Editing University of California, Davis (section)

==Student life==
The undergraduate student government of UC Davis is the Associated Students of UC Davis (ASUCD), and has an annual operating budget of $11.1 million, making it one of the largest-funded student governments in the United States.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/ | title=ASUCD Home Page | publisher=Associated Students of UC Davis | access-date=July 14, 2007}}</ref> ASUCD includes an Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branch. Other than representing the student body on campus, the task of ASUCD is to lobby student interests to local and state government. Also under the purview of ASUCD are the student-run Coffee House, an ASUCD unit, and [[Unitrans]], the Davis public bus system. ASUCD employs thousands of students<ref>{{cite web| url=http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/job | title=Jobs ASUCD Information Network | publisher=Associated Students of UC Davis | access-date=March 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123110928/http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/job |archive-date=January 23, 2009 }}</ref> annually across its many units.

[[File:UC Davis Marching Band.jpg|thumb|[[UC Davis California Aggie Marching Band-uh!]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.davisenterprise.com/media-post/picnic-day-2012/|publisher=Davis Enterprise|title=98th annual Picnic Day|author=Wayne Pilcock|date=April 22, 2012|access-date=May 7, 2013}}</ref>]]
[[Picnic Day (UC Davis)|Picnic Day]], UC Davis's annual Open House, is the largest student-run event in the United States. It attracts thousands of visitors each year with its many attractions. These include a parade, a dance competition by the university club dance groups called "Dance Dance Revolution", a magic show performed by the chemistry department, the Doxie Derby ([[dachshund]] races), film screenings, and a [[Battle of the Bands]] between the [[UC Davis Marching Band]] and other college bands including the [[Cal Band]], the [[Stanford Band]], and the [[Humboldt State University Marching Lumberjacks]].

Another highlight of UC Davis is its student-run [[freeform (radio format)|freeform]] radio station, [[KDVS]]. The station began operations on February 1, 1964, from the laundry room of the all-male dormitory Beckett Hall. The station soon gained a reputation by airing interviews with [[Angela Davis]] and a live call-in show with then [[Governor of California|California Governor]] [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1969. The station can now be heard on 90.3 [[FM broadcasting|FM]] and online at its website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kdvs.org/ |title=News |publisher=KDVS |access-date=March 28, 2012 |archive-date=March 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326022236/http://www.kdvs.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

UC Davis has over 800 registered student organizations, ranging from political clubs to professional societies to language clubs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staab |first=Josh |date=2021-03-02 |title=Clubs and Communities |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/campus-life/clubs-and-communities |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=www.ucdavis.edu/ |language=en}}</ref>

The academic Graduate Students and management students are represented by the Graduate Student Association (GSA). The Law Students are represented by Law Students Association.

Students are also encouraged to wear Aggie Blue on game days to show their Aggie Pride. If spotted wearing Aggie Blue by the Aggie Pack, students may have UC Davis paraphernalia thrown at them as a reward.

Students also participate in intramural sports such as basketball, ultimate frisbee, soccer and many more. The ARC contains a basketball gym, work out room, ping pong tables, squash courts, rock climbing wall, and other studio rooms for group exercise.
[[File:The Pavilion at ARC (UC Davis).jpg|thumb]]
Other student activities and campus jobs:
* [[Unitrans]], the student run (and driven) bus system.
* The Coffee House, also known as the CoHo, is a student run restaurant serving 7000 customers daily.
* The Bike Barn, a bicycle shop that sells and rents bicycles and cycling equipment, also a full-service repair shop.
* [[KDVS]], student radio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kdvs.org/ |title=News |publisher=KDVS |access-date=March 28, 2012}}</ref>
* The Entertainment Council,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.ucdavis.edu/|title=ec.ucdavis.edu|access-date=September 19, 2014}}</ref> responsible for bringing famous musicians to campus and organizing student events.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.ucdavis.edu |title=Entertainment Council |publisher=Ec.ucdavis.edu |access-date=June 8, 2010}}</ref>

===Transportation===
[[File:Bicycles, UC Davis.jpg|thumb|Many students use bicycles to get around the 7000-acre campus.]]
[[File:Double-decker bus, UC Davis.jpg|thumb|One of the [[Double-decker bus|double deckers]] in the city's student-run (and student-driven) bus system]]

Bicyclists are ubiquitous on campus and in the city. Both the university and municipality encourages this with bicycle-only infrastructure such as bike circles, large bike lanes, and traffic signals specifically for bikes. UC Davis has a road and mountain bike team which has won several national championship titles.<ref>{{cite web | title=UC Davis Cycling homepage | url=http://www.ucdaviscycling.com/ | publisher=UC Davis | access-date=March 16, 2010 | archive-date=January 6, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106141209/http://ucdaviscycling.com/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> The campus police department also has some of its officers patrol on bicycles and take bicycling under the influence ("BUI") and bicycling without a headlight at night very seriously. Students usually have their bicycles serviced on-campus at the ASUCD Bike Barn or at other bike shops around town.

UC Davis is also well known for its bus service, [[Unitrans]], and its trademark London [[Double-decker bus|double decker buses]]. It has been in operation since 1968 and is believed to be the only general purpose (non-sightseeing) transit system in the U.S. to operate vintage double deck buses in daily service. The system is operated and managed entirely by students and offers fixed-route transportation throughout the city. There is also an inter-campus bus service<ref>{{cite web|url=https://facilities.ucdavis.edu/fleet-services/davis-berkeley-shuttle|title=Davis-Berkeley Shuttle|date=September 30, 2021|access-date=November 20, 2021}}</ref> that ferries back and forth between UC Davis and [[UC Berkeley]] twice daily, from Monday to Friday. Davis is also one of the busiest stations of the [[Capitol Corridor]] intercity railroad service operated by [[Amtrak]] between the Bay Area and Sacramento.

The central campus is bounded by freeways on two sides ([[California State Route 113|Highway 113]] and [[Interstate 80]]). All other UC campuses are either somewhat distant from the closest freeway or are directly adjacent to only one freeway. Two freeway exits are entirely within UCD's boundaries. One, off Highway 113, is signed "UC Davis / Hutchison Drive" and the other, off Interstate 80, is signed exclusively as "UC Davis." Despite the university's extensive bicycle infrastructure and public transportation service, easy freeway access coupled with increasing housing costs in the city of Davis has led to increased numbers of students commuting via automobile. Some students choose to live in the neighboring communities of [[Sacramento, CA|Sacramento]], [[Dixon, CA|Dixon]] or [[Woodland, CA|Woodland]], and use their own cars or the county-wide [[Yolobus]] to get to UC Davis. In addition, a private charter bus that connected the Davis and Sacramento campuses was replaced in 2020 by the Causeway Connection bus service, in partnership with Yolobus and [[Sacramento Regional Transit District|Sacramento Regional Transit]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nejedlo|first=Grant|date=October 26, 2019|title=Causeway Connection: Electric Buses Connecting UC Davis|url=https://foa.ucdavis.edu/causewayconnection|access-date=July 20, 2020|website=Finance, Operations and Administration|language=en}}</ref> Other students also commute by motorcycle, but are also subject to similar parking rates as their four-wheeled counterparts.

===''The California Aggie''===
UC Davis publishes a weekly [[student newspaper]], ''[[The California Aggie]]''. The ''Aggie'' was first published in 1915 as the ''Weekly Agricola'' after its approval by the Associated Student Executive Committee. At this point, UC Davis was considered the University Farm, an extension of [[UC Berkeley]].<ref name="ucdavis.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.ucdavis.edu/spotlight/1006/aggie_early_years.html |title=UC Davis: Spotlight: Student news since 1915 |access-date=May 12, 2008 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019195437/http://www.ucdavis.edu/spotlight/1006/aggie_early_years.html |archive-date=October 19, 2007 }}</ref>

Initially, the ''Weekly Agricola'' was focused on both student news and farming-related topics. Novelist [[Jack London]] was one of the first readers of the ''Weekly Agricola''. In 1922, it was renamed to match the school's athletic name.<ref name="ucdavis.edu" /> Between March 2014 and October 2016, the Aggie was not in print but was still accessible online. The Aggie is in print and available on campus again {{as of|2016|October|lc=y}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article4980624.html|title=UC Davis newspaper struggles to resume print publication|access-date=October 3, 2016}}</ref>

===Greek life===
[[File:Water Tower, UC Davis(cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|UC Davis' iconic water tower]]
Social fraternities and sororities have been a part of the University of California at Davis since 1913. Approximately 8% of the university's undergraduate students are involved in the school's fraternities and sororities. One sorority, [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi]], was featured during the first season of the MTV reality show ''[[Sorority Life]]''.

There are currently 13 social fraternities that are a part of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) in Davis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucdifc.com/new-page-1/http://www.ucdavis-ifc.com/#!about/vstc7=page-3/vstc5=chapters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809161425/http://www.ucdifc.com/new-page-1/http://www.ucdavis-ifc.com/#!about/vstc7=page-3/vstc5=chapters |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |title=Interfraternity Council |publisher=Interfraternity Council at UC Davis |access-date=October 12, 2015 }}</ref> There are currently 11 sororities that are a part of the Panhellenic Council.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucdavispanhellenic.org/#!chapter-profiles/c10im |title=Panhellenic Council |publisher=ucdpanhellenic.com |access-date=January 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305170120/http://www.ucdavispanhellenic.org/#!chapter-profiles/c10im |archive-date=March 5, 2014 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

The Phi chapter of [[Alpha Gamma Rho]] was locally established May 1, 1923, at UC Davis, making it the first continuously running national fraternity on campus. They started as the Kappa Tau fraternity, which was the first agricultural fraternity on campus. Many campus buildings are named after alumni of Alpha Gamma Rho such as Emil Mrak (Mrak Hall, Registrar's office), Orville Thompson (Thompson Hall, Segundo student housing), and Dean De Carli (the De Carli room, 2nd floor MU), Mel Olson Scoreboard ([[Aggie Stadium (UC Davis)|Aggie Stadium]]), and many more. The AGR Hall is an event space located inside the Buehler Alumni / Visitor Center and is commonly rented out as a conference room or banquet hall. There are both national and local fraternities and sororities at UCD with diverse backgrounds and histories.<ref>{{cite web | title=Greek Life | publisher=Student Programs & Activities Center, UC Davis | url=http://greeklife.ucdavis.edu/ | access-date=September 3, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016181521/http://greeklife.ucdavis.edu/ | archive-date=October 16, 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref>