The ASUCD Senate table considered the remainder of the 2013-14 budget during the May 23 senate meeting. The budget for General Programs was seen. Controller Eric Evans said audit fees are increasing to cover taxes. The executive team, ASUCD President Carly Sandstrom, Vice President Bradley Bottoms and Evans spoke about Aggie Pack and its branding. […]

One Way Productions is an award-winning theatre company that will be opening an inspiring new drama, The Hiding Place, on June 13 at the Veterans Memorial Theatre. Ingrid Laurentiis-Wilson, a John McGrath Theatre Arts Scholarship recipient and SARTA Elly Award-winning playwright, brings to life the incredible story of Corrie ten Boom. Adapted from the bestselling […]

Money has always played a role in politics, but the abuse of money has been exacerbated with the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission, which [opened] the floodgates for massive spending on electoral campaigns with effects that have already skewed the political process. Take, for example, the recent House […]

Editor’s note: You’re Majoring in What? is a new Aggie column that features students of UC Davis’ lesser-known majors. Amie Patel is a fourth-year landscape architecture major. What is landscape architecture (LDA)? Landscape architecture is the planning and design of outdoor spaces. The world which you see outside of a building is designed by a […]

At the May 23 ASUCD Senate meeting, senators voted to eliminate the BloodSource line items from the ASUCD budget. In the past, ASUCD has designated $1,250 for BloodSource — $1,000 goes to room reservation fees that BloodSource later pays back, and $250 is used for advertising. The chief driving force for this decision was because […]

A new online course evaluation tool is currently being developed for use starting next fall. UC Davis is the one of the last UC campuses to implement online course evaluations for undergraduate courses. It is about time the University made plans to implement online evaluations, especially when nearly every other UC has done this, as […]

On Monday, like every Memorial Day, the cultural sphere was flooded with messages about thanking veterans for your freedom. Although the holiday honors fallen soldiers, social networking sites such as Facebook abounded with pictures reminding us that the military is the foundational source of our lives, liberties and freedom to buy a double-cheeseburger for only […]

THURSDAY Bending the rules Somebody believes college students are vandalizing the “No Parking” sign at the corner of Picasso Avenue and Cezanne Court by bending it more and more so that it becomes increasingly hidden by a tree. SATURDAY Fair game Someone was concerned for the welfare of a panhandler and their child as both […]

UC Davis Police are continuing their investigation of an alleged hate crime that occurred on May 12 near the UC Davis Arboretum. According to the UC Davis Police Department (UCDPD), neither the victim nor the suspects are UC Davis students. The police report stated that the incident occurred when the victim was walking along Levee […]

Get ready for yet another round of free musical entertainment with the ASUCD Entertainment Council’s (EC) event Lawntopia. Sponsored by KDVS and the Student Alumni Association (SAA), Lawntopia starts at 6 p.m. on May 31 on the Quad with live bands and food sales by Woodstock’s Pizza and the CoHo hot dog cart. Headlined by […]

POETRY Poetry in the Garden with Zach Watkins Thursday, May 30, noon, free Wyatt Deck, UC Davis Arboretum A composer, musician and poet, Watkins graduated from CSU Hayward with a bachelor of arts degree in music and now lives in Sacramento. Come to the Arboretum for an afternoon of poetry with Zach “OmegaZ” Watkins. SickSpits […]

University of California (UC) President Mark Yudof presented the Board of Regents with a report outlining the current state of the UC system, in comparison to the previous six years, during a May 15 regents meeting. “To the best of my ability, I’ve tried to outline the good, the bad and the ugly — and […]