Coalition’s demands due to Wells Fargo’s investments in private prisons In January, the Afrikan Black Coalition (ABC) created a petition calling for the University of California to divest $425 million worth of stock from Wells Fargo due to the banking and financial company’s financial support in private prison companies. The coalition recently succeeded in getting […]

Brendon Urie’s new album has hits and soon-to-be fan favorites Panic! At the Disco (P!ATD) released its fifth album on Jan. 15, marking a glorious return to the sounds of 2005’s A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, with added panache. Brendon Urie, the group’s frontman, recorded the entire album as the only remaining member of […]

A movie Mark Twain would be proud of Band of Robbers, a modern-day twist on Mark Twain’s stories of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, is a movie I’ve been anticipating for a year, and I was not disappointed. In fact, the film was so charming that it made me forget about my terrible experiences with […]

William Narf, a first-year communications major at UC Davis, is one of three people to have won the most recent Powerball of $1.5 billion. This was Narf’s first time ever playing the lottery, and he won big. Narf will donate $3 million of his winnings to various humanities programs at UC Davis. “I figured I […]

A closer look into the interesting animals that make up UC Davis Though you may not know it, UC Davis is home to many interesting and unique species of animals. You might see them every day on your way to class or might have never heard of them before, but these animals are a huge […]

Prejudice exists in America against every demographic, largely excepting the white, Christian male that has seemingly enjoyed the pleasure of becoming our nation’s neutral. If you don’t identify with that category, you are systematically treated as “the other.” While each group faces differing levels of discrimination, among the most grotesquely violated people are Muslims. The […]

The Republican party lies at the center of social conservatism in America. Or, at least that’s what it seems. To figure out if the GOP stands true to its reputation, we must define social conservatism and its beliefs toward drugs and crime. Model social conservatives are often critical of the rapid changes within our society, […]

Partnership between UC Davis and Carnegie Mellon University to produce a robotic harvesting aid In December 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) provided $1 million of funding to UC Davis to produce innovative robotic harvesting technology. Stavros Vougioukas, a UC Davis professor of biological and agricultural engineering, will […]

Methane leak doubles emissions for L.A. Basin In early November 2015, UC Davis scientist Stephen Conley completed the first measurement of methane in the area surrounding last year’s methane leak at the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility near Los Angeles. The leak began on Oct. 23 and continues to release methane into the surrounding […]

Lung replaces former senator Gabriel Lee Johnson On Jan. 21, ASUCD appointed Tiffany Lung, a second-year human development major, as an ASUCD senator. Lung replaces former senator Gabriel Lee Johnson, who resigned in early January. ASUCD President Mariah Kala Watson chose Lung out of candidates who submitted applications online after Johnson’s resignation. “She has proven […]

Program supports city effort to reduce landfill waste This July, the City of Davis will commence its new organic waste-cart initiative which will prevent organic items from being placed in the landfill when they can be composted. According to Jennifer Gilbert, conservation coordinator at the Davis Public Works Department, the organics program will help the […]

High levels of rainfall leave many wondering if Davis is flood ready Yolo county has evaluated its flood prevention measures to prepare for the expected El Niño, a weather cycle that brings changes in wind patterns and increased rainfall. In the past few weeks, Davis and the surrounding areas have been bombarded with significant downpours, […]