Opinion

On Monday, like every Memorial Day, the cultural sphere was flooded with messages about thanking veterans for your freedom. Although the holiday honors fallen soldiers, social networking sites such as Facebook abounded with pictures reminding us that the military is the foundational source of our lives, liberties and freedom to buy a double-cheeseburger for only […]

In writing a column titled “Sex & Society,” it makes sense that many of my pieces would deal with women’s issues. After all, rape, body image and gender stereotyping are all exclusively female challenges, right? Wrong. Though these matters are most commonly associated with women, they affect men, too. Some issues, like female-on-male rape and […]

Editor’s note: For an opposing opinion on this issue, see BRIAN MOEN’s column “Tea Party whiners.”  Recently, it was discovered that the IRS has been targeting conservative groups by arbitrarily delaying their application for tax-exemption because of their policy viewpoints. This is obviously unacceptable, as even President Obama will admit. But I think this raises […]

Over 12,000 members of AFSCME 3299, patient care technical workers, participated in a planned two-day strike of UC Medical Centers due to conflicts regarding the union contract with the University of California. We urge the UC and the union to return to the bargaining table and reach a compromise that is financially responsible and respects […]

From May 17 to 19 , ASUCD senators, executive officers, unit directors and members of the public met to discuss the 2013-14 ASUCD budget. The group was unable to finalize the budget after they spent approximately 30 hours over the weekend discussing it. They will continue to deliberate at the May 23 senate meeting. While […]

All quarter long I’ve been without a vehicle, and surprisingly, life’s not so bad. Unitrans gets me to class, the Yolobus gets me to work, and, since I don’t have a bike, I just walk everywhere else. Davis is pretty pedestrian-friendly, with plenty of bridges and bike paths and midnight joggers, but really it’s just […]

Contemporary discourse often emphasizes a life trajectory in which individuals are born queer, bullied as teens, then become same-sex married — resolving all past struggle. This view of a central queer narrative is problematic for many reasons. By saying that everyone is “born” with a certain sexuality, society is treating queerness as a biological certainty […]

Editor’s note: For an opposing opinion on this issue, see TRISTAN DE LIEGE’s column “Taxation.” The recent scandal, in which the IRS targeted Tea Party groups, has had the usual effect of creating a lot of wild and crazy talk from wild and crazy right-wing pundits. We have to stop this nonsense in its tracks. […]

Friends with benefits, friends with bens, bed buddies, or whatever you call it: this phrase has become quite the topic in popular culture these past few years. Did we not get two movies on the exploration of the topic a few summers ago? (One with the boldness to even use the now-popular phrase as a […]

The UC Office of the President (UCOP) sent out a press release on Monday boasting that 82 percent of current UC students are satisfied with their college education, despite the decline in state funding and rise in tuition costs. The number comes from the 2012 UC Undergraduate Experience Survey. We were surprised, and upon further […]

If we ask people what they think about political rhetoric, they will likely respond that it is baloney and that we shouldn’t buy it. But I think those same people do buy it very frequently. I want to dissect a few recent and pertinent examples. In dissecting them, I think patterns emerge that can inform […]

My name is Stephanie Lake and I’m the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Intervention Services Coordinator at Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) here on campus. I am responding to the article in the April 11, Aggie titled “Students seek Adderall for academic boost.” There were some good points made in this article and […]