Opinion

They say happiness is not a destination, but a manner of traveling. Presumably, “they” are also responsible for expressions like “key to happiness,”  “do what makes you happy,” “don’t worry, be happy,” and so on. Whatever the customary — and quite honestly, clichéd — implications about happiness, everybody considers it to be an integral part […]

As a technologically advanced and connected society, we have a plethora of information and resources at our disposal. While some argue that this advantage only makes us lazy as a generation, the World Wide Web is really just a tool — how efficiently we navigate it and how we learn from it arguably makes the […]

“This is not how a school should be,” I thought as I watched over 60 armed police officers enter my high school. It was the fall of my first year at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in San Francisco. A small fight had broken out at my school and, all of sudden, for no clear […]

There’s nothing like wearing a new outfit, feeling like you look really good and being told you look even better. It’s the ever famous follow-up question that I’d like to focus on this week: “Where did you get that?” Although your first response might be the name of the store where you physically purchased the […]

Last week, nine people were massacred at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. In September, one student was shot and killed at Sacramento City College, 15 miles from our university. Last May, six students were murdered at UC Santa Barbara, a school where many UC Davis students have family and friends. How many more of […]

As the chief academic officer of UC Davis, I read with interest the recent Aggie editorial “UC Davis good for low-income students, but challenges remain” (9.24.15). I appreciate its acknowledgment that recent articles in the New York Times called the UC system “The California-Upward Mobility Machine” and ranked UC Davis second in its list of […]

Hi, my name is Jazmin García, and I am excited to say that I am one of The California Aggie’s fall quarter columnists. Given that I’m a psychology and an English double major, my train of thought sometimes tends toward the psychoanalytic and existential. My column, which will deal […]

Aggie Columnist Hayley Prokos gives an inside look into the character of the Millennial generation. The term ‘Millennial’ gets thrown around a lot, but what does it mean? Who are the Millennials, and what do they represent? The Millennial generation, also known as Generation Y, is the first to have grown up in an […]

Everyday we make hundreds of decisions, whether we are aware of them or not. Tea or coffee? Oatmeal or eggs? Walk or bike? And within the questions we ask, sit many more questions: where was the coffee you drank grown, and at what expense? What is the oatmeal company doing with the profit it’s making […]

UC system to expand access for transgender students To most, the choice is intuitive: either the stick figure with a dress or the one without a dress. However, this choice was not so simple for 16-year-old transgender student Gavin Grimm. With the principal’s permission, Grimm used the boys’ restroom at his high school in Gloucester, Virginia […]

Ask almost any UC Davis student what they think of the quarter system and they’ll tell you, for better or worse, that it’s fast. This is particularly true at the beginning of the year when classes just seem to rear up behind you. It can be difficult to think beyond a few days. But chances […]

Last week, in an article entitled “The California-Upward Mobility Machine,” The New York Times described how University of California (UC) budget issues haven’t prevented the system from catering to low income students. A related article ranked UC Davis second on a list of colleges “doing the most for low income students.” The list measured schools, […]