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 […]

The great Roman orator Cicero asserted that gratitude is the greatest of all virtues. With this in mind, those of us who believe in justice and human dignity should send a sincere “thank you” in the direction of that oft-maligned force, religion. As 21st-century Americans, we tend to take some truths for granted. Murder, racism […]

We have all heard that exercise helps us reduce stress, but did you know that exercise could also help your brain? A research team from the University of Iowa found that resistance training and aerobic exercise both give your brain a boost — but in different ways. Researchers believe that the more you perform focused […]

UC Davis held nothing back on Friday in a 192.900 to 191.350 victory over Mountain Pacific Sports Federation rival Seattle Pacific. The visiting Aggies captured four of five individual titles on their way to their first win since Jan. 22. After a disappointing performance last weekend in which UC Davis struggled to put forward a […]

The Davis Economic Development Roundtable, which took place on Feb. 21, featured presentations by the Davis Cultural Arts Committee, the Davis Chamber of Commerce, the Davis Downtown Business Association (DDBA), Davis Roots, Designing a Sustainable and Innovative Davis Economy (DSIDE), UC Davis and the Yolo County Visitors Bureau. Each group was given a few minutes […]

The Winter 2012 ASUCD election results were announced early Friday afternoon after great anticipation of one of the most competitive election seasons in recent years. Former senators Rebecca Sterling and Yena Bae were successful in their executive bid for office. They won 2,749 votes out of 4,543. In the senate race Joyce Han, Paul Min, […]

It’s funny how you can YouTube just about any song in mainstream circulation right now and be instantly bombarded with viewer comments about what a blatant Lady Gaga rip-off it is. What’s even funnier is that at least 50 percent of these songs are just ordinary branches on the same formulaic dance-pop tree — so […]

The Yolo Basin Foundation held its annual California Duck Days, a wetlands festival, this weekend. There was an opening gala event on Friday night and the festival itself was this past Saturday. The event took place at Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters on Chiles Road, adjacent to the 80 freeway. This was the 17th year […]