Opinion

Alcohol, like Sriracha, is the nectar of life — but only in moderation I eat the same lunch every day. It’s disgusting and boring. I find the cheapest frozen, boneless, skinless chicken breasts Costco has to offer, pretend to season them, throw them on a pan and plate them. They’re so dry that I feel […]

Our ancestors who stayed in died in blazes of mediocrity I took a break from my diet the other week. I’m usually pretty strict on eating nothing but chicken breasts, egg whites, sadness and sautéed vegetables, but sometimes, I just want to pig out. In the morning, my friends wanted a Baba’s breakfast burrito, so […]

Shakespeare and company at risk of dismissal When universities finally become the diverse places they purport to be, shoot me an email. I will rejoice. For universities are not the bastions of diversity everyone claims. Their demographics prove otherwise. Look around a typical campus and try to spot Waldo: a conservative professor hidden in a […]

Graduation takes a lot of work. Some students will leave their undergraduate universities, apply to graduate schools and sign up for GREs, MCATs or LSATs — three of the most popular tests required for professions like medicine and law. Others enter the workforce directly after applying for jobs or internships. And some do neither. All […]

Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and the fight for work-life balance Not just anyone can create, produce and star in a show, be a part of the cast of Saturday Night Live and write a memoir before the age of 50. But Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, two amazing female comics, have accomplished all three. They […]

Holding journalists and representatives accountable Rap music, as it was intended, has lit a fire and got white people in their feelings. In an opinion column written last week by opinion editor Eli Flesch on what is now termed the “Chance the Rapper Controversy,” a host of ideologies were invoked to obfuscate the racial realities […]

How a brave student inspired a generation by speaking up when everybody else was also willing to speak up UC Davis is such a large institution with so many brilliant students that it’s probably impossible to say there’s a single one that outsmarts the others ー until now. Eric Dukakis, second-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior […]

Undergraduates at fault for perpetuating a devious trend against intellectual freedom Janet Napolitano’s recent editorial on the merits of preserving free speech at universities is becoming increasingly necessary in the current political age. She observes the recent trend of college students suppressing views that even marginally sound marginalizing. Her most striking point: “If it hurts, […]

Taking academic risks can help students learn more effectively Two important things happened to me in middle school: I was accepted into honors English and President Obama was inaugurated after an election season that sparked my deep interest in politics. And while this country has changed profoundly in those eight years since President Obama took office, […]

Your voter guide to all Nov. 8 ballot measures Though California’s presidential choice in this consistently Democratic stronghold may be a forgone conclusion, the fight to pass 17 propositions — the most since 2000 — remains far more contentious, with measures on whether to legalize recreational marijuana and repeal the death penalty among the most […]

What losing can do for you The best thing to ever happen to me was the first time I asked a girl to dance. I was in the sixth grade. My skater phase. Yeah, I had the skinny jeans and Vans, and I only wore Billabong, Quiksilver and Hurley shirts. My mom kept trying to […]

What Trump interrupting Clinton says about our culture at large During the final presidential debate last week, Hillary Clinton demonstrated yet again how difficult it is for a woman — or any marginalized group, for that matter — to have a conversation with an ignorant, white, cisgender man without being interrupted. Donald Trump managed to […]