The faint echoes of cheering and discarded sunflower seeds are all that remain on the now empty La Rue Field, which hosted its last series of the 2013 season this past weekend against Cal Poly. In the world of UC Davis spring sports, softball has now come to a close. Although the team went through […]

After the recent discovery of a $57 million deficit in the UC Student Health Insurance Plan (UC SHIP), UC Davis has made the decision to withdraw from UC SHIP and move forward with alternate options. The deficit has been accumulating since 2010; monthly monitoring of the plan was not performed at the same level that […]

Teams: UC Davis at Hawai’i Records: UC Davis Aggies, 19-31 (5-16); Hawai’i Rainbows, 12-33 (7-14) Where: Les Murakami Baseball Stadium — Honolulu, Hawaii When: May 17 at 6:35 p.m.; May 18 at 6:35 p.m.; May 19 at 1:05 p.m. Who to Watch: As the baseball season comes to a close, the Aggies will hope to […]

Aggie Arts interns at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts invited Hauschka, a Dusseldorf-based pianist and composer, to play the experimental work he is best known for on the prepared piano on May 21 at 8 p.m. Adding a modern twist to classical music, Hauschka’s avant-garde arrangements embrace the multitudes of […]

There is a saying in basketball: you cannot teach size. Some people are just born tall. While size is not everything in basketball, it is important. A tall player with long arms has the ability to contest jump shots, rebound the ball and shoot over defenders easily. This is the type of player that UC […]

A bill to increase funding for community-specific graduation ceremonies did not pass at the ASUCD Senate meeting on May 9. The bill would have increased funding to ethnic graduation ceremonies by $1,300. Senate Bill 94 was first presented to ASUCD on May 2, asking for $5,100 in grants to fund the graduation ceremonies. It was […]

Imagine a Coachella crowd stretching hundreds of people deep, and high-waisted, shorts-clad bodies bobbing and undulating rapidly to electronic thuds and wubs bursting forth from the speakers. Chances are, Wolfgang Gartner’s on the stage. Gartner, who really got his foot in the door in 2011, is an electronic artist most well-known for his tracks “Illmerica” […]

On May 18, UC Davis students will have the opportunity to see a feature-length film written, directed and produced by one of their peers. At 10:45 p.m on May 18 at the Varsity Theater, there will be a screening of Part Time Thief, the new film by fourth-year biochemistry major Stephen Leung. The plot revolves […]

From what is virtually birth to death, American women have been, and continue to be, bombarded with imagery introduced by multi-billion dollar cosmetic companies. Case in point, flip through any feminine reading material at the grocery check out , and it’s no difficult task to discern that about 75 percent of magazine content is advertising […]

If we ask people what they think about political rhetoric, they will likely respond that it is baloney and that we shouldn’t buy it. But I think those same people do buy it very frequently. I want to dissect a few recent and pertinent examples. In dissecting them, I think patterns emerge that can inform […]

Four Two Oh No Two Resident Advisors (RA) were doing their rounds in a residence hall when they smelled marijuana wafting through the halls of the floor they were on. They followed their noses to one particular room, and after pinpointing the source of the smell they proceeded to call the police. When the police […]

My name is Stephanie Lake and I’m the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Intervention Services Coordinator at Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) here on campus. I am responding to the article in the April 11, Aggie titled “Students seek Adderall for academic boost.” There were some good points made in this article and […]