This week, students can apply for UC Davis Summer Abroad and secure their spot in one day. The UC Davis Summer Abroad program is usually 4 weeks and students receive 8 units. The programs are led by UC faculty. There are still spots open in programs in Argentina, Australia, the United Kingdom, Chile and more. […]

College is absolutely amazing. There’s a party every five minutes and the sex is just as prevalent as Smirnoff vodka. My tenure was occupied with track, theatre, work, wine nights, sitcoms and tons of “studying.” I got to learn a lot while surprisingly sleeping just as much. Seriously, college is amazing. Except, it didn’t prepare […]

Awaken, my column, and embrace the glory that is your birthright. Know that I am the Graduate Student, the eternal will of lab and library, and that you have been created to serve me. Undergraduates often get all the press when it comes to universities, though not without cause. Of the more than 32,000 students […]

The UC Davis women’s tennis team traveled to the Aloha state over spring break, but by no means was this a vacation. The Aggies battled with 53rd-ranked Hawai’i and then faced off against Division II powerhouse Hawai’i Pacific on back-to-back days. After splitting the weekend matchups, UC Davis holds a 6-10 record with six matches […]

Pacific announced Thursday that it would be leaving the Big West Conference for the West Coast Conference beginning in the 2013-14 school year. Pacific will return to the WCC after leaving the league for the Big West (formerly known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association) over 40 years ago. Pacific’s announcement comes as the Big […]

The Aggies entered spring break looking to build some momentum as they prepared to return to Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play this week. UC Davis put together some strong performances over the last two weeks, going 2-2 to bring their overall record to 5-5. Monday, March 19 — UC Davis 18, Central Connecticut 6 The […]

Last week, the UC Board of Regents held their March meeting Thursday and Friday at UCSF Mission Bay. At the three-day meeting, the Regents discussed the 2012-13 UC budget. They also discussed a multi-year plan for UC that would potentially provide stability for UC finances and for UC students in the future. The university has […]

Today, the Bike Barn will be opening a satellite location in the Memorial Union (MU). This location will be known as the Bike Hub and can be found in MU 156. “For many years now we have become increasingly more aware of how small the Bike Barn space is,” said Shell Sumerel, Bike Hub manager. […]

Twelve protesters involved in the U.S. Bank blockade on campus have been ordered to court by the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office on misdemeanor charges. The protesters have been ordered to the Yolo Superior Court on April 27. They are facing charges of a conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor and a misdemeanor by “willfully and […]

The University of California is working on a proposal which would give new students the option of stating their sexual orientation on their Student Intent to Register forms. The measure was initiated by the Academic Senate for UC and will be in the form of a voluntary questionnaire. According to Dianne Klein, media relations for […]

According to University of California General Counsel Charles Robinson, the public release of the task force has been postponed beyond the first week of April. The decision, made by California Supreme Court Associate Justice and chair of the pepper spray task force Cruz Reynoso, is the fourth time the report has been postponed. Robinson emphasized […]

Food trucks. Little mobile gourmet dispensaries that make anyone with any enthusiasm for eating at all think, “Duh.” A quickly growing trend in the food service industry, trucks are a way for adventurous foodies to make their gourmet specialties available to the masses. In a 2011 “What’s Hot” survey of 1,500 chefs, the National Restaurant […]