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UC Davis Occupational Health Services seeks to improve wellbeing Since the beginning of February, Occupational Health Services (OHS) has been focusing on UC Davis students’, staff members’ and faculties’ health and wellbeing through the new Mindfulness Meditation program. The sessions are led by Beth Cohen, a consulting psychologist and former director of the UC Davis […]

Students reveal their favorite pickup lines and if they would actually work What’s your favorite pickup line, and would it work on you? Damien Amzallag, second-year economics and statistics double major “What works surprisingly a lot is speaking in French. It wouldn’t work on me though, [since I] know the language.”         […]

Campus organizations spread the word for healthy relationships during Dating Violence Awareness Month This February, UC Davis organizations worked to improve awareness of the often lesser-recognized threat to college relationships: dating violence. The realm of dating violence is less commonly referenced than domestic violence, which focuses on violence between marital partners, and recognizes violent and […]

UC Davis intramural program provides students a fun, casual way to participate in sports Among the many extracurricular opportunities that UC Davis offers is the year-round Campus Recreation and Unions’ (CRU) intramural sports (IM) program. The program is open to all students, both undergraduate and graduate, as well as staff members. “In general, every quarter […]

National and international students discuss what it means to feel American Fourth-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major Nene Takahashi sits at a blue table on the Coffee House patio, trying her best to keep warm in the bitter winter cold. She’s dressed in Lululemon athletic clothing, and fiddles with the sleeve of her jacket as […]

UC Davis students participate in the UC Davis Cadet Academy The UC Davis Cadet Academy provides an opportunity for graduating seniors to learn more about law enforcement, forensics, criminology and more. Each year, the academy receives about 30 applicants, with around 25 cadets staying on throughout the program. “These are students that are interested in […]

A fifth-year student’s academic reality We’ve always been told that college will be the best four years of our lives. But what if those four years turned into five, or even six? Fifth-year students, also known as “super seniors,” seem to be increasing in number every year. Students across UC Davis are choosing to extend […]

Students offer free services in the UC Davis Free & For Sale group on Facebook Relaxing with Sensui If ever in need of a massage after a stressful week of midterms, Sensui Tao is the man to visit. From a young age, one of Tao’s older sisters deemed him the family masseuse. Being the sixth […]

UC Davis experts discuss Zika virus and it’s recent outbreaks On Feb. 1, The World Health Organization declared Zika virus a “public health emergency of international concern.” Zika virus is transmitted by the infected Aedes species mosquito, with recent outbreaks throughout the world having caused health officials to become alarmed. On Feb. 10, it was […]

Students, faculty discuss campus legends passed down for generations Amidst chilling rumors of radioactive beagles and cows on the roof of school buildings, UC Davis is certainly no stranger to a long history of urban legends. “It’s amazing to us how these stories have passed [down] year after year, when we only house first-year students,” […]

Six tips to get out of the social media vortex and make time for yourself As the end of the quarter quickly approaches, students will be putting their noses to the grindstone (or textbook) to get into crunch mode before time runs out. The thing that seems to suck most of the time out of […]

Five Davis locations that offer free birthday items Celebrating a birthday often means bringing out balloons, baking a cake or buying gifts for loved ones. For college students, birthdays often mean frantically pinching pennies to buy the perfect present, or scrambling to treat a friend to dinner. This year, skip the financial anxiety and celebrate […]