Campus News

Joy ride, Davis style A sophomore was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) when a police officer had caught her allegedly trying to steal a bicycle on campus property. The student had been seen kicking the lock of a bike in what looked like an attempt to steal it, leading to a witness calling campus […]

UC Davis students built a life-sized Guantánamo Bay prison cell on the Quad on Wednesday to mark the 10-year anniversary of the prison’s opening. Almerindo E. Ojeda, UC Davis Director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, responded to students’ wishes to protest against the maintenance of the Guantánamo Bay […]

UC Davis campus police officer Ralph Nuno, along with another unidentified officer, locked the doors of U.S. Bank during a teach-in Wednesday afternoon. English professor Joshua Clover gave a talk on the history of private banks on college campuses. Students sat on the floor of the U.S. Bank office in the Memorial Union for about […]

Following the Nov. 19, 2011 press conference held in response to UC Davis police officers’ pepper spraying of students, Reverend Kristin Stoneking was called to mediate between protesters and UC Davis administration. Stoneking is a United Methodist minister who has served as director of the Cal Aggie Christian Association (CA House) for 13 years. Her […]

The University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) recently announced a $1.5 million scholarship initiative that will affect all participating campuses, as the program enters its 50  year anniversary. Funds for scholarships dedicated to the UCEAP will increase from $300,000 to $500,000 a year consecutively for the next three years. An intense growth in student […]

The UC Davis School of Law is hosting speaker Rebecca MacKinnon today.  MacKinnon, who is a TED Talks speaker and an expert on Chinese internet censorship, will be talking about internet freedom and censorship. The talk takes place at King Hall from 4 to 5 p.m. and is free to the public. — Hannah Strumwasser

UC Davis recently received a donation of $10 million to go toward the construction of a new art museum. Named after donors Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Farrow, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Farrow Museum of Art is slated for completion in 2015. The museum is part of the plan for the university’s new […]

Vivian Zhao, second year graduate student in linguistics. The Aggie: What are you wearing? Zhao: “My pants are Urban Outfitters. Actually everything I’m wearing is from Urban Outfitters. My boots are Nine West and my bag is from Bakers.” Where do you find inspiration? “Online, mostly. I like Stockholm Street Style.” How did you decide […]

Students arrived at campus the first day of the quarter to find the infamous Egghead statues had been “pepper sprayed.” The statues, created by sculptor Robert Arneson, had been spray painted with what appeared to be orange spray paint, clearly intended to represent the pepper spray incident of Nov. 18.  Statues in front of Shields […]

The two-week occupation of Dutton Hall by Occupy UC Davis protesters ended Dec. 11 without incident. Galvanized by the Nov. 18 incident where students were pepper-sprayed by police, the Occupy UC Davis movement, in the final days of Fall quarter, voted to occupy Dutton Hall until the end of final exams. According to Student Affairs […]

Residents have begun to move back into the Domes after a ground lease was signed with the University and the Solar Housing Community Association (SCHA). The Domes, a cooperative housing community, were closed last August due to safety and health concerns. The SCHA will be acting as a third party in the renovation and maintenance […]

The new Community Center, located at the corner of Hutchison Drive and California Avenue, opens its doors today. The Community Center houses the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center, the Cross Cultural Center, the Recruitment and Retention Center, a multi-purpose room, computer classrooms and the Undergraduate Research Center. The building also has a cafe […]