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10/24/2025

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Immigration is the most prevalent issue in the world right now, and the unease encompassing it isn’t leaving anytime soo...
10/24/2025

Immigration is the most prevalent issue in the world right now, and the unease encompassing it isn’t leaving anytime soon.

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✏️ Written By: NEVAEH KARRAKER
📸 GRAPHIC: Gurnoor Kaur
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Opinion
The dichotomous politics of immigration in the modern United States

What global protests reveal about the state of our nation

BY NEVAEH KARRAKER
GRAPHIC : Gurnoor Kaur

Immigration is arguably the most prevalent issue in the world right now, and the unease encompassing it isn’t leaving anytime soon.

Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, Poland and Germany are being swept deep into a wave of anti-immigration protests. Although these conflicts surfaced years prior, they are now thrown into the spotlight.

In Poland, anti-immigration protests took place in more than 80 cities over the summer.

While many of these protestors align with extremist factions, their concerns stem from legitimate issues about housing shortages, unemployment, economic instability and the premise that the government favors foreigners over their own citizens.

The United States is dragging itself closer to the dystopian worlds we grew up reading about: the staggering wealth ineq...
10/24/2025

The United States is dragging itself closer to the dystopian worlds we grew up reading about: the staggering wealth inequality in the nation is nothing new, but it’s harder to ignore now than ever before

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✏️ Written By: GEETIKA MAHAJAN
📸 GRAPHIC: Nova Mai
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Opinions
Live and let rich

How did a generation raised on fantasies of revolution grow to idolize the leisure class?

BY GEETIKA MAHAJAN
GAPHIC: Nova Mai

The start of the 2020s felt like the end of the world as we knew it.

Between a global pandemic and constant political upheaval, it seemed like the very pillars of society were collapsing — but nobody was more prepared for this change than Gen Z.

“We grew up reading ‘The Hunger Games’ / ‘Percy Jackson’ / ‘Divergent,’ what did y’all expect?” read the description of a Spotify playlist from 2021 called “Gen Z’s Political Revolution.”

When you’re sitting at home and watching the world blow up online, it’s easy to draw comparisons to Katniss Everdeen and other fictional revolutionaries, but when the pandemic ended and it was time to put all this sentiment into action, it dissolved into something much more ironically detached.

UC Davis graduate student Nathalie Redick shares her experiences researching subduction zones, earthquakes and debris fl...
10/23/2025

UC Davis graduate student Nathalie Redick shares her experiences researching subduction zones, earthquakes and debris flows

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✏️ Written By: KATELYN BURNS
📸 GRAPHIC: Naylin Tom

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Science & Technology
Behind the scenes of graduate student research in the geodynamics lab

UC Davis graduate student Nathalie Redick shares her experiences researching subduction zones, earthquakes and debris flows

BY KATELYN BURNS
GRAPIC: Naylin Tom

With the upcoming UC Davis Graduate and Law School Fair, undergraduate students will get the opportunity to explore graduate school opportunities.

Nathalie Redick, a second-year graduate student in the geodynamics lab of the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, shared her experiences in a graduate program here at UC Davis.

“I spend most of my day just here on campus at a desk,” Redick said. “A typical day in the field is pretty different.”

Imagine you could scan a leaf of a plant like a barcode and instantly know its health status.🔍Read more by clicking link...
10/23/2025

Imagine you could scan a leaf of a plant like a barcode and instantly know its health status.

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✏️ Written By: EKATERINA MEDVEDEVA
📸 GRAPHIC: Wren Tran
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Science & Technology
Leaf Monitor: the AI-powered future of better crop management

UC Davis team develops mobile tool, providing farmers with real-time plant health data

BY EKATERINA MEDVEDEVA
GRAPHIC: Wren Tran

Imagine you could scan a leaf of a plant like a barcode and instantly know its health status.

The Leaf Monitor — a mobile tool in the Digital Ag Lab App developed by a team of researchers from the UC Davis Digital Agriculture Laboratory — does just that: It can analyze leaf spectral data using a machine learning model and returns key nutrient values indicative of plant health within seconds.

The funding for this project came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the California Table Grape Commission. Led by Alireza Pourreza, director of the Digital Agriculture Laboratory, and run by Parastoo Farajpoor, a Ph.D. student in the department of biological and agricultural engineering, this project brings technological innovation and agriculture together to address one of the key issues in the field: resource allocation.

In late September, hundreds of Starbucks employees received the news that their stores were set to shut down within the ...
10/23/2025

In late September, hundreds of Starbucks employees received the news that their stores were set to shut down within the next week.

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✏️ Written By: GIA LOOMIS
📸 PHOTO: Brook Allen
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City News
Downtown Davis Starbucks permanently closed as of Sept. 27
Customers and employees were given two-day notice of closure, as Starbucks undergoes national restructuring

BY GIA LOOMIS
PHOTO: Brook Allen

In late September, hundreds of Starbucks employees received the news that their stores were set to shut down within the next week.

This mass closure of stores includes the Starbucks location frequented by UC Davis students on the corner of 2nd Street in Downtown Davis.

On Sept. 25, Starbucks’ Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Brian Niccol, announced that they would be making changes to their coffeehouses by closing underperforming locations, along with reducing non-retail partner roles by eliminating over 900 employees.

“We identified coffeehouses where we’re unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect, […] or where we don’t see a path to financial performance,” Niccol said in a statement on Starbucks’ website.

There’s a pattern I’ve noticed of the Trump administration being made up of a higher concentration of Indian-Americans t...
10/23/2025

There’s a pattern I’ve noticed of the Trump administration being made up of a higher concentration of Indian-Americans than reflects the proportional makeup of America.

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✏️ Written By: GEETIKA MAHAJAN
📸 GRAPHIC: Savannah Burger
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Opinions
What’s with all the Republican DEI hires?

Is diversity within the Trump administration indicative of progress or a deeper sociocultural movement?

BY GEETIKA MAHAJAN
GAPHIC: Savannah Burger

This past month, FBI Director Kash Pramod Patel bewildered the majority of the United States at the funeral of right-wing zealot Charlie Kirk.

“Rest in peace brother,” Patel said into the microphone. “I’ll see you in Valhalla.”

The comment drew widespread attention, first and foremost because of Patel’s insinuation that Valhalla (a Nordic myth) was still a relevant cultural belief, that Kirk had done something to deserve the afterlife of a warrior and that Patel himself was planning to die in battle soon (which, according to Norse mythology, is the only way to reach Valhalla).

The bizarre statement could be explained as just another example of the Trump administration’s attempts to sound tougher than they really are, which it is, in a way.

As Halloween is just around the corner, students are starting to participate in traditions long associated with the holi...
10/22/2025

As Halloween is just around the corner, students are starting to participate in traditions long associated with the holiday. From buying costumes to carving pumpkins, the beginning of October denotes a segue into the spooky season.

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✏️ Written By: AMBER WARNKE
📸 GRAPHIC: Darixa Varela Medrano

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Features
The history of Halloween

A look into popular Halloween traditions and UC Davis students’ favorite ways to celebrate

BY AMBER WARNKE
GRAPHIC: Darixa Varela Medrano

As Halloween is just around the corner, students are starting to participate in traditions long associated with the holiday.

From buying costumes to carving pumpkins, the beginning of October denotes a segue into the spooky season.

“I know [the origins of Halloween] are pagan from Samhaim, and how [practitioners] believed it was when the veil between this world and the spiritual world was the thinnest,” Nirvana Ziaie Nejad, a fourth-year English major, said.
Like Nejad explains, Halloween’s roots can be traced to the Celtic festival of Samhaim, or “summer’s end” — a Celtic harvest festival dating back at least 2,000 years.

The celebration involved bonfires meant to bring light into the dark part of the year and ensure survival through the winter by pleasing the deities.

In the wake of a world designed to overwhelm, it’s natural to want to shut down or look the other direction. But this do...
10/22/2025

In the wake of a world designed to overwhelm, it’s natural to want to shut down or look the other direction. But this does not solve our discord with the problem, nor does it address the problem itself.

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✏️ Written By: JACKSON IVY
📸 GRAPHIC: Sylvester Chen

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Opinion
GUEST COLUMN- Anti-apathy

How to thrive in the face of indifference

BY JACKSON IVY
GRAPHIC: Sylvester Chen

To be young in today’s world is to struggle.

We struggle for calm, justice or some assurance that things are not as bad as they seem, yet so many things are stacked against us.

This is no accident — corporations want you to feel drained, hopeless and eventually apathetic. They want you to feel like there’s no point — that obstacles are insurmountable.

I believe this feeling is natural.

When we look to history for inspiration on how to enact sweeping change, we see revolution, civil unrest, grassroots movement, mass mobilization — all things that feel out of place or “too far” in today’s world.

Christianity among supporters of Make America Great Again (MAGA), the slogan of Donald Trump’s political party, has been...
10/22/2025

Christianity among supporters of Make America Great Again (MAGA), the slogan of Donald Trump’s political party, has been in the media spotlight since the death of Charlie Kirk, but it’s been a topic of cultural conversation since Trump’s first term, when he first claimed to be ‘The chosen one

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✏️ Written By: SABRINA FIGUEROA
📸 GRAPHIC: Samuel Cervantes
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Opinion
The rise of religion as a political shield

How MAGA Christianity is being used to protect the Trump administration

BY SABRINA FIGUEROA
GAPHIC: Samuel Cervantes

When you grow up in the Catholic church, going to mass with medieval stained glass windows and the Virgin Mary constantly staring you down, you retain a lot of religious guilt about everything you do, especially if your actions go against the word of God.

In all seriousness, Christianity among supporters of the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement — the slogan of Donald Trump’s political party — has been in the media spotlight since the death of Charlie Kirk.

However, it’s been a topic of cultural conversation since Trump’s first term, when he first claimed to be “the chosen one.”

David French, a columnist at the New York Times, recently wrote about how MAGA evangelicals applauded Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk for her forgiveness of her husband’s murderer, while simultaneously applauding Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, and Trump’s comments on “hating your enemies.”

Something as trivial as a pun, often dismissed as being a “dad joke” or a type of lowbrow humor, represents a cerebral f...
10/21/2025

Something as trivial as a pun, often dismissed as being a “dad joke” or a type of lowbrow humor, represents a cerebral form of social sport that rewards both parties precisely because of the mental leaps and bounds that they are required to make

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✏️ Written By: ABHINAYA KASAGANI
📸 GRAPHIC: Jessica Kirkpatrick
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Opinion
Pundamental humor

In defense of puns as a form of highbrow humor

BY ABHINAYA KASAGANI
GRAPHIC: Jessica Kirkpatrick

I promise the reader that the initial conception of this article did not stem from my being relentlessly mocked for my penchant for puns.

My sincerest apologies that we all cannot be absolutely hilarious with the way we turn words on their sides and arrange them with care.

Something as trivial as a pun, often dismissed as being a “dad joke” or a type of lowbrow humor, represents a cerebral form of social sport that rewards both parties precisely because of the mental leaps and bounds that they are required to make.

James Geary, author of “Wit’s End,” notes that “puns are all about exchange and they create an intimacy […] you’re in it together, sharing a secret.”

In order to make a pun work, both parties must share a set of references, meanings and cultural associations; the construction of a joke is reliant on shared understanding.

10/21/2025

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