Opinion

Western presentations of colonialism say the quiet part out loud when they don’t say anything at all   By GEETIKA MAHAJAN — giamahajan@ucdavis.edu   The story of colonization is over-simplified and over-sanitized in almost every retelling: Native Americans “died out” because of “disease”; the British “modernized” the people and technologies of India; the French “influenced” […]

Drawn by: Emma Lapidus –– eblapidus@ucdavis.edu Disclaimer: (This cartoon is humor and/or satire, and its content is purely fictional. The story and names of “sources” are fictionalized.)

Why UC Davis needs to reevaluate the goals of academic advising   By THE EDITORIAL BOARD   You’ve just barely crawled across the halfway line of fall quarter and, before you know if you will actually pass CHE 2A, it’s time to schedule your winter quarter classes. You should probably figure out what those classes […]

Why did we cut home economics? By THE EDITORIAL BOARD  Many students leave college with a vast breadth of academic knowledge and the ability to churn out endless assignments on little sleep. However, if you asked these same people to mend a torn sweater, what their credit score means or how to cook something other […]

Whether through submitting guest-ops or leaving a comment on an article, take advantage of the space that student journalism holds for community engagement    By THE EDITORIAL BOARD   In today’s world, trying to become educated about current events can be difficult when it feels like people are trying to tell you what to think, […]

This November, write for yourself, not the grade By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Along with many fall festivities, November brings a new one for avid writers. National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, began in 1999 and challenges people to write an entire novel — or 50 thousand words of one — in just 30 […]

How an African-led carbon tax could slow the effects of climate change    By MAYA KORNYEYEVA — mkornyeyeva@ucdavis.edu   Every year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) is held with the goal of bringing together world leaders and reassessing the most necessary path of climate action. An individual is designated as the […]

Amid recent world events, we urge the UC Davis community to balance action with empathy   By THE EDITORIAL BOARD   Content warning: This article contains discussions of violence and hateful speech, including islamophobia and anti-semitism.   The Israel-Palestine conflict has been ongoing for decades, with some arguing that its roots stem from far earlier. […]

A guide to finding a sustainable costume on a budget By THE EDITORIAL BOARD It’s that time of year again, and dressing up for Halloween has never been more difficult. Back in the day, you’d simply inform your parents that your only desire was to dress up as a ladybug for the third year in […]

Man-machine interaction, psychological time and the loading logo   By MAYA KORNYEYEVA — mkornyeyeva@ucdavis.edu   Have you ever opened a software, clicked download on an update or fallen off a cliff in a video game? Each such action results in a miniature pause on the screen that triggers a series of complex calculations within the […]

Here’s a start to respecting the land you occupy By THE EDITORIAL BOARD As UC Davis students and current inhabitants of Patwin land (pronounced puht-win), it’s our responsibility to educate ourselves about its history. How little we know about the land we live on makes it that much easier for us to disconnect ourselves from […]

What we owe to each other when sick   By THE EDITORIAL BOARD   My last happy sick day was in third grade, spent enveloped in a mess of blankets, watching “The Princess Bride” for the second time that day. Back then, missing a day of school was a fair trade: one day of sympathy […]