Opinion

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Letter to the editor: Aggie pride

I cannot begin to express my overwhelming pride in our community that I felt at Monday’s rally. At the same time, I am deeply,...
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Editorial: This is UC Davis

On Monday, an estimated 5,000 students, faculty and community members gathered on the UC Davis Quad for a rally in response to Friday’s protests....
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Editorial: Attendance is mandatory

Over the past five weeks, UC Davis has held four athletics town hall meetings to discuss the hiring of a new athletic director (AD)....
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Column: ‘Tis the season

Guess what time of year it is again? Yes, that’s right. It’s shopping season. So dust off your credit cards, put on a pair...
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Column: Homesickness

Maybe it's Thanksgiving. Maybe it's the fact that most Americans in Europe are semester kids, getting ready to go home in a few weeks....
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Column: Pepper spray

The pepper spraying of student protestors in UC Davis is a story that has gone from local outrage to international condemnation. Since the story...
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Letter to the editor: Demands for Chancellor Katehi

Dear Chancellor, Your actions on Friday placed many students in danger. You casually sent in police in riot gear despite the horrendous example of Berkeley...
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Letter to the editor: Give Katehi a chance

Does anyone else get the feeling over the past couple days that we as a community are making a huge mistake by bombarding Chancellor...
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Column: The System and I

I’m a hypocrite. For the past two years, various moments in my life have blurred the lines between working for The System, working to...
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Letter to the Editor: Concerns about education in Chile

We are writing to you on behalf of the Chilean Cultural Association of Davis (ChileCAD) in regards to previous letters you have published, reflecting...
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Letters to the Editor: Response to UC Davis protest

Letter #1: Like many, I was surprised and distressed by the images of UC Davis campus police dispassionately spraying pepper gas in the faces of...
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Column: Lesson in progress

I messed up. I realized this when my phone began to update me with Facebook messages from people that I had never met saying...
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Column: Give thanks

Every Thanksgiving I participate in my family’s tradition of writing down three things we are thankful for on a card. This is followed by...
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Letter to the Editor: Response to “Hors d’oeuvres”

I am writing in response to the Nov. 14 column entitled “Hors d’oeuvres”. I understand that it was written at least in part to...
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Editorial: Police brutality unacceptable

On Friday, UC Davis campus police used pepper spray to break up student protesters sitting and linking arms on the Quad. This travesty came...
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