Teams: UC Davis vs. Long Beach State Records: Aggies 5-25 (3-13); 49ers 22-8 (15-1) Where: Honda Center — Anaheim, Calif. When: Tonight at 6 p.m.; TBD Who to watch: While defense will be paramount for the Aggies tonight against Long Beach State, the team must also find a way to score above its season-average 62.6 […]

When I pop open a bottle of cool, crisp Coca-Cola on a hot day and take a sip, I trust that the fizzy fluid that floods past my lips will be the same delicious cola I’ve come to know and love since I was a little kid. When I pop open a bottle of boring, […]

On Monday, Feb. 27, a lecture sponsored by the Chai Life Club of UC Davis, Chabad of Davis and the organization StandWithUs, entitled “Israeli Soldiers Speak Out,” was disrupted by hecklers. The organizers of the lecture had requested assistance from the Aggie Host Program a few hours before the event and several police officers were […]

For 80 years, the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) has served as perhaps the most daunting challenge for pre-meds throughout their undergraduate careers, with 43 percent of medical school admissions officers considering the test the most important admissions factor. Starting in 2015, this exam will be receiving a significant overhaul, with the addition of biochemistry […]

Among college students, depression is so common that it is often referred to as the “common cold of mental health concerns” by psychologists. A 2011 survey of UC Davis students, performed by the American College Health Association, showed that 20 percent of students acknowledged feeling so depressed in the last 12 months that it was […]

Pizza, burgers, ramen, burritos and pretty much anything that can be made instantly are part of many college students’ diets. Although these choices might not have immediate health impacts for students beside weight gain, they can lead to a wide variety of problems later in life. “Many students don’t prepare foods for themselves. They get […]

It’s easy to take for granted how well our bodies work, at least most of the time. Bones stay strong and rigid for support, food flows through the digestive tract, and we constantly breathe in and out without conscious thought. Obviously, any one of these things and more can go wrong if you’re unlucky, but […]

Just like any reasonable student, experiencing the aftermath of binge drinking probably didn’t stop you from trying it again. Sure, alcohol damages many things. One is your body. But what many of us care about is curing that dreaded hangover, after the fact. The problem here is that alcohol overdose causes many things to happen, […]

Since the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996, California public institutions are prohibited from observing affirmative action. In eradicating race-conscious policies, the University of California (UC) system saw a decrease in the percentage of underrepresented minority students admitted to UCs. Recently, diversity has increased through programs targeted at assisting underrepresented minorities consisting of African American, […]

UC Davis has a reputation as the “bike school,” but there is another icon that sets it apart: its vintage double-decker buses. Built in the late 1940s and 1950s, these buses were retired from the streets of Great Britain in the 1960s, when ASUCD decided to buy them for transportation of students. Since then, the […]

Teams: UC Davis vs. Sacramento State, Central Michigan and Seattle Pacific Where: The Nest — Sacramento When:  Sunday at 2 p.m. Who to watch: Sophomore Anna Shumaker was a key performer for the Aggies in last week’s home meet. The Alameda, Calif. native scored a 9.700 on vault and a squad-high 9.750 on beam. Did […]

On Nov. 28, 2011, UC President Mark Yudof carried forward the request of Chancellor Katehi to form a task force. Chaired by Cruz Reynoso, former associate justice of the state Supreme Court, the charge of the task force is to “…examine the UC Davis Police Department’s use of pepper spray on protesters.” At the time […]