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The Supreme Court majority does not value your basic human rights   By CALEB SILVER — chsilver@ucdavis.edu    The ruling of Wardlow versus Illinois (2000), put succinctly, is evil and has a malicious lack of foresight. Sam Wardlow was walking in what was pre-conceived by police officers as an area in Chicago with higher crime […]

College kills students’ time for passion projects and extracurriculars   By SABRINA FIGUEROA — sfigueroaavila@ucdavis.edu   “What do you like to do for fun?”  If I was still in high school, I would be itching to answer this question with all of the hobbies I was actually doing, but ever since I started college, I […]

A lose-lose college classic   By MADISON SEEMAN — meseeman@ucdavis.edu   The sun was shining, the birds were chirping but, somehow, out of the nearly thousands of people who walked past where I was tabling, only a sympathetic few actually stopped to grab a sticker and stay for the spiel. There are few constants in […]

Friend groups of three can be difficult to maintain, so here’s some advice to fix that   By JHANA RHODES—jsrho@ucdavis.edu   Is it just me, or do trio friendships have a 50-50 chance of working out? Half of the time, everything is excellent. You and your two other friends spend quality time together, create inside […]

Why can’t I buy groceries at a normal price?   By NEVAEH KARRAKER— nakarraker@ucdavis.edu   An empty wallet is something all college students carry. However, it may soon be possible to possess not just an empty wallet, but a negative wallet — a direct result of the wave of tariffs currently unfolding upon consumers who […]

The unexpected benefits of showing love to the ‘you’ of the past   By NATALIE SALTER — arts@theaggie.org    During the 13th track of her 2023 album “Bewitched,” Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter Laufey turns deeply introspective. “Letter To My 13 Year Old Self” is everything the title suggests — a melodic message backwards through time to her […]

Please follow my new Etsy shop: “Designz by Designer”   By ALLISON KELEHER — adkeleher@ucdavis.edu   I recently got Canva Pro, and it has changed my life. Now that I have so much power at my fingertips, I sometimes get overwhelmed by all of my creative ideas. Not to sound cocky, but graphic design may […]

Microtrends are a big, fat fallacy   By ABHINAYA KASAGANI— akasagani@ucdavis.edu   In an age where microtrends permeate every aspect of daily life, allow me to let you in on a secret: You do not need five iterations of the same thing to feel a sense of joy and there is no “shiny new thing” […]

Have all of the stories already been told?   By MOLLY THOMPSON – mmtthompson@ucdavis.edu   On the surface, our modern media landscape might seem like it’s full of new ideas and fresh stories. But in reality, we’re essentially rehashing the same classic themes time and time again, with the occasional twist. There’s a theory in […]

Exploring how society perpetuates the manifestations of its own fears about AI    By VIOLET ZANZOT— vmzanzot@ucdavis.edu   Artificial Intelligence (AI) — it does your homework, makes your workouts and explains whether you should “text them back” or not. It feels limitless, and if you do happen upon what feels like a limit, you can […]

How state and local efforts to forcibly remove encampments and enforce Proposition 36 fail our unhoused communities   By TARA ROMERO— tcrome@ucdavis.edu   On July 26, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom enacted Executive Order N-1-24, which allows and encourages local law enforcement to forcibly evict unhoused people from their encampments. “It is imperative to act […]

Concerns regarding the severity of the climate crisis and how to stay resilient   By ELLIE NOH — eenoh@ucdavis.edu   As the effects of global warming increase in severity, their current and future environmental impacts have caused many individuals to experience anxiety about their futures. This anxiety is further fueled by others’ ignorance towards understanding […]