Campus News

ASUCD Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the final senate meeting of Fall Quarter on Dec. 5, 2013. The meeting was called to order at 6:10 p.m. Senator Ryan Wonders was elected as pro tempore of the senate. Justice Wooju Kim was sworn in as chief justice. The meeting focused on the finances of ASUCD […]

Question: I’m worried about my job. I’m having surgery soon, and will be on light duty at work for four weeks. My employer wants to cut my pay in half while I’m on light duty. All the information I’ve found on the internet talks about workers compensation, but this isn’t a workers compensation problem – […]

The three-week winter break that UC Davis has come to know will be changed to two weeks for the 2014-15 school year. Due to conflicts with religious holidays, Fall Quarter 2014 will begin a week later than before for all UC schools running on the quarter system. Winter break will be shortened from the regular […]

Freeborn Hall, an on-campus lecture hall and event venue, is to be renovated due to necessary seismic updates. The hall is in critical condition and renovations need to be done as soon as possible. It is likely to close down for renovations in summer 2014. “After being looked at again this summer, it was decided […]

Compared to Fall Quarter of last year, ASUCD Senate fell behind when it came down to writing legislation, ending with 20 bills versus last year’s 36. The senate’s progress is determined by each bill’s effectiveness and relevance to the student body, as well as the number of bills passed. *Editor’s note: For Bills 1-5, please […]

Question: I have a sports law question for you. So the Sacramento Kings tried to leave the city for Seattle earlier this year, but now they’re staying. But as I understand it, they’re staying only because the city promised to pay something like $258 million to help build them a new sports arena. The Kings […]

Professor Ann Savageau’s sustainable design students created birdhouses with environmentally sustainable designs and will have their work installed on light posts along Lake Spafford in the UC Davis Arboretum, and in posts on the Quad on Dec 7. The birdhouses will stay up from Dec. 7 until Jan. 6. “[The birdhouses are] designed to show […]

On Nov. 20, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees for the University of California (AFSCME 3299) went on a one-day Unfair Labor Practice Strike of nine UC campuses and five UC medical centers. The union, which represents university service and patient care workers, struck in response to alleged intimidation by UC management […]

The popular lower-division course Nutrition 10 (NUT 10) will be offered online for Winter Quarter 2014. NUT 10 covers weight loss strategies, effects of dietary supplements, links between nutrition and disease and other related concepts. The class will be taught in person by Dr. Liz Applegate and the online class will be offered to students […]

ASUCD Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the senate meeting on Nov. 14. Bottoms called the meeting to order at 6:18 p.m. The meeting began with a call to review Senate Resolution 2. The resolution announced ASUCD’s support for the AFSCME 3299 strike. After some edits in the resolution’s literature, the senate passed the resolution. […]

Question: I live in a mobile home park (also known as a trailer park) in Davis. Recently, all my neighbors and I received a copy of a new rental agreement that takes effect in 60 days. The new agreement contains a bunch of new rules, which are very specific and seem to target specific tenants. […]

A large format lecture hall that seats more than 600 people is in the process of being planned and is expected to be completed fall 2017. The California Lecture Hall will be constructed on the UC Davis campus at the corner of Storer Hall and California Avenue. The goal of the new lecture hall is […]