University of California-Davis

UC College Girls Tap Sugar Daddies for Tuition

UC college chicks don't need daddy to pay for school and all those four-year parties anymore, but what they do need are their sugar daddies. A new study shows that an increasing number of female students from UC Berkeley and UC Davis are tapping sugar daddies for college tuition -- and they have hi ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Debate Sways Youth Vote, According to New UC Davis App

Today's college students overwhelmingly think that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden won their debates, according to a new app from the University of California at Davis that measures live student reaction.No electrodes were used and no students were harmed in this experiment, but ... More >>

This New App Might Help the Facebook Generation Give a Crap About Politics

Back in 2008, the Millennials flocked to the polls in record numbers, showing that young people actually do care about politics -- or at least more than in previous elections. And pollsters are expecting the same kind of election love from American youngsters this time around. But how exactly will t ... More >>

Washed Up: Pushing Triclosan Out of Our Soaps and Cells

Who Was the Hooded Man Standing Behind Alex Smith During NBC's Post-Game Interview?

It was one of the greatest videobombs in Internet history. There he stood, bundled under a grey hoodie, inches behind Alex Smith and Michael Crabtree, solemnly nodding in agreement as the quarterback explained to NBC's Michele Tafoya that the 49ers need to take the season one game at a time, a natio ... More >>

Trash Talk

Asian and Latino Population Growth Isn't Translating into Votes Just Yet

Over the past few years, political journalists and social scientists have pointed out a critical flaw in the GOP's rightward lurch: with staunch anti-immigration, anti-social service, and anti-reproductive rights policies, as well as hostile racially coded rhetoric, the party risks losing women and ... More >>

Lt. John Pike, UC Davis Pepper Spraying Officer, Out of a Job

Here's one victory Occupy protesters can claim: Lt. John Pike, the pepper-spraying happy cop at UC Davis, is no longer on the police force. No word on whether Pike, who callously sprayed a group of students participating in a peaceful protest last year, was fired; university officials have remained ... More >>

Exhibit of S.F. Safe Injection Site Ends Next Week

A Safe Injection site is exactly what is sounds like: A place where drug-users can inject their dope worry-free.Specifically, safe injection sites are sort of like doctor's offices for drug injection; users can inject their drug of choice in a sterile environment under the supervision of a health ... More >>

Pepper Spray Cop Meme Lives on at Frjtz Restaurant

​Last November's harrowing shot of UC Davis campus police officer Lt. John Pike callously pepper spraying peacefully protesting students has had a wild life as an Internet meme. If any image of the Occupy movement has been seared in the brain, it is this one. Pike has been Photoshopped in countles ... More >>

UC Davis Occupy Pepper Spraying Report Will Become Public, Judge Rules

It appears that more light will be shed on one of the most controversial episodes of police response to Occupy protests across the country last fall, after a judge ruled that an independent report on the pepper-spraying of peaceful protesters by a UC Davis campus police officer can be made public.Th ... More >>

UC Davis Students Sue University Over Lt. John Pike's Pepper-Spraying Tactics

​It would be difficult to forget the controversial pepper-spraying incident at UC Davis last year after the Internet made a meme out of Lt. John Pike callously dousing peaceful protesters with the chemical.Those students sure haven't forgotten it. Those same students, along with some UC Davis, alu ... More >>

Kitchen Table Talks : Organic Dairy Farmers

Yuri Arcurs/ShutterstockHow serious are you about your milk?​What: Kitchen Table Talks. A discussion about the organic dairy industry. Where: 18 Reasons When: Tuesday, Feb. 21. Refreshments at 6:30, discussion from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Cost: $10 The rundown: Inspired by the occupy movements ... More >>

What Caused the Hole in the Local Salmon Population?

University of California, DavisBaby Coho salmon: worth protecting.​In the latest episode of their new science podcast, Field Trip, local journalists Kara Platoni and Eric Simons set out to ask the question: Why exactly are all the fish in the ocean disappearing, and how do we measure how quickly ... More >>

Occupy Oakland: Protesters Block Port of Oakland

Kate CongerAnd it's not even 8 a.m.!​Update (8:05 a.m.): It's started to rain, but that's not deterring this group. A handful of protesters carrying an Occupy UC Davis banner has walked further into the port. Original Story (7:06 a.m.): As expected, hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters have march ... More >>

Life-Size Pepper Spray Cop Cutout Lets You Be Lt. Pike

Kate Conger​At the Port of Oakland this morning, our intrepid photographer Kate Conger caught the next evolution of that as-seen-on-the-Internet pepper-spray cop meme. This cardboard cutout is a brilliant reversal. Instead of you 'shopping Lt. Pike of U.C. Davis into your photos, now you can ... More >>

UC Regents to Discuss Pepper Spraying Police Incident; Occupy Protesters Plan General Strike

​Protesters have big plans to demonstrate at four UC campuses across the state today when the UC Board of Regents holds a teleconference to discuss a new tuition plan, as well as the recent incident where a UC Davis cop callously doused protesters with pepper spray. Last week's Regents meeting, sc ... More >>

UC Davis Chancellor: Police Defied Orders by Pepper-Spraying Occupy Protesters

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi is apparently sorry -- really, really sorry -- for the pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy student protesters that set off a public-relations catastrophe last week. In an interview with the Sacramento Bee yesterday, Katehi said she had ordered campus police to interac ... More >>

John Pike, Accused Pepper-Spraying UC Davis Cop, Targeted by Anonymous

The shadowy online "hacktivist" group known for encouraging the Occupy Wall Street Movement has published the personal contact information of Lt. John Pike, the UC Davis cop who was allegedly recorded pepper-spraying a group of unarmed UC Davis protesters last week. A video that claims to be the wor ... More >>

Blame McD's for Making Poor People Obese? Not So Fast

​There's an assumption in food-policy circles that obesity rates are high among the poor because they eat so much fast food. It's an assumption that led the LA City Council to ban the construction of new fast-food restaurants in low-income neighborhoods in 2008. But according to a new study from ... More >>

Calm Between the Storms

When Your Facebook Stalker Won't Take 'No' For an Answer

​Dear Anna,

I, like many others in my generation, am a bit of a Facebook junkie. I love the quizzes, the event invites, even the Farmville updates (I know, weird right?), but there is one thing I hate: boys that think 
Facebook is some weird stalker version of OkCupid.

There is this gu ... More >>

An Immigrant's Point of View

Immigrants Not Taking Your Job, Study Claims

No excuses! ​People who hate immigrants often hang their rhetorical hat on the argument that immigrants are stealing jobs from and depressing wages for people born here. Yet a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco blows that theory apart.Immigr ... More >>

Republicans tastelessly milk cow-shooting controversy

Bomb Squad Rushes to College Campus, Finds Red Bull

Not seen leaving the scene, incidentally...​In an episode that started out as a suspected act of terrorism and ended up as bizarre product placement, bomb squad members rushed to the U.C. Davis campus yesterday. After a person was spotted leaving a "suspicious package" near the entrance of a libra ... More >>

Masterminds 2010 Finalists Named, Winners Announced Wed.

We received more than 100 submissions this year from local artists vying to be named a Mastermind (and, perhaps, get a $2,500 grant). The quality of the entries was truly inspiring. That's why we've named 12 finalists this year instead of the usual 10--read up on this 2010's picks below. You can s ... More >>

Sweet Beat: BonBonBar's Pumpkin Pie Bar

T. Palmer​After moving back to the Bay Area from Los Angeles, Nina Wanat relaunched her confections company BonBonBar in October. Wanat is a graduate of CIA's baking and pastry program in Napa, a course she switched to after attending law school at U.C. Davis and being tempted into the culinary wo ... More >>

November Book Events: Howard Junker, Joshua Clover, Lierre Keith, and William S. Burroughs

Handful of Local, Familiar Names on United Football League Rosters

Aaaah! My eyes! They burn! ​It was Billy Crystal's Fernando Lamas character who made a catchphrase out of "It is better to look good than to feel good. (of course you remember this character! He's the "You look mah-velous" guy.). Along similar lines, former Mexican National Team goalkeeper Jorge C ... More >>

Free Bee-Built Ice Cream Today at Häagen-Dazs

Bee pollination is an essential process in just about half of Häagen-Dazs' ice cream flavors, from the obvious (Vanilla Honey) to the less so (Raspberry and Pear). Today from 4 to 8 p.m., participating Häagen-Dazs locations (865 Market in the San Francisco Centre, 3251 20th Ave. in Stonestown Gall ... More >>

Local Schools' Fortunes Plummeting in Tournament -- The Recycling Tournament. What Tournament Were You Thinking Of?

Not everything that goes in the trash can is trash. Ask someone who knows...Pulling into the home stretch of Recyclemania, the nationwide recycling competition for colleges and universities, our local institutions appear to be flagging a bit. Ranked 12th and 13th earlier this month, San Francisco St ... More >>

New Report Foresees a Short Road to Extinction for CA salmon

It’s Time to Panic. But Then What? By Peter Jamison I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized ... More >>

The Other 9/11

Supes Spread Manure

Their anti-Newsom campaigning is preventing more affordable housing

Death Cab for Cutie Announces Spring Dates Including the Fillmore 4/23

Sitting Pretty

Sadler takes a load off

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

SSRI-ay Cap'n

Depression is all around us, but here's some upcoming shows that won't bring you down

Role Play

Probing behind our postures

Zoom Lens

To call the S.F. International Asian American Film Festival "diverse" is to understate it

The Enforcer

Cops on location, cowboys in oaters, and mountains of film events

The Fix Is In

At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

Return to Chinatown

You don't have to be a tourist to be entranced by a tour of old Chinatown's alleys

The New Defenders

An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?

Missed Interpretation

Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

Hear This

Saxophonist John Tchicai offers free jazz

Quannum Leap

Growing out of Oakland's Solesides label, the rappers and producers of Quannum Projects look to expand even further

Turkey Jerking

How poultry breeders have given new meaning to the phrase "bird lover"