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  • Aggie Square
    According to the sac business journal the bee has just laid off 14 more journalists. It laid off 12 last year. It’s stock value has plummeted 85% since 2014. I know its a tough time now for print journalism, but the bee’s shoddy policies and business practices have contributed towards this steep decline.
  • Cal poly troubles
    Good point didn’t know that.
  • Cal poly troubles
    I get the point, but CP is getting hammered in the national media because of the above stats; and to add, in its own student newspaper as being the quintessional “white school” of California public education. Why would a black student want to go to UC Davis rather than CP? It’s in a relatively “white town” in the relatively “white” sacramento region just like SLO is. Both have extensive ag programs (not a big African American interest, at least in california) and a lot off other similarities you all know. Even sac state has a far better percentage of black students? Look, i think CP is a great school and some of the criticism is frankly unfair, but the huge negative stats state the case and the CP administration has to accept the blame for CPs non inclusive reputation. This is a must fix now situation for CP.
  • Cal poly troubles
    Compare- undergraduate enrollment: At UC Davis 29,546. Black students: 4.0%

    At Cal Poly 22,500. Black students: 0.8%

    All numbers are for 2016 school year. Nearest date I could find. Anyway a big difference for two very similar universities.
  • Aggie Square
    Plus, after pushing for Aggie Square with all its might in major part because of the much more “abundant housing” in sac, sac bee in editorial today now says the project should add a major new housing element so that oak park is not “gentrified” and does not push out the long time oak park residents. So UC Davis should now build housing in sac so UC Davis students can commute to sac daily? Adding even more traffic to the moving parking lot known as I80? Nonsense in my book. Keep UC Davis in Davis!
  • Aggie Square
    I had to go to Carmicheal yesterday for business and we got stuck on the causeway at 2 pm. Traffic totally jammed. Took 30 more minutes to get into sac than google said we would. That said if we plan to start moving students into sac housing (where it is apparently “abundant”) when they start attending classes on the Davis campus there’s going to be a big problem. Maybe light rail could help, but I see no active interest for sac to move it into Davis. Movie is right. Orchard Park is being rebuilt (my old stomping ground) and a large new apartment complex on Olive drive as well. Nishi remains an issue, but it may pass this time. Davis is just too NIMBY. A half a dozen attorneys make a living in Davis challenging any kind of development that could aliveate this housing problem.
  • Non-US student athletes- no NCAA policy?
    sorry to follow, but this is even more ridiculous: Nevada woman's tennis is 100% foreign! Slovakia, Russia, France all very well represented. the state of Nevada zero. who recruits these woman and why- just to get a trip to Europe? Implausible, as the best teams (UCLA) have mostly US athletes. and by the way. they are not that good.
  • Non-US student athletes- no NCAA policy?
    Well, Nevada men’s tennis just beat us. They have 7 out of 8 foreign players! This is just getting ridiculous. Is the NCAA even looking at this?
  • Aggie Square
    Fug, you can clearly see that the sac bee strongly endorses your “incorrect” scenario. Because of so-called “inadequate housing” on the Davis campus, they envision undergrads and new housing on the sac campus. The bee has absolutely zero interest in how this could benefit UC Davis and only wants it for what it will do for sac. Mayor Steinberg is a friend of UC Davis and Oak Park needs all the help it can get, but Chancellor May must watch out that he not bambozzled by sac people into some expensive projects that do not directly advance UC Davis’ educational goals.
  • Aggie Pride : The Jim Sochor Legacy now on YouTube
    I love this so much and am sending it to everyone I know who knew him.
  • New woman’s sport
    72 I too was surprised by this choice. But I looked into it a bit and I think I know why this decision was made. BVV is a no brainer: sand pit/court/cheap, Big West Sport and a NCAA sport. Very inexpensive sport to fund and a lot of female athletes to tap into. Do we even need a new BVV coach? Don’t know.
    Equestrian is more complicated. Is this a popular California sport? Very definitely Yes. I have a niece who went toBoise State and she is a very avid equestrian and ranking competitor. She has travelled to California for events very often- recently Woodside CA (I attended this one) is a very big lavish equestrian center next to Stanford and also Temecula CA also very high end SoCal venue. Next the Hollywood Charity Evetn in Burbank CA (William Shatner for you Star Trek fans Sponcers this event).
    What most people do not know is that the host NCAA team MUST provide the horses for the visiting teams, so no shipping horses to Georgie for a meet. Yes, we have the horses in spades for this sport and the vet school has agreed to provide its services for free. But, probably what sealed the deal is that the parents and supportive ranchers and farmers all over the state agreed to chip in to support this additional sport. I mean, what is a more “Aggie Sport” than this? Again, bet Stanford ads this sport very soon. I bet this girls at the horse barn are besides themselves with glee!! Oh yes, a national championship will be expected in 5 years. . . .
  • Cal poly troubles
    Sorry to follow, but in comparison UC Davis has 700+/- black undergrads in the 2016-17 time line.
  • WBB new recruits
    I also believe their dad was a Harlem Globetroter. Gotta have those genes!
  • Go Aggies!
    Sorrry to watch the aggie Stanford game tonite. Stanford announcers very dismissive of the Aggies and the players. Yes, were behind but they kept saying “OK, but don’t go to sleep. A very disrespectful sound to their play calling.
  • Practice field is going in...
    Great job by the Cal Poly development team to get this done. Doerr was a fine football player at CP in the 60s and went on to become a successful tech giant in that industry. CP seems to achieve a lot more than we do when it comes to big donors for sports. I do not have any idea as to why. Good for them!
  • Go Aggies!
    Yes. Looks like he’s doing pretty well. Amazing ability. Is he as good from both sides?
  • Go Aggies!
    Just wondering. Do we still have that ambidextrous pitcher on the roster? What is his status?
  • New woman’s sport
    If you want to see a compelling story about rowing watch PBS Special Men of 36 which is about a bunch of U of Washington depression kids at the 36 olympics. Against all odds they . . . . .
  • MBB: 2018 NIT Tournament
    I believe that HIPPA rules will govern this. So no disclosure for now. So sad for Chima! Maybe we shouldn’t even care at this point except for the future of this great player and Aggie!!
  • WBB: 2018 WNIT Tournament
    Great season and too bad to lose to the eventual champion. By comparative scores, we could have been very close if we played for the title against IU.
    But on to another issue: next year. I know that MBB has a ton of redshirts coming on and one kid from Canada who can shoot. Thats all i know about MBB. I know nothing about WBB for next year except we lost Marley, Rachel, Pele and Dani and we had two redshirts on the bench this year. I do not know who we have recruited to replace all of them. I would like one of you smart guys with the time to line this all up for us: what should we expect next year from the new players? Who exactly are they?