Opinion

The year is 2054. John Anderton, played by a sunken-eyed Tom Cruise, walks into the Gap. His eyes flash as an automatic sensor scans his retinas, and a woman shows up on a screen in front of him. “Hello, Mr. Yakamoto!” she says cheerfully. “Welcome back to the Gap. How’d those assorted tank tops work […]

We are nearing a time when “Made in China” will no longer be discreetly etched under our plastic tchotchkes or sewn through the backs of our labels.  Because of increasing blue-collar labor costs this past decade in Guangdong and other coastal hubs, China is at the bottom of any manufacturer’s list for super-cheap hands. This […]

Until last month, the website library.nu acted as the Pirate Bay of academia, offering users free downloads of hundreds of thousands of scholarly books. But, like so many file-sharing servers before it, library.nu attracted the ire of some powerful enemies: An international group of publishers ranging from Cambridge University Press to Elsevier banded together to stop […]

If college has affected your nutrition, you might be wondering what will happen on a full-time job. Last year, over 40 percent of American employees gained weight, many of whom suffer a diet-related chronic disease. At work, shifts in diet are not always due to a lack of food knowledge but instead a change in […]

I made tofu chili in my house last week. It was kind of a big deal. For the last two years, I purchased and consumed a small tofu chili from the CoHo marketplace nearly every single day I was on campus. To this day, if I so much as catch a whiff of tofu chili, […]

Last Tuesday, students, government representatives and business and education leaders gathered to discuss the California job market and economy. The event, called the UC Davis California Jobs Summit, was proposed by ASUCD President Adam Thongsavat and was the first UC Davis student-led jobs forum. The event should be applauded for its efforts to provide real, […]

Full Class A student was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for allegedly disrupting a lower-division science lab.  The student attempted to get into a lab other than the one she was enrolled in by writing her name on an attendance sheet for the lab.  When the class TA took roll, the student did not […]

As the quarter draws to a close, most of us are finding ourselves enveloped by a wave of tests, papers and review sessions. What I give you today is a review session of sorts. But not the stressful kind. The sexy kind. I present, for your future use and current pleasure, Sam’s Six Sex Commandments. […]

Warren Buffet, one of my personal heroes, once said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” Buffet, who was once the world’s richest man, now holds the number-three spot, and has made his fortune based on doing things differently. […]

Earlier this month, the UC Davis Police Department (UCDPD) added 11 new bicycle cop positions to current force members, increasing the number of bike cops on campus. Ironically, this move was made to better community relations between campus members and the police by increasing the direct contact people share with officers — a likely response […]

Somebody broke up with me once, so I completely identify with Adele and her music. Even one year later, listening to the powerhouse crescendos and vocal fire of “Rolling in the Deep” still takes me back to the memories of that one person who said he didn’t find me attractive. It’s nice to know that, […]

My first computer was an iMac. It was purple, I was eight and it was love at first sight. I only used Macs then, and I still only use Macs now. Although lately, it seems that a transformation is brewing within Apple, and my allegiance is not as strong as it once was. Both the […]