Next Monday, the UC Davis Warn Me system will be conducting a system test to make sure that the emergency alerting service is working properly. According to a press release, the UC Davis test on Monday will send messages to students and faculty at both Davis and Sacramento campuses and locations. The messages will indicate […]

Taxpayers will fund executive pay raises thanks to a vote yesterday by the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees. The board passed a measure to ask campus foundations to cover the raises for up to 10 percent of new campus presidents. The board created the proposal to lessen outrage about salary hikes. Critics said […]

Recently, after admitting to having earned a bachelor’s degree in English, Mitt Romney waxed pontifical on the wisdom of studying literature: “As an English major, your options are, uh, you better go to graduate school, all right? And find a job from there. You really don’t want to take out $150,000 loan to go into […]

Every year the UC Davis football team plays an intrasquad game to conclude spring practices and give the Aggie football fans something to look forward to for the next year. “The Spring Game is a culmination of the last 14 practices and a chance to display what they’ve been doing for the last five weeks,” […]

Teams: UC Davis vs. Cal State Fullerton Records: Aggies, 22-27 (12-6); Titans 19-29 (7-11) Where: Anderson Family Field — Fullerton, Calif. When: Friday at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.; Saturday at noon Who to watch: Kelly Harman, a former Big West Conference Freshman Field Player of the Year and All-Big West Honorable Mention, will possibly […]

UC Davis came back from an 8-2 deficit in the ninth with two outs to tie the game, but Nevada claimed the 9-8 victory on a squeeze play in the bottom half of the inning. After two groundouts, freshman Tino Lipson jump started the Aggie rally that featured six runs on six hits. With the […]

Adam Yauch, also known as MCA of the Beastie Boys, died this weekend and since then I’ve been trying to figure out how to process his death as well as the end of the Beastie Boys. I was too young to really grow up on any of the pantheon albums or remember specifically where I […]

Davis residents will have the opportunity to vote on the renewal of a Parks Maintenance Tax when it appears on the June 5 ballot. Voting in favor of Measure D would renew a tax that partially funds the upkeep of city parks and greenbelts. The tax would require a two-thirds vote to pass. In the […]

As everyone on campus knows, UC systemwide tuition has increased dramatically in the past decade, particularly in the last three years. In the face of that problem, one big topic of the month is protests that led to the closure of the U.S. Bank branch on this campus. The theory behind these protests is that […]

The ASUCD budget hearings are this weekend, and along with voting on the association’s $11.8 million budget, senators will have to grapple with a new tax to be assessed on ASUCD’s expenses. Starting next year, ASUCD will work toward paying 1.52 percent of its expenses to the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). […]

Event: Big West Championships Where: Anteater Stadium — Irvine, Calif. When:  Friday and Saturday, all day Who to watch: Freshman Raquel Lambdin posted a phenomenal performance at the Sacramento State Open. She led a close 1-2 Aggie finish in the 800-meter run, posting a season-best time of 2:11.57. It is the third fastest time for […]

One third of the world’s population lacks adequate access to healthcare or medicine. According to the mobile statistics company MobiThinking, nearly 90 percent of the world’s population has access to cell phones, many of which are smartphones. So how can we use the high number of cell phones to help increase the number of people […]