Campus News

If Proposition 30 does not pass in this fall’s election, UC students could face a 20 percent increase in the middle of this year. Proposition 30, proposed by California Governor Jerry Brown, conventionally known as the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012, promises to raise between $6.8 billion, according to the Legislative […]

Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), UC Davis’ oldest fraternity, has been given a five-year ban for serving alcohol to minors. Minors were served alcohol at two different events in January and February, as reported by The Sacramento Bee.  This is the second major violation for the organization in three years, as it was still on probation […]

The Aggie: What are you wearing? Yang: “My skirt and necklace are from Forever 21, and my flatforms were a birthday gift from my friends. They’re from Go Jane.” How did you decide what to wear today? “I woke up twenty minutes before class, so I just threw this on. It’s just a bunch of […]

UC Davis medical school professor Michael Wilkes was informed that he would be removed as professor of a program that taught better patient care, and support for the Hungarian student exchange program that he led would be cancelled, after he wrote an op-ed for The San Francisco Chronicle that questioned the efficacy of prostate-specific antigen […]

On May 30, the Assembly passed the $1 billion Middle Class Scholarship with a vote of 55-17. The Middle Class Scholarship, also known as Assembly Bill (AB) 1501, aims to provide approximately $1 billion in scholarships to California State Universities (CSU), University of California (UC) campuses and community colleges. The Middle Class Scholarship would take […]

After receiving a full scholarship to University of San Diego Law School, ASUCD senator Yara Zokaie has decided not to defer her admission, but also has chosen to remain in her position as an ASUCD senator. “When running for senate, I had already applied for law school, but had planned to defer. I told the […]

A proposal for an ASUCD senate bill is currently underway, pending legislation, to restructure the Student-Police Relations Committee. Senate Bill 112 would add two other at-large members alongside the current chairperson. The Student-Police Relations Committee was created in 2005 to address police issues on campus and to foster relationships between the UC Davis community and […]

Under pressure A student was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for allegedly plagiarizing a paper in a UWP class. The professor noticed that numerous sections of the paper were taken verbatim from other sources. The student admitted that she was very stressed and did not have time to paraphrase her sources. The student agreed […]

Since 2008, students at UC Davis have enjoyed the convenience of a centralized Google e-mail account through the campus “DavisMail” Google Apps service. However, the ever-increasing amount of students currently holding a “ucdavis.edu” address has led to an unforeseen problem: The university will soon run out of the allotted amount of e-mail accounts provided to […]

UC Davis students and faculty have recently been hit by a web e-mail hoax that reads “Update Your UC Davis Webmail Account.” The e-mail was directed to .ucdavis.edu Google-based e-mail accounts, and required respondents to click on a fraudulent web address link. Instead of updating your UC Davis webmail account, the link requires users to […]

On May 25, the Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Times filed a lawsuit against the University of California Board of Regents. The suit demands that the UC Regents comply with the California Public Records Act with the release of the police officers’ names that were removed from the Reynoso Task Force Report on the controversial […]

On May 24, the United States Senate rejected the opposing Democratic and Republican plans to extend the July 1 doubling of the current subsidized Stafford loan interest rate from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. In 2007, former President George W. Bush signed a bill that reduced the subsidized Stafford loan interest rate to 3.4 percent. […]