Opinion

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 […]

I hardly hesitate before agreeing to a product’s terms and conditions anymore. I can barely keep up with the reading in my own classes, let alone spare the time and energy to read a 6,500-word essay written in legalese. But I’m trying to understand what it means to have good privacy hygiene — to know […]

Last week I told a story about my mother and it has come to my attention that we will not still be in school over Father’s Day and that this is unfair to my male parent. So I will tell an equally flattering story. When I was little and a budding comedian I used to […]

If you’ve noticed the number of sniffles and sneezes increase exponentially over the past few weeks, do not panic. Avian flu hasn’t reached UC Davis and a new super-cold hasn’t started within the bodies of us college students. The culprit of the extra classroom sounds is allergies. Davis lies in the fertile Central Valley of […]

In a few years, it will seem almost quaint that anyone ever worked in a video rental store, a record store or even a bookshop. Now that we can transmit movies, songs and books at megabytes per second, getting paid to stand in a room and sell physical storage media suddenly looks as strange and […]

This will come as no surprise to anyone who spent more than three minutes with me this weekend, but “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen may just be the crowning achievement of the human race. Because I could write 8,000 words on the violin composition alone I think it’ll be best to break this […]

On the afternoon of Nov. 18 last year, my friend and I had been sitting in the CoHo making travel plans for Christmas break. Afterwards I decided to go to the library to work on a paper. It was grey outside and I was worried that it might start raining soon. But then something much […]

In 2006, ASUCD chose to no longer be a part of the University of California Student Association (UCSA). UCSA is a coalition that unites UC campuses to lobby for higher education. One of ASUCD’s main issues with UCSA is the cost. The minimum dues to the association is $1.30 per student. This cost is huge […]

A couple of weeks ago, I was walking around campus, enjoying the sun and blue skies between classes. My new Canon had arrived a few days prior, so I thought I’d take it out for a spin, playing with the features and capturing moments. I shot a couple of random video clips of different campus […]