Monthly Archives - March 2013
March 2013 Archives
Column: Watts Legal?
OpinionMarch 7, 2013
Question: I would like to know if it is legal — constitutionally, federally or whatever — that schools discriminate against students based on their age. I am 20 years old and I fully support myself working at a part-time job, but because I am not 24, enlisted, married, an orphan or raising a child, I […]
Davis math professor moves to cyberspace
FeaturesMarch 7, 2013
Professor Duane Kouba has been teaching in the UC Davis Math Department for 30 years. For 20 of those years he’s been involved with the UC Davis basketball team and just about ten years ago he set up a webpage filled with calculus problems to assist his students, simply called “The Calculus Page Problem List.” […]

Dining in Davis: Taqueria El Burrito
UncategorizedMarch 6, 2013
You’re strolling downtown after midnight on a Friday after hitting the bars — what sounds like the most satisfying morsel you can grab to fix your case of the munchies? Owner Jose Cortez of Taqueria El Burrito, which opened in November in the old Great Wall of China II location across from de Vere’s, was […]

ASUCD senators reflect on campaign platforms
ASUCDMarch 6, 2013
Six ASUCD senators said their farewells during last Thursday’s Senate meeting as six new senators took their place. We asked former senators Beatriz Anguiano, Bradley Bottoms, Don Gilbert, Joyce Han, Kabir Kapur and Paul Min to provide statements reflecting on their terms. Senators who did respond admitted to accomplishing few, if any, of their platforms. […]
Free legal consultation available through ASUCD
FeaturesMarch 6, 2013
Attorney Ava Landers browses through the list of students seeking legal advice. Next up: a student wanting legal consultation, because their roommate ate their cookie. ASUCD contracts with an attorney to offer registered undergraduate students free legal phone consultation, a service that seems unknown to many students. Every quarter, each student can get up to […]
Google Drive auditing feature removed for UC Davis emails
Campus NewsMarch 6, 2013
Two weeks ago, some students began receiving a new notification when trying to access online documents on Google Drive through their UC Davis email accounts due to a new Google feature. The new feature, introduced by Google, allowed administrators to see when a document was viewed or edited. A notification was displayed to students trying […]
Aggie Digest
SportsMarch 6, 2013
The UC Davis women’s water polo did some early spring cleaning as they swept their opponents in the 33rd annual Aggie Shootout. The 14th-ranked Aggies beat Concordia, Santa Clara and Colorado State as they improved their record to 10-7 on the season. The weekend heroes were seniors Carmen Eggert and Jessica Dunn, who scored a […]
Tech Tips: Cheap books? How about free?
Science & TechnologyMarch 6, 2013
With the ever-rising costs of textbooks, many students are looking for cheaper, or even free, alternatives to help alleviate the financial burden. Amazon and other used book sources can provide many of the required books at a much cheaper rate than the campus bookstore, but some web-savvy students have started scouring the web for free […]
Pre-health organizations gear-up undergraduates for future
FeaturesMarch 6, 2013
Students who wish to be in the pre-health field at UC Davis may have different majors, but many strive for one goal: to pursue their fields of study after graduating and ultimately help others. Both the Nursing Club and the Foresight Pre-Optometry Club help students interested in pursuing nursing or optometry careers beyond their UC […]
Column: Things that eat
Science & TechnologyMarch 6, 2013
*Editor’s note: I realize that I have drastically oversimplified many of these concepts, but there is just too much information to adequately express it all. You could easily fill 500 single-spaced pages explaining just the first paragraph. For you organic chemistry people, the size of this column is limited by steric hinderance. For the non-o-chem […]
News in Brief: California students march at state capitol
Campus NewsMarch 6, 2013
As part of the March to Advocate and Reclaim California’s Higher Education (M.A.R.C.H.E) event, University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges students assembled for a rally at 10 a.m. on Monday at the Capitol building in Sacramento. The rally was a push for adequate funding of higher education, according to a March […]
Smarter robots and you
Science & TechnologyMarch 6, 2013
Robots. They’re everywhere around us. We work with them in factories and use them in conditions unsuitable for humans. As ubiquitous as they are, relatively few people actually understand the underpinnings and complexities of these man-made creations. Programming a robot to perform multivariable tasks is a difficult job, and overcoming these issues takes quite a […]
