We’ve all seen his smiling face on advertisements, been to his restaurant and received hugs from him; now we get to take a deeper look into his story. Taranbir S. Chowdhury is the owner of Raja’s Tandoor, an Indian restaurant in Downtown Davis, locatedright off campus on 3rd Street. He was born in the state […]

Concepts of decency are culturally relative. That is not to say that the right concept of decency is relative, merely that existing ones are. Capitalist coercion of value distorts every concept relevant to our political lives. Many of my socialist allies erroneously rely on the tactic of challenging the most abstract values of the society. […]

UC Davis Men’s Basketball has been seemingly revived overnight. A large part of this transformation is due to the amazing play of sophomore Corey Hawkins. He was a crucial part of the Aggies’ basketball team and their much improved 14-17 overall record. This season was Hawkins’ first season playing with UC Davis. He sat out […]

Do you have a favorite bathroom around campus? If you’ve ever been disgusted by the foul, stomach-churning smells wafting through the air of a campus bathroom or the unkempt mess of toilet paper scattered across the dirty floors, we don’t blame you for being picky. From the best and newest restroom facilities on campus, to […]

Augmented reality (AR) is basically a live, direct or indirect view of a real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated stimuli ranging from sound to graphics. It may sound new, but it is the same type of technology used to draw lines on satellite pictures of streets in Google Earth. It seems that Google […]

One of my fellow editors at The California Aggie told me something dark and wise when I started the editor in chief gig: “Nothing will make you lose faith in humanity more than trying to run a college newspaper.” Many times this year, in between missed deadlines, editors quitting, financial disasters, an unsubstantiated lawsuit and […]

In my time as the Business Manager for The California Aggie, I was mostly known for being obsessed with not having false alarms in The Aggie offices. This goodbye column is my only editorial contribution I will have made to The Aggie, and I could wax lyrical about how the business health of The Aggie […]

OK, so we’re all here because of this newspaper, right? Well, I do know who’s been writing for it, and I think the entire readership (all 20 of you) have got to stop calling us hippies and freaks. It just makes it OK for the entire campus to call us hippies and freaks. I wish […]

I’ve had my fair share of parent-teacher-esque conferences over the years, during which multiple adult authority figures have brought up my use of cuss words. As far as character assassination goes, this column will probably stay on the permanent record a whole lot longer than their puritanical disapproval. But I’ll save you all your skepticism […]

On May 23 at 8:47 p.m., a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck to the south of Lake Almanor in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Tremors were felt 113 miles away by people in the City of Davis. Some minor damages were reported in the area, including collapsed chimneys, fallen objects inside houses and two destroyed water tanks, […]

This is supposed to be a farewell column, but it’s hard to shake the science-writing habit after it’s been nurtured for so long. So, forgive the ramblings of a science writer desperately trying to write a newspaper-safe personal letter. Time changes all things. It changes people, it changes memories, it changes the very nature […]

The now seven-month-old March in Solidarity with Gaza, which led to the occupation of Dutton Hall on Nov. 19, 2012, has been muddled with reported incidences of anti-Semitism. According to a Feb. 5 letter to UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi from the AMCHA Initiative, a nonprofit organization which aims to combat anti-semitism at American […]