Opinion

ASUCD President Ivan Carrillo recently raised the topic that UC Davis and U.S. Bank are in negotiations for a branch on campus. This U.S. Bank would be located in the East Conference Room on the first floor of the Memorial Union. U.S. Bank would enter in to a 10-year lease, paying $140,000 per year and a $3,000 signing bonus according to Carrillo's information.

Several Yolo County politicians are promoting the idea of making the county a testing ground for voting entirely by mail. The idea would save the county time and money as well as increase voter turnout.

So, I've avoided the whole Palestine-Israel thing for a while now. The entire Middle East thing seems a mess. He said, she said, America took this, England gave away that. With all the biased media its hard for some uninformed people to figure out how everything got to this point, and more importantly, why the United States and so much of the world is essentially ignoring the deaths of over 1,000 people in Gaza.

There comes a time in most conversations that I have when a certain topic arises. It could come about because of a slip of the tongue (usually a "that's not diverse") or due to an unusual story ("This one time I was talking to the police at two in the morning … "), but at some point I have to explain myself.

Private Joseph Dwyer entered Iraq in 2003 as part of the American spear heading for the heart of Baghdad. He became an instant celebrity when a photographer captured him carrying a helpless child to safety during a battle near the Euphrates. The photo was widely circulated, as it represented the ideal of the heroic American soldier risking life and limb to save innocents.

Is it just me or are a lot of people breaking up everywhere? And I mean everywhere: On the bus, in front of Olson, even over the phone on the sidewalk at two in the morning. A couple once broke up right in front of my apartment. My roommate and I crouched down, popped some popcorn and put our ears against the door as the girl from apartment 124 took two hours to break up with Joe-shmoe because she caught him cheating. Oh man, it was so golden, I peed in my pants a little.

When those around you begin to cling to a rotten lie, reeking of desperation, ignorance, and often times paranoia, the best course of action for a reasonable person to take is a step back and posing the question of, "Why?"

The UC Davis physical education department is in talks with Campus Recreation to implement participation fees for some of its classes.

Students currently have unlimited access to P.E. courses, which are paid for through registration fees. However, certain courses offered under the P.E. department use facilities operated by Campus Recreation, which is where the department is looking to apply an activities fee.

It's about time UC Davis passes a T.G.I.F. initiative, but the language of this particular initiative may not be worth the YES vote. The success of this program at other UC's has shown the things students can accomplish when given the funds. Senator Bianchi's claim that this fee doesn't benefit all students is very odd given the many programs that ASUCD funds that only affects some students.

Last Thursday, the ASUCD Senate passed Senate Resolution 16 unanimously, urging the administration and faculty to take necessary steps to curtail Peter J Shields Library's national ranking decline. Shields library once prided itself as one of the top one-third of research libraries in North America, but within 15 years due to a negligent chancellorship, an incompetent and corrupt university administration, and an irresponsible faculty, Shield's ranking toppled to an all new low of 64th.

Ever since I can remember, it's been a fact of life that my mother's father, or Papou as we call him, likes to talk to strangers. And not just a quick "How you doing" to someone he passes in the street. I'm talking the full-on "you don't know me but I'm about to talk to you like we're friends" kind of thing. He'll pause in the middle of a restaurant, walk up to a table where a parent is sitting with two smiling children, and remark how blessed the parent is: "you are a lucky man."

By now you've all noticed that there was no print edition of The Aggie last Friday. Hopefully all those notes on the front page prepared you for the shock. You've also probably read our reasoning behind the cuts (if you haven't you can check them out online at theaggie.org/article/2474). I'm also pretty sure a lot of you are wondering what this means for The Aggie and other college newspapers down the road.

In a formerly unused lot in East Sacramento, seeds of a food revolution are beginning to take root. Tilled rows of soil cover about a quarter-acre of land in an open field between homes, a Universal Unitary Church and a public school. It's what's called an urban farm.