After a two year hiatus, The California Aggie’s science and technology desk is back. As the many of the world’s most powerful volcanoes lay dormant, so too did The California Aggie’s science and technology desk — until now. My name is Ariel Robbins and I’m the science and technology desk editor helping to rise the […]

New recital venue provides music students with enhanced musical experience The opening of the Ann E. Pitzer Center concert hall, a new performance and teaching space, has been much-anticipated by the UC Davis Music Department. The Pitzer Center will celebrate its grand opening from Sep. 23 to 25 with a variety of performances by the UC Davis […]

GOP organizations at Harvard, Yale and Cornell are putting country over party While younger voters tend to be reliably liberal, millennials identify more now with traditional Republican values than baby boomers and Gen X-ers did when they were at their age, according to a new study published this month in the Personality and Social Psychology […]

Get five in a row to win a free lanyard With the beginning of the new year now underway, here is a BINGO card of some things you should expect to hear freshmen saying around campus. Feel free to print one out and play along with your friends!               […]

Fragile masculinity is a byproduct of the social construction of gender Masculinity is more fragile than it’s ever been. The tendency now by some men to overcompensate for perceived slights and threats to masculinity has invited a wide range of responses, from the sarcastic #MasculinitySoFragile to products like grenade-shaped bath bombs. “Masculine” Q-tips, advertised as […]

Beloved Dodgers’ play-by-play broadcaster enters final weeks of legendary career Sixty-seven years. Think about that. It’s pretty much an entire lifetime that Vin Scully has been the voice of Los Angeles. Vinny has been doing play-by-play broadcasting for the Dodgers since the young age of 22, and now at 88 years old, this is his […]

Incessant media coverage ingrains biases, fosters a paranoid, mistrustful society After decades of international peace and a domestic sense of invulnerability, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 left Americans feeling shattered and helpless — their very psyche deeply wounded. Since then, the same sense of vulnerability that came with the fall of the Twin […]

René Descartes shows the importance of studying across disciplines Growing up, I never excelled in STEM classes or even wanted to be a scientist. My burning passion for science never extended beyond the time I accidentally set an entire Bunsen burner on fire. Still, I felt chained to the notion of engineering. After all, I […]

The story of an eager freshman who didn’t exactly have an ideal start to his time at UC Davis. First-year students are often prone to embarrassment when starting at UC Davis. Between learning (or at least trying to learn) how to bike on campus correctly and trying to find their way around our large campus […]

Accusations against Linda Katehi are unfounded and irresponsible Following UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi’s struggle with the student body last year, her resignation in August should come as no surprise. And who can blame her? The ceaseless attacks on her character and leadership decisions would knock down even the strongest of leaders. But the chaos […]

Don’t let this go to waste To those UC Davis students who have yet to see a show at the Mondavi Center, you now have the opportunity to attend one show for free! Here’s how it works: in order to receive your free ticket, students will need to either call the Mondavi Center at (530) […]