Opinion

“Why cure cancer when I can make like, a really big rat?” Cancer research will have to wait as UC Davis genetic students have grown tired of their usual lab work and decided to create their own animals. The whole campus has run amok with their newest creations. Sightings of rats the size of buses, […]

Nobody knows who they’re sticking it to New voting laws passed in Georgia to appease former President Donald J. Trump, and supporters of the “Stop the Steal” campaign have had responses from all over the political spectrum. The Democrats’ opposition has blasted these new laws as racist voter suppression, while Republican backers have praised them […]

Native Americans are excluded and mischaracterized in COVID-19 data, undermining the severity of the pandemic’s impact on their community How does the collection and portrayal of data influence public perception of an issue? The presence of data during a pandemic is a source of consistency and comfort. It connects you from your screen to every […]

California’s air quality problem will get worse, especially for people of color, if the government doesn’t take meaningful action Especially in recent years, California has often been portrayed as the most environmentally conscious state. A variety of things have contributed to this portrayal, like Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive orders on the environment which have prioritized […]

Ed Board’s picks of movies, TV shows, books, podcasts and more Come the fifth week in the quarter system, most Davis students are drowned in coursework, midterms and most likely, an unhealthy dose of stress. The Editorial Board is right there with you, and we think you deserve a break. A break can be many […]

Organizations, including universities, need to do more to advocate for their female athletes, provide them with the support needed to achieve success and highlight their success, just as they do for male athletes The members of this Editorial Board have grown up watching male athletes dominate the media. We all have attended Super Bowl parties, […]

Maybe it’s high time we ghost the Ghost Snapchat is a wondrous little app. From its inception, users marveled at the novelty of posting a Snapchat story or sending a dog-filtered snap to their friends. In the past decade Snapchat has dominated as one of the most popular social media apps.  I was barely starting […]

I see London, I see France, I can study abroad in my underpants Hey you! Are you dying to study abroad? Dying to meet that special someone overseas while taking English 1? Who could blame you? Here at the UC Davis Hub of Global Learning (unaffiliated with UC Davis Global Learning Hub), we understand that […]

We need to end discrimination through language Language is what makes us human. Language, the driving force behind how we function today, has been the foundation of society for every human culture on Earth. Our language has developed over thousands of years to fit our needs as a species, so calling any language primitive is […]

On a mission to discover everything but the syllabus Let’s face it. No one particularly cares for Zoom introductions, especially the one-sided rambling of your apathetic teaching assistant (TA). You could find out more from a thirty-second Google search than from their inane mini-presentation about themselves. Actually, that’s not a bad idea. How do you […]

Yeeeeeeeeehaw! “We at UC Davis support all kinds of education, and we want to allow students to follow their dreams of eating beans and dying of dysentery,” said new head of the Western Studies Department, professor Thaddius Cowboy.  It’s been a long time coming, but UC Davis finally has its first official “Cow Wrangling” major […]

The war on the rich Cryptocurrency is in the news again, as Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange platform, made its market debut to an $86 billion valuation—this marks a major moment for the supporters of this digital asset. While many critics like Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen have warned the public of cryptocurrency’s inefficiency, many […]