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President of ASUCD from 1966 to 1967 shares the story of Unitrans’ conception In the fall of 1965, I had just returned to UC Davis for the beginning of my second year. I was 18. One September night, in 100 Hunt Hall, I heard the journalist Robert Scheer speak about the history behind the U.S. […]

Campus “watchlists” threaten freedom of speech for students A diverse group of student activists came together on Mar. 5 to build a mock apartheid wall at the Memorial Union. The wall was intended to represent the similar structure that cleaves the Palestinian West Bank today. The powerful symbolism is clear: Whether in Palestine or Mexico, […]

To the Editor: On Feb. 8, a friend and I arrived at the Pavilion early to get seats in the front row of the middle section for the anticipated basketball game between UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara. Because it was Greek night, the fraternities and sororities had come together to grab seats in the […]

IMGs face barriers to contributing to the U.S. economy, communities Our world-class economy in the United States is a result of four centuries of immigrant contributions and their integration into our communities and workforce. The past two decades of wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have brought a new wave of immigrants and refugees and […]

The UC system must be democratized for students and workers to obtain power over their everyday lives It’s well known that those with power and influence disproportionately craft the narratives that we’re exposed to (because access to prominent platforms isn’t equally distributed) and will generally do so in ways that benefit them. For instance, when […]

KDVS allows Richard Spencer to promote racism and genocide On Feb. 5, an event occurred here on campus that should be regarded by the entire community of UC Davis as a severe hate incident. A staff member of the UC Davis radio station KDVS provided a notorious white supremacist and Nazi, Richard Spencer, a platform […]

To the Editor: Re “Dear Chancellor May — It’s time for ICA to stop playing games with student fees” by Paul Medved (guest opinion, Jan. 30):   I’m a big fan of UC Davis athletics and proud of our student-athletes’ stellar performance, both on the field and in the classroom. Intercollegiate athletics is where we […]

Student fees continue to pay for sports that UC Davis doesn’t offer anymore Dear Chancellor Gary May, The news that UC Davis will once again offer a 15th women’s intercollegiate sport is welcome indeed. But there’s a history that must inform what ultimately will be your decision on which sport to add, why and whether […]

Nobody likes giving something for nothing. It stands to reason that governments seek out investments that deliver returns for their people. When these returns are intangible and non-monetary, they are difficult to quantify and interpret as returns — lives saved or quality of life improvements, for example. It might seem particularly less fruitful when these […]

Looking past the narrative that “boys are way less drama” There’s an all-too-common narrative among young women claiming that boys are just so much easier to hang out with — way less drama. Even I fell victim to this narrative when I was a teen. I was raised in a household with three older brothers, […]

The U.S. receives a lower quality of health care at an exorbitant price Disparity, high costs and prohibitive complexity are long-standing trademarks of American health care. The federal government sought to address these issues with the 2010 Affordable Care Act. This legislation uneasily straddled the divide between universal health care and America’s previous health care […]

Seeking solutions beyond recycling To the Editor: Re: “What can we do about the plastic problem?” by Jessica Driver (column, Nov. 13): I agree with attacking the plastic problem by recycling, of course. In addition to notices for people to recycle, education about how to recycle must be taught in classes. This can easily be […]