Opinion

Rapper says it’s “time to come home” After many years of attempting to get a headline artist, ASUCD Entertainment Council (EC) has booked the artist they have been looking for. Drake will be performing in the UC Davis Quad today as part of the annual Lawntopia concert. Drake is making his stop in Davis after […]

John Wiley and Sons, a well-known publisher of extremely expensive textbooks and BFF to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, has graciously offered to sponsor a project on the UC Davis campus to benefit the growing minds of our future leaders. This project will see the installation of several churro carts inside of the engineering buildings on […]

The term “1.5 generation” has become increasingly popular, perhaps even more so than “first generation” as a way to describe immigrants whose parents did not grow up in the host country. It was first coined in 1999 by Kyeyoung Park, a Korean anthropologist at UCLA. The 1.5 generation refers to a specific age group of […]

The Editorial Board encourages students to exercise their right to vote It took Donald Trump less than a week as the presumptive Republican nominee to thoroughly embarrass himself. From an incoherent foreign policy speech in Washington D.C. to a Cinco de Mayo tweet on taco bowls, the Donald has proved that he is uniquely unqualified […]

In a poll released by The Aggie, the bathroom soap dispensers were voted the least aesthetically pleasing items, both big and small, on campus. Driving this result were the plaques on the dispensers that read “UC Davis” in bright yellow. They beat out Olson Hall in its entirety, Social Science’s enormous staircase, the first floor […]

When Groucho Marx said that he refused to join any club that would include him as a member, he was making a self-aware joke about his own eccentricities. At UC Davis, there are dozens of clubs that students can enjoy. Some focus on sports, others take on social issues and a few simply enjoy being […]

After successful Harry Potter and Star Wars theme nights, the Dining Commons (DC) has been under a lot of pressure to deliver another quality theme night. It has recently leaked that they will be putting on a special Edible Food Night. “We just felt like it was time to switch it up,” said Jay Yeller, […]

Shane Grant woke up at 10:44 a.m. this past Sunday with a massive hangover and the feeling that he was forgetting something. Whole Earth? Nah, he doesn’t like that hippy stuff. Homework assignment? Nope. Oh crap. Mother’s Day. Mom was arriving at 11 a.m. and he was in charge of brunch reservations — which he […]

Each week, as part of our “Roving Reporter” series, an Aggie reporter will walk around campus and ask random students a question specific for that week. The questions will cover a variety of topics, such as “If you could switch places with anyone in the world for one day, who would you switch places with […]

Since I was 10, my mom taught me an important lesson: to be conservative and stay safe. At that age, 4 foot 10 in height and still missing my front left tooth, I simply thought that meant not talking to strangers and going straight home after school. I come from an immigrant family and […]

With the recent ongoing debate about the credibility and the aims of the University of California system, our campus has become a focal point of what it means for a school to give back to its students. The issue most relevant to students in this respect would be tuition changes. Since 2012, the UC system […]

In years past, when Hallmark holidays like Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, (Cat Day, Siblings Day, National Pretzel Day) would roll around, I might think of my friends who had recently broken up with a significant other or who had lost a parent. I would imagine that the day must be hard for them. […]