POETRY Zara Raab Today, 8:00 p.m., free John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. Currently working on her third book of poetry, Zara Raab is a poet, essayist and reviewer, who has been published in numerous literary magazines. Born and raised in California, she also teaches a poetry class at the city of Berkeley’s Hillside Club. […]

Teams: UC Davis at UC Santa Barbara; at Cal Poly Records: Aggies 8-12 (4-5); Gauchos 7-14 (3-7); Mustangs 9-11 (5-5) Where: The Thunderdome — Santa Barbara, Calif.; Robert A. Mott Gymnasium — San Luis Obispo, Calif. When: Thursday at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 7 p.m. Who to watch: Junior Josh Ritchart scored a season-high 22 […]

A free screening of the film Skyfall will be held tonight by The Harassment and Discrimination Assistance and Prevention Program (HDAPP) as another installment of their Sex and the Cinema Program. It will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in 123 Sciences Lecture Hall. “It is a very light-hearted event,” said Lisa Brodkey, director of HDAPP, […]

Here’s one way to make your Valentine’s Day more memorable: Serenade that special someone. And if your singing isn’t up to snuff, don’t worry. That’s where the Liquid Hotplates come in. “The Liquid Hotplates are a co-ed a cappella group on campus. We’ve been hosting shows and events, and right now we’re selling singing valentines […]

Sex & Society In a classic episode of “30 Rock,” Liz Lemon overhears a co-worker calling her a “cunt.” She is hurt and insulted, because even though she “loves swearing,” there is nothing she can call the male writer back that has the same power. “Cunt” — otherwise known as “The C-Word,” “the monosyllable” or […]

This week, the ASUCD Entertainment Council announced three upcoming shows at UC Davis: The Postal Service, Vampire Weekend and Phoenix. And they’ve promised us at least one more. We are, in a word, excited. In lots of words, we’re really, really, really, really, really excited. All year we’ve been waiting patiently for a big-name concert […]

Game of the week I wouldn’t call myself a fan of scary video games, but there have been releases that effectively manage to instill an overwhelming sense of fear and dread with tense atmosphere and obligatory jump scares. The first two Dead Space games are examples of this, and Dead Space 3 looks to continue […]

On Monday at around 1:55 p.m., Davis Police responded to a call about a pepper spray assault near Birch Lane Elementary School. The police notified the school of the assault. School officials decided to put the school on a lockdown as a precaution. The police investigated the area and walked through the school. The 17-year-old […]

Beginning with the class of 2015, all students are required to take general education classes under the GE3 framework. This framework increases the units necessary to fulfill requirements while adding additional and more specific requirements than what was required under the GE2 framework. GE3 was created to address GE2’s inability to fulfill its objective, “to […]

Celebrities are people too. And when I say “celebrities,” I am of course referring to me, myself and I. The above sentence is a basic statement in my glossary of famous phrases. And the statement you just read is an over-exaggeration of how much I love myself. Yes, I love myself. That, my friends, is […]

UC Davis was ranked No. 49 of 50 on Business Insider’s “Best Colleges in America” list. This is the first time the university placed on the list in the four years since the start of the release of the rankings. UC Davis also received a rating of 2.75 of 5. According to the Business Insider […]

ObamaCare, formally known as The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will impose new legislation that mandates all citizens to have a form of health insurance and prohibits insurance companies from placing lifetime caps on insurance policies. However, this act exempts self-funded programs, like the one at the University of California, where the system takes […]