Opinion

Stay safe and have fun This Saturday, April 16 marks UC Davis’ 102nd annual Picnic Day. To some families, this means decades of long-standing attachment to the university, while to others it means a celebration of the campus’ academic achievements over the years. For many students, this day serves as an opportunity to stagger around […]

This past Saturday, UC Davis hosted Decision Davis, a day for admitted students and their families to visit the campus to help decide if this is the school for them. In honor of the incoming class of Aggies, the Editorial Board has compiled a list of things we didn’t know about Davis before we came […]

California workers to benefit from new minimum wage California took a large step toward improving the lives of its lowest earning workers last week by signing into law a $15 minimum wage that will be phased in by 2022. The move, which came on the same day New York passed its own similar bill, promises […]

UC Davis mourns the loss of one of its students while learning about the true shape of the planet On Decision Day earlier this month, a group of prospective Ags were walking through the Arboretum on what they thought would be a normal day, when tragedy struck. “I’ll be walking backwards, so let me know […]

In 1936, Lee Falk created the first popular superhero, The Phantom. Originally debuting in the comic strip section of the newspaper, The Phantom eventually made the transition to comic book serialization in the 1940s under the publisher Ace Comics. Ace Comics later titled the comic book series The Phantom, which suggests one reason many Western […]

Middle. The term isn’t foreign, but how much emphasis do we place on the middle portion of the spectrum? In public discourse, attention seems to always focus on the extremes: with the rich on one end, and the impoverished on the other. I am a person of the middle, and therefore these endpoints are relevant, […]

As I’m sure all of us know by now, Chancellor Linda Katehi has done some… uh, shall we say “shady things” recently. But the newest scandal is even worse. Tragedy ensued on Friday, April 1 when only one pizza was ordered to appease the hundreds of protesters that showed up at Mrak Hall to call […]

The Decay of Lying asks whether life imitates imagination, or the other way around When I first read Oscar Wilde as a boy, it was difficult for me to take him seriously — to believe that he was anything but pure style; his material’s substance appeared to be shallow at best. While reading plays like […]

Let the soothing sounds of a stranger’s cough lull you to sleep The library, or the “lib,” as many refer to it, is a soothing environment for students to study. Some claim it’s permeated with “stress pheromones,” “not enough plugs” and “loud, uncomfortable chairs.” We have no idea what those people are talking about. KDVS, […]

Gary Owen Demille, a second-year student studying law at UC Davis’ King Hall, wrote a fake petition in late January to amuse his fellow legal scholars. The petition, which he initially posted on Facebook, begins as follows: “To Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, 44th president of the United States of America, we the people propose that […]