Campus News

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 […]

Between the Sacramento and Davis campuses, the economic impact of UC Davis has topped $6.9 billion. Providing over 69,000 jobs (48,000 in Davis and 20,000 in Sacramento), UC Davis has a large impact on the state. “The leadership of the campus feels a responsibility to the citizens to demonstrate how we contribute,” said Dean and […]

As Winter quarter begins, participants of the UC Davis occupy movement have made plans to re-occupy the Quad on Thursday and continue their presence on campus. Following the recent 81 percent tuition increase proposal and demonstration of police brutality toward student protesters on West Quad the week of Nov. 14, encampments were established to represent […]

Today, UC President Mark Yudof announced the members who will be working on the task force that will investigate the pepper spray incident of Nov. 18. Former California Supreme Court Justice and UC Davis School of Law Professor emeritus Cruz Reynoso will be leading the investigation, as was previously announced. In a press release,  Yudof […]

After protesters disrupted Monday’s University of California Regents meeting, regents reconvened in a smaller room. Before leaving the first room, regents voted to ask the state to raise the university’s funding from $2.3 to $2.7 billion for the 2012-13 fiscal year. In the smaller room, the regents approved raising the salaries of around a dozen […]

Current UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi has been under fire for her involvement in the pepper spraying of peaceful protesters on Nov. 18, 2011. The beleaguered chancellor has attempted to reconcile with students through numerous avenues, including various e-mails, speeches, conferences and television appearances, meant to instill student trust and confidence back in the […]