Using Old Tests To Study: An Academic Gray Area
This is part two in a series about the use of previous years’ tests, not provided by the professor, to study for exams. This part examines the faculty perspective, test banks, and whether using old tests constitutes academic misconduct. Read the first part here. Faculty perspectives A myriad of questions surround the issue of using...
CoHo Preparing Calorie Data
Davis students and CoHo regulars will soon have a new resource to making healthy choices at the student-run group of eateries, as CoHo management finishes calculating and compiling nutritional information on the food and drinks served. Students may have already noticed new nutritional labels this quarter on Grab n Go items, such as grapes, eggs,...
Adderall Tempting For Davis Students
Names with an asterisk (*) have been changed to protect anonymity. The use of a readily-available performance enhancing drug is quietly, yet steadily rising on college campuses across the nation. This drug does not alter muscle size or increase red blood cell count; instead it elongates the attention span of its users, enhancing academic performance....
Allergic to Uncertainty
Though the colds and flus of winter are now behind us, spring has sprung, and we now have another seasonal health concern: allergies. The air of Davis, marinated by the multitude of agricultural activities propelled by the Sacramento valley’s breezes, brings irritating pollens to many a nostril. As someone affected by allergies year round, I...
Dream Hard
The most mysterious organ of the human body just landed itself $100 million of the 2014 proposed federal budget. Obama’s recent proposal for a brain-mapping research program touched upon a serious discrepancy in universal knowledge – “We can identify galaxies light-years away, we can study particles smaller than an atom, but we still haven’t unlocked...
Would essay-grading software benefit us?
Education is being constantly shaped by new technologies and innovations – take online courses, for example. A new piece of software out of M.I.T./Harvard is likely to change the interactions between students and educators dramatically – it’s an automated essay-grading program. According to The New York Times, the software, which will be made available for...
Candlelight Vigil Held For Gay Victim, Gathering In Solidarity On Quad Monday
“Oh my god, this happened in Davis,” were the words of a community member speaking at a candlelight vigil, held last night in Central Park, to show support for Mikey Partida, a 32-year old gay Davis resident and Co-op employee who was brutally attacked in a suspected hate-crime last week. The attack has shaken the...
Primate Center Cited, Director Denies Any Wrongdoing
The California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis was cited on February 4 by the US Department of Agriculture for noncompliance with the Animal Welfare Act. The citation concerns the deaths of nineteen monkeys between October 2009 and June 2010, most of them no older than two months of age. According to the USDA’s...
Increased Fines For Picnic Day 2013
For the third consecutive year, the Davis City Council released a report approving a resolution for a Safety Enhancement Zone for Picnic Day 2013. The resolution, similar to provisions made in 2011 and 2012, was approved in late February. The Safety Enhancement Zone (SEZ) is a set area where perpetrators of certain municipal codes will...
Sequester to slash funding for UC system
As Congress failed to reach any resolute agreement on a budget plan as an extension of the fiscal cliff, the sequester cuts have officially been implemented as of March 1st. The cuts that this sequestration implements amount to a reduction of 85 billion dollars in federal government funding. The “sequester”– simply a word for across-the-board...
UC SHIP Faces $57 Million Deficit
UC Davis students may be facing an additional fee increase next year, but not in the typical form of tuition hikes. The increase in the price of the UC Student Health Insurance Plan will likely raise rates for students. Little discussion has taken place on the issue’s possible solutions thus far, however the University of...
