Teams: UC Davis at UC Irvine; at UC Riverside Records: Aggies, 1-19 (0-8); Anteaters, 8-13  (4-4); Highlanders, 10-11 (4-4) Where: Bren Events Center — Irvine, Calif.; Student Recreation Center — Riverside, Calif. When: Tonight at 7 p.m.;  Saturday at 7 p.m. Who to watch: At the beginning of the season head coach Jim Les said […]

Lana Del Rey Born to Die Interscope Records Rating: 3.5 Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die includes the melancholic and potent “Video Games” that brought her into fast relevance in the later days of 2011. It is a song that, alone, can elevate an album into the positive echelons of any review. It hits a […]

There are moments where I am sitting in my lecture hall staring down at the 20-something rows of seats in front of me, just listening to the cars whistling by outside. It is crazy to think that the convention between this four-walled and predictably constructed room can no longer hold my attention for more than […]

Drinking and vandalism don’t mix Two students were referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for suspected vandalism and underage drinking. The two students had been drinking and had ventured downtown where they were detained by the police on suspected vandalism.  At an informal meeting with a Judicial Affairs Officer, the two students said that they […]

In Margin Call, a film about the 2008 economic meltdown, an investment banker watches as all of the firm’s financial products become worthless. When his boss attempts to console him, noting that he could have been “digging ditches all these years,” the banker responds, “That’s right. And if I had, there’d be some holes in […]

In the Jan. 31 editorial “Not in our interest,” the authors make a case against the appropriation of campus resources in order to allow a bank to occupy space in the Memorial Union. However, they attempt to conceal weak arguments behind lofty rhetoric intended to shamelessly romanticize the college campus as an enlightened utopia thriving […]

To put it bluntly, Occupy UC Davis has alienated the student population. The movement received an outpouring of support following the pepper spray incident, but whatever goodwill that existed on Nov. 18 is now nowhere to be found. Students, faculty and staff have been exhausted by the movement’s nonstop actions to disrupt campus business. We […]

The Davis City Council decided at their Jan. 24 meeting to allow City of Davis residents to finalize what direction the surface water project should take. In September 2009, the City of Woodland and City of Davis created a joint powers authority called the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency (WDCWA). According to the WDCWA, it implements […]

The UC Davis class of 2012 has the educational world at its fingertips. Between graduate programs in public health and law school, business school and veterinary school, masters in fine arts and Ph.D.s in philosophy, the educational opportunities seem boundless. Typically, the only thing stopping the dream-come-true-after-college plan is money, and a good deal will […]

Event: Stanford Invitational Teams: No. 15 UC Davis, No. 1 Stanford, No. 5 San Jose State, No. 3 USC Records: Aggies (2-4); Cardinal (2-0); Spartans (5-0); Trojans (0-0) Where: Palo Alto, California When:  Saturday 8:30 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.; Sunday 9:10 a.m.; TBA Who to watch: Senior attacker Ariel Feeney leads the team with six […]

The Nelson Gallery currently offers a new art exhibit titled “Poking At Beehives: Three Painters.” Running now until March 18, the showcase features Leslie Shows, Peter Edlund and Fred Tomaselli’s great foray into postmodern art. Each painter approaches the canvas in a way that figures to redefine what belongs in a canvas. Shows’s resin-heavy pieces […]

Because of its immense popularity last year, Hellacappella will now be held in the ARC Pavilion, which seats over 8,000 in contrast to Freeborn Hall’s seating capacity of about 1,300. The event, which will be held this Saturday, Feb. 4, is organized by The Spokes, UC Davis’s only all-female a cappella group, and will feature […]