Opinion

It’s about time UC Davis passes a T.G.I.F.initiative,but the language of this particular initiative may not be worth the YES vote. The success of this program at other UC’s has shown the things students can accomplish when given the funds. Senator Bianchi’s claim that this fee doesn’t benefit all students is very odd given the many programs that ASUCD funds that only affects some students.

Last Thursday,the ASUCD Senate passed Senate Resolution16unanimously,urging the administration and faculty to take necessary steps to curtail Peter J Shields Library’s national ranking decline.Shields library once prided itself as one of the top one-third of research libraries in North America,but within15years due to a negligent chancellorship,an incompetent and corrupt university administration,and an irresponsible faculty,Shield’s ranking toppled to an all new low of64th.

Ever since I can remember, it’s been a fact of life that my mother’s father, or Papou as we call him, likes to talk to strangers. And not just a quick “How you doing” to someone he passes in the street. I’m talking the full-on “you don’t know me but I’m about to talk to you like we’re friends” kind of thing. He’ll pause in the middle of a restaurant, walk up to a table where a parent is sitting with two smiling children, and remark how blessed the parent is: “you are a lucky man.”

By now you’ve all noticed that there was no print edition of The Aggie last Friday.Hopefully all those notes on the front page prepared you for the shock.You’ve also probably read our reasoning behind the cuts (if you haven’t you can check them out online at theaggie.org/article/2474).I’m also pretty sure a lot of you are wondering what this means for The Aggie and other college newspapers down the road.

In a formerly unused lot in East Sacramento, seeds of a food revolution are beginning to take root.Tilled rows of soil cover about a quarter-acre of land in an open field between homes,a Universal Unitary Church and a public school.It’s what’s called an urban farm.

Sex education in public schools has been a contentious topic in America for decades. The debate generally comes down to whether or not students should be told about ways of maintaining their sexual health besides completely abstaining from sexual activity until marriage. This column is an attempt to take the basic arguments of the […]

Throughout my time in Davis I have encountered many things that grind my gears i.e. things that annoy me (for example: naggers). Hence, I decided to make a top 10 list of things that grinded my gears throughout my stay here. I hope I don’t end up sounding like a grandpa complaining about his retirement center; I just want to share my gear-grinding list with people who may be able to relate.

President Obama has begun our first sustained effort to rescue our automobile industry. As The New York Times reported, his recent signature of a law that allows certain states to “begin producing and selling cars and trucks that get higher mileage than the national standard” is a step to reshape the contour of our national automobile industry.

Ha. Haha. I bet you’re gonna have that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Now that your darling heads are ringing with the sweet sounds of an arena rock classic, I can delve right into my main point: Some of us are weaksauce. I hail from the Bay Area. A freakish number of you hail from the Bay Area. Few of us have actually ever partaken in the phenomenon that is ghost riding.

Amidst fee increases and enrollment slashes, California’s college students have been delivered even more bad news – the Cal Grant program may take a hit. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed budget cuts earlier this month eliminating the competitive Cal Grant and keeping need-based grants at their current amount (not adjusting for fee increases or inflation). The […]

In November of2008,three groups of men inKandahar,Afghanistan rode by and sprayed burning acid onto the faces of about15young girls and female teachers in an apparent attempt to keep them from going to school. The girls were badly burnt and scarred,one was even flown intoIndia to treat her wounds.But I won‘t focus on that in this week‘s article.

During my short stint as a columnist,I’ve gotten some interesting responses to what I’ve written.I’ve had people go to great lengths to tell me how stupid I am.I had one reader say that he would rather stick a fish in a rather unusual spot than read my column again.I even had one angry man hope that I would be attacked.But I had yet to receive a response as passionate as the one sent to me in reaction to my last column.