Opinion

Humor: What this year’s dose of global warming will bring to November
HumorNovember 20, 2017
The really inconvenient truth Unfortunately this week’s humor article veers a little too close to the actual truth, so I’ll try to keep that distinction through making light of a serious matter. If you’re offended by the idiocy behind my logic, I assure you that I do believe in global warming. But at the same […]

Humor: Existentialist A-frame laments: “I get blown down, I get put back up, ad infinitum”
HumorNovember 20, 2017
Finding meaning in advertising for a fraternity I was blown down today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. The wind took up a great gust, and the people on campus charged with maintaining my condition had left me a telegram: “SORRY, DON’T FEEL LIKE PUTTING YOU BACK UP. HAVE TO WAIT THE WEEKEND OUT.” […]

It’s time to restore Hetch Hetchy
ColumnNovember 20, 2017
The Bay Area must invest in alternative sources of drinking water Have you ever looked out over the Yosemite Valley and thought, “Somebody should cut down all these trees and fill this puppy with water — because I’m thirsty”? No. So why do we allow Yosemite’s lost Hetch Hetchy Valley to remain underwater? John Muir, […]

UC Davis first to breed Daddy Long Leg cows
HumorNovember 20, 2017
By: Julie Torres — opinion@theaggie.org Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by individual cartoonists belong to the cartoonists alone and do not necessarily indicate the views and opinions held by The California Aggie.

A Plug for Used Bookstores: How used bookstores offer a more intimate reading experience
ColumnNovember 20, 2017
The digital age has shifted the reading discourse At the corner of Speedway Boulevard and Wilmot Road, a certain store awaits shoppers as they brave the stifling heat to browse its wares. After entering through the sliding doors, these shoppers will eye rows and rows of red-orange shelves, stacked high with an assortment of goodies. […]

Humor: Davis students put Stranger Things kids to shame in panicked biking contest
HumorNovember 16, 2017
Escaping monsters from the Upside Down proves less panic-inducing than a midterm In the wake of the second season of “Stranger Things,” everyone is going to be associating bikes with the ragtag group of tweens around which the show circles. Davis students refused to lose their title of “bike lords” without a fight and thus […]

Pretending to fight in the Civil War
ColumnNovember 16, 2017
What it’s like to be part of an online gaming community “Why can’t you be racist in a game that is set in the Civil War?” I’ve heard this question many times in the gaming events that I have attended. These organized events take place in a mod called “North and South” — an alteration […]

Support TPS recipients
EditorialNovember 16, 2017
UC Davis students protest against TPS termination, UC lags behind This past Wednesday, a group of UC Davis students participated in a march through campus to express solidarity for undocumented immigrants supported by Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the United States. TPS grants temporary immigration status to people of certain countries that are in times […]

House tax bill a threat to higher education
EditorialNovember 16, 2017
Tax on tuition waivers, assistance would make graduate school unaffordable to many After a year of attempting various controversial legislation — immigration, the travel ban, the health care debacle — the House Republican party has wheeled out its latest project on the docket: a tax bill that would be disastrous for education at all levels. […]

Humor: Trump finds out his head is up his ass, still lacks hindsight
HumorNovember 14, 2017
It’s like a videogame: each civilian counts as one of his lives President Trump has taken the week off to spend time in the White House arcade after finding out that his head was up his ass. He tried brown-nosing the media only to learn that he still has no hindsight. Embarrassed and red in […]

Leftover Davis Halloween decorations
HumorNovember 14, 2017
By: Elliot White — opinion@theaggie.org Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by individual cartoonists belong to the cartoonists alone and do not necessarily indicate the views and opinions held by The California Aggie.

Humor: How to build back your trust in the city of Davis after it willingly let Whole Foods go
HumorNovember 13, 2017
Yet another luxury grocery store bites the dust Building trust back up in a relationship can be a very challenging thing, especially if the trust was built on the assumption of a certain luxury grocery store always being around. This probably sounds like a problem almost any person can relate to, but what I’m referring […]

