Campus News

Students’ feelings toward UC President Mark Yudof and the Board of Regents may be put up to a vote in the upcoming weeks. A group of students are working towards utilizing the ASUCD referendum process to allow students to vote for or against two measures – one declaring no confidence in the leadership of Yudof and the other declaring no confidence in the management of the regents.

School spirit will soon become a physical reality. Thirty-two thousand students and faculty will be given four free Aggie Pride tags equipped with “2ReturnMe,” a loss and identity theft protection service that is the simple and modern solution to “Finders Keepers, Loser Weepers,” according to its website.

Forbes has ranked UC Davis and four other UCs among the top ten universities with the highest “college tuition risk,” or those that may offer less bang for your buck.

In 2008, 16 percent of students in the UC system said they chose their major because it was easy.

The Academic Senate this month named political science professor Larry Berman its 2010 Faculty Research Lecturer.

Come May 2012, a nearly decade-long vision of a central campus hub for students from all UC Davis communities will become a reality.

Presentations: Lobby Corps Director Christopher Lewis said Lobby Month will start next month. He added that Lobby Corps is looking for volunteers and invited ASUCD members to join in meetings.

When UC Davis professor Dr. Andy Jones showed up to give a poetry presentation at Marguerite Montgomery School Tuesday morning he was able to travel light – courtesy his iPad. The iPad could be an important aspect of the classroom in the near future, Jones said.

After a cold and rainy start to the week, UC Davis students can celebrate the return of warm weather at the annual opening of the Rec Pool this Saturday at noon. A Davis fixture for over 30 years, the Rec Pool attracts hundreds of students and community members on a typical weekday said Janna Tolla, aquatics assistant director for campus recreation.

You walk out the south exit of the CoHo after your second coffee of the day. You’ve had two classes, a bagel and an argument with your TA, and it’s only 11:30. It’s at this point when you realize the firestorm of youthful advocacy that is about to be unleashed upon you.

UC Davis and other University of California schools turned the heat on applicants as first-year student admissions have reached record lows this year. According to recently released data, UC Davis’ first-year student admissions rate dipped to 44.5 percent this year, down from 52.4 percent two years ago. Other campuses, with the exception of UC Riverside and UC Merced, also witnessed admissions declines of 1 to 9 percent.

Fifteen pages of plagiarism A first-year international student from Korea was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for obvious plagiarism on a major paper. The student admitted to plagiarizing every word, sentence and idea in the 15-page political science paper. She stated that because this was her first quarter at UC Davis, she wasn’t ready to write such a lengthy paper because English isn’t her primary language. The student accepted the sanctions of Disciplinary Probation for one year, 15 hours of community service, and completion of an online plagiarism exercise.