Opinion

One of the most common objections to capitalism is that it leads to unchecked negative externalities. An externality is an effect of economic activity that is not accounted for in the costs of the goods or services involved in the transaction. Many externalities are positive: For instance, when a park is created near some houses, […]

LET’S. GO. AGS. On Thursday, the UC Davis Pavilion shook with the intensity of Aggies who were attempting to prove much more than just how far our men’s basketball team has come in the last year. Sometimes, UC Davis isn’t given enough credit. Occasionally, Aggie Pride is underestimated. But on Thursday night, Aggie Basketball put […]

There has been much discussion about how UC administrators are petitioning to keep UC SHIP exempt from the standards of the Affordable Care Act and how UC Office of the President mismanaged UC SHIP to the tune of nearly $60 million. What I haven’t seen or heard discussed is how these factors may spell the […]

The excitement was tangible Thursday night as students formed a line from the Pavilion to the cows, waiting for the basketball game that was to be broadcast on ESPN2. Sadly, our team came out one point short in a heart-wrenching 77-76 battle. But Aggie Pride definitely won the game. The game was sold out, with […]

As this quarter sets upon the horizon, many of my fellow columnists will be cranking out goodbye columns, trying to get their final say in edgewise about their opinions on drugs, sex, politics or what have you. I, unfortunately, do not have this option, as I already wrote my goodbye column last quarter, foolishly thinking […]

The West Village housing community has been receiving lots of hype recently. Well, all the hype is recent since the community is only 2 years old. It’s young, shiny, colorful and not only is it net zero energy, it is even net positive. That’s right, the combined solar production from the acres of solar panels […]

Well, this is it. The last column of the quarter. If I were in a more self-indulgent mood, I’d spend our final inches together musing on exactly what it means to me to be a sex columnist, and how my own sexy exploits have shaped what you’ve read here. But then I remembered that this […]

Writing for The Aggie is a trip. I encourage you to do it. If you’ve got opinions and a couple hours a week to indulge yourself into thinking you know anything, then this position is for you. At the very least it will force you to articulate your opinions in 20 inches or less. The […]

Thinking about how Kate Beckinsale from the Underworld movies embodies the uncanny is totally what’s getting me through the last couple of papers I have to write before finals. It just gets to me how she makes the mysterious, dark, unseen aspects of herself so familiar and yet so unknowable at the same time. Imagine […]

Sex & Society Prostitution –– it’s been coined as the world’s oldest profession, but is also one of the most stigmatized, especially in the U.S. Sex work is, for the most part, illegal in the United States. The only exception is Nevada, where prostitution is only legal within licensed brothels located in specific rural areas […]

The Anarchist Beside the confused way of thinking and speaking that is imposed upon us by capitalist information control, there persists the general problem of self-imposed confusion. That is to say, capitalist firms are to blame for poisoning the public mind to a large degree, but the public is guilty of poisoning itself as well. […]

How many of you knew the men’s basketball team is in contention for the Big West Conference title? They are not the same squad they were last year, the squad that won just three games in conference. UC Davis currently stands at 9-7 in the Big West and 14-14 overall, quite a turnaround from last […]