The California Aggie

Overview

The California Aggie is the independent, student-run newspaper of the University of California, Davis, publishing daily online and a weekly print edition on Thursdays. It is a unit of the Associated Students of UC Davis (ASUCD), overseen by the Campus Media Board, though it maintains complete editorial independence.

History

The paper began publication September 29, 1915, as the Weekly Agricola, approved by the Associated Student Executive Committee at a time when UC Davis was known as the University Farm, an extension of UC Berkeley; students from Berkeley's Daily Californian advised the fledgling paper in its early months, and novelist Jack London was among its first readers. It was renamed the University Farm Agricola in 1916, then The California Aggie in November 1922 to match the school's athletic name. The paper expanded to twice weekly in 1963 and five times weekly in 1966, before cutting its Friday edition in February 2009 and moving to a single weekly print edition in April 2013 to reduce operating costs. In spring 2020, the UC Davis Library and The Aggie launched a complete digitized online archive of the paper dating to its first 1915 issue, the first undergraduate UC newspaper to do so.

Location and contact info

Address
Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA
Website
https://theaggie.org