Campus News

Students on campus will soon have the chance to voice their opinions on the administration with the click of a mouse.

While the UC Board of Regents deliberates budgets in San Francisco, UC Davis students are holding their own three-day meeting to discuss how the regents’ decisions are affecting communities on campus.

Student athletes will hold a town hall meeting this evening to discuss the recent cut of four sports teams with both the UC Davis administration and members of the public.

ASUCD began its annual budget hearings last weekend, reviewing the budgets of all units on campus, such as the Bike Barn, AGTV and Picnic Day. The total operating budget for next year is $10.5 million. Senators will vote on the final budget at their meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Mee Room.

Minimum-wage employees are more likely to be obese than higher wage employees, according to a UC Davis study of a relationship that has long been speculated, but unproven until now.

Approximately 200 students studying for midterms on Thursday night were evacuated as library staff reported a potential bomb threat on the premises.

Nearly a year after it was targeted for relocation, the English as a Second Language Program (ESL) might instead face the budget axe as the campus continues to face fiscal shortfalls.

ASUCD Senate Meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the May 13 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.

Members from UC Davis Extension, in collaboration with graduate groups, are working on developing a new masters program in sustainable community development.

In teaching assistant Alvaro Llosa’s Spanish 2 class, business is not conducted as usual.

Altering exam A senior was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for resubmitting an altered exam.

California’s budget woes continue as the river of setbacks and sacrifice flows downhill. The state has made cuts to higher education, UC campuses have made cuts to all units and on April 16, the UC Davis Athletics Department announced the elimination of four teams.