Opinion

ASUCD President IvanCarrillorecentlyraised the topic that UC Davis and U.S.Bank are in negotiations for a branch on campus.This U.S.Bank would be located in the East Conference Roomon the first floorof the Memorial Union.U.S.Bank would enter in to a10-year lease,paying$140,000per year and a$3,000signing bonus according toCarrillo’sinformation.

Several Yolo County politicians are promoting the idea of making the county a testing ground for voting entirely by mail.The idea would save the county time and money as well as increase voter turnout.

So,I‘ve avoided the whole Palestine-Israel thing for a while now.The entireMiddle East thing seems a mess.He said,she said,America took this,England gave away that.With all the biased media its hard for some uninformed people to figure out how everything got to this point,and more importantly,why theUnited States and so much of the world is essentially ignoring the deaths of over1,000people inGaza.

There comes a time in most conversations that I have when a certain topic arises.It could come about because of a slip of the tongue (usually a “that’s not diverse“) or due to an unusual story (“This one time I was talking to the police attwo in the morning… “),but at some point I have to explain myself.

Private Joseph Dwyer entered Iraq in2003as part of the American spear heading for the heart of Baghdad.He became an instant celebrity when a photographer captured him carrying a helpless child to safety during a battle near the Euphrates.The photo was widely circulated,as it represented the ideal of the heroic American soldier risking life and limbto save innocents.

Is it just me or are a lot of people breaking up everywhere? And I mean everywhere:Onthe bus,in front of Olson,even over the phone on the sidewalk at two in the morning.A couple once broke up right in front of my apartment.My roommate and I crouched down,popped some popcorn and put our ears against the door as the girl from apartment124took two hours to break up with Joe-shmoe because she caught him cheating.Oh man,it was so golden,I peed in my pants a little.

When those around you begintocling to a rotten lie,reeking of desperation,ignorance,and often times paranoia,the best course of action for a reasonable person to take is a step back and posing the question of, “Why?”

In one of his first actions in office, President Barack Obama made good on a promise to reverse an Environmental Protection Agency decision that blocked California from implementing stricter pollution standards on vehicles sold in the state. The EPA under President George W. Bush denied California‘s request, saying that regulating vehicle emissions was the job […]

The UC Davis physical education department is in talks with Campus Recreation to implement participation fees for some of its classes. Students currently have unlimited access to P.E.courses,which are paid for through registration fees.However,certain courses offered under the P.E.department use facilities operated by Campus Recreation,which is where the department is looking to apply an activities fee.

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.”