Opinion

Currently, it seems like every business model is to go green. The motivation for businesses to go green is simple — money.  Businesses will invest in alternative energies only if they will see a return on their initial investment within a reasonable time frame. From this notion derives the increasingly popular business term “green is […]

Everybody poops. Everybody eats. Where you poop is a given. Where you eat when you’re sick of the Coffee House Paradox is a whole different story. If I had a dollar for every time my friends and I spent an hour deciding where to eat, I’d have a lot of dollars. The process is a […]

We come to college to learn. That is our primary reason for being here. And by necessity, when we learn we also teach. Whether we’re telling our roommates something we found out in class or explaining a project to a parent, we teach the things we learn. What is important is that we teach those […]

Everyone has had to watch films for class. I don’t care how great your TA was that quarter — they definitely showed you a clip of a movie in an attempt to illustrate the content at least once. Watching a movie in class is a rare but welcomed occurrence that we have often prayed for […]

In Italian, the phrase “Bosco Verticale” literally translates to “vertical forest.” The two Bosco Verticale Towers, designed by the  Stefano Boeri Architectural Firm, are currently being built in the extremely polluted city of Milan, Italy. These towers are stunning structures that incorporate both structural engineering and landscape architecture disciplines. Littered with various trees, shrubs and […]

On Jan. 8, President Obama announced a plan to make the first two years of community college (CC) free for students in America who maintain a 2.5 GPA at their CC. This is based off a similar program already in place in Tennessee, called Tennessee Promise, which will begin with the graduating class of 2015. […]

You’re a UC Davis student, tired and hungry, so spoiled by the ridiculously close proximity of your dorm or apartment to campus that it’s actually become far. So you’re not going to go on a five-minute bike ride to your room. You don’t want your cup of noodles or some microwavable mac and cheese you […]

The American government has several significant achievements in science under its belt. These include the development of the atomic bomb and landing men on the moon. Having seemingly conquered the world outside us, newer efforts have turned to the world inside us. One such project was the mapping the human genome. The trend has continued […]

The current wastewater disposal system within the United States is flawed, costly and outdated. The core notions of a wastewater treatment plant — the fact that we, for lack of a more specific word, “dispose” of our waste in perfectly treated, drinkable water, is absurd. Additionally, the fact that we use water, an extremely limited […]

I’ve honestly only been to the drive-in twice in my life. I went for the first time when my college friends decided it was the new cool, exciting, and freezing thing to do on a Saturday night. Enticed by the romantic aspects of going to the movies in the back of a truck, we decided […]

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, The California Aggie reaffirms the right to Freedom of the Press. This attack was an intolerable exercise of violence. While publications offer differing, and sometimes crude, opinions, we understand the importance of the essential right that is freedom of speech and refuse to accept violence against those […]

If you are on-campus often, then you have probably noticed the abundant number of squirrels that roam freely through the university grounds. These squirrels are a non-native species known as the eastern fox squirrel, and have multiplied exponentially in Davis since 2001. In 2008, UC Davis’s Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology began administering […]