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Editorial: Happy New Year

Welcome to 2012, a year wrought with the promise of anguish and disappointment. Hell, add fear to that list as well. The President has...
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Column: Knowing your enemy

Students following the UC budget battles would do well to remember Sun Tzu’s well-worn maxim: “All war is deception.” With the latest round of budget...
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Editorial: Make decisions for the right reason

The pepper spray incident of Nov. 18 placed the UC Davis administration in uncharted waters. We all know about the calls for Chancellor Linda...
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Column: Sex ed

Recently, I was reading a certain popular women’s magazine and wondering if my masochistic streak was widening. It was the only reason I could...
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Column: The Internaut

In November, Maciej Ceglowski, founder of the grossly underrated bookmarking site Pinboard.in, wrote on his blog that “asking computer nerds to design social software...
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Column: Enough about you

I have this habit of putting the cart before the horse, which is why, having recently dusted off my grandiose High School ambitions of...
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Letter to the Editor: Response to “World population growth could spur food shortage”

This is yet another piece whose drum beats are as old as Methuselah. I for one would beg to differ at best or remain...
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Letter to the Editor: Invoking Virginia Tech massacre

Chancellor Katehi: At town halls over this last week you have invoked the Virginia Tech massacre on multiple occasions to defend a need for a...
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Editorial: Listen to students

On Monday, the UC Regents meeting took place on four different campuses — UC Merced, UCLA, UCSF and UC Davis. The regents gave students a...
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Column: Democratize UC Davis

During public comment at Monday’s Regents meeting, we learned exactly how much say we are allowed at this university: one minute’s worth per student....
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Editorial: #OccupyMars

On Oct. 31, the United Nations announced that the world human population reached seven billion. Obviously the number is just an estimate, but since...
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Letter to the Editor: Medical costs of Nov. 18

Dear Chancellor Katehi, We are writing you in regards to the university's promise to assume financial responsibility for the medical costs incurred by student protesters...
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Column: Unlike a Virgin

On a recent trip to Amsterdam, my cousins and I took the tourist walk of shame through the Red Light District. We didn’t patronize...
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Column: Bon voyage

Some things don't change from culture to culture. Whenever I tell anyone my winter break plans, I get the same response. "But ... you're spending...
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Column: Pricks and sticks

Picture yourself as you were when you were 14. You wake up one morning and you are a pound lighter. The next morning you...
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