By JORDAN S. CARROLL After only a few episodes, HBO’s new series “Girls” has kicked up a flurry of controversy, criticism and (appropriately enough) navel-gazing. By The New York Post’s estimate, one in five “Girls” viewers tweeted about it on its premiere night. And, it seems, they haven’t stopped. Debates about the show range from whether it […]

Teams: UC Davis vs. Pacific Records: Aggies, 20-26 (10-5); Tigers 32-16 (11-4) Where: Bill Simoni Field — Stockton, Calif. When: Friday at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.; Saturday at 10 a.m. Who to watch: Rachel Miller is making the most of her final season at UC Davis. The senior catcher from Costa Mesa, Calif. continues […]

To the everyday Aggie, vandalism on campus is an all-too-familiar sight. Whether it is tagging in bathrooms or painting on hallway walls, the defacement of collegiate property for comedic relief or civil discontent is often to be expected. Following the wake of the November protests, a flurry of politically oriented art cropped up in virtually […]

Looking for an interesting place to study while on campus? With over 5,500 acres of grassy fields and buildings, there are numerous known locations to spend an afternoon hitting the books — if you know where to look. If you’re like most Davis students, you’re probably on a tight schedule during the day and you […]

There was a certain point in my life where I thought I could run a successful music blog and distribute the latest and greatest to the masses in a simple, exciting and #based way. My original goal was to make it to The Hype Machine, a music aggregator website which compiles the best music blogs, but […]

As of last week, Alexis Neiers is married. The 20-year-old onetime reality star and “Bling Ring” member got hitched in Mexico to Evan Haines, a Canadian business owner. When I found this news out, not only did my jaw drop, but also my entire weekend turned into a marathon of her reality show. Now, if […]

Streets around Davis’ Central Park will be closed this Saturday afternoon following the Farmers Market and Sunday to make room for the first annual “The Legends Gran Fondo” bike ride. According to a press release from City of Davis Public Relations Manager Bob Bowen, drivers are encouraged to avoid C Street along the side of […]

Oak Grove Cipher: May 8 Oak & Gorski: May 15 Souterrain: May 21 Plastic Villains: May 24 Marlene Marlene: May 30Throughout May, just outside the Coffee House, West Quad will be host to a series of performers as part of Entertainment Council’s spring “Quad Show” series. Music will be in the air through much of […]

Adding to the increasing levels of student loan debt in the United States is the possibility of having federal, or subsidized, Stafford Loan interest rates double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1. In a report, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said student loan debt has surpassed the nation’s credit card […]

You live in Davis. You own a bicycle, or at least have ridden one recently. You were probably just riding it or are about to ride it somewhere. But what if gradually you lost that simple ability? 2005 UC Davis graduate Kyle Bryant did. At the age of 17, Bryant was diagnosed with Friedreich’s Ataxia […]

Americans are unintelligent and overweight while Europeans are loose, pretentious druggies. We’ve all heard something like that about each other. TV, movies and, most importantly, general ignorance (Amsterdam, anyone?) foster many of the most prevalent stereotypes about foreigners. Either accurate or questionable, but always effective and blunt, stereotypes can be flattering but more often are […]

Kaylee Williams, 22, is a senior hydrology major at UC Davis. She and her brother Ryan, 24, make up the band The Native Sibling. Their new EP, titled Follow Trees, is a soothing “folk-Americana” song. Williams studied abroad from August 2010 to July 2011 in Ireland and said that she found some type of identity […]