Opinion

Emissions at forefront of obstacles to animal sustainability One of the most prominent issues in sustainable animal agriculture today is debunking the idea that not eating meat is the best way to reduce carbon emissions from livestock. The amount of news articles claiming that meat will be the destruction of Earth has grown dramatically in […]

President Obama spends final days in office locking horns with Putin As the American election season hits full steam, two titans are still trading blows. U.S. President Barack Obama, champion of the entrenched Democrats, and Vladimir Putin, hero-president of the Russians, have been trading blows since 2009. Now, this battle between heavyweights is in its […]

There’s been a lot of talk about big money and the power of special interests in our elections this year. Proposition 54 embodies the worst of both. Prop 54 is on the ballot solely because one California billionaire, who, after spending millions of dollars trying to influence California policy and elections, is now using our citizen […]

The story of a man who lures guests to his parties with deceptively fun photos According to a report obtained by The California Aggie, local student Brendan Yarden, a third-year communication major and aspiring clown-college graduate, is throwing a party this coming Friday. “A huge part of throwing a party is having a really good […]

How the alt-right gets PC wrong Donald Trump has spent much of the 2016 presidential campaign railing against political correctness. And you know what? I agree with him. People today get offended too easily. They can’t take a joke. Some of them have never experienced actual oppression, and they develop a compulsion to find something […]

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 […]