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Multiple Davis students attended the California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC) fall convergence, hosted by Humboldt State University from Nov. 8 to 10. Attendees worked toward environmental collaboration through discussion, food and music. Made up of current students and recent alumni representing UC, CSU and community college campuses across California, the CSSC holds a convergence twice […]

Assisted by a UC Davis viticulture and enology alumnus, Earl Stevens — more commonly known as Bay Area rapper E-40 — has come out with Earl Stevens Selections, a collection of high-quality wines made in Napa Valley. Steve Burch who graduated from UC Davis in 1998, is the winemaker behind Earl Stevens Selections. Burch and […]

Following the recent appointment of Janet Napolitano as the 20th UC president, a growing number of campus organizations and students involved with AB 540 and immigration-related issues have voiced their concerns. Record numbers of undocumented immigrants were deported during Napolitano’s reign as the Secretary of Homeland Security, and immigration activist students fear that the AB […]

“I Heart College” is a brief documentary recently completed by Davis-bred David Johnson. The documentary focuses on informing viewers about college and the reasons to go to college. A couple students and a faculty member from UC Davis are interviewed in it, and there are a number of references to UC Davis. Johnson himself “hearts” […]

Officers from the Davis Police Department (DPD) have worked with campus police to increase patrols around the city for the first six weeks of school as part of their Fall Enforcement plan. The enforcement plan will return for another six weeks at the start of Spring Quarter. “Fall Enforcement is simply the enforcement component of […]

Beyond conversational exchange and friend tracking activities, Facebook groups have sprung up where members will post goods and services for sale. Those looking to buy can also post requests, if what they’re looking for isn’t already on the page. One of the largest and most active of these pages is the Free & For Sale […]

Every fall, the Cool Patch Pumpkins farm draws world record aficionados, families, students and corn maze lovers to its fields. Now listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest temporary corn maze, it’s hard to believe that a few short years ago, the farm was nothing more than a roadside pumpkin […]

UC Davis scientific research supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) was severely impacted within the first few days of the recent government shutdown. Due to the lapse in funding, several faculty members, graduate students and researchers have witnessed the debilitating effect on their research. About a week before […]

Half the Sky, a novel based on empowering women, is the focus of this year’s Campus Book Project, and has inspired UC Davis students to take matters into their own hands. The authors, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, argue that the worldwide oppression of women is “the paramount moral challenge” of the 21st century, and […]

From Halloween festivities and themed parties to theater productions and Dickens’ fairs, people from The Enchanted Cellar serve the Davis community and surrounding areas with over 25,000 stock items for rental year-round. “Some people have a costume idea but think, ‘how in the world am I going to make the costume do that?’” said costume […]

Three UC Davis alumni have used their personal experiences as student athletes to contribute to the niche market of college recruitment through social media. Fuse Athletics started as an idea for a mobile app, and turned into an online social platform for communication and management between high school athletes and college recruiters. They are now […]

Laptops are an ergonomic disaster, according to a display in the physical therapy office of the Student Health and Wellness Center (SHWC). Midterms and essays can result in problems for students’ health, but emotional stress is the cause, not the effect. According to Jill Nelson, a massage therapist at the SHWC, the downward position in […]