Opinion

TAPS to increase parking permit prices come Fall Quarter Come Fall Quarter, students will have another obstacle to hurdle at the beginning of their academic year with the recent announcement of increased parking permit prices for the 2019–20 year, despite the fact that no new parking options will be installed. It should go without saying […]

UC cannot meet sustainability goals without students’ help Besides being unbelievable, it’s also heartbreaking to see the results of our negligence of the environment. We constantly hear about how climate change is affecting other people or other species in other places. Although it’s very saddening to hear, in most cases we are typically not affected […]

Pod save America As we all know, UC Davis is a pyramid scheme designed to make money off of gullible Californians and even more gullible out-of-staters. You say you’re here to get your degree in neurobiology, physiology and behavior so that you can fulfill your dreams of becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon? That’s what the government […]

If “self-help” worked, there would be no self-help industry “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” is a self-help book that exploded back in 2013 by once-chief operating officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg. It’s going to teach me how to succeed as a woman in the workplace for $23 (but a lot of […]

We can avoid the headache of recycling if we become more sustainable We’ve all been there: standing in the middle of the CoHo with trash in your hands and what seems to be a million options on how to recycle the items. It can be intimidating to feel the pressure of “saving the planet” on […]

Automation and artificial intelligence are commonly thought of as threats to only blue-collar jobs. That’s simply not true. In 2013, economists Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne released a report named “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?” The authors examined the job security of 702 different fields, evaluating how at risk […]

How campfires and lazy conversation will save our lives Campfire stories are a strange genre, living in old memories of childhood summer nights. Maybe some people get the opportunity to sit around a fire and tell tall tales with friends a couple times a year, but very few people I know regularly tell campfire stories […]

Taking pseudo-science fiction to the extreme through the art of cinema Dear prospective producers and generous investors, My name is Milton I. Scaps, Jr. Journalist. Thinker. Christian. Conservative. Artist. Intellectual. Man. Almost three years ago, I was fired from my dream job at Breitbart News for making a social media post that was not racist […]

Advancements in video games are (rightfully) leading to an increased concern about gaming addiction — and China is bad at fighting it There will soon be more PC gamers in China than the total U.S. population. The statistic alone is mind-boggling, but is even more perplexing when put in context. The massive number of PC […]

Philanthropy is laudable, but systemic change is needed to tackle $1.5 trillion of college debt Robert F. Smith, a billionaire tech investor, the founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners and the richest black man in America, announced during the commencement address at Morehouse College this past Sunday that he would pay off the student […]