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Plans to renovate Freeborn Hall during the summer of 2014 have left the future use of the building up in the air. Whether the lecture hall will be completely demolished for construction of an entirely new building or just renovated for seismic updates is still up in the air. However, Lower Freeborn is to remain […]

Vice President Bradley Bottoms was absent from the ASUCD Senate meeting on Jan. 23. The meeting was called into session at 6:11 PM by President Pro Tempore Miles Thomas, who acted as presiding officer. Senator Gareth Smythe was elected to take the place of President Pro Tempore during the meeting. Three new commissioners were confirmed […]

After its successful run in Fall Quarter 2012 through the International Students Club (ISC), the International Buddy Program saw its official beginning on Jan. 22 and Jan. 23 at program orientation. Sponsored by the Cross Cultural Center (CCC) Services for International Students and Scholars (SISS) and the ASUCD Outreach Assembly (OA), the program aims to […]

Question: I read your column in The Aggie and wrote down your email in case I ever had some legal questions. I am an upper division student at UC Davis, and I need some advice regarding the University’s policy on grading changes. Over the summer, I took a course during Summer Session II and elected […]

On Jan. 24, UC Student Regent Cinthia Flores and Regent-designate Sadia Saifuddin visited UC Davis to discuss the upcoming 2015-16 Student Regent Application, as well as answer questions from the public about the state of the University of California (UC). The meeting was held from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in South Hall. The Student […]

On Nov. 22, 2013, the UC Davis Bookstore officially announced online its partnership with Amazon — the first partnership that Amazon has had with any university. Amazon approached UC Davis during Spring Quarter of 2013 to pitch the idea of this pilot program. UC Davis will receive a little over 2 percent of most purchases […]

The UC Davis Financial Aid office claims that books and supplies at UC Davis cost around $1,620 yearly. Textbooks are the third-highest expense in college, and prices are increasing at an average rate of six percent per year, according to a 2013 report by the Government Accountability Office — twice the current inflation rate, which […]

ASUCD Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the first senate meeting of Winter Quarter on Jan. 9. The meeting was called to order at 6:17 p.m. Senator Miles Thomas was elected as the new President Pro Tempore of the senate. Ben Marchman was confirmed as the new Student-Police Relations Committee Chair. New members of the […]

ASUCD Senate voted in December 2013 to suspend the Experimental College (EC) courses for the time being due to financial burdens. The ASUCD unit has been steadily losing funds from their reserves over the past eight years. Courses were suspended to stop funds from decreasing further. ASUCD Controller Eric Evans said the decline in funds […]

Question: I’m a server at a certain Davis restaurant that I’d rather not name. People who come into the restaurant almost always leave us tips. My boss (the manager) has a policy of taking all those tips, putting them into a single account, and then deducting a portion for the restaurant before equally splitting the […]

The cost of implementing “Breathe Free UC Davis” has reached $74,868.25, according to the Smoke and Tobacco Free Communication Budget. Beginning Jan. 1, “Breathe Free” has banned all smoke and tobacco products across campus, and signs announcing this mandate began going up in September 2013. In total, money spent on signage, meaning ash urn stickers, […]

ASUCD Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the final senate meeting of Fall Quarter on Dec. 5, 2013. The meeting was called to order at 6:10 p.m. Senator Ryan Wonders was elected as pro tempore of the senate. Justice Wooju Kim was sworn in as chief justice. The meeting focused on the finances of ASUCD […]