Opinion

It has been a sad week, as the first week of April is wont to be. Many of us lost something close to our hearts and even closer to our mouths. No, it was not through a prank gone wrong, but rarely have I felt so foolish. I’m speaking, ladies and gentlemen, of the epidemic […]

It is old news now about the events transpiring around the barricade and eventual closure of the U.S. bank in the Memorial Union. In brief, 10 to 15 students began forming a human blockade in front of the bank’s doors starting early January. After two months of waiting for the UC Davis administration to take […]

In light of the recent delays in the release of the findings from Justice Cruz Reynoso’s Task Force, let’s review the last five months. Students sitting down with heads bowed in the center of the UC Davis Quad in the middle of a Friday in broad sunlight were pepper sprayed by UC Davis Campus Police. […]

I read with interest the article on taxing ASUCD $235,560 for the university-mandated Shared Service Center based on processed transactions. Inevitably, the state budget crisis was bound to create ethical challenges for the University administration. Here we go. Unlike any other unit on the campus, ASUCD fees can only be raised after a student vote. […]

College is absolutely amazing. There’s a party every five minutes and the sex is just as prevalent as Smirnoff vodka. My tenure was occupied with track, theatre, work, wine nights, sitcoms and tons of “studying.” I got to learn a lot while surprisingly sleeping just as much. Seriously, college is amazing. Except, it didn’t prepare […]

Awaken, my column, and embrace the glory that is your birthright. Know that I am the Graduate Student, the eternal will of lab and library, and that you have been created to serve me. Undergraduates often get all the press when it comes to universities, though not without cause. Of the more than 32,000 students […]

I was duped, and if you read my column “1 Infinite Loop” two weeks ago, by proxy, so were you. For that, I am sorry. I cited Mike Daisey, whose monologue about labor malpractice at Apple’s plant in China was excerpted on NPR’s “This American Life.” A few days after my column was published, Daisey […]

Welcome to the library. What’s that you say? You’re not in a library? Au contraire, my good reader. While you may not literally be in a library, you are currently an inhabitant of the library of my mind. What’s that? You are in Shields? Ah, then my friend, defying all traditional rules of space and […]

Dear Aggie Basketball Fans, Friends, Administrators and Supporters, As we conclude my first season as Head Basketball Coach, I wanted to take this opportunity to THANK YOU for your unbelievable energy, enthusiasm and support for our program this past season. We endured a lot of adversity in many different forms, but have continued to focus […]

My readers might think that I’m a one-trick pony with little to tack on to my resume aside from incomparable writing skills and freelance modeling gigs, but I’m really quite versatile. Believe it or not, I’ve been making important contributions to the world in a number of other ways throughout the years. For instance, does […]

The cyber activists turned pranksters turned criminals who call themselves Anonymous tell a modern tale of Robin Hood and his merry men. Since 2003, these hackers have used their digital know-how for “good”, attacking only those who they deem to be wicked and corrupt. Well, until they were detained. On March 5, the FBI plucked […]

On March 6 the Davis City Council voted unanimously to postpone the Davis City Minor Alcohol Preclusion Ordinance. If passed, the legislation would have given police the ability to cite those under-21 who were intoxicated in public beyond a Blood Alcohol Content of .01. We are glad that the ordinance will not be going into […]