New application requires incoming applicants to respond to four of eight shorter questions Beginning this fall, applicants to the University of California will have a new set of essay prompts to respond to for their applications. The new essays deviate from the old essays by asking applicants to respond to four shorter prompts as opposed […]

Alpha Chi Omega hosts benefit concert Want to help a good cause while attending an awesome EDM concert right here in Davis? On Saturday, May 21, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO) will be hosting its spring philanthropy event “Shatter the Silence: a Benefit Concert Featuring Sleepy Tom” at the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) house. Sleepy Tom, […]

Rapper says it’s “time to come home” After many years of attempting to get a headline artist, ASUCD Entertainment Council (EC) has booked the artist they have been looking for. Drake will be performing in the UC Davis Quad today as part of the annual Lawntopia concert. Drake is making his stop in Davis after […]

Event will raise funds for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention On Sunday, May 15, Out of the Darkness (OOTD) – Students Against Suicide will be holding its second annual campus walk to raise awareness for suicide prevention. The funds raised for the event will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Briana Megid, […]

John Wiley and Sons, a well-known publisher of extremely expensive textbooks and BFF to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, has graciously offered to sponsor a project on the UC Davis campus to benefit the growing minds of our future leaders. This project will see the installation of several churro carts inside of the engineering buildings on […]

The term “1.5 generation” has become increasingly popular, perhaps even more so than “first generation” as a way to describe immigrants whose parents did not grow up in the host country. It was first coined in 1999 by Kyeyoung Park, a Korean anthropologist at UCLA. The 1.5 generation refers to a specific age group of […]

Safety, economic feasibility considered for construction At the May 3 Davis City Council meeting, the council reviewed proposals for a new bike path starting from The Cannery, located at 1550 Cannery Ave., and extending throughout the city. In addition to a recommended plan, Bike Path Option 1, the council also reviewed The Cannery’s grade-separated crossing […]

The Editorial Board encourages students to exercise their right to vote It took Donald Trump less than a week as the presumptive Republican nominee to thoroughly embarrass himself. From an incoherent foreign policy speech in Washington D.C. to a Cinco de Mayo tweet on taco bowls, the Donald has proved that he is uniquely unqualified […]

In a poll released by The Aggie, the bathroom soap dispensers were voted the least aesthetically pleasing items, both big and small, on campus. Driving this result were the plaques on the dispensers that read “UC Davis” in bright yellow. They beat out Olson Hall in its entirety, Social Science’s enormous staircase, the first floor […]

When Groucho Marx said that he refused to join any club that would include him as a member, he was making a self-aware joke about his own eccentricities. At UC Davis, there are dozens of clubs that students can enjoy. Some focus on sports, others take on social issues and a few simply enjoy being […]

Eight bands competed to win Dixon’s first Battle of the Bands since 1977 The annual Dixon May Fair hosted the Johnny Ruiz Memorial Battle of the Bands, reintroducing the competition that last took place in 1977. The event, which was held on May 6,  is named after Johnny Ruiz, a member of the Stevenson Bridge […]

Wolk’s campaign focuses on education, environment, equality On June 7, voters across California will head to the polls to choose their preferred candidates in the well-publicized presidential primaries. However, voters will also be having their say on a number of local measures and nominating their party’s candidate to run in the California State Assembly election […]