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A border that moves makes U.S. citizens feel like targets By ISAAC NA  — isna@ucdavis.edu This year, the United States is celebrating its 250th birthday. This birthday party will have fireworks, large parades and lengthy speeches about freedom and its basis in America. The American Dream is the concept of freedom itself, available to all […]

By JACKSON BONNAR— jtbonnar@ucdavis.edu   At UC Davis, I’ve learned to scan a classroom before I speak. It’s not paranoia, it’s self-preservation. When you’re a conservative on a campus where the prevailing narrative leans left, every comment feels like it carries extra weight. You’re not just speaking for yourself, you’re defending your entire worldview. I […]

Starting gun for the race to the bottom   By SIMON LEWIS — simlewis@ucdavis.edu     On a flight to Washington, DC, I was turning over in my mind part of a prayer the Reverend Robert A. Fisher, Rector of St. John’s Church at Lafayette Square, planned to deliver at Donald Trump’s pre-inaugural prayer service […]

The time has come again to oppose racist political persecution   BY PROFESSORS JOSHUA CLOVER and SEETA CHAGANTI — jclover@ucdavis.ede,  schaganti@ucdavis.edu   If Donald Trump’s Jan. 29, 2025 executive order (EO) targeting non-citizen — and largely non-white — students with expedited deportation alarms us, it does not catch us unawares. It is not the first […]

Prof. Joshua Clover shares his thoughts.   Joshua Clover is a professor of English and Comparative Literature.   It is important to start with facts. Shares in a company called Leidos Holdings Incorporated hovered around $90 for much of last year. On October 6th, for example, they stood at $90.98. By Feb 21 of this […]

The No. 1 most sustainable campus in the nation shouldn’t support a massive plastic polluter   By ASUCD ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PLANNING COMMISSION — eppc@asucd.ucdavis.edu    Despite student and faculty opposition, UC Berkeley signed another 10-year Pouring Rights Contract (PRC) with Pepsi, one of the world’s largest plastic polluters. UC Davis should not make the […]

Corrupt international leadership prevented Postdocs from joining UAW 2865 over a decade ago. Now, both UAW-UC locals will vote to right the wrongs of the past.    By EMILY WEINTRAUT   Emily Weintraut is a third-year PhD student here at Davis in the Food Science Graduate Group, and a member of United Auto Worker (UAW) […]

By ERIKA “KIKI” GEDGAUDAS — emgedgaudas@ucdavis.edu   For nearly two years, my friends and I have joked about how safe Davis is, how walking and biking at night is a common, enjoyable occurrence, how the unlit streets of Davis aren’t a problem because clearly seeing the stars is a joy. Over the last five days, […]

By JOSHUA CLOVER — jclover@ucdavis.edu   Seven Januaries ago, Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right grifter with a special animus for trans people, was chased off the Davis campus before a talk; a couple weeks later he received the same treatment at UC Berkeley. Between those two events, Richard Spencer, a far-right grifter and Hitler enjoyer, took […]

By ADAM J. MOORE — ajmoo@ucdavis.edu   “Tested Positive for COVID” — I received yet another email from a student, informing me of their diagnosis and need for lecture and exam accommodations in the class I TA, the seventh such email in three days. The UC Davis campus, much like the rest of the U.S., […]

By SOS at UC Davis — peaceatucd@gmail.com This is a letter from the students of the Students Opposing Speciesism hub here at UC Davis. We have been working around the clock with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty through Education (P.E.A.C.E.) to get the California National […]

By STEPHEN FUJIMOTO — ssfujimoto@ucdavis.edu This quarter, like many spring quarters preceding it, elections for the president and internal vice president of ASUCD are scheduled to be held. However, unlike recent elections, this race will be uncontested — and it is clear to me that our elected student leaders are unfortunately at fault. While many […]