Daily Archives - May 17, 2012
May 17 2012 Archives
Column: Holy finale
Arts & CultureMay 17, 2012
Everyone is dying. The world, scratch that, MY world is ending. It’s May, and all of my dear television shows are reaching their season finales. As I write this, my roommate and I are struggling to load the seven-minute preview of tonight’s “Grey’s Anatomy” season finale. And let me tell you — I’m already willing […]
Patti Smith
Arts & CultureMay 17, 2012
Patti Smith hit the stage last Wednesday, May 9 at the Mondavi Center in Jackson Hall. Smith read from and promoted her memoir Just Kids, sang some of her own songs and from other artists and talked about her life. Smith wore a white dress shirt, a black tie and a black coat with brown […]
Creative Media expansion offers new student positions as demand for services increase
Campus NewsMay 17, 2012
ASUCD unit Creative Media is currently hiring new student graphic designers and computer programmers to meet the increasing demand for campus-wide design services. Creative Media is design firm that provides print and web design for students, businesses and ASUCD units to help publicize events and services and to facilitate communication. Creative Media is led by […]
Arts Week
Arts & CultureMay 17, 2012
THEATRE/MONDAVI Studio 301: RENT Tonight through Sunday 8 p.m., Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Wyatt Pavillion, $16 (general)/$14 (student) Studio 301 Productions brings the world-famous Tony-and-Pulitzer-Prize-winning rock musical RENT to Wyatt Pavillion starting tonight. The show is directed by Mitchell VanLandingham with musical direction by Elizabeth Tremaine and stage manager Marissa Saravis. The Memorandum Tonight […]
Light me a candle
Arts & CultureMay 17, 2012
As much of an avid RENT fan as I claim to be, I sadly have never once seen a live staging of this classic musical. Even though I’ve watched many hazy clips of the Broadway version on Youtube, I’ve always wondered what it would be like to see actors acting and singing the musical in […]
Column: Non-opinion on Occupy
OpinionMay 17, 2012
On the afternoon of Nov. 18 last year, my friend and I had been sitting in the CoHo making travel plans for Christmas break. Afterwards I decided to go to the library to work on a paper. It was grey outside and I was worried that it might start raining soon. But then something much […]
UC Davis students start independent press
City NewsMay 17, 2012
As Pablo Picasso once said, “action is the fundamental key to all success.” Most have heard some variation of this advice many times over; UC Davis students, Corey La Rue and Evan White, took it to heart. As aspiring writers, La Rue, a senior philosophy major, and White, a senior English major, understand the difficulty […]

Surging Ahead
BaseballMay 17, 2012
With an offense that is consistently scoring, UC Davis baseball has now won four of its last five games after two midweek victories. Sophomore pitcher Evan Wolf gave the team a much-needed quality start on Monday and the Aggies scored a season-high 12 runs on nine hits in Tuesday’s make up game at Blethen Field […]
Campus Judicial Report
Campus NewsMay 17, 2012
Rethink About Regrading A junior economics major was referred to SJA for altering a quiz and submitting it for regrading after it had been graded and returned. Because copies of the graded quizzes were made before they were handed back to the students, it was evident to the TA that the student had added and […]
Editorial: Worth it?
OpinionMay 17, 2012
In 2006, ASUCD chose to no longer be a part of the University of California Student Association (UCSA). UCSA is a coalition that unites UC campuses to lobby for higher education. One of ASUCD’s main issues with UCSA is the cost. The minimum dues to the association is $1.30 per student. This cost is huge […]
