Opinion

College can be scary. Upon arrival, many will experience their first time living away from home, their first time being in charge of creating their own schedule, and if they’re lucky, a welcome week-induced hangover the likes of which they’ve never experienced before. Although I do quite literally own a book titled the guide to […]

In the article “Chilean Student Association” from Nov. 1, Boris Cardenas expresses concerns about our activities. To be clear, the Chilean Student Association is not a political organization. It has a diverse membership and welcomes discussion among individuals with different ideas, which is one of the benefits of being on a university campus. Our main […]

On Nov. 16, the UC Regents will vote to increase our fees by 81 percent over the next four years. There is no one we can petition or convince to stop this trend toward privatization. We must take matters into our own hands by preventing the UC Regents from convening at UC San Francisco on […]

Over the past month, UC Davis has been hosting town hall meetings to discuss possible changes to the athletic department as mentioned in the Dempsey Report. In the report to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, former NCAA Commissioner Cedric Dempsey proposed, among many things, that UC Davis switch from an educational model to a business model […]

After this upcoming election, at least nine of the ASUCD Senate seats, in addition to the president and vice president, will be members of the BOLD slate. This is an excess that ASUCD could do without. This is not to say that BOLD or other slates are problems in and of themselves. The question is, […]

This week, students will elect another round of senators to represent them on the ASUCD senate table. Voting began today at 8 a.m. and will end this Thursday at 8 a.m. Voters will rank candidates in order of preference through ASUCD’s rank-choice voting system. If a student’s first-choice candidate either wins with extra votes or […]

This past weekend I worked as part of the Davis Model United Nations to hold a conference for some rather high-achieving high school students. Since I have little interest in debate and even less interest in politics, I helped at the event as a favor to a friend, and perhaps to my resume as well. […]

The pastor who predicted the end of the world a few months back was, I think, really on to something. Given that his followers sold their homes, spent huge sums of money on billboards and advertisement trying to tell the world – or, as much of the world that drove by their billboards and advertisements […]

Halloween weekend and the envelope-pushing skin-baring “costumes” it yielded have come and passed. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with a diatribe about trashiness versus creativity – that shtick is a tired, silent shout. I will, however, gladly lay this other doozy of a seasonal cliché on you: just as the candy that […]

On Oct. 27, a group of over 75 protesters entered the UC Davis Shields Library, carrying signs and chanting as they marched through the building. We support their goal of publicly opposing UC fee hikes but interrupting students’ studies is not the way to create such a change. Midterm season is upon us and students […]

Several years ago I suffered a head injury as a result of a bike accident; consequently, I am particularly conscious of the risks and possible dangers of biking. My accident was the result of another cyclist getting too close and bumping my back tire, something that could happen any day here on campus. All of […]

I am somewhere to the left of the Democratic Party but, when I saw that Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater selling for $1.99 on Kindle, I snapped it up. Clearly, the market had spoken. Conscience of a Conservative, ghostwritten by Goldwater’s speechwriter in 1960, is a classic statement of libertarian principles. Indeed, one […]