Opinion

It is time for the UC Davis administration to listen to the students. On Jan. 29, I, and other faculty members, were invited to attend the meeting at which ASUCD, as elected representatives of the student community, passed a resolution presented to them by Students for Justice in Palestine to urge the UC Board of […]

To the Editor, In Stephen Silver’s opinion piece regarding satirical comments made by Azka Fayyaz, Silver gets the facts so wrong and exhibits moral inconsistency so drastic that it is difficult to take his concerns seriously. First, the resolution does not blame “Israel for the impasse in peace efforts,” but rather blames Israel and its […]

I am as shocked as you, but we must face the facts: week five is over and we’re halfway through another UC Davis quarter. It’s time for another round of midterms. And another round of study habits. The quarter system has a lot of benefits. Unlike the semester system, we get a full month of […]

I read a fantastic Radio Parallax interview in the Winter edition of KDViations. It was with Dr. James Fallon, a neuroscientist. In the middle of the interview, and also in the middle of a story that Fallon is telling, Fallon asks some of his psychiatric friends what they really think of them. He has recently […]

On Jan. 29, ASUCD Senate Resolution No. 9 passed with an 8-2-2 vote. The resolution calls for the University of California Board of Regents to divest from “corporations that aid in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and illegal settlements in Palestinian territories.” ASUCD voted down a similar resolution this past May and in 2013. Following […]

ASUCD Senator Azka Fayyaz’s “Letter to the community” (Feb. 3), purportedly explaining an anti-Israel comment she posted on her Facebook account, is itself offensive, as it trivializes anti-Jewish hate and brutality. Ms. Fayyaz recently voted in favor of an anti-Israel resolution. The resolution unfairly blamed Israel for the impasse in peace efforts, ignoring the fact […]

Dinner and a movie: the classic beginnings of a budding romance. Even to those who often date, the pairing of these two harmless activities provokes stress, embarrassment and an obsession over your own bad breath. Sitting in a dark room with leftover popcorn on the ground can be quite romantic, believe me, and nothing is […]

How can humans as a whole help the stride toward the greater goal of an ultimate sustainable future?  Is there a common philosophy behind the goals of the sustainability movement? Cradle to Cradle is an informational novel written by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. It is an extremely influential book within the field of green […]

We are writing to condemn in the strongest terms possible the spray painting of swastikas on the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) house across from the University of California, Davis campus this past Saturday, January 31. We commend Chancellor Linda Katehi, Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexler and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Adela de la Torre […]

Dear Students at the University of California, Davis: The Davis Unit of UAW 2865 would like to extend our congratulations and joy to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the undergraduate ASUCD senators who voted Thursday night to support UC Davis’ divestment from war profiteering companies in Palestine. Davis joins six other UC campuses […]

The second installment of real world horror stories involves one of the main issues I have with UC Davis. For all of the good things this school is, it is fundamentally flawed in that it is not a sports school. All of us have at least one friend at a school in the south or […]

“Writing can be lonely work.” I read this statement in The Wall Street Journal last week in a column by a man named Edward Gerson. Thirteen years ago, at the age of 87, this man began writing for Dartmouth, his alma mater, chronicling the adventures of his graduating class of 1926. At the time he […]