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The system is highly subjective and outdated  There is a scene in the movie “Cinema Paradiso” where the town priest reviews every single film to see if anything needs to be cut before it plays at the theater. This includes kiss scenes, sex scenes and everything in between. He just rings his bell at any […]

Not everyone can afford to work for months without pay I miss my childhood summers: playing in the front yard ‘til dusk, completing the exhausting “Just Dance 3” levels and staying up late during weekend-long sleepovers. These summers provided an escape from the trials and tribulations of pre-algebra and spelling tests.  Summer in college is […]

Extremism is now easier to fall into than ever before YouTube is consistently criticized as the platform where — usually –– young white men are radicalized by far-right figures who want nothing more than to spew conspiracies and hate. But how responsible is YouTube really? Second only to Netflix, the Google-owned service is the second […]

No pain, no gain, right? Whenever I need a surge of motivation during the exhausting quarter system, I usually turn on “The Devil Wears Prada” so that I can at least procrastinate efficiently. Watching the protagonist, Andy, work herself to the bone, obtaining unpublished “Harry Potter” manuscripts and coffee, is admittedly satisfying to see. I […]

What does it mean to be inclusive? UC Davis has been commended for its diversity and values of inclusion. With so many people on campus — 38,369, according to the most recent student profile —  it’s only natural that there should be a variance in students’ rhetoric as a result of varying experiences.  We’re all […]

We need the right balance between wide and narrow street lanes  When I was 12, I went to England and noticed something about the design of the neighborhoods that began to irk me — the two-lane streets were so narrow that they were just about the same size as a single street lane in America.  […]

Social media has transformed comedy by elevating it What makes you laugh the most? Is it your friends, family or favorite comedian? Probably not. For most of us, our laughs are now ignited by the stuff inside the little boxes we scroll through everyday on our social media feeds: Tiktok videos, Twitter zingers and the […]

With all odds up against it, the 92nd Academy Awards did not entirely fall flat At its worst, the Oscars can be a pretentious, stodgy ceremony that fails to capture the true essence of film and the arts. It harps every year at its lack of diversity while still refusing to adapt. But at its […]

I’ll have my cake and eat it alone, too.  I’m writing this column while sitting alone in the dining hall. There are groups of friends conversing to my left and individuals quietly eating to my right. I’m sitting at the crossroads of these two experiences. On one hand, I’m feeling self-conscious about my loneliness. Are […]

Traffic and economic growth might be intertwined, but it’s messier than that Any Bay Area native could tell you about the horror stories of a Costco parking lot on the weekend. When the receptionist at the Fox Rent a Car in Salt Lake City found out my family and I were from the Bay Area, […]

The revolutionary new way to watch your favorite shows (I swear this isn’t satire) “The Bachelor” is a show about marriage that in no way reflects the values of marriage. Now in its 24th season, the show consistently has over 5 million viewers per episode, with a peak of 6.5 million viewers. Bachelor contestants compete […]

How television is able to live up to the quality of cinema No form of artistic expression is more cultivated than another. The intrinsic value that, for instance, classical literature can possess in comparison to free verse poetry is entirely subjective and thus cannot be measured by general perception.  When discussing movies and television — […]