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Students will rally today at noon at the Memorial Union (MU) to speak about “blowing the whistle” on privatization and to address the alleged ongoing privatization of the University of California. Students for a Democratic UC encourage students to call the whistleblowing hotline for all UC campuses today to report on what they call the […]

Water vapor from the campus steam plant will be used to provide heat and hot water to the Tercero Phase 3 campus dorms. Tercero 3 is currently under construction and is expected to be finished by June 2014. This process of heat transfer is made possible through the use of a condensing economizer, a piece […]

The Student Health and Wellness Center is currently finalizing its annual nap map, a guide to the best places to grab a few minutes of shut-eye on campus. Around 25 red sleep icons indicate top spots on this Google map, each of which, when selected, provides the curious with a convenient window of helpful information, […]

A winter clothing drive, organized by the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Advisory Board (CUAB), will take place this week on campus. Students can donate new or gently used winter clothing until Feb. 15. Items that can be donated include coats, scarves, gloves, etc. Four collection stations are available at the ARC and Student Community Center lobbies, the […]

Editor’s Note: The Environmental Policy and Planning Commission (EPPC) is an ASUCD commission responsible for researching environmental issues affecting the campus and its surrounding area, and providing recommendations for improvement. Doin’ It Green is a new feature which provides tips and ideas for being green. Love is in the air and Valentine’s Day is right […]

Graduating fewer than 200 students per year, the UC Davis School of Law is one of the smaller law schools in the nation, particularly relative to the neighboring 32,000 UC Davis students. However, despite its size, King Hall found itself at the center of honorable accolades this month, as it ranked the 25th best law […]

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Feb. 7 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 6:14 p.m. Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, present Yena Bae, ASUCD vice […]

The UC Davis Police Department (UCDPD) welcomed Lt. Gregory Murphy Thursday night as he was sworn in during a badge-pinning ceremony. Murphy participated in a community-based hiring process, according to UC Davis Police Chief Matthew Carmichael. “This process is unlike any other as new employees are selected with major input from the community. With the […]

Dining commons (DC) workers on campus are considering filing a demand to bargain with the University after recent changes to their work schedules. “Starting Feb. 1, about half of us got a half hour to one hour cut from our schedule,” said an anonymous cook working at the dining commons. “We weren’t notified about the […]

A pictorial history of UC Davis was released Jan. 14. The work, compiled by Dennis Dingemans and Ann Foley Scheuring, is entitled University of California, Davis and is the latest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s Campus History Series. “The UC Davis book is a perfect representation of our Campus History series,” said Suzanne Lynch, Arcadia Publishing […]

A professor recently referred two students to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for what appeared to be unauthorized collaboration during a computer science exam. Another student taking the exam had observed the two students whispering to each other and brought it to the professor’s attention. When the professor compared the two exams after the fact, he […]

UC Davis was ranked No. 49 of 50 on Business Insider’s “Best Colleges in America” list. This is the first time the university placed on the list in the four years since the start of the release of the rankings. UC Davis also received a rating of 2.75 of 5. According to the Business Insider […]