More than just party lights were flashing this Cinco de Mayo as the Yolo County Avoid the 8 DUI Taskforce saturated the streets of West Sacramento, Davis and Woodland.

Last week, Chancellor Linda Katehi announced a $230,000 annual investment to combat hate and intolerance on campus.

Those students bored of the typical athletic teams now have the opportunity to join a sport most Americans have never heard of.

The Supreme Court agreed last week to review a challenge to California’s ban on the sale of violent video games to minors.

Weekly papers and quizzes, endless midterms, little time to study before finals begin – the downsides to the quarter system can seem endless.

THURSDAY: I don’t wanna go!; Lost, found and returned; Sunny-side-up to your doorstep.

To the UC Davis community: Over the past several weeks, we have had many productive discussions across our campus about how we should respond to the recent incidents of hate and intolerance at UC Davis.

Wrestling is life. For many former UC Davis athletes like Barrett Abel, this ideology is an unquestioned fact.

Last week, the UC Davis Cross Cultural Center invited anti-racism author Tim Wise to speak about how to recognize and minimize racism in America.

Toward the end of last school year, there were several instances of what I imagined to be the smell of burning rubber tires seeping through my dorm windows. The odor would creep in and out, floating along the summer breeze. Each wave of the smell was cringe-worthy.

Perhaps it’s appropriate that we’re in Old Town Sacramento when the conversation of ghosts and demons comes up. It’s Paul, Jerrel and I eating hot dogs after the clever owner of a hot dog joint just cheated us into buying sodas.

If you read this column with any regularity, or if you know me in person, you’ll know that I’m pretty much an open book. This is the no-spin zone, if you will. But I dare say you’re going to have to bear with me this week because, I’m going to describe – in rather gross detail – some issues regarding my ability (or, in actuality, my inability) to poo-poo properly like any normal human being.