Teams: UC Davis at Pacific Records: Aggies, 1-16 (0-5); Tigers, 5-11 (1-4) Where: Alex G. Spanos Center — Stockton, Calif. When: Saturday at 7 p.m. Who to watch: Sophomore guard Tyler Les can shoot the basketball with the best in the country. The son of former NBA player and current UC Davis head coach Jim […]

Event: Spartan Invite Teams: No. 16 UC Davis, No. 17 UC Santa Barbara, No. 2 California, Santa Clara University and No. 5 San Jose State University Records: Aggies (0-0); Gauchos (0-0); Golden Bears (0-0); Broncos (0-0); Spartans (0-0) Where: San Jose State Aquatics Center When: Saturday 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.; Sunday 10:30 a.m. and […]

SUNDAY Going through withdrawals Someone was sleeping in an ATM kiosk on E Street. MONDAY Foul play Someone was speeding in a car and waving a bat out of the window on First Street. TUESDAY Making it easy An unlocked bike was stolen on Drexel Drive. Ninja in training Someone was behaving suspiciously and wearing […]

Since UC Berkeley’s initiation of the Middle Class Access Plan last month, UC-wide administration has placed the possible reworking of financial aid at the forefront of conversation. UC Berkeley’s plan attempts to halt the decrease of middle-income students by capping tuition costs for families who make between $80,000 and $140,000 annually at 15 percent of […]

On Jan. 11, the Pantry, a student-run program that provides UC Davis students with meals and basic necessities free of charge, marked its one-year anniversary. Located in 21 Lower Freeborn, the Pantry is brought to students by ASUCD, the Community Advising Network and the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs. The program strives […]

Teams: UC Davis vs. Air Force Where: The Pavilion When:  Sunday at 1 p.m. Who to watch: Junior Michelle Ho was announced as the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Gymnast of the Week on Tuesday. It is the third such honor of her career at UC Davis. The award came after Sunday’s meet at Stanford in […]

Writing in an era before political correctness, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described unwarranted faith in electoral politics as “parliamentary cretinism.” Stricken by this disease, politicians and their constituents imagine that “the whole world, its history and its future are directed and determined by a majority of votes.” Under the influence of this chronic disorder, […]

Artist:  Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes Album: Civilized Man Label: Daniel Ellsworth Music Rating: 3 “Indie” is too broad a term. Critics and music fans like genres and categorizations because they make it easier to say, “Well, it’s kind of like…” I felt the need to address this because Daniel Ellsworth & The Great […]

Over winter break, a group of eight UC Davis students set out from Guatemala City in a rented microbus, which was navigated through pothole-filled roads along the flowering cane fields and volcanoes. Four and a half hours later the group arrived in Coatepeque, San Marcos, 15 minutes away from the mountain town of Sintana, where […]

It’s that time of the month. No, not THAT time, you pervert. Rather, that time of the month we court the “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” topic of sex. I use air quotations because I just overheard a girl yell out, in mathematical terms, an account of a certain late-night dalliance –– “subtract clothes, divide legs, add a bed […]

The University of California Regents met Wednesday and are reconvening today at UC Riverside for their first of six yearly meetings. Topics for discussion include the regents’ yearly diversity report and the amount of private fiscal support the UC system brought in last year, which totaled $1.6 billion, a $250 million increase from last year. […]

The Research Works Act, a bill introduced to the House of Representatives by Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-49), proposes to keep federal agencies from distributing privately or publicly funded scientific research without the consent of the publishers. The bill, formally called HR-3699, states, “No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any […]