Campus News

On Feb. 19, the ASUCD Outreach Assembly held its Funding and Resource Program to facilitate club funding on campus in MU II. A panel of representatives from various ASUCD units presented to show club members options for club funding as well as other aspects of club organization for student groups. ASUCD Outreach Assembly aims to […]

The UC Davis Summer Orientation program will experience changes in summer 2014. One such change is a shift of the popular Violence Interpretation & Prevention (VIP) presentation from in-person to online. The VIP presentation, which includes the popular “How to Be Sexcessful” handbook, is a mandatory workshop that educates students on topics regarding sexual assault, […]

From Feb. 5 to Feb. 17, the ASUCD Post Office temporarily closed in order to attempt to install new computers. While the ASUCD Post Office Student Director, Soua Moua, only predicted the unit to be closed for three days, complications with the installations led Moua to extend the post office’s closure for two and a […]

ASUCD’s External Affairs Commission is organizing “Art in the Air,” an event that will bring painting to the Quad on March 6. The event will have students create paintings for local businesses who have sponsored the event. All proceeds will go toward the Cal Aggie Camp, which benefits underprivileged children. The event was borrowed from […]

Question: I’ve got a professor who says a bunch of crazy things in class. It’s super offensive, not to mention borderline racist, and I wanted to record him. I haven’t decided what I’d do with the video, but I’ve seen a lot of hidden camera footage on YouTube, so I’m wondering if it’s legal to […]

Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the weekly senate meeting on Feb. 20. The meeting was called to order at 6:14 p.m. Senator Ryan Wonders was absent. The senate confirmed the new Gender and Sexuality Commission Chair, Robert Helfend. The meeting moved into public discussion. Senate directed multiple questions to Eric Renslo, chair of the […]

Solano Park and Orchard Park Apartments are set to close for redevelopment because of their antiquity. The many structural replacements required for both buildings make renovation too costly. Orchard Park, located in the northwest corner of UC Davis, is to close July 31, while the demolition of Solano Park, in southeast Davis, is scheduled for […]

The Davis Dance Marathon was held on Feb. 22 in the ARC Ballroom from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. The event raised more than $4,000, which will be donated to the UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento. Although the benefit did not reach its fundraising goal of $10,000, Davis Dance Marathon Committee member Alagu Chidambaram […]

At 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 21, Eric Renslo, ASUCD Elections Committee Chair, announced the results of ASUCD’s Winter 2014 Elections in Wellman 6. Measure 1, also known as the “Save the Aggie” measure, passed with 72.92 percent  voter approval. The measure received 27.11 percent voter turnout, exceeding the 20 percent needed for the fee referendum […]

The UC Student-Worker Union (UAW Local 2865) bargaining team filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the UC Office of the President in late January. The charge will be reviewed toward the end of February. The charge was filed by the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). According to the PERB website, the state-run administrative agency […]

Dr. Katherine Ferrara, UC Davis biomedical engineering professor and founding chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) class of 2014. Ferrara was elected for her contributions to theory and applications of biomedical ultrasonics. Ferrara is one of the 67 new members to join the National […]

ASUCD Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the meeting on Feb. 13. He called the meeting to order at 6:12 p.m. The senators then attended a meeting and Bottoms called the meeting back to order at 7:26 p.m. The meeting resumed with a presentation from Joshua Herskovitz regarding the points of parliamentary procedure. He went […]