Campus News

Though it has been commonly held that more women were attending and graduating from college than men, a new study by the American Council on Education (ACE) found that an apparent gender balance has developed. “Gender Equity in Higher Education: 2010,” the third follow-up study of its previous 2000 and 2006 counterparts, discovered that the trend in women pursuing a postsecondary education more often than men has all but vanished. Evidence now indicates a shrinking of the gap, with statistics for males increasing steadily for all demographic groups except Hispanics.

This Memorial Day weekend over a thousand students will be abandoned at Lake Shasta with nothing but alcohol, hamburgers and healthy sexual appetites. Accompanying the students is a program called Safeboats, which will be along for the three-day excursion providing much needed medical attention, granola bars and condoms for the third year in a row.

Copying on an exam A teaching assistant reported a sophomore to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA)

Under ASUCD Entertainment Council’s new leadership, more mainstream entertainers may step onto the UC Davis campus next year. Outgoing EC Director Thongxy Phansopha selected his successor: Perry Sanesanong, a junior textiles and clothing major and promotions intern for the past year. Sanesanong is conducting interviews this week to select the rest of the EC staff.

Any student would want the person next to them in class to be trustworthy, approachable and willing to admit it when they’re wrong. Why should their expectations for the leader at the front of the room be any different?

Students unsure of their confidence in UC President Mark Yudof and the UC Regents will have the opportunity this afternoon to hear the main reasons whether to vote “no confidence” in UC leadership.

When you are daydreaming toward the end of a two-hour lecture, deep breathing is probably the last thing on your mind. Turns out, it may be the best thing for it.

Beginning today, Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) will remove bicycles that appear neglected from parking spaces on campus.

At the UC Board of Regents meeting last Wednesday, UC officials presented a plan for administrative and organizational savings to tackle the system’s continuing budget shortfall.

Consideration of old legislation: Senate Resolution 34, authored and introduced by Juarez to oppose House Bill 2281, passed by the Arizona state legislature on April 29, 2010, banning ethnic studies courses in all K-12 public and charter schools, passed unanimously.

For a college student, getting one’s laptop stolen could result in losing much more than just the value listed on the price tag, said Rajendra Singh, lead security guard at Shields Library.

Francisco, an undocumented student who moved to the U.S. from Mexico at 11 years old, knows the feeling of isolation that many teenagers feel throughout middle and high school as their differences are looked down upon.