Campus News

Students hoping to live in the Davis Student Cooperative (DSC) house in the fall are in luck – the house is staying open for at least one more year.

Following the student protests and occupation of Mrak Hall last November, the Yolo County District Attorney (DA) is continuing with its case against one arrestee on charges of assault on a police officer.

After months of meetings and public forums, five working groups revealed their proposals to The UC Commission on the Future -created last July to assess the future of the university in light of budget deficits.

Evolutionary biology professor Rick Grosberg got his cake and ate it too, along with a $40,000 prize.

ASUCD Senate Meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the March 11 meeting locations, the Silo Cabernet Room and the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.

According to the numbers, most of you never saw the inside of a U-DASH minibus, and probably never will.

After initially denying that anyone was hit with a Taser during campus protests on March 4, the California Highway Patrol changed its story in response to a California Aggie investigation published yesterday.

Question: Is it legal to pull a fire alarm? And if not, what are the consequences?

In light of recent hate crimes that have swept UC campuses, the UC Office of the President (UCOP) has rolled out a program intended to help employees maintain a healthy work environment. The compliance briefing, titled “UC Ethical Values and Conduct,” was officially introduced online on Mar. 3 through the Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services (ECAS), a subdivision of UCOP. The newly revised program will be implemented systemwide, although the individual campuses are allowed some leeway in determining such provisions as whether or not undergraduate student employees will be required to take the survey or what the consequences for non-compliance will be.

A $1.79 million cut to the UC Davis Intercollegiate Athletics Department could result in the removal of between five and nine teams from the 2010-2011 budget. In a Feb. 5 budget-planning letter to the Council of Deans and Vice Chancellors, Chancellor Linda Katehi wrote that the campus would assign higher reduction targets for intercollegiate athletics (ICA). Rather than tell athletics what cuts to make, Katehi said the department would have the opportunity to find its own solutions. The unfortunate conclusion, said aAthletics dDirector Greg Warzecka, was the department won’t be able to continue funding all 27 of its ICA teams.

Quad-goers who closed their eyes and ignored the wind at their backs may have felt like they were in the library.

A week after student protestors attempted to block a freeway at UC Davis, questions remain about what actually happened in the clash between protestors and police. The group of about 250 students mobilized in support of education funding and access. They advanced through two skirmish lines of police on Old Davis Road before being stopped. The confrontation resulted in a number of minor injuries as police physically beat back protestors who tried to advance past the third and final skirmish line approximately 30 yards from the freeway on-ramp. The question of Taser use