Opinion

ASUCD endorsements: Consider the following

Please vote! ASUCD Winter Elections begin on Tuesday, Feb. 18, with 11 Senate candidates running for six available seats and two executive tickets running for...

Vote yes on the Basic Needs and Services Referendum

The future of ASUCD and our campus’ culture rests in your hands Vote yes. The nine members of the Editorial Board unanimously agree: Students should vote...

College parties: do we actually like them?

Our college experiences are dictated by superficial values When I entered college, I was riding on the coattails of my high school experience in marching...

Skip the car, take the train

Kids love traveling on trains just as much as they love seeing them In 2005, when I was five years old, my family moved into...

Social media: the game

Social media is a game we play against others and ourselves  The video game industry is expected to generate more than $160 billion in revenue...

Going to the movies alone isn’t weird

No one cares that you’re by yourself I remember being in the eighth grade, reading S.E. Hinton’s “The Outsiders” (as eighth graders do) and coming...

Humor: Confirmed: Democratic Candidate X agreed with YOU on [salient issue] way back in 1996

This is FIRE You know that thing you care a lot about? That thing you’re willing to start arguments and cancel people over? That thing...

Cartoon: Coffee Hearts

Written by: MARGARET LEE — mcslee@ucdavis.edu 

Goodbye, Lower Freeborn

Aggie editors share what the basement means to them Kaelyn Tuermer Lee, Editor-in-Chief Dear Lower Freeborn, Although you’re seismically unsound, have a bagel sitting up by the...

Guest: Vote “yes” on Proposition 13

Prop 13 will protect university students across the state from outdated infrastructure Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by individual columnists belong to the columnists alone...

Long-distance relationships devalue your college experience

Why your long-distance relationship is tethering you down In what is the most unabridged capitalization of my own personal turmoil, I’d like to discuss the...

Fare hikes: are they fair?

Raising fares is a possible option for financing public transportation, but it’s more complicated than we think  Public transportation is great for a myriad of...

UC must end contracts with Dignity Health

Transgender people deserve dignified healthcare The UC’s existing affiliations with health systems that restrict care based on religious doctrine have been found to have “life-threatening”...

Catfishing and the loneliness pandemic

Predatory catfish are preying on our loneliness and desperation Tinder announced last week that it would give users a blue checkmark if they passed its...

Guest: Fact Finders trip showcases the beauty and complexity of Jerusalem

Learn more about the Arab-Israeli conflict by taking a Fact Finders trip  Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by individual columnists belong to the columnists alone...