Nameless Magazine is UC Davis’ exclusively student-run literary magazine, which publishes one digital issue per quarter and one print issue per year. Each issue features fiction, poetry or mixed media submissions. Mitchell Winter, editor in chief and fourth-year linguistics and religious studies major, believes it is the emphasis on student participation for which the publication […]

From Halloween festivities and themed parties to theater productions and Dickens’ fairs, people from The Enchanted Cellar serve the Davis community and surrounding areas with over 25,000 stock items for rental year-round. “Some people have a costume idea but think, ‘how in the world am I going to make the costume do that?’” said costume […]

Half the Sky, a novel based on empowering women, is the focus of this year’s Campus Book Project, and has inspired UC Davis students to take matters into their own hands. The authors, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, argue that the worldwide oppression of women is “the paramount moral challenge” of the 21st century, and […]

The City of Davis has received a $300,000 grant awarded by the California Energy Commission to enact a two-year plan to reduce Davis’ carbon emissions completely by 2050. The Davis Future Renewable Energy and Efficiency (DavisFREE) grant will be put towards hiring technical experts to plan and execute the city’s climate action goals. The project […]

Arrest at Barneys New York stirs talk of institutionalized racism Last week, Trayon Christian, 19, was arrested by undercover police officers and jailed on suspicion of fraud for purchasing a $350 Ferragamo belt at Barneys, New York luxury store. He filed a lawsuit because although Christian showed police his receipt for the purchased item along […]

In recent weeks, students have noticed a higher concentration of cockroaches in their homes, restaurants downtown and on campus. The concentration is particularly high near downtown, but they can be seen in almost any deserted area in Davis at night. Max Moazzam, a fourth-year economics major, sees cockroaches in his apartment every day. “The worst […]

E.D.Empty Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is very quickly growing in popularity. From UC Davis students, to middle school students, to aspiring DJs who work at Trader Joes (I met one of those), everyone seems to be getting into one type or another of this blossoming genre. I am not by any means a huge electro-head. […]

The smell of menswear is in the air as fashion enthusiast and raw denim junkie, third-year electrical engineering major Jasper Siu, gives MUSE the inside scoop on his personal style and how to do menswear his way. In this week’s edition of Campus Chic, let’s talk raw denim. If you like your clothes nice and […]

Davis will participate in the Meso-American festivity of Dia de los Muertos with three different events that Davis Downtown, the Davis Cemetery and the University will all host. On Oct. 31, the second annual Dia de los Muertos celebration will occur in the E Street Plaza from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Attendees can enjoy a […]

Woodland-based Yolo Food Bank (YFB) works year-round to provide those in need with food. It serves Yolo County through a variety of programs such as Friday’s Table and the Kids Farmers Market. Fresh produce comprises a significant portion of the items offered, allowing families to cook at home. Alongside YFB, the Yolo County Department of […]

ASUCD Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the Oct. 24 meeting. The meeting began at 6:20 p.m., with Senator Yee Xiong absent. Jay Chou, director of ASUCD Specialized Transportation Services and Tipsy Taxi supervisor, announced that cameras will be installed in all Tipsy Taxi vehicles by winter 2014. This will ensure both driver and passenger […]

Replacing MyUCDavis in 2005, SmartSite is the current course management system here at UC Davis. Sakai is the underlying, open source software for Smartsite hosted through the outsourced vendor Asahi Net International. Andy Jones, academic associate director of Academic Technology Services, said in an email that Sakai is “the community source collaborative learning environment that […]