Opinion

On Mar. 29, a general strike, or “Huelga General,” struck Spain with a historic and sobering dose of citywide solidarity. With 75 percent of flights grounded, a stopped public transportation system and police teams mobilizing in the city’s major plazas, Barcelona appeared to be preparing itself for a Zombie outbreak or coup d’etat. After following 2011’s Occupy Movement, […]

On Nov. 21, Linda Katehi stood before up to five thousand students and personally apologized for the events three days earlier. She struggled to hold back tears as she referenced memories from her own past, of the struggle in her home country of Greece during the ‘70s, of the morning when the military junta in […]

This wouldn’t be an Aggie column without at least one article on sex, so here it is! Those of you who know me personally probably saw this coming. Those of you who know me very personally have already seen … actually, I’m not going to finish that joke. Before their first years as teaching assistants (TAs), all […]

The quarter-life crisis is something adults don’t know about or shrug off as nonexistent. Thanks to our craptastic economy, job market and tuition, we twenty-somethings won’t make more money in our lifetime on average than our parents did, the first time since the young adults of the Great Depression. We owe more money, have shittier […]

So, you probably heard: Facebook bought Instagram for one billion dollars. Yes, as in nine zeros. I guess Silicon Valley is somehow immune to the concept of economic downturn. Note to self: spend two years developing a popular mobile app, then sell company – and soul – to Mark Zuckerberg. The tech world let out […]

Hey, what are dreams? I mean, I know they’re the sounds/images/sensations that flit through our heads when we’re sleeping, but what actually are they? And what do they do? And do we even need them? Let’s go way back. Usually this is the part of an informational column about dreams where we’d go back to […]

“Where are you from?” My foreign friends and I hear this question all the time. But people’s reactions to our replies differ dramatically. Over winter break I was traveling with a friend and conversations with strangers would usually go like this: I’d say, “I am from Lithuania.” They would nod, and then turn back to […]

On Wednesday, the results of the Reynoso Task Report were released to the public. The report was jarring and provided much-needed information about the pepper spray incident on Nov. 18. The most disturbing part of this report was the administration’s failure to communicate with and understand students. The report provides examples that suggest the administration […]

As Coachellers head down to Southern California comparing coachy playlists, swapping meaningful concert stories and contemplating which drugs will elicit the most authentic experience, I’ll be at home representing the delegation of unpopular opinions and disliking music festivals. While music festivals aren’t a new phenomenon, in the last 10 years there’s been an increase in […]

The U.S. Bank occupations taught us a lesson we can’t afford to forget: Direct action works. Protesters who refused to wait for institutional permission won a victory that official campus organizations and representative assemblies can only dream about. The next time we get into a tired debate about the movement’s mass popularity or the need […]

There is a group of individuals on this campus who have long suffered under the tyranny of the majority. You won’t see this group camping on the Quad or rallying through campus. This group’s resistance is silent and relatively ineffective. We are of course referring to the bright-minded left-handers of UC Davis. Being a lefty […]

Breaking up is hard to do. One second you’re so close, connecting and revealing your soul to another individual and the next moment, you’re … nothing. Just two people who shared something once upon a time. Transitioning from one type of relationship to another with a person is complicated to say the least. There are […]