yet in an effort to stay healthy, many students continue to overspend on nutrition. In an effort to save money, many […]

The UC Davis cosmological physics department discovered post-collision galaxy clusters 5 million light years away which may hold the potential to illuminate many mysteries of the universe. The Musket Ball Cluster, so named because it is older and slower moving than the Bullet Cluster, represents the aftermath of two galaxy clusters which moved through each […]

The 2020 Initiative, a proposal to increase overall student enrollment within the coming years, began work this month in the form of task forces to outline an implementation process. The proposal was introduced by Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi in Fall quarter. If the proposal is enacted, an additional 5,000 students will be enrolled and 300 […]