Opinion

Impressing freshmen has always been easy.

I’m impressed by the number of people in the media who think attacking UC student protesters will somehow solve the budget crisis.

Fees are going up because state funding is going down. Whichever way the money is going, at least UC Davis students are headed in the right direction – the capitol.

UC Davis lost student Richard Jung earlier this month in an unfortunate accident involving an allegedly drunk driver.

This past Saturday night – like every other Saturday night – I was in the library going over some of my favorite early medieval texts.

By far my favorite rush shirt on campus is one that reads “Characters Welcome.” Characters make the world an interesting place. They deserve to be recognized, even if they’re the kind we love to hate.

Aside from freezing your butts off, I hope all of you had a pleasant entry to the next 10 weeks of your college career. And for all you seniors, let the countdown begin!

It’s easy to injure a knee. If a football player has his cleats planted solidly in the turf and gets tackled from the side – BOOM! Knee injury. The knee is shoved one way, but the foot doesn’t move.

Woodstock’s Pizza knows how to work the system. It’s conveniently located across the way from the popular G Street Pub and can be accessed until 2 a.m. on a weekend night. And on these special nights, the smell of pizza wafts all the way across to the Ace Hardware parking lot, where drunken students stumble around like toddlers in a playpen. It’s awesome.

“Because our future economic well being is so dependent on education, …we can no longer afford to cut higher education.” Those words were spoken by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger last week during his annual State of the State address. In the context of deep and painful cuts to so many valuable programs, the Governor’s budget proposal was a win for higher education, which saw baseline funding mostly protected and even modest enrollment growth provided for.

Over 4 million people in California are considered eligible for the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -better known as food stamps – yet only 48 percent choose to seek benefits.

Jennifer Beeman, former director of the Campus Violence Prevention Program, severely inflated the number of forcible sex offenses that occurred on the UC Davis campus. In October, university officials said Beeman’s reasoning for the over-reported statistics was irrelevant.