Higher education can expect to be hit in two major ways because of the sequestration — cuts in financial aid and research funding. Pell Grant awards will begin to lose funding after one year, affecting over 1 million California students, and funds for new research projects will decrease by millions. In 2011, Congress passed the […]

On March 6, the Davis City Council voted to add the chief innovation officer (CIO) position to their city staff. According to a staff report from City Manager Steve Pinkerton, the new position will be responsible for attracting and retaining technology businesses in the City of Davis. “This is really a strategic move for the […]

At the March 13 and 14 UC Board of Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay, the UC Regents discussed the search for a new UC President, along with other issues the University is facing. The meeting addressed caps to UC Student Health Insurance Plans, energy efficiency, as well as members of the public during the […]

The UC Davis women’s basketball team lost five key seniors last year and needed someone to step up to score for them. Sophomore forward Sydnee Fipps has been consistently brilliant for the Aggies this year, despite the fact that the team has been a bit inconsistent in its play. Fipps is UC Davis’ leading scorer […]

Although they are freshmen, Lucy LaFranchise and Hanna Tears have been on fire the entire swimming and diving season and are looking stronger than ever as they head into regionals. By virtue of their phenomenal performances and spectacular results in countless events, LaFranchise and Tears have been named Freshmen Athletes of the Quarter. Despite being […]

The other night I was walking home after class, pissed off because I still hadn’t found a date for that weekend, when my old lab partner drove up out of nowhere and offered me a ride. I couldn’t help but laugh. I had always been curious, and had secretly hoped we’d run into each other […]

Buttermilk pancakes, cardamom pancakes, cinnamon applesauce pancakes, peanut butter-filled pancakes, speculoos-filled pancakes, candied bacon pancakes, lemon herbed goat cheese pancakes and postmodern pancakes. I ate all of them. In one sitting. Drenched in blood orange rhubarb syrup. In that order. After watching I Like Killing Flies, a documentary about the eccentric owner of Shopsin’s in New […]

As we are all well aware of, finals are coming up. This entails much-dreaded, sleepless nights of trying to relearn all the material we’ve learned this entire quarter. Amiss frantically going over homework problems, making sense of stacks of unorganized notes and lecture slides, and frantically attempting to understand long-winded textbooks, we tend to put […]

All college students have dealt with final exams. For one UC Davis class, however, the final can be even more daunting: there is an audience. That’s the premise of Science and Society 42: Earth, Water, Science, Song, which fuses studies and song. The class is taught by Professor Wendy Silk and seeks to combine environmental […]

Game of the week StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm came out this week, meaning it’s time to jump back into Blizzard’s addictive real-time strategy franchise. The expansion pack acts as the second installment in a planned trilogy and picks up two years after the events of Wings of Liberty. This time around, players will […]

MUSIC Quarteto Nuevo Friday, 8 p.m., $10 students Davis Art Center, 1919 F St. A cellist, percussionist, acoustic guitarist and soprano sax player make up this jazz quartet. They are to be the second featured performers for the Davis Art Center’s Classical Guitar Series. The concert organizer chose the multi-instrument quartet to enhance the relationship […]

In an effort to reduce students’ exposure to lab risks, UC officials released new policies regarding lab safety that were to be put into effect March 1. However, the implementation of these policies has been delayed in order to allow for the review of more comments from campuses about the new regulations. These regulations include […]