Sacramento, the NBA and the Kings announced yesterday that a tentative agreement was reached to finance a new arena and keep the Kings in Sacramento for the foreseeable future. The agreement was attained by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Kings owners the Maloof family and NBA Commissioner David Stern at the end of several days of […]

I am writing this letter as a member of the UC Davis community, proudly serving as a staff member since 2005. Today, as my friend and I left Froggy’s Bar and Grill for a relaxing lunch hour respite, we crossed G Street well within the confines of the crosswalk when a white car driven by […]

Do you hear it? The sound of a slow, jazzy horn section blowing a seductive rhythm? It can only mean one thing: This week, we’re talking about stripping. Specifically, we’re talking about how to strip for your lover if you’re someone who has never tried anything so brazenly exhibitionist. Because it is a type of […]

If there was one thing that made the UC Davis communal-living and saliva-exchanging culture induced cold season bearable, it was the warmth and relief of a $1 cup of ASUCD Coffee House (CoHo) hot tea. Of course, for all the specificity that grammar can bring, this is in past tense, a relic of better days […]

Baseball Brett Morgan extended his hit streak to five games and David Popkins’ big weekend at the plate helped the UC Davis baseball team rally to take two of three games from Cal State Bakersfield at Hardt Field in Southern California. UC Davis saw its four-game winning streak snapped on Sunday, but sits at 5-2 […]

This year marks the UC Education Abroad Program’s (UC EAP) 50-year anniversary. EAP is offered throughout all 10 UC campuses, and has allowed for thousands of students to acquire global experience in pursuit of academic and personal enrichment. Starting in 1962, UC EAP sent their first group of participants to a university in Bordeaux, France. […]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? If the professor on “Gilligan’s Island” can make a radio out of coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat? Why does Nickelback suck so badly? Ahh, the timeless questions of life. Unfortunately, this is a finance column so I have to steer clear of […]

Tonight the ASUCD Academic Affairs Commission will be hosting the Last Lecture Series, featuring Professor Emeritus Louis Grivetti. Grivetti’s lecture, titled “From Dinosaurs to Chocolate: Taking the Road Less Traveled,” will talk about his career path that began with paleontology and then expanded as he began research on the history of chocolate. The event will […]

Fifth Street in Downtown Davis is notorious for the dangers it presents to bikers. The heavily trafficked street currently lacks bike lanes, creating a hazard both for bikers trying to use the street and the cars that have to avoid them. Now that the Davis City Council has approved the Fifth Street Corridor Project for […]

The beginning of January marked a trend of burglaries and attempted burglaries around the city of Davis. So far, at least 19 burglaries have been reported, with four of them being attempted burglaries. The number of home burglaries and attempted burglaries were calculated over a period of two time cycles. The Davis Police Crime Analysis […]

THURSDAY You get used to it Someone new to California was concerned about drug use on Shasta Drive. Trespassing is tiring Someone heard snoring noises coming from the attic while home alone on Impala Place. FRIDAY Vampires don’t recycle There was a blood trail running from a kitchen to a dumpster on Mace Boulevard. SATURDAY […]

The common practice of bring-your-kid-to-work-day has been turned on its head. Parents of the Millennial Generation are following their children, many new college graduates, to the workplace. Findings from a survey released earlier this month by Michigan State University entitled “Parent Involvement in the College Recruiting Process: To What Extent?” show this trend continuing. Surveyors […]