At around 8:30 a.m. Monday the Yolo County Superior Court received a bomb threat, according to a press release from the Court. Court officials, along with the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department and Woodland Police Departments, evacuated all court facilities. Members of the California Highway Patrol and West Sacramento Police Department also joined in a bomb […]

If there’s one thing we can say about Chancellor Katehi since the pepper spray incident of Nov. 18, 2011, it’s that her public relations campaign has been extremely effective at quelling calls for her resignation. Excessive pandering to student concerns with town hall forums reached absurd, almost pathetic levels before winter break, not to mention […]

He’s majoring in exercise biology and economics, minoring in management and technology. He’s at the CoHo cash registers taking your ticket slips. But most importantly, he’s at almost all UC Davis sporting event. His name is Akshar Gopal and his official title is “marketing and promotions intern,” but he’s best known as the “Aggie Pack […]

Welcome to 2012, a year wrought with the promise of anguish and disappointment. Hell, add fear to that list as well. The President has just further secured his legal ability to detain you without trial through the National Defense Authorization Act For The Fiscal Year 2012, and though the legislation was passed in 2011, this […]

THURSDAY More money, more problems Someone gave a transient money but the transient was asking for more, on Mace Boulevard. FRIDAY Field of Screams A man was in a baseball field yelling and banging on random objects on B Street. No ifs or ands allowed either Someone threw a cigarette butt onto the road on 11th Street. […]

Students following the UC budget battles would do well to remember Sun Tzu’s well-worn maxim: “All war is deception.” With the latest round of budget cuts prompting the usual protestations from UC administrators, one might be excused for believing that the UC system has been, in the words of budget VP Patrick Lenz, “cut to […]

Students arrived at campus the first day of the quarter to find the infamous Egghead statues had been “pepper sprayed.” The statues, created by sculptor Robert Arneson, had been spray painted with what appeared to be orange spray paint, clearly intended to represent the pepper spray incident of Nov. 18.  Statues in front of Shields […]

The pepper spray incident of Nov. 18 placed the UC Davis administration in uncharted waters. We all know about the calls for Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi’s resignation and the six ongoing investigations, but what has largely been ignored are the more subtle effects the events of Nov. 18 may have had on seemingly unrelated decisions. […]

Recently, I was reading a certain popular women’s magazine and wondering if my masochistic streak was widening. It was the only reason I could think of for why I continue to read articles entitled “500 Ways to Please Your Man” (because apparently only straight girls read it), even though I know it will be the […]

You might want to think again before taking your bike for a night ride without a light this week. The Davis Police Department is conducting a Bicycle Safety Education and Enforcement Operation, which began Monday and continues throughout the week. Officers are patrolling areas frequented by bicyclists to address traffic violations that lead to collisions. […]

The two-week occupation of Dutton Hall by Occupy UC Davis protesters ended Dec. 11 without incident. Galvanized by the Nov. 18 incident where students were pepper-sprayed by police, the Occupy UC Davis movement, in the final days of Fall quarter, voted to occupy Dutton Hall until the end of final exams. According to Student Affairs […]

Needles and yarn have never looked more valuable. Rupali Saiya, first-year computer engineering major, has proven their value with her organization called Crafts of Hope. Crafts of Hope is a program that empowers underprivileged women and children by teaching them how to crochet. The women and children crochet hats, scarves and more, all for sale […]