Editorial

The Editorial Board hopes for comparable increase in voter turnout This past week, 32 people qualified as candidates for the upcoming 2018 ASUCD Winter Elections for various student government positions. This is a stark contrast to the 2017 Fall Elections, when six senatorial candidates ran unopposed. Four executive tickets and 24 senatorial candidates will be […]

Other teams should follow suit in eliminating offensive mascots Major League Baseball announced on Jan. 29 that, starting in 2019, Chief Wahoo, a buck-toothed caricature of Native Americans that doubles as the mascot for the Cleveland Indians, will cease to appear on the team’s uniforms. In a statement to The New York Times, Rob Manfred, […]

Protect yourself and others from the flu If you haven’t had tissues and bags of cough drops stuffed in your pockets this month, you probably know someone who has. The outbreak of the H3N2 influenza strain has made recent headlines by causing a deadly flu outbreak across the country, with California as a hotspot for […]

More candidates for ASUCD should bring fresh ideas With the exception of Winter Quarter to Fall Quarter of 2015, winter quarters in recent memory have typically held higher voter turnouts and a greater number of candidates running for Senate, with approximately double what they were in the fall. The higher voter turnout, however, isn’t necessarily […]

UC Student-Workers Union releases bargaining demands The UC Student-Workers Union UAW Local 2865 recently made known its bargaining goals for its 2018 contract negotiations with the UC. There are 12 detailed demands, ranging from improved compensation to expanded childcare, which were drafted using feedback from surveys taken by over 4,000 members of the union. The […]

Reality check: Oprah Winfrey is not a qualified 2020 candidate At this year’s Golden Globe awards, Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an honorary Golden Globe bestowed annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.” She is the first African American woman — and only the […]

Federal court rules against North Carolina congressional map In a political landmark, a panel of federal judges ruled North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map void due to its heavy GOP partisanship. This took place on Jan. 9, just in time to cause chaos before a pivotal midterm election, which North Carolina Republicans are desperate to secure. […]

CHIP at risk of losing funding The Children’s Health Insurance Program provides health care coverage for children from low-income families, specifically the subset of families whose incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid but not high enough to afford private insurance. Since its creation in 1997, the program has provided health care for 8.9 […]

To the Editor: Re: “There and Back Again: The political evolution of a white guy” by Nick Irvin (column, Dec. 7):   In your article you describe Trump as accelerating the divide in our country, but a mere two paragraphs later you say that he “rode the waves of angry white people.” I will not […]

New 24-hour rooms available in library Opening more study spaces — and keeping them open for longer hours — has been a long-standing request of the UC Davis student body. Students are all too familiar with the often fruitless search for a table in Shields Library, and, with the increased traffic brought on by finals […]

Not too late to protest graduate waiver as taxable income The 440-page document passed by the House is one of two GOP tax bills passed in recent weeks. While the Senate has also passed a version of a tax bill, its contents are not as great a threat to the future of American education. The […]

A disgrace to the field of journalism Over the past two months, sexual harassment claims have toppled the careers of numerous media titans, with the most recent allegations directed at the Today Show’s Matt Lauer and Public Radio’s Garrison Keillor. The list of men in journalism who are accused of committing acts of sexual misconduct […]