Humor

When it comes to the mental health of others, don’t be an armchair psychologist Second-year Bonnie Devlin and third-year Ayden Herman have banded together to create the Armchair Psychologists Association on campus. The association gives advice and mediates relationships for free. Together, Devlin and Herman have one and a half classes worth of psychology experience, […]

Advice columnist Amy Dickinson faces her toughest challenge yet Dear Amy: As you probably know, I’ve been writing the nationally syndicated advice column “Ask Amy” for over a decade. Every day. For over a decade. Yes, that’s right, every single day in my daily column every day, I, Amy Dickinson, respond to three people who […]

He just wanted to make someone laugh Laughter is truly the best medicine. That is why Arian Reeves became a stand-up comedian. Hearing the laughter of an audience is a magical feeling, and Reeves hoped to experience making someone laugh one day. Jumping into a breakout room for his accounting class, the lull between conversation […]

Prizes include the presidency and the future of our democracy The following is an anonymous letter believed to be written by notorious supervillain, Mr. Munch. Written on Nov. 5, the letter seems to be an attempted plan by Munch to “stop the count.” There’s been a lot of fancy politics talk recently. Election this, democracy […]

Clues to how Amy Coney Barrett might decide cases involving the Clean Water Act There has been much discussion of how new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s deep Catholic faith and membership of the Charismatic Christian group “People of Praise” could affect how she might rule on cases involving abortion access and LGBT rights. […]

“I’m ready to prove all the haters wrong” “COVID-19 is only as bad as the flu!” “COVID-19 is worse than the flu!” That’s what we have been hearing for months from people comparing the flu to COVID-19. The Flu has also been paying attention to this, and it has some thoughts.  “I’m tired of all […]

There is no better clout than generosity Second-year Chris Ryan is known as “The Non-Profit Guy” around campus and this is a title that he wears with pride. He has created 11 different non-profits since he was a senior in high school. Beaming, Ryan tells me his love of founding non-profits began when his sister’s […]

If Logan Paul can get millions of views, so can Chancellor Gary May When I first opened an email from Chancellor Gary May, I vowed to never open another one again. The vague subject lines, lack of emojis and blocks of text gave me a headache. Since then, I made my mom read and summarize […]

Peter Kropotkin would TOTALLY be a SigEp Sigma Numa Numa, a well-established sorority at UC Davis, recently had the pleasure of virtually welcoming its 2020 bid class. Among the flurry of smiling faces and feather boas is Kayleigh Smith, a first-year, who hopes that her admission to the top-ranked sorority will provide her with future […]

Can he really say that? In this series of investigative pieces, The Aggie investigates how the COVID-19 crisis has affected individual lives in our community. The following letter was posted via Chancellor May’s UC Davis page, then abruptly deleted from all records. Here at The Aggie, we obtained the letter from an unnamed source. Here […]

What were we thinking? Now that we are seven horrid months into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time to revisit one of the strangest occurrences that happened at the outset of this saga. It’s an event that has been overshadowed by all the other evidence that we are in a sadistically-run Sims game. It’s time to […]

A PSA to UC Students from the Davis community Three months ago, the UC community on Reddit was sent into a frenzy when a UC Berkeley student requested all UC schools not refer to their school using its initials, “UCB,” as it cheapens the incredible prestige associated with Berkeley. As an incoming UC Davis student, […]