What Are Examples of Recent Stories on The Aggie?

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The Aggie (theaggie.org) is UC Davis's entirely student-run, independent publication, publishing daily online with one print edition each week. Its recent coverage splits into three clear tracks: city news, campus news, and opinion. Below are examples drawn from its featured and section listings, which show what the site actually covers and how each story is framed.

City news: Davis beyond the campus

These stories cover local government, business, and community life in and around Davis.

Story Section Date What it covers
$1.2 million skate park opens in North Davis City News Sept. 22, 2026 The city's new design for a decades-old skatepark, developed with input from figures across the skating community
Delta of Venus closes after 33 years of food, music and community City News Sept. 18, 2026 The downtown Davis cafe's closure and its long history serving the area
Davis City Council approves emergency services agreement City News Sept. 18, 2026 Council approval of an agreement with a local nonprofit

If you want to see how The Aggie handles municipal decisions — budgets, closures, council votes — this is the section to start with.

Campus news: UC Davis administration, services, and student life

Campus News covers student government, transit, housing, academic departments, and institutional changes.

  • An interview with 2026-27 ASUCD President Luis Garcia (Sept. 22, 2026) — Garcia discusses his goals, a historic slate win, and controversy around the Senator Aaron Heth impeachment trial.
  • Inside UC Davis' Russian department, where small class sizes fuel big conversations (Sept. 19, 2026) — students describe their experience in the Russian program.
  • Residence halls welcome new Aggies during annual Fall Moove-In (Sept. 17, 2026) — a photo piece on the three-day move-in (Sept. 15–17) into Tercero, Segundo, and Cuarto residence halls.
  • Queer Welcome Week helps students start the year on campus (Sept. 22, 2026) — four days of programming from the LGBTQIA Resource Center.
  • Trying to catch the bus? Watch out for these changes to Unitrans service (Sept. 22, 2026) — new routes and stop adjustments.
  • UC Davis prepares for Orange Shirt Day with remembrance events, vigil (Sept. 22, 2026) — observances for Indigenous children who lived through the residential school system.
  • Global Affairs Vice Provost and Dean Joanna Regulska to retire Nov. 1 (Sept. 22, 2026) — a look back at her 11 years building global education opportunities.

Two patterns stand out: student government and campus services get consistent coverage, and the paper runs interviews and features rather than only event notices.

Opinion: student-written columns

The Opinion section runs signed columns on student life and politics, for example:

  • "Get ahead of burnout by building sustainable habits" (Sept. 24, 2026) — on proactiveness, mindfulness, and consistency.
  • "As the leaves change, so do we" (Sept. 22, 2026).
  • "The biological clock ticks on" (Sept. 22, 2026) — on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's decision to freeze her eggs and what it says about the political climate.

How to use these examples

If you are deciding whether The Aggie is worth following, the featured list is the fastest test: it mixes hard city news (council votes, a skate park budget) with campus interviews and personal columns. If you are a student looking for hands-on journalism experience, the publication describes itself as entirely student-run and independent, and — with no journalism program at UC Davis — as the best practical experience for reporting, design, and production.

One caveat on dates: the listings above carry 2026 datelines, so treat them as the site's current front-page snapshot rather than a fixed archive. For anything time-sensitive, check the live section pages rather than relying on a cached list.