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On Tuesday evening, Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi held a town hall meeting to give faculty and staff a chance to ask questions and voice their opinions about the pepper spray incident on campus. The meeting took place in Freeborn Hall. Faculty and staff ranging from Ph.D. students to tenured professors spoke. Molecular and cell biology […]

Upon walking into the nearly-empty ASUCD Coffee House at 8:15 a.m., it takes approximately 30 seconds for John Ortiz-Hutson to begin waving friendly “hellos” to colleagues and friends. “I don’t know if ‘famous’ is the right word,” Ortiz-Hutson said, at the suggestion that he appears to be a celebrity of sorts on campus. A young […]

A new campaign advocating for a plastic bag-free campus will potentially make UC Davis the first campus in the nation to ban plastic bags entirely. The “Have some SWAG, bring your own BAG” campaign, launching Jan. 2, will encourage students to use reusable bags at all UC Davis stores as opposed to wasting a single-use […]

Some college students’ best friends come in many different forms — from large and four-legged to small and feathered, all the way down to creepy and crawly. Many students have taken in pets to keep them company on those cold, lonely nights of studying. The pets that students adopt can have a major impact on […]

On Nov. 16, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released results from a survey done to determine Californians’ perceptions of budget cuts on public higher education. The survey found that 62 percent believe the public higher education system is headed in the wrong direction. Sixty-one percent said overall affordability of education for students is […]

The November UC Regents meeting was held Monday via teleconference, with regents present at UC Davis, UCSF, UCLA and UC Merced campuses. The regents discussed recent police violence on campuses and possible tuition hikes. Each campus involved in the meeting was open to the public as students and faculty voiced their concern after the board […]

Last week, university officials requested the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department begin an investigation into the Nov. 18 incident. UC Davis police officer Lance Faille is to lead a full-time probe on the case, which he described as not criminal, but “quasi-internal” in nature for now. The investigation will include interviews with the involved officers, protesters […]

The UC Regents meeting is scheduled to take place today at 8:30 a.m. Public comment will start at 9 a.m. and has been extended from 20 minutes to a full hour. Some of the regents will be on campus in the ARC and the meeting will be teleconferenced from UCSF, UCLA, UC Davis and UC […]

Chancellor Katehi will be holding a town hall for UC Davis faculty and staff Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Freeborn Hall. Faculty and staff will have a chance to discuss the pepper spray incident with Chancellor Katehi, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter and interim UC Davis Police Chief Matt Carmichael.

The UC Davis Theater Department’s fall season production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a worthy rendition of the original, written by Tom Stoppard. Absurdest in nature, the two and a half hour long play sees to it that the secondary characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (originally from Hamlet) get their share of existential reasoning. […]

8 a.m. Yoga Amanda Hodson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources Sacred Space: (Blue Dome on the Quad) 10 a.m. Reflecting on the Now: Where is Occupy in the Future of Protest Professor Robyn Waxman, Professor of Design, Sacramento City College & Founder of Future Action Reclamation Mob (FARM) […]

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that proponents of Proposition 8 have legal standing to contest District Judge Vaughn Walker’s earlier decision overturning the same-sex marriage ban. The official sponsor of Prop 8, ProtectMarriage.com, will now lead the charge in appealing Judge Walker’s resolution in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. […]