Opinion

Gov. Jerry Brown’s new spending plan directly concerns every UC student. If passed, UC and CSU will receive a $250 million increase in state funding. The money comes with a catch, though — Brown is requiring a unit cap of 270 quarterly units, which will be lowered to 225 units two years after implementation. Students […]

Health Education and Promotion (HEP) would like to comment on the article titled “Healthy for the Holidays” by Naomi Nishihara. This article contains a wealth of information about how to stay healthy during — and after — the holiday season through a combination of healthy food choices and increased physical activity. Last spring, HEP launched […]

Sandbox Politico Think back to last quarter. The sun was still shining, birds were chirping and a man was exposing himself to students in the Arboretum. But amidst the normal quarterly fracas you may recall the ASUCD elections scandal; this publication covered it at length. One minute Cerberus himself was threatening the maws of hell […]

Sex & Society Yesterday, I stumbled upon a lactation room at the ARC. My first reaction was positive — giving women a place to pump on campus means more mothers will have the option to breastfeed, even if they are working or going to classes. My mind went to the few new mothers I’ve known, […]

I recently took a trip to Bruges, Belgium — a slightly unconventional stop for the American abroad. It’s a name that usually precedes reaching for a map. If the goal of a vacation is to become lost, I succeeded on accident. It turns out this was necessary to find out not just where, but also […]

The other night this pretty girl threw up on my lap after her first hit off a brand-new Hello Kitty pipe. She had taken a really long inhale, and the flame was burning the bowl the entire time, so it must’ve been unbearably hot. At first I was surprised; not a lot of people can […]

At last, the $1 million pepper spray settlement was finalized last week. The lawsuit argues that the University used force that violated constitutional protections, including First Amendment rights, on Nov. 18 of last year. Much has already been said about the incident and the settlement. We don’t wish to sound repetitive, but it is always […]

Financially fit Most guys grew up with poignant, pleasant memories of fishing trips on placid lakes or hunting expeditions in the bucolic countryside with ol’ Pop. During such trips, they would nurture and build the innate skills that all men require: bloodlust, chest hair growing, bravado and sportsmanship. But best of all, they would create […]

It’s that time of year again. Desperate upperclassmen are filling their schedules with leftover general education requirements that teach them skills long ago developed in the natural process of taking classes that directly pertain to their interests. If you are one of those students, you have just sat through a week of Comparative Literature 001 […]

The Tree of Liberty What is anarchism? Anarchism is the view that “… holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, or harmful, or, alternatively, as opposing authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations.” (Wikipedia) There are many variants of anarchism. Sometimes, anarchism is packaged with capitalism as a view known as anarcho-capitalism. […]

Sex Ed I don’t know about you, but I love to spend my evenings reading my old sex advice columns. While doing so, I had one of those moments where my brain goes, “bad sex columnist, no biscuit!” You see, I realized that in the past I never devoted more than a few sentences to […]

If Bilbo Baggins attended UC Davis, he’d no doubt live at Baggins End, also known as The Domes. Bilbo could have been my neighbor, too, because Baggins End is where I call home. Baggins End? What the hell is that? Oh! Are those the freaky white igloos between the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) and […]