Opinion

Temporary knowledge learned for exams has left me unable to spell basic words, remember Founding Fathers Summer has barely started for we quarter system schmucks, and my scholarly ways are already escaping my cranium like bats out of hell. That’s right. As a consequence of trying to get some “well-deserved” me-time, I’ve found myself lacking […]

The university must make counseling services more visible to international students Studying abroad is an exciting experience, but it can also be a stressful one, especially for international students studying in the United States. Long-term travel, nostalgia, culture shock, language barriers, heavy workloads — the life of an international student can be weighted by fear […]

Expectations versus reality Summer is a wonderful escape from the stresses of school. After finals week, essays and other super relatable things that you’ll appreciate and find funny, students look to summer as the bastion of hope for saving their mental health. But guess what! Summer is mostly the same futile existence they had during […]

The fight against climate change now falls on state legislators On June 1, President Donald Trump made the wrong decision for our health and the planet by pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Climate change threatens our health with dirtier air, more extreme weather and spreading disease. The United States is the nation […]

The Editorial Board bids farewell Scott Dresser, Editor-in-Chief By Eli Flesch Let’s talk about Scott Dresser. But let’s keep it brief. We don’t want this to go to his head. We don’t want him to think that bringing the Aggie back to print is that much of an accomplishment. Print is dead, Scott! Or that […]

Yes, an actual bubble Jonathan Byers, a first-year plant biology major, recently realized that he’s been living in a bubble his entire life. It took coming to college for him to arrive at this life-changing revelation. Oh yeah, it’s like a real bubble. With a ten-foot circumference. “No one decided to tell me my entire […]

In high school, I wrote an analysis of the future of journalism as part of my senior project: “Although the landscape is morphing, journalism is as healthy and alive as ever, and it’s not going away anytime soon. The battle with extinction continues, but journalists seem to be holding the upper hand.” The California Aggie […]

Davis asexuals discuss experiences of being overlooked members of the LGBTQIA community When Claire Rapp was in high school, she began to notice a difference between her and the rest of her classmates. Rapp, who had numerous relationships with religious men practicing abstinence, was confused as to why she able to brush off sex so […]

Modern science fiction looks to the past instead of the future Science fiction, by definition, is a genre about the future. It’s about places we haven’t discovered and technologies not yet invented. In all cases, sci-fi looks beyond the real, modern world and tries to think of what might become rather than what is. Yet […]

Spring Quarter all but wipes out the spirit of the student body As the end of the quarter nears, signs of life within the student body are getting harder and harder to find. Campus morale is lower overall, with the Facebook memes pages taking some dark turns, even for college meme pages. Students are burning […]

Opinion Editor Eli Flesch on four life-changing years of college journalism It took me a long time to figure out exactly what Joan Didion meant in Slouching Towards Bethlehem when she wrote that “writers are always selling somebody out.” After four years of working on The Aggie’s opinion desk — two as its editor — […]

The future of agriculture is in arts and humanities A recent KQED Radio forum on the topic of the graying, demographically homogenous agricultural industry discusses possible ways to rejuvenate the $37 billion industry employing 800,000 Californians. The general consensus among featured guests, who are all farmers, is that in order to save the industry from […]