Opinion

BLACKFACE IS NOT OKAY!! Unless you’re willing to pay 😉 Gucci, Katy Perry and Ralph Northam are the latest idiots who have decided to participate in the blackface buffoonery chronicles. Of course, they were mercilessly exposed by Black Twitter during Black History Month for pandering to the Black community all while using some form of […]

Mourn Officer Corona — but don’t support Blue Lives Matter and the Thin Blue Line 49. That’s the number of unarmed black Americans who were killed by police in 2017. It’s a number that has hung at the back of many minds since police officer Natalie Corona was killed. Since her murder, the “Thin Blue […]

Students should be made aware of threats to their safety A transient individual by the name of Nicholas Chavez had been living in the Art Building on campus for several weeks up until his arrest last Thursday. During this time, he reportedly sexually assaulted a student in the building last quarter, damaged university property, and […]

Written by: Rosey Morearty — rosey@morearty.org

Can I have everyone please remove their backpacks and make room for the hot fudge? This week, UC Davis students voted on the Unitrans Referendum, a piece of student legislation allowing for Unitrans to maintain and improve its services. “All funds raised will be used to pay for wages associated with the increasing minimum wage, […]

The university’s ‘support’ for law enforcement runs hypocritical and short-sighted I first heard about a UC Davis professor who thinks cops should be killed late in Fall Quarter. There were murmurings in the newsroom about his in-class discussions, and rumors of how the professor had given an interview that advocated for violence against law enforcement. […]

Google’s monopolistic control of internet search engines requires that it be regulated as a public utility Republican Party lawyer Harmeet Dhillon authored an op-ed in The Daily Caller last week, alleging that Microsoft’s new “NewsGuard” plugin is likely to end up indirectly censoring conservative news sources. Dhillon’s allegation is part of a broader bipartisan worry […]

Gary May sits on the board of Leidos, a defense contractor that profits off of war UC Davis is no stranger to controversy. Under the leadership of Chancellor Linda Katehi, our university was accused of everything from denial of human rights and free speech to attempting to cover up the resulting press fallout. Katehi also […]

These distortions of narrative give a disadvantage to Mueller, who is bringing facts to a PR fight America’s inability to agree on the seriousness of Trump’s ties to the Russian government stems from one thing: that the American media and public have simultaneously never and always been right about Trump’s motivations for running for president. […]

The strengths — and shortcomings — of “The Joe Rogan Experience” are not the obvious ones Despite the massive success and cultural influence of his podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” I must admit that until last summer, I had no idea who Joe Rogan was. Not a clue, I’d never heard of the guy. Since […]

“If you’re black, I will find you and I will kill you” As if Black History Month couldn’t get any better, it looks like the 66-year-old star of “Taken,” Liam Neeson, mistook his press interview with The Independent for a Catholic confessional when he told the world he once looked for a random black man […]

Future California climate conditions require better infrastructure The recent three-day weekend allowed many students the annual opportunity to travel throughout California on short-lived vacations, but most students were unable to go anywhere outside of Davis. This was due to highway closures and roads being physically unable to handle weather conditions from the current Pineapple Express […]