Opinion

If you’re feeling anxious about graduation, you’re not alone    By JHANA RHODES—jsrho@ucdavis.edu             Ever since I submitted my graduation application, apprehension has followed me around like a younger sibling. It’s singing loudly when I’m trying to write an essay, it’s the back seat driver when I’m driving home and, just when I think I’ve […]

If it isn’t the consequences of our own actions…   By MOLLY THOMPSON – mmtthompson@ucdavis.edu   For a lot of us, climate change has always felt like something that we were going to face in the future. We are warned to be conservative with our resources so future generations won’t run out; told that we […]

Do you all actually like alcohol or is it all an elaborate ruse?   By MADISON SEEMAN— meseeman@ucdavis.edu   LED lights, red solo cups and the worst acoustics possible filled a room holding 40 sweaty, drunk and sleep-deprived college students. Everyone else was drinking, and the party was in full swing; Noah was eyeing his […]

The clock serves as a reminder of the impacts of real-world issues — but it’s not too late     By THE EDITORIAL BOARD    As 2024 kicks off, we are already reminded of how we are living on borrowed time — metaphorically speaking. On Jan. 28, 2025, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists declared that […]

The Editorial Board condemns the Trump Administration’s dangerous rhetoric on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal  By THE EDITORIAL BOARD    As the Trump presidency enters its second week, significant changes to domestic and international relations are well underway. Trump has signed executive order after executive order, confirmed new government positions and halted all United States foreign […]

The recent, short-lived TikTok ban might have deeper implications than we think   By SABRINA FIGUEROA — sfigueroaavila@ucdavis.edu   In 2024, the government passed a bill that would ban TikTok in the United States if it was not sold to an American company by Jan. 19, 2025. While many did not believe that statement to […]

You are what you like, share and subscribe to    By Abhinaya Kasagani — akasagani@ucdavis.edu   It has, in all honesty, been 3,652 days since I have had an original thought. This would be perfectly permissible if my reasons for failing to be inventive happened to be a lingering byproduct of artist fatigue and not […]

The Rizzler (me) has spoken   By ALLISON KELEHER — adkeleher@ucdavis.edu   UC Davis is a well-known institution with many bright students and faculty who support the advancement of higher education. With that being said, as a student of this university, I feel it is my duty to share with you the brain rot that […]

One microhabit for man, one giant habit for mankind   By Abhinaya Kasagani— akasagani@ucdavis.edu   The start of something new brings forth the promise of transformation — I am never as ambitious as I am in the first few weeks of January. However, filling the tank of reinvention too much, too fast, begets an overwhelming […]

Personal DJs, data analytics, genre categorization and beyond   By NEVAEH KARRAKER— nakarraker@ucdavis.edu   On Dec. 4, 2024, Spotify released the long-awaited annual “Spotify Wrapped,” marking the latest release date since 2019. This decision may have been necessary to make time for the collection of artists’ video clips and final specializations. Contrarily, perhaps the company […]

Long waitlists, limited class sizes and late pass times have caused UC Davis students to question whether they will graduate on time   By JHANA RHODES—jsrho@ucdavis.edu             Knock, knock.           Who’s there?           Graduate.            Graduate who?            I may not graduate on time.             And it isn’t because I have to retake a chemistry class I failed this […]

Student drives himself insane over Memorial Union pizza bagel   By ALLISON KELEHER — adkeleher@ucdavis.edu   My poor friend, Dwayne, a geology major, took some much-needed respite from instruction during the winter break — needed because he spent all of fall quarter obsessing over pizza bagels. The sad thing is that he started the fall […]