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Students who are interested in starting a business and don’t know where to begin or how to execute their plans can seek help from various startup business programs in the City of Davis. Davis Roots, a nonprofit business accelerator, assists new businesses in gaining connections and meeting investors around the City of Davis. Their...

The ASUCD Senate table discussed the Association’s $11.7 million budget for the 2013-14 school year from May 17 to 19. The California Aggie reported on the three days of budget hearings. The remainder of budget hearings will be continued during the May 23 ASUCD Senate meeting in the Mee Room on the third floor...

This year alone, three independent, student-run publications have emerged. The Davis Beat, which made its debut Winter Quarter, the Davis Political Review (DPR), which circulated its first issue on May 1, and The Third World Forum, which resurfaced after years of inactivity. The Davis Beat and DPR utilized the Club Finance Council (CFC) on...

Poolside Police Three students were referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for possessing alcohol in the pool area of the dorms. The students were approached by two Residential Advisors (RAs) who asked the students if their bottles contained alcohol. The students stated that their drink did in fact contain alcohol, which was against Student...

Editor’s note: You’re Majoring in What? is a new Aggie column that features students of UC Davis’ lesser-known majors. Tristan Leder is a third-year technocultural studies major. What is technocultural studies (TCS)? Technocultural studies sits at an interesting crossroads between media, art, humanities and, of course, technology. The major focuses on both the critical...

While the Davis Food Coop has been our favorite grocery store since we moved here, it’s not exactly the go-to place to buy plants. They do sell small vegetable starts in the spring and the occasional potted plant, but nothing that would rival even th...

I'd love to take a vacation at Crater Lake!  Every time we drive to Seattle I see signs for it, but it's just too far out of the way, so I'm always promising myself that I will make a visit some time in the future.  After my flight this week,...

The Davis City Council approved unanimously on Tuesday night the funding and budgeting strategy for pavement maintenance, in concept, for the multi-year effort in which a huge amount of money would be spent up front with smaller ongoing payments. The ...

In the end, after a three-day preliminary hearing, Judge David Rosenberg held Clayton Garzon to stand on all charges for his brutal attack on Mikey Partida back in early March.  However, the standard of proof to be held over on charges is fairly low...

This past weekend was filled with cactus excitement. Four of my cacti, fairly plain-looking most of the year, flowered. Actually, “flowered” is too lame a word to capture the magnificence of this event. “Exploded” is more like it. It was a flor...