Campus News

The UC Davis Graduate School of Management is another step closer to breaking the glass ceiling.

Despite initial approval from ASUCD senate and a vote to override ASUCD President Jack Zwald’s veto, an override to pass Senate Bill 53 – a bill now evoking controversy and dialogue – failed with a 7-5 vote.

One of UC’s most influential officials will visit campus on Tuesday, giving staff and students an opportunity to air their grievances amidst recent cuts to athletics and other campus programs.

UC Davis decided to close four intercollegiate sports teams in trying to address an existing $1.4 million budget deficit and an additional $2.4 million fiscal hole for 2009 to 2010.

Presentations: Lee and members from the Outreach Assembly presented their strategies for involving first-year students in ASUCD.

Clear skies and warm weather graced Davis on Saturday as the community celebrated Picnic Day, a much-loved, 96-year-old campus tradition.

This weekend, five UC Davis students are choosing protesting over Picnic Day. Beginning today and concluding on Sunday, five UC Davis students will participate in the Farmworker Freedom March, a 22-mile march from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla. in protest against poor working conditions for farm laborers.

Q: What is the worst thing you’ve seen a student try to get away with on Picnic Day?

Twelve hours, 200 events, and 100,000 guests are only a few of the massive statistics that describe the only party whose attendance will exceed those who RSVP’d on Facebook. But while the majority of the Davis community will be spotted somewhere on campus this Saturday, its minorities may be staying home. That’s because Picnic Day places certain factions of the greater campus community under the metaphorical microscope more than any other day, according to Andrea Gaytan, assistant director of the Cross Cultural Center

Christian philosopher and theologian William Craig will describe tomorrow the seven reasons, he believes, God exists. Craig, a research professor of philosophy at the Talbot University of Theology, is well known in the philosophy and theology communities, as well as on college campuses around the world where he travels extensively to speak. “[Student] response has been highly encouraging,” Craig said. “They are interested in hearing arguments for and against the existence of God.”

A few rode or walked their bikes. Others held tennis rackets or slung oars over their shoulders. Many taped their mouths but all in the procession marched in silence. Almost two weeks after they marched into Hickey Gym, student athletes yesterday protested the possible closure of sports teams resulting from budget cuts to UC Davis Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) by staging a silent sit-in protest at Mrak Hall.

A majority of the UC Davis Police Department and several officers from the Davis Police Department will be on the MU Patio today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Rather than reacting to a student protest, however, the officers will be trying to make friendly conversation. The police have partnered with the ASUCD Police Student Relations Committee to host the first Student Police Relations Event today. In addition to the officers on hand, the event will feature police cars, motorcycles, the diggler – a motorized scooter – and other police equipment.