Opinion

The Center for Student Involvement (CSI) at UC Davis has come up with a new way to engage various clubs and organizations on campus, as they do every year. Two years ago, each club was tasked with designing and painting a step on a ladder that the fire department would use on one of its […]

Red, white and blue. Add a shield, a star, a “mask” that doesn’t really hide the wearer’s identity, mention Chris Evans, and who do you think of? I’m going to assume your answer is Captain America. Now, I really like Captain America, and I enjoy his few movies that have been released in theaters, albeit […]

Houseboats. Date: Memorial Day Weekend. Location: Lake Shasta. You: There. I don’t think I’ve ever posted something on the Internet that would completely sink my chances of getting elected to public office. Well, this might be it. 20-Years-From-Now Yinon, I’m so sorry. To any potential employers who may have found their way here: there’s a […]

Invest in student journalism The California Aggie successfully ran the Print The Aggie initiative during Winter Quarter to get the campus newspaper, which was last in print in 2014, back into the hands of UC Davis students. If you voted yes on this initiative, the Editorial Board would like to extend our warmest thanks. Print […]

You’re ganja have a good time! This quarter’s Internship and Career Fair falls on April 20 — a day students show up to class more glassy-eyed than usual, and perhaps smelling a little skunky. However, in a joint decision made by the Internship and Career Center and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, it was decided the […]

2011 PR campaign actually draws more negative attention to pepper-spray incident According to documents obtained by The Sacramento Bee, UC Davis spent at least $175,000 on consultants to improve its online reputation after the infamous pepper-spray incident on campus in November 2011. In a desperate effort to save the tarnished image of the university and […]

A stray hacky sack was found Monday afternoon at the Mrak Hall office where students spent several weeks protesting Chancellor Katehi’s moonlighting activities.The sit-in was abandoned last week when the occupiers planned their move to the next phase of the demonstration. The office was cleaned on Friday, and a picture showed that the protesters had […]

Despite all you may have heard about The Great Khan and his “merry band” of loyal Mongols, you can discover a very different history through Jack Weatherford’s fantastical book, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. For over 800 years, his name has been almost universally associated with wanton slaughter and outright cruelty […]

A couple of days ago, I was webcamming with a childhood friend from another country. We’ve known each other since we were infants, but due to our physical distance from each other (he lives in Taiwan) and the awkward stages of puberty (he didn’t believe in girls until he was 14 — no lie), we […]