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Last Wednesday, conservationist photographer and former TEDx speaker Garth Lenz came to UC Davis to give his talk entitled “The True Cost of Oil” which explores the destruction of Canadian wildlife and oil sand mining. Bituminous sands, which are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit and have only in recent years been considered part of […]

After a 10 million dollar gift over the holidays from the Jan Shrem, a friend of Margrit Mondavi, UC Davis is now planning to add a new art museum near the Mondavi Center. “The museum will be a resource for students, faculty, staff and members of the community to experience art in the broadest sense […]

The UC Regents meeting was held last Wednesday in Sacramento for the first time since 1993. Usually organized at campus locations, the meeting was transferred to the Sacramento Convention Center in order to rally government support for the financially debilitated university system. Among other issues, the Regents discussed an impending six percent tuition increase for […]

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the May 17 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 11:50 p.m. 6:10 p.m. to 11:49 p.m. was the continuation of […]

For years, students at UC Davis have used the Class Schedule and Registration Guide (CSRG) to plan out their schedules. However, starting in Fall 2012, the CSRG will no longer be printed, and a new Class Search Tool will take its place. The primary reasoning behind the discontinuation of the CSRG was obsolescence. As class […]

Applying for Grad School Thinking about applying for graduate school? Whatever your interests are, the decision to go to graduate school is a very serious one, so be sure to think long and hard before committing yourself to a program. Nationally, at least half of all students who begin graduate degree programs fail to finish. […]

ASUCD unit Creative Media is currently hiring new student graphic designers and computer programmers to meet the increasing demand for campus-wide design services. Creative Media is design firm that provides print and web design for students, businesses and ASUCD units to help publicize events and services and to facilitate communication. Creative Media is led by […]

Rethink About Regrading A junior economics major was referred to SJA for altering a quiz and submitting it for regrading after it had been graded and returned. Because copies of the graded quizzes were made before they were handed back to the students, it was evident to the TA that the student had added and […]

Senator Patrick Sheehan recently proposed to the UC Davis Academic Senate the idea of quantifying A+s so that students who receive the above average grade are rewarded for their efforts through an increase in their GPA. In his two proposals for a GPA-calculable A+, an A+ could either be weighted as 4.3 on the grading […]

Have you ever wondered how it is that our brains process so much information and yet it seems like it never has a mental jam? This is due to the fact that the brain runs different parts of itself at various different points; it all depends on what you are doing. According to a paper […]

This past weekend, ASUCD senators discussed the $11.1 million budget for the 2012-13 year. The budget hearings lasted three days, and senators made decisions about the funding of the different ASUCD units. Writers from The California Aggie attended the three-day meeting and compiled a summary of events. Friday Friday’s meeting was called to order at […]

The total amount due of UC Davis undergraduates for student fees during the 2011-2012 school year was $15,123.36 ($5,041.12 per quarter), $11,220 ($3,740 per quarter) of which is for tuition. Fees increased by 15.6 percent since last fall. With the exception of the tuition (educational fee), $3,903.36 annually ($1,301.12 per quarter) is used for services […]