Campus News

On March 8, Indian musician Rita Sahai will be returning to perform at the Mondavi Center. Sahai performs Indian classical vocal music and will be accompanied by other musicians who specialize in traditional Indian instruments. Sahai specializes in a form of music known as Hindustani which is traditional repertoire from Northern India. Classic Hindustani pieces […]

From Feb. 23 to Feb. 28, UC Davis celebrated its annual Black Family Week. This event, presented by the Cross Cultural Center (CCC), was an opportunity for students to celebrate African heritage on the UC Davis campus and community. According to Nilofer Chollampat, a third-year psychology and a co-coordinator of Black Family Week, the event […]

On March 4, AFSCME 3229, the union that represents University of California (UC) service workers and also other service and patient care workers at the different UC medical centers, announced that the 12,000 AFSCME 3229 patient care workers plan to hold an unfair labor practice strike vote on March 12 to 13. UC service workers […]

Feb. 24 kicked off the Principles of Community week at UC Davis. The event, which occurs annually near the end of February, serves as an opportunity for students and faculty alike to facilitate the growth of a community respectful of people’s differences as well as to evaluate how well the UC Davis community follows our […]

ASUCD Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the weekly senate meeting on Feb. 27. The meeting was called to order at 6:10 p.m. Senate then proceeded to unit reports. Unit directors from Unitrans and STS/Tipsy Taxi presented. STS director Jay Chou announced that the unit will be hiring someone to take his position beginning finals […]

On Feb. 19, the ASUCD Outreach Assembly held its Funding and Resource Program to facilitate club funding on campus in MU II. A panel of representatives from various ASUCD units presented to show club members options for club funding as well as other aspects of club organization for student groups. ASUCD Outreach Assembly aims to […]

The UC Davis Summer Orientation program will experience changes in summer 2014. One such change is a shift of the popular Violence Interpretation & Prevention (VIP) presentation from in-person to online. The VIP presentation, which includes the popular “How to Be Sexcessful” handbook, is a mandatory workshop that educates students on topics regarding sexual assault, […]

From Feb. 5 to Feb. 17, the ASUCD Post Office temporarily closed in order to attempt to install new computers. While the ASUCD Post Office Student Director, Soua Moua, only predicted the unit to be closed for three days, complications with the installations led Moua to extend the post office’s closure for two and a […]

ASUCD’s External Affairs Commission is organizing “Art in the Air,” an event that will bring painting to the Quad on March 6. The event will have students create paintings for local businesses who have sponsored the event. All proceeds will go toward the Cal Aggie Camp, which benefits underprivileged children. The event was borrowed from […]

Question: I’ve got a professor who says a bunch of crazy things in class. It’s super offensive, not to mention borderline racist, and I wanted to record him. I haven’t decided what I’d do with the video, but I’ve seen a lot of hidden camera footage on YouTube, so I’m wondering if it’s legal to […]

Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the weekly senate meeting on Feb. 20. The meeting was called to order at 6:14 p.m. Senator Ryan Wonders was absent. The senate confirmed the new Gender and Sexuality Commission Chair, Robert Helfend. The meeting moved into public discussion. Senate directed multiple questions to Eric Renslo, chair of the […]

Solano Park and Orchard Park Apartments are set to close for redevelopment because of their antiquity. The many structural replacements required for both buildings make renovation too costly. Orchard Park, located in the northwest corner of UC Davis, is to close July 31, while the demolition of Solano Park, in southeast Davis, is scheduled for […]