Opinion

More funds, resources need to be allocated toward LGBTQIA Resource Center, other student services UC Davis is celebrating Pride Month throughout May, with this year’s theme being “Collective Healing for Liberation: Healing Our Past, Embracing Our Present, Reclaiming Our Future.” Pride Month is “dedicated to bringing visibility, empowerment, and knowledge to our communities,” according to […]

Half-baked idea, or stroke of genius? Ha Kee Pak, president of the National Hockey League, shocked the hockey fandom this week with his announcement that the league would be changing its regulation pucks to something a little sweeter. Pak, frustrated by the tendency of traditional pucks to crack after powerful slapshots, made the executive decision […]

Defenses of Blue Lives Matter and Zionism showcase white supremacy on campus In the past few days we’ve seen a shooting at a synagogue by a white man with direct connections to a mosque burning earlier this year. We’ve seen a school shooting at University of North Carolina, Charlotte — by yet another white man. […]

Nearly 30 years ago, Francis Fukuyama famously declared that liberal democracy would be the final stage in human social development. Now he’s reconsidering. In 1992, Francis Fukuyama declared humanity reached its final stage in ideological development, an “end of history” moment in which the collapse of the Soviet Union and the triumph of the West […]

More sustainable methods of farming needed as populations increase, people migrate to cities With the world’s population estimated to reach 9.8 million people by 2050, is vertical farming a viable option for feeding our rapidly growing cities while keeping us from committing climate suicide?   City life is in demand. According to the United Nations, […]

Why does violence hold such mass-market appeal in our entertainment culture? A few weeks ago, I replayed one of my favorite games of all time: “Uncharted 2.” It’s the game that fully introduced me to what video games could be –– a masterful way to tell stories in a fun and engaging way. I tried […]

“Accessibility” often feels like an obvious reason to develop roads on public land — but isn’t quite as straightforward as we think Yosemite Valley is more of a small city than a wilderness these days. The seven-square-mile valley sees more than 4 million visitors annually and houses over 2,000 seasonal employees; it has five lodges […]

Recent acts of violence against religious groups prompt urgent need for administrative attention On April 27, the last day of Passover, Lori Gilbert Kaye was fatally shot after a gunman opened fire on the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, Calif. Gilbert Kaye sacrificed her life in an act of protection of her faith and […]

Senate Bill 54 would dramatically decrease California’s plastic usage A few Sundays ago, I went on a trip to the Marin Headlands with my housemates for our quarterly house trip — a day of strolling along grassy cliffs while looking out into the foggy oceanscape and getting surreptitiously sunburned. Looking down over the railing at […]

The long history of Palestinian repression Created in 2014, Canary Mission is a blacklist that serves as a response to the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) Movement that started in 2005. Led by Palestinians, BDS is a movement that seeks to end the occupation, colonization and oppression of Palestinians and their land Israel with the […]

Written by: ROSEY MOREARTY — rosey@morearty.org

AI developments detect Parkinson’s from your mousepad and won’t tell you If you’ve ever gone on the internet you’ve probably encountered CAPTCHA — an intelligence system that uses tests like identifying pictures to prove users aren’t robots. You may have also noticed the CAPTCHA system has evolved; now, users only need to check a box […]