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After students voted to change official UC Davis mascot, leaders of the ‘Cow4Mascot’ movement, members of ASUCD and campus administrators compromise by making the cow the first ever ASUCD mascot By SONORA SLATER — campus@theaggie.org As of Sept. 30, the cow is now the official mascot of ASUCD, according to an Instagram post on the […]

Carlo Facchino, a 1994 UC Davis graduate, rowed from San Francisco to Hawaii in attempt to beat record set in 2014   By JADE BELL – campus@theaggie.org   UC Davis alumnus Carlo Facchino set out on his 2,400-mile row from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to Hawaii at 8:30 a.m. on July 5 and completed […]

Masking indoors and testing biweekly no longer required, other changes made to Campus Ready requirements for students   By JADE BELL and SONORA SLATER – campus@theaggie.org   Students have returned to the UC Davis campus for fall quarter with many COVID-19 mandates lifted, such as wearing masks indoors and biweekly asymptomatic testing, according to the […]

Students and professor share their experiences studying abroad amidst COVID-19 pandemic   By KRISTIN TRENT — campus@theaggie.org   Beginning in summer 2022, the Global Learning Hub (GLH) resumed its first full offering of summer programs after a hiatus from sending students abroad during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.   According to an interview with the […]

Participants and leaders expressed mixed opinions about the four-day mandatory programming    By SYDNEY AMESTOY — campus@theaggie.org   This year’s orientation process saw swarms of incoming freshman and transfer students across campus who were led by orientation leaders to various programs and events. However, student participants and orientation leaders shared mixed opinions about the mandatory […]

The ceremonies took place indoors on Aug. 26 and 27 to make up for June’s ceremonies that were cut short due to extreme heat   By SONORA SLATER — campus@theaggie.org   Makeup commencement ceremonies for spring 2022 UC Davis graduates were held on Aug. 26 and 27, according to a recent press release, providing an […]

Chancellor Gary May later released a statement condemning the act By SONORA SLATER — campus@theaggie.org Content warning: This article includes discussions of antisemitic language which some readers may find disturbing. The UC Davis Police Department sent out a crime alert to campus community members at 6:07 p.m. on Aug. 28, reporting a “hate incident” involving […]

Interim senators, judicial council members and new chairpersons for the various committees confirmed during special session By SYDNEY AMESTOY — campus@theaggie.org On Thursday, August 11, at 6:00 p.m, Vice President JT Eden called the special session meeting of the Senate to order over Zoom, then read the UC Davis Land Acknowledgement.  The purpose of this […]

Daniel Noble was charged with the “distribution of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct,” according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office   By KAYA DO-KHANH — campus@theaggie.org   Content Warning: This article contains discussions of sexual misconduct and abuse which some readers may find disturbing.   On May 19, […]

Healthy Central Valley Together is now conducting COVID-19 wastewater testing in Davis    By SYDNEY AMESTOY — campus@theaggie.org   Davis residents, as well as residents in some other central valley communities, can now check local COVID-19 rates based on their city’s wastewater via the Healthy Central Valley Together (HCVT) program, a collaboration between UC Davis […]

Free, voluntary campus testing has moved from the ARC to the Human Resources Building     By KAYA DO-KHANH — campus@theaggie.org   As of June 24, UC Davis has ended its COVID-19 testing requirement for students, according to an announcement from Chancellor Gary May on June 13. The free PCR tests will still be available to […]

The makeup commencement ceremony will be planned based on feedback from a survey sent out in late June to recent graduates, according to UC Davis Chancellor Gary May  By JADE BELL — campus@theaggie.org Plans for a $58 regalia refund and a makeup commencement ceremony for undergraduate students were announced by UC Davis Chancellor Gary May […]