Opinion

The importance of supporting less-developed college towns UC Davis significantly increased the number of students enrolled this year, jumping from an incoming freshman population of 6,741 in 2015 to 9,500 this fall. The influx of students follows the recent plan by UC President Janet Napolitano to expand undergraduate enrollment across UC campuses by 10,000 within […]

Please help me This is kind of like if Tron and Buzzfeed had a really ugly baby. Like Donald Trump Jr. ugly. Anyone who has been trapped in a computer before knows that Tron is actually not that far off in terms of depicting the computer world. Also Donald Trump Jr. is here with me. […]

It’s obvious that personal computing culture has gone too far I’m tired of PC culture. That’s right. You heard me. You see it all over the Internet. It’s everywhere, and it has been progressively infecting our society, especially the Internet. And if you ask me, it’s only going to get worse in the next couple […]

Mr. Tumnus turns out to be a philosophy TA Ever walk inside your TA’s office and get immediately washed over with a feeling of pity and disgust? You see a dirty little room with three or four sweaty students stuffed together behind their wobbly desks. Immediately upon entry, your nostrils are hit with a wave […]

Putting power in the people and food in their bellies Sundays are great for reflecting on the past week while preparing for the next as you unwind and destress — and then scrambling to finish work due the next day. They’re also great days to take a leisurely afternoon stroll around Central Park and observe […]

Officials help students with bike-handling struggles, offer area to work on tricks As the Memorial Union games area opened up to much fanfare earlier this month, UC Davis officials decided to bring even more fun to the campus with the creation of a BMX park. Students have acknowledged their struggles in riding bicycles, and the […]

What we love about Hollywood, politics or any other form of entertainment is now being taken on-the-go It’s every generation’s destiny to create a type of slang word or phrase. For Millennials, one newfound verb is “Netflixing,” or “to Netflix.” The phrase has multiple meanings, really, but the base of which defines the verb as […]

Becoming chancellor was all just a ploy to attend the sickest seminar in the biz Ever since the email came out in which future chancellor Gary May professed his love for Star Trek, students have been clamoring to learn more about their future leader. So it came as no surprise when we all found out […]

May discusses positions on boards, UCOP audit, free speech The Aggie Editorial Board sat down with incoming Chancellor Gary May on Monday to talk about issues concerning UC Davis students, including his positions on private boards. Below is a full transcript of the meeting. Dr. May, you had brought up the idea of meeting after […]

Davis promotes art therapy as method of expression Our minds’ creativity is sensational and oftentimes expressed with a paintbrush to paper, with hands to clay or even with a pencil to a printed mandala, which has basically become the adult version of a coloring book. In a moment of expression, our creativity takes hold of […]

A student’s lack of distraction becomes a major distraction for classmates, world It’s always annoying when you’re really in the zone taking an exam and a phone goes off and ruins your concentration. Luckily for students in Marcus Raferty’s class, that wasn’t a problem because he’s a massive loser. “I realized after the exam was […]

The disagreement between Captain America and Iron Man echoes the current political climate No franchise has worked harder to bring science fiction to popular prominence than the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One of its latest entries, Captain America: Civil War, was one of the biggest blockbusters of 2016. Looking back on it in the […]