Opinion

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 […]

The former secretary of state will just be chillin’ at the 102nd installation of Davis’ hallmark event Hillary Clinton will come to UC Davis for this Saturday’s Picnic Day in an effort to increase Millennial approval for her candidacy for the democratic nominee and President of the United States. But she’s not just interested in […]

We were just outside Davis, on the edge of East Covell, when the horse tranquilizers began to kick in. I remember my editor calling on the cell phone, yelling, “Holy Jesus, where are you goddamn animals? I want an article about the Second Friday ArtAbout by Saturday morning or you’re fired.” I threw the phone […]

U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team calls for fair pay Last week, members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team filed a suit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, claiming unfair wage discrimination in relation to their male counterparts. The teammates say that, despite bringing in almost $20 million in revenue last year, they make nearly four […]