Opinion

For those who spent hours waiting in line outside the ARC Pavilion to obtain five pieces of paper for their family and friends to attend a commencement ceremony of equal length, one thing was evident: administrative efficiency is not present at UC Davis. Tickets for the College of Letters & Science commencement ceremonies brought hundreds […]

On Wednesday, UC Davis held its first of four open forums that will allow students, faculty, alumni and members of the public to get to know finalists for the position of athletics director. While we most likely won’t know who Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi selects until after commencement, the new athletics director will have a […]

To the editor of the Aggie and the UC Davis Community, The Youth Empowerment Program is very thankful for the article printed about our Immigrant Youth Art and Poetry Exhibit held on May 15. However, there were some incorrect statements made in that article that we would like to amend. To begin, the purpose of […]

With summer vacation coming up, my life is about to lose some structure. I won’t have class, or homework, or a weekly column, or have to go grocery shopping. Until I find a job, I will mostly be doing things I want to do, like reading and watching TV. Yet when I’m asked by one […]

“I wanna be a billionaire, so freakin bad … Buy all of the things I never had …” A billion dollars. Do any of us know what that really is? I mean, on paper, it’s $1,000,000,000. The number one followed by nine zeros. If you can actually conceptualize one billion dollars in your mind, hats […]

As a fellow Davis student and reader of The Aggie, I would just like to thank you for your column published last Wednesday on “the crowning achievement of the human race.” As a heterosexual, 6’5”, well-built male, I agree with Mr. Verderosa 100 percent on the musicality and overall brilliance of Carly Rae Jepsen’s breakout […]

Last week, ASUCD held its annual budget hearings, which ran for a total of 33 hours. The $10.7 million budget is up for contention and debate on where money should be allocated. However, only 20 percent of the budget is really maneuverable, as the other 80 percent is locked into Unitrans, Cal Aggie Camp and the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP). Unfortunately, […]

It was a sad day for Aggie employees when Woodstock’s Pizza announced it would be segregating Thursday trivia night. Like many regular participants of the trivia night, we developed a routine of showing up early and quickly pooling our knowledge of possible trivia categories. Some of us bought soda, some of us bought beer. But […]

Dear Professor Celestia: Today, I learned that, despite the depictions of academics as introverts who labor alone in the lab or library, real research is a team sport. For a grad student to succeed, they must make use of the many mentors available to them. From the advisor who signs your papers and keeps you […]

Everyone knows that politics is an ugly business. Vicious barbs, blatant distortions and character attacks are almost expected, part of the game in the same way that taxes are a part of life. Civil, cooperative politics is an ideal from another era, a golden age that may or may not have existed but is held […]

May is the worst time of the year. School’s ending, so that means more finals and parties and less studying and sleep than there should be. Season finales do terrible things like kill off my favorite characters (Lexie!) and keep me emotionally unhinged for three months. For as long as I can remember, my life […]

At the 2012-13 ASUCD budget hearings, senators agreed to give $500 to fund Safe Boats, a houseboat that provides first aid and contraceptives during the annual Memorial Day weekend celebration on Lake Shasta known as Houseboats. Three hundred seventy dollars will go towards Safe Boats itself and $130 will fund Safe Boats education, down from […]