Opinion

Handouts and syllabi cover your bed. You can’t find your eraser under all the library books piled on your desk.

I am absolutely thrilled to finally write this column. As I imagine anyone who isn’t living in a cave in Afghanistan knows – actually, I bet those guys know too – Osama bin Laden is dead.

I like to eavesdrop when I’m sitting at the café pretending to get work done.

May has got to be one of the best months Davis has to offer. From Whole Earth Festival to houseboats, May is basically 31 days of debauchery. I think the only thing missing is a maypole, which, believe it or not, is actually a very old Pagan tradition to ensure fertility. I think it would be awesome if UC Davis were to install one in the middle of the quad, and we could just get stoned all month and wind ribbons around a giant phallus. If that’s not your idea of fun, check your pulse.

I am by no means a healthy individual. Living in Davis, a town that has a billion sports going on and a Wal-mart-sized meathouse called the ARC, one can feel outclassed physically on the daily. That being said, I just pledged to do 300 miles for “May is Bike Month.” I know that number can sound daunting if you recently dusted off a bike at home or get a little asthmatic biking across campus, but it’s not that much. I have never before this month, committed to any form of rigorous exercise, and usually eat at least one meal a day made entirely from fructose corn syrup, carbonation and xantham gum. Yet bike commuting as my primary form of exercise works for me. The hour or so I am on my bike a day is my favorite time.

At the landmark age of 16, I was introduced to TED. He was dreamy, adorable and smart. Talk about a trifecta.

Wrench in hand, I made my way through the dark, flooded corridors of the failed underwater city, Rapture.

As the academic year nears its close, seniors will have difficult choices to make. Many of us in the humanities and arts, for instance, will have to weigh pursuing our passions in creative fields like painting, film, theater, or writing against the financial stability of a desk job or graduate school.

In his State of the Association speech on Tuesday, ASUCD President Adam Thongsavat said he’s looking to reform the Experimental College (EC). Hopefully this means ASUCD is considering a subsidy, because the unit and the campus would greatly benefit from it.

We would like to correct a misstatement that appeared in Tuesday’s article in The California Aggie, entitled, \

Once again I write this letter to ask the student body this questions: What do you think is worth $100,000 on this campus?

When I talk to Davis town-folk about the domes on-campus, a 1972 student-built housing project – unique in all the UC system, people ask me, “Clay, does the community called Baggins End have a chance of survival?”