Opinion

After reading your article “Report finds Shields Library under-financed,” there are a couple of facts that I would like to point out. First let me say thatthis,like most college campuses‘ main focus,is the professors.We want to make them happy.Heck,just look at the money that they make.What makes them happy? Besides making money? Happy students.One thing that makes happy students is having the booksthat they need in the library.How do those books get on the shelves?The people behind the doors.I am one of those people.

Last week,as news stories of skyrocketing student fees once again littered the pages of California newspapers,Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi sat down withThe California Aggieand informed UC students that they must be the ones responsible for stopping their own financial fleecing.Garamendi was quoted as saying, “The students need to rise up and raise hell.If that doesn’t happen,then this fee increase will continue.“

First loves are intense and always leave an indelible impression that never fullygoesaway. In the years after those relationships end,looking backoften leavesyouwith strong feelings of hatred,sadness,longing or regret.

It’s time for students to take action. The governor, legislature and Regents have shown year after year that they are not interested in stopping fee increases any time soon.

UC Davis is known for its advancements in environmental science. Now,it’s faced with cleaning up its own mess.

I recently read the Letter to the Editor dated Oct. 2, 2008, “Starbucks on campus not OK” and would like to provide some information regarding our ethical sourcing practices for coffee and cocoa. As North America’s largest purchaser of Fair Trade Certified™ coffee and among the largest worldwide, we share common goals with the Fair Trade movement. In 2007, we purchased almost a third of the Fair Trade Certified™ coffee imported into the U.S.

For the past three months the University of California Board of Regents has been considering a proposal that would eliminate the requirement for applicants to submit SAT II subject test scores in order to have their applications reviewed.

The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts has attracted renowned artists and speakers such as anthropologist Jane Goodall, violinist Itzhak Perlman and the Cirque de Soleil performers. Tickets for in-demand events such as these have not been readily available to students in the past. Because tickets are released early to subscribers, most of whom are […]

Drivers in California will no longer be legally allowed to send text messages while they drive starting in January 2009. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed SB 28 into law, a belated addition to the recent legislation regarding cell phones and motorists.

After months of discussion, the Davis City Council made progress towardapproving a living wage for some people employed by the city through contractors. The ordinance, which would only apply to contractors whomeet a certain threshold of business from the city, is being examined on a scale that would pay between $10 and $14.21 per hour. Currently, these employees may be paid as low as the state minimum wage, $8 per hour. People employed directly by the city are already on a living wage pay scale.

Under current state law,illegal immigrants qualify for in-state tuition at the University of California if they attend a California high school for at least three years and graduate with a diploma orGED.A lawsuit working its way through the court system,Martinez v.Regents,threatens to take away this tuition break.

Editor’s note:Tiffany Gilmore is a graduate student at UC Davis who wrote intoThe Aggie to raise awareness of the plight faced by Haitian citizens after the recent hurricane.