Opinion

Red, bleary eyes stare listlessly at the red digital numbers as they tick upward at an alarming rate. 4:42 a.m. 4:43 a.m. 4:44 a.m. Each arriving minute brings with it a sense of impending anxiety and a myriad of questions and thoughts, thus further exacerbating this cycle of sleeplessness. Your eyes shift from the stoic […]

As Aggie students, we believe that our fellow students deserve and want to hear from both candidates seeking to represent us in Congress, so we can’t help but notice that Colusa County supervisor Kim Vann has mostly avoided our campus. Earlier this month, thousands of UC Davis students saw Congressman John Garamendi join President Bill […]

I remember in middle school and high school, I had to attend yearly presentations of my school’s zero-tolerance policies. The speaker would stand before a crowd of students and tell us what we weren’t allowed to do or bring to school, going on to say that if we broke the rules, the school would suspend […]

As much as safe-sex promotion on campus helps stop unwanted pregnancies and the spread of STDs, it makes it way more difficult to stay abstinent in college. It almost makes me embarrassed to be a virgin. But no matter how hard it is for me, guys seem to get the most social pressure. What with […]

In an effort to foster communication between students and the UC Davis administration, the 2012-13 Student Assistants to the Chancellor (SAC) have been inviting undergraduates to attend a breakfast series in the dining commons. We are happy to see the administration make an effort to meet with students on a regular basis. This roundtable discussion, […]

We at Health Education and Promotion (HEP) were pleased to see CloverUp is providing another way for students to access the supplies they need to practice safer sex as reported in the News in Brief in last Thursday’s paper. We applaud their goal to lessen the stigma surrounding obtaining condoms and we share their philosophy […]

Today is Nov. 6. Election Day. If this isn’t ringing any bells for you, we have a problem. If you’ve already voted — good job. And if you’re anywhere in between — read on. It is critical that college students vote in this election, when it comes to both the propositions and the president. The […]

How about we all stop being so defensive and try to empathize with each other? Chang, I get where you’re coming from with your defense of the English major. As an English major myself, I frequently experience condescension from others about the real-world practicality of my field of study. But guess what? So do most […]

Today, many of us will be heading to the polls to cast our ballot for President, Congress, Assembly and State Senate. But this election offers a unique opportunity for each and every student at UC Davis. During the 2008 election, roughly 22 million young Americans headed to the polls to cast their vote and their […]

With a rained-out Halloween and a daughter in need of companionship while working on her high school history project, I applied myself to the examination of Proposition 30 and the reasons for it. They boil down to this: California needs to raise money now, and 30 is the most reasonable way to do it. Over […]

In life, we experience many things for the first time. A first kiss, a first date, a first relationship, a first love and so on. But as we go about hitting these primary milestones, we tend to get a little lost along the way. In a society built upon fairy tale endings, our desire for […]

I just came back from some fetch quest, possibly with a can of dog food that’s highly valued in whatever apocalyptic world I’m visiting. I meet with the woman who gave me the quest and I have two options: I give her the can of dog food she asked me for and receive a small […]