Opinion

Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s film reaffirms that details matter After years of #OscarsSoWhite and in the throes of the #MeToo movement, it wasn’t surprising when the Academy of Motion Pictures nominated a diverse group of actors, producers and directors in 2017. A persistent and vocal public has begun to shape the course of […]

Pack your journal and leave the rest behind At this moment, as I scramble to finish this piece by a generously extended deadline, a coffee-colored journal lies on a desk shared with a cup of lukewarm tea and and a bunch of free Russian newspapers. It hasn’t moved in a few weeks, which seems to […]

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, […]

2 years old and no internship? Is he even trying? One local toddler is a total failure. He’s 2 years old, and he’s barely made a LinkedIn. It’s like he didn’t even read all of those articles about how much more competitive the job market is getting. It’s almost like he can’t even read at […]

Unpaid internships minimize diversity, detract from workplace For graduating seniors looking for a full-time jobs and continuing students applying to a summer programs, the phrase “unpaid internship” is all too familiar. And while the idea of gaining hands-on professional experience may sound enticing, accepting an unpaid position is a luxury many students cannot afford. In […]

How broader culture has grown to love cartels This article contains major spoilers for the Netflix show “Narcos.”   Television and news have consistently been complacent in glorifying and packaging narco culture for viewer consumption. This is most readily evident in “Narcos,” the popular Netflix series, which glamorizes drug use and cartel violence and at […]

Fingerblast that keyboard Davis Cru, the campus crusade for Christ, has teamed up with the dog people coalition to spread the ideals of diversity, inclusivity and equity: D.I.E. “The pen is mightier than the sword, but both work just as well stabbed into the throat of a non-believer,” said half-poodle, half-human Dalta, who was removing […]

An argument for no climate boundaries across nations and race Reflecting on my childhood, I realize that my relatives and friends all showed the same level of disinterest in climate change. In fact, I don’t remember discussing climate change in school very much, either. In my lifetime, I’ve noticed environmentalism used to be a concern […]

Administrative bloat goes bye-bye This tape was found in a deep, dark room, hidden in the bowels of Wellman Hall: “I walked into the room, and all I could hear was a chanting, rhythmic and cyclical. ‘Guuuuuunnnrooooooccckk… Guuuuuuuuuuunnnroooooccckkk…’ echoed off the walls of this godforsaken corner of Wellman Hall.” The tape skipped, crackling slightly. “I […]

And I lived to tell the tale Last week, I thought I was going to die. Not because my questionable habits of drinking 17 cups of ShareTea boba per day or sleeping 30 minutes a week had finally caught up with me, but because I was mansplained to. It started out innocently enough, as most […]

Foreign commentary on America’s strengths and flaws Fish need water, and we need the news. There was a point in my life when I hated the news. News bookmarks on Chrome were deleted; political pages on Facebook were unliked; Sunday newspapers at coffee shops went unpurchased. That attitude thankfully changed — and with it came […]