Opinion

The Editorial Board endorses three candidates for ASUCD Senate as well as the uncontested International Student Representative and External Affairs Vice President candidates By THE EDITORIAL BOARD  ASUCD’s fall elections began today, Monday, Nov. 7, and will be open for voting through Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 11:59 p.m. This election cycle, one candidate is running […]

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

Transcribed from an audio file uploaded to the OChem subreddit By ANNABEL MARSHALL — almarshall@ucdavis.edu    Host: Hi, welcome back to the podcast. I’m your host, in my final year here at Davis as a third-year theater major! I’m here with my co-host, Stu. Stu, why don’t you introduce yourself? Stu: Hi, I’m Stu. Host: […]

Why we all benefit from communities that prioritize pedestrians over cars By NADIA ANEES — nsanees@ucdavis.edu   When I reflect on what I’ll miss the most after graduating from college, what comes to mind is the word “closeness.” I’m living closer to my friends and peers than ever before. I can go just downstairs to […]

Making connections with your peers can be hard — here are my tips By JENA TUFAIL — jjtufail@ucdavis.edu   College can be isolating when you haven’t made friends with your peers. Not only does everyone have different schedules, but at this stage in our lives, we as students have so many other priorities we need […]

The university must do better to protect student protestors and condemn the presence of violent extremists By THE EDITORIAL BOARD On Oct. 25, UC Davis’s chapter of Turning Point USA, a right-wing nonprofit organization active on college campuses across the country, planned to host an event at the UC Davis Conference Center featuring speaker Stephen […]

By JOSHUA CLOVER — jclover@ucdavis.edu Dear Gary, I was not at the event at UC Davis on Tuesday night, but neither were you; nor were the police (or so you claimed in your first statement’s position, later revised to the exact opposite). I am sure we both have access to the same accounts. One difference, […]

An inspiring advice column for students at UC Davis! By ANNABEL MARSHALL — almarshall@ucdavis.edu  Disclaimer: This article has been edited for content and clarity by our editor Owen Ruderman in order to ensure it follows the University of California, Davis’s Principles of Community.   Q: I’m really worried about my first quarter of organic chemistry. […]

Drawn by PRISCILA JIMÉNEZ CORRALES –– pjimenez@ucdavis.edu

Staffing shortage problems limit the ability of ASUCD units to provide essential services By THE EDITORIAL BOARD   The Associated Students of UC Davis, or ASUCD, is the on-campus association that, with a $17 million budget, seeks to serve the student population through student government, various units, committees and commissions. Most of these are entirely […]

Having ample time to yourself is a great opportunity to broaden your horizons By JENA TUFAIL — jjtufail@ucdavis.edu   Remember high school? For most, this was a time where it was easy to find a niche, to make friends and develop bonds with those in the same grade as you. We all had the same […]

Examining Erewhon’s expensive empire  By NADIA ANEES — nsanees@ucdavis.edu   Early on a Friday morning in Silver Lake, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, I walked through shiny, sliding glass doors painted with big letters reading “EREWHON.” It would be my first time inside the full-service organic produce market-cafe and the hottest influencer hangout in L.A.  […]