Campus News

A $36,000 loan was made from ASUCD Capital Reserves to student-run UC Davis radio station KDVS earlier this month, allowing the purchase of a new radio tower to strengthen the station’s transmission signal and solidify its broadcast presence in Yolo County. The tower is set to stand at the Yolo County Central Landfill, northeast of […]

SMART Armando Figueroa #1 Fourth-year Chicana/o studies major Background: Former intern to Tatiana Bush Received UC Davis Silver Volunteer Service Award 2011 Peer advising counselor for Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Political Chair of Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán (MEChA) Intern with African Diaspora Cultivating Education Platforms: 1. Pass a bill that will allow students to […]

The election of six new ASUCD senators was announced at Friday’s Aggie Pride Rally. Two candidates were elected from each slate, along with two independents: SMART slate candidates Alyson Sagala and Armando Figueroa, NOW slate candidates Felicia Ong and Tal Topf and independent candidates Liam Burke and Maxwell Kappes. Sagala, a fourth-year political science and […]

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times are listed according to the clock at the Nov. 15 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend Senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m. Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, present Yena Bae, ASUCD vice […]

The six new students who will join the ASUCD senate table as elected officials are Alyson Sagala, Armando Figueroa, Felicia Ong, Liam Burke, Maxwell Kappes and Tal Topf. They will be sworn in on Nov. 29. Sagala and Figueroa ran with the SMART slate, focusing on being voices for underrepresented groups on campus. Ong and […]

The campus is celebrating International Education Week through Friday. International Education Week, hosted on campus by University Outreach and International Programs (UOIP) is a national event organized by the Department of State and Department of Education to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This year, UOIP is promoting how international experience has […]

Nearly one year after the pepper spray incident at UC Davis, those directly affected are now awaiting their settlement payments. The students who were pepper sprayed and arrested filed a lawsuit at the beginning of this year and on Sept. 27 a preliminary agreement was made. “The plaintiffs who filed suit and who were pepper […]

In celebration of the start of construction for a new classroom and recital hall that is to be built on campus, the music department will be hosting an event  tomorrow at 11 a.m. The ceremony, located at the project site on First and A streets, will consist of a tractor rolling through the area while […]

In the aftermath of the Nov. 18 pepper spray incident, UC Davis community members began considering the possibility of developing a civilian oversight committee to oversee campus police action. Currently, plans are underway to begin proposing models that would best fit UC Davis and the greater community. “Oversight in its many forms provides accountability and […]

University of California President Mark G. Yudof announced on Nov. 8 that he selected Nicholas B. Dirks as UC Berkeley’s 10th chancellor, succeeding Robert Birgeneau. Dirks was formerly at Columbia University as the executive vice president and dean of the faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. “There was a Chancellor Search Committee that […]

The UC Davis Medical Center (UCDMC) at 2315 Stockton Blvd. in Sacramento received a Consumer Choice Award in October for the 14th consecutive time. The medical center, a teaching, research and clinical practice hospital, is nationally ranked as one of the top 50 hospitals in the US for cancer research and pediatrics, as well as […]

After the fire died and the dust slowly began to settle from the Nov. 18 pepper spray incident, students and faculty alike began to take further action — determining what can be done to ensure history is not repeated. A panel headed by Cruz Reynoso, a former California Supreme Court justice, investigated the causes of […]