Campus News

The UC Davis Police Department (UCDPD) is conducting an investigation concerning an alleged hate crime that took place on May 12 and occurred on campus near Putah Creek Drive. According to the police report, the victim was walking on Levee Road when a burgundy Jeep SUV slowed alongside the victim. The suspects allegedly exited the […]

Question: I saw on the local news that a “pickup artist” in Sacramento got arrested for trespassing at Arden Fair Mall. When the reporter interviewed him, the pickup artist said he shouldn’t have been arrested because he had a “First Amendment” right to be there. Is that true? Can I just go to a mall […]

The ASUCD Senate table discussed the Association’s $11.7 million budget for the 2013-14 school year from May 17 to 19. The California Aggie reported on the three days of budget hearings. The remainder of budget hearings will be continued during the May 23 ASUCD Senate meeting in the Mee Room on the third floor of […]

This year alone, three independent, student-run publications have emerged. The Davis Beat, which made its debut Winter Quarter, the Davis Political Review (DPR), which circulated its first issue on May 1, and The Third World Forum, which resurfaced after years of inactivity. The Davis Beat and DPR utilized the Club Finance Council (CFC) on campus […]

Poolside Police Three students were referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for possessing alcohol in the pool area of the dorms. The students were approached by two Residential Advisors (RAs) who asked the students if their bottles contained alcohol. The students stated that their drink did in fact contain alcohol, which was against Student Housing […]

Editor’s note: You’re Majoring in What? is a new Aggie column that features students of UC Davis’ lesser-known majors. Tristan Leder is a third-year technocultural studies major. What is technocultural studies (TCS)? Technocultural studies sits at an interesting crossroads between media, art, humanities and, of course, technology. The major focuses on both the critical theory […]

The UC Board of Regents meeting at the Sacramento Convention Center was momentarily interrupted on May 15 after union healthcare workers from AFSCME 3299 began chanting loudly during a sit-in. Thirteen arrests were made and AFSCME 3299 president Kathryn Lybarger was among the group. The protesters, wearing stickers reading “Patients not profits,” chanted phrases such […]

The ASUCD Unit Relocation and Space Allocation Committee (URSAC) will be making an unprecedented number of decisions in the coming weeks, as imminent renovations to the Memorial Union and Silo spur displacement. “It’s new territory. Our spaces are completely changing,” said ASUCD President Carly Sandstrom, a voting member of URSAC along with ASUCD Business Manager […]

After the recent discovery of a $57 million deficit in the UC Student Health Insurance Plan (UC SHIP), UC Davis has made the decision to withdraw from UC SHIP and move forward with alternate options. The deficit has been accumulating since 2010; monthly monitoring of the plan was not performed at the same level that […]

A bill to increase funding for community-specific graduation ceremonies did not pass at the ASUCD Senate meeting on May 9. The bill would have increased funding to ethnic graduation ceremonies by $1,300. Senate Bill 94 was first presented to ASUCD on May 2, asking for $5,100 in grants to fund the graduation ceremonies. It was […]

Four Two Oh No Two Resident Advisors (RA) were doing their rounds in a residence hall when they smelled marijuana wafting through the halls of the floor they were on. They followed their noses to one particular room, and after pinpointing the source of the smell they proceeded to call the police. When the police […]

Applications to UC Davis increased by 11.4 percent compared to last year. The University received a total of 69,642 applicants for the class of 2017, as opposed to last year’s 62,515. Of this group, 22,008 applicants received acceptance letters, creating an admit rate of 39.4 percent. Of the applicants admitted, 5,065 are out-of-state residents and […]