Opinion

The ASUCD budget hearings are this weekend, and along with voting on the association’s $11.8 million budget, senators will have to grapple with a new tax to be assessed on ASUCD’s expenses. Starting next year, ASUCD will work toward paying 1.52 percent of its expenses to the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). […]

Cinco de Mayo, or Cinco de Drinko, as it’s lovingly called by some, is an American tradition celebrating our ability to celebrate anything. Together, those two phrases translate to “May I drink five times more than usual?” or something. Last week my friends and I answered that question with an enthusiastic “¡Sí!” I was expecting […]

Let me start off by saying that I really, really like Beyoncé. I think that she’s incredibly talented and impossibly beautiful and that she carries herself very well. She’s one of the few pop icons out there whose success stands on more than sex appeal. She can actually sing and dance and is a master […]

Dear Senior Campus Administrators, It’s clear you’re being put in the difficult position of having to live up to the Principles of Community. I personally think that’s an unreasonable expectation. If you were capable of that it would’ve happened already.  Instead, I have a suggestion for you — from your very own playbook. Why not […]

Team Obama is probably beginning to sweat by now (assuming they haven’t already been doing so for months). The president needs strong job growth reports from now until Election Day, and the latest numbers on newly created jobs (115,000 for the month of April) are simply not going to cut it. Regardless of whether it […]

If new legislation is not passed, this July the interest rate for Federal Direct Stafford Loans for 7.4 million students will rise from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. Doubling the college loan interest rate places a greater burden on the shoulders of students already struggling to carry debt at existing loan rates. It is difficult enough […]

Astute readers will recall that I am not from here. I was born and raised and went to college on the East Coast (double-plus points if you remember where). I’d say coming to California was a culture shock for me, but I honestly haven’t seen the alleged differences between the coasts. People on both sides […]

At the end of this week, UC Berkeley students will officially end their Spring Semester, welcoming graduation or summer break. Meanwhile, here at UC Davis, students still have six more weeks left to slave away in Shields while spring weather and potential naps on the Quad beckon ever so temptingly. Undoubtedly, as we stress over […]

“I would say cracking knuckles. My roommate does this weird dance before she goes to bed and every joint in her body cracks. I hate it!” Shaida Mirmazalleri, first-year economics major “Proselytizing, or religious soliciting. Like when people go door-to-door. I don’t like it because I didn’t ask for it.” Russell Booker, junior English major […]

I have been on this campus for four years. Never have I been scared or hesitant to state my opinions, despite many of them being in the minority on campus. However, one of my personal views is a common one around town, yet you would not know it. I support the state of Israel and […]

When I was younger, I was taught by my dad that it’s important to “appear presentable” at all times. I barely understood it then and it kinda irritated me for a while, but it has definitely come in handy. Can you imagine the mortification of seeing someone you’d like to impress while you’re in yesterday’s […]

I have an enemy. It is an old enemy, and like any great adversaries, we cannot seem to do without each other. Like the Joker to my Batman, I know this enemy will forever taunt me, and that nothing but one of our deaths will end our fearful standoff. Who is this enemy? If you […]