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Column: Flower love

Flowers are the iconic Valentine’s Day gift. If a person gets nothing else for their significant other, especially since college students are usually on a budget prohibiting expensive dinner reservations…

Column: Civic education

When I was but a youngin’, a first year Aggie, I was not terribly optimistic about the state of our student government. You could say that I drank the kool-aid…

Biodiversity Museum Day highlights campus collections

This last Sunday, UC Davis hosted its first Biodiversity Museum Day. “We haven’t had a turn out like this since Picnic Day,” said Lynn Kimsley, professor and director for the…

Inside the game with…

Normally, The Aggie does not run these Inside the Game stories on student-athletes twice in their career. Yet, seeing that this Aggie was last featured in the mid 90s, we…

Newly opened SCC popular with student body

Operational for just over a month, the new Student Community Center (SCC) is boasting strong student usage of the center’s numerous services and study areas. Centrally located on the corner…

New fraternity to open on campus

“Build your own legacy” can be read on the white and blue signs and banners that have sprung up about UC Davis’ campus, with an unfamiliar set of Greek letters:…

ASUCD City/County Affairs to host Housing Day Thursday

Do you know where you’re living next year? On Thursday, ASUCD City/County Affairs is putting on Housing Day 2012 in hopes of connecting students with various housing options and relieve…

Priscilla Mendez competes on MTV’s “The Challenge”

Few can say that by age 20 they’ve lived in a house with seven strangers, watched themselves cry on national TV and flown to the Dominican Republic three weeks into…

Campus Chic

Jack Leng, junior history and design double major The Aggie: What are you wearing? Leng: “A double-breasted wool coat with epaulets, a funnel-neck from All-Saint’s, a random white shirt, $2…

Evolutionary “founder effect” detected

Thomas Schoener and David Spiller, both professors in the UC Davis Evolution and Ecology Department, are among the co-authors of a new study appearing in Science magazine that provides evidence for…

UC Davis fights back against food poisoning

Over the past 60 years, E. coli has been the primary model organism for gene sequencing and recombinant DNA experiments. While the majority of these E. coli strains are harmless,…

Column: Meals for sanity

Considering all the stress we get from recessions to tuition, it is safe to say that college is the insane asylum for the academically gifted. Unfortunately, when it comes to…

California community colleges crack down on casual students

California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor Jack Scott presented Student Success Task Force recommendations to the Board of Governors of the CCC in its January 2012 meeting. These changes would allow…

Olive Drive fence poses an inconvenient change for some local residents

Ever tried crossing the railroad tracks near the Amtrak station to get to the other side to see friends or to get a haircut? Well, times have changed and so…