Opinion

If the word “twerk” resonates with you in any way, whether you view it, do it, or revile it, then I congratulate you on being a citizen of this generation. That word is charged with all sorts of connotations, often of sex, shock and racism. As a pop culture phenomenon, twerking is hard to ignore, […]

For Fall Quarter 2014, six of the seven candidates running for Associated Students of UC Davis (ASUCD) senate will be elected. They will play a part in our student government that will, in some way or another, directly affect you during your time at UC Davis. They will communicate with higher administration, they will assist […]

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the pride and often controversy of the city of Livermore California and the general NorCal region. This lab has been the source of cutting-edge science, and the U.S government assigns some of its most innovative and secretive projects at this lab. A lot of people think it’s just a […]

Tomorrow, Nov. 18, voting will begin for the 2014 Fall Quarter ASUCD elections to determine six new ASUCD senators. The Aggie Editorial Board interviewed and evaluated each of the seven senate candidates, and, because of the small number of candidates, we chose to endorse two. In each candidate, we looked for someone who had a […]

Google “useless college degrees.” “Music,” along with a crappy stock photo of a confused man/woman in a graduation gown scratching his/her head in worried bewilderment, is on that list. I assure you. I have heard it so, so, so many times. From unimpressed aunts and uncles, from my sometimes unsure parents, from inexplicably shocked fellow […]

When I was in eighth grade, I got sent to the office in the middle of geometry class because of the skirt I was wearing. Really. That’s it. A skirt. It wasn’t even a particularly offensive skirt. It didn’t have any images of weapons or defamatory slogans on it. It was just a plain old […]

One of the most contemporary debates about higher education concerns the value of going to college. Most of the debate focuses on fiscal reasoning and future economic prospects. But talking about college only in these terms would be ignoring other vital advantages that come with education. The panel above shows Calvin making a rather backhanded […]

Have you heard of Monsanto? It’s a biotechnology company focused on enhancing agriculture. You may have heard about them through the news, or even here on The California Aggie due in large part to the bad press they’ve been getting. You see, the debate is largely focused on two issues with Monsanto — its use […]

We have been told throughout our lives that graffiti is bad. It depresses home values, encourages gang activity and is destroying our youth. This notion makes it difficult for public art pieces to find their place in society, because they are wrongfully correlated with such vandalism. Do you remember around spring of last year when […]

A few years ago, I worked at a restaurant as a hostess where we were required to abide by a dress code. The dress code in and of itself was pretty standard: According to our training manual, as long as we wore all black and we weren’t dressed sloppily or showing too much skin, we […]

Taylor Swift’s 1989 is 2014’s first platinum certified selling album, and likely to be the only one. For an album to be platinum certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a label must sell at least one million digital and/or physical units of an album. Know-it-all economic pundits often use RIAA certifications as […]

In my 11 years of reading Calvin and Hobbes, I would like to think that I have developed an understanding of Calvin’s character. Not only does the strip provide a poignant commentary on education, but it provides a personality that is remarkably befitting of many stages of life, from childhood to adolescence, and beyond. As […]