Opinion

I would like to personally thank Jarrett Stepman, on behalf of my former comrades-in-arms and all military personnel, for his column in Tuesday's edition of The California Aggie. It's rare to see such focused statements of support for veterans from members of the college population, and especially those expressed with the conviction and clarity of Stepman's column.

By agreeing to collect from U.S. Bank only what amounts to a "finders fee" for each new customer in the recent corporate sponsorship deal, UC Davis officials gave away far too much.

As a former California Aggie staff writer, I found Sarah Kohgadai's column on Tuesday to be particularly haphazard, irrelevant and distasteful.

ASUCD senate elections begin at 8 a.m. on the elections website (elections.ucdavis.edu).

The Undergraduate Studies office recently asked freshman seminar instructors if they would be willing to forgo or reduce their stipends.

When people get old, they automatically develop a new accent that I like to call Old Fartese. There's no explanation for how it happens. Some say once you hit 60, your voice box turns into the shape of an all-you-can-eat buffet or a rice-pudding mold, but who can be sure?

Robert Byrd is a member of the United States senate. He's pretty notable, and not just because he was born in 1917 and is still alive. Serving since 1953, Byrd is the longest serving senator in history. Byrd has also been Dean of the Senate since 2003. In 1942, he was part of the Ku Klux Klan.

Veterans Day only appears to have a special meaning this year, but it has a special meaning every year. The atrocity that occurred at Fort Hood last week, and the murders that took place there will be rightly first on the minds of Americans honoring this day. What must not be lost though, is our respect of all who have served this country in the armed services. Veteran's Day has a special meaning every year.

You must have been living under a rock if you haven't heard the latest from my girl Britney Spears. Her new single, simply called \

All right, I'll admit it. This past weekend, I not only had "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift replaying on my iPod, but I also had it on my laptop while simultaneously replaying the music video on YouTube. (Okay, that might have been TMI, but seriously, it's a cute video). If I weren't so lazy about uploading songs to my cell phone, then trust me, it would've been replaying on there, too.

It's Halloween, and since our pre-game has lasted until 1:30 a.m. after all the parties have been broken up, this would technically qualify as show time: Vanna and I drinking leftover beers on her dining room table talking about 500 Days of Summer. \

When you combine misogyny and capitalism, you get our current cultural climate: being obsessed with the female body. How much it weighs, how wrinkly it is, how tightened, toned and tanned it is, whether or not the hair on it is \

Last week, University of California President Mark Yudof promised thousands of high school students in Fresno that attending a UC is both affordable and possible.

Students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism fighting against injustice are now beginning to experience it themselves.

I, as well as many of my peers, do appreciate the e-mail detailing the situation. We understand the dire situation in California at the current moment. May God help California through this difficult time and reinstate it into a beacon of hope for many around the world. We understand that we are not the only ones suffering from the present economic difficulties. There are too many people without jobs, too many people losing their homes, and too many businesses barely getting by - if not going out of business entirely.