Higher Education

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the May 16 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings.   Meeting called to order at 6:16 p.m.   Carly Sandstrom, ASUCD president, present Bradley...

The ASUCD Unit Relocation and Space Allocation Committee (URSAC) will be making an unprecedented number of decisions in the coming weeks, as imminent renovations to the Memorial Union and Silo spur displacement. “It’s new territory. Our spaces are completely changing,” said ASUCD President Carly Sandstrom, a voting member of URSAC along with ASUCD Business...

What do a warehouse in Reno and a corgi dressed in a hot dog costume have in common? If you’ve visited the Memorial Union (MU) in the past few weeks, you might already know the answer to this question. A new hot dog stand has joined the ranks of the many on-campus dining options,...

After the recent discovery of a $57 million deficit in the UC Student Health Insurance Plan (UC SHIP), UC Davis has made the decision to withdraw from UC SHIP and move forward with alternate options. The deficit has been accumulating since 2010; monthly monitoring of the plan was not performed at the same level...

A bill to increase funding for community-specific graduation ceremonies did not pass at the ASUCD Senate meeting on May 9. The bill would have increased funding to ethnic graduation ceremonies by $1,300. Senate Bill 94 was first presented to ASUCD on May 2, asking for $5,100 in grants to fund the graduation ceremonies. It...

Four Two Oh No Two Resident Advisors (RA) were doing their rounds in a residence hall when they smelled marijuana wafting through the halls of the floor they were on. They followed their noses to one particular room, and after pinpointing the source of the smell they proceeded to call the police. When the...

Twenty students are completely silent, brows beneath sunglasses furrowed in deep concentration as they scribble notes on a scorecard. They sniff, swirl, sniff, gulp and ponder. They’re tasting beer. Earlier in the evening, Brad Titus, an officer of the Food Science Brewing Club (FSBC), proposed a question: Without sight, can we discern different beer...

Applications to UC Davis increased by 11.4 percent compared to last year. The University received a total of 69,642 applicants for the class of 2017, as opposed to last year’s 62,515. Of this group, 22,008 applicants received acceptance letters, creating an admit rate of 39.4 percent. Of the applicants admitted, 5,065 are out-of-state residents...

The UC Board of Regents meeting at the Sacramento Convention Center was momentarily interrupted on May 15 after union healthcare workers from AFSCME 3299 began chanting loudly during a sit-in. Thirteen arrests were made and AFSCME 3299 president Kathryn Lybarger was among the group. The protesters, wearing stickers reading “Patients not profits,” chanted phrases...

Oh, French fries. How we covet thy golden deliciousness. Long has your oily crunch satisfied the insatiable lust of the hungover or the hungry. When there are faces to be fed or feelings to be drowned, there’s nothing quite like a handful of fatty, fried, criss-cut or curly tubers to fill the void. Luckily,...